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For the youngens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_&_Watch_Collection#Game_.26_Watch_Collection

Get some o' that Game & Watch goodness on your DS or Game Boy. ]]>Jul 5th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/
My brother had the Mario & Luigi one where you had to get the cakes back and forth across the production line.

Simple yet immensely addicitive.]]>Jul 5th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Why???]]>Jul 5th 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/
1) nostalgia of playing them with your friends on the schoolyard or at their house
2) believe it or not, there is fun to be had, even in those simple games. A lot of them are surprisingly addictive. Not all, but enough to waste hours at a time hooked.
3) if we are talking original hardware, there's nothing quite like the feel, texture, weight and real oldschool LCD look of the original consoles to bring all those good times back (and they can be viewed outside in the sun unlike DS, PSP, etc)

I'm sure there are more reasons. Those are just some I can think of.]]>Jul 6th 2008 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/
game and watch?

i remember buying the gameboy version and wondering why it wouldnt tell me the time.]]>Jul 5th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/
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As for the name:

"Gunpei Yokoi, travelling on a Bullet Train, saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator by pressing the buttons. Yokoi then thought of the idea for a mini gaming machine that doubles as a watch for watching and killing time."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%26_Watch]]>Jul 5th 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Twenty five years since I bought it.]]>Jul 5th 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Snoopy Tennis anyone?]]>Jul 7th 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/
http://www.brianapps.net/tossup/java/#keyboard]]>Jul 5th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/
I used to collect comics. Now, I wouldn't consider buying anything I'm not going to use. Why? Because having a relative who runs an antique business teaches you that what usually happens to peoples' collections is that they get sold off for a LOSS at estate sales once the collector has kicked the bucket.

Those Game & Watch toys? They'll pay for your funeral.

Enjoy.]]>Jul 5th 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/
Imagine, everything from your Spectrum\Acorn\Amiga to 360/PS3/Wii, in all SKU`s All Boxed and "Kept outta the Sunlight"?]]>Jul 5th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 5th 2008 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 6th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 7th 2008 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 6th 2008 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/Jul 6th 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/05/nintendo-game-and-watch-collectors-poked-prodded-exposed/
I still have the Mickey & Donald Game & Watch hiding somewhere. I used to love that game. Must dig it out and play it now (then get bored after 5 minutes, and sell it on ebay).]]>Jul 7th 2008 11:54PM