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  • @lordsofkoble
    @lordsofkoble 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I had this tank game on my watch, back in the early 80's. Played it to death, literally, to the death of the watch anyway, I ended up dismantling it to find out where all the little tanks came from. 😭

  • @ClamBake7525
    @ClamBake7525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I was 11 years old in 1982 and remember all these. I got a calculator watch for my 12th birthday and found out it had a decent side-scroll racing game, that was so cool.

    • @Matt.Willoughby
      @Matt.Willoughby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's amazing how in our life we've gone from LCD watch games to ps3 emulators in our pocket

    • @sparkle935
      @sparkle935 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I still have the early eighties grand prix racing car calculater watch, it's amazing...

    • @guily6669
      @guily6669 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The calculator watches were amazing, specially the ones with IR that work as a TV remote controller, but those other game watches and anything similar with crap static LCD that aren't tft only got me entertained for like a day...

    • @ClamBake7525
      @ClamBake7525 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@sparkle935 I think that's the one I had.

    • @ClamBake7525
      @ClamBake7525 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was about 9-11years old so I liked it in the early 80's. I also had a football game with the red moving dots and beeps before that!

  • @joshuachristian5443
    @joshuachristian5443 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The old game wrist watches from early 80s looked much better than the 90s offerings. They looked like watches whereas the later models looked like toys. In the year 2000, I had purchased a ink pen with a lcd game within it. That was pretty cool just do to its novelty.

  • @UberNeuman
    @UberNeuman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    It's like Q made a watch that will make women avoid James Bond.

    • @raycearcher5794
      @raycearcher5794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      "Now see here, 007, press just here and the watch will let you play American Football on a little screen."
      "This is lame, Q. This is for nerds."
      "Shut up, 007!"

    • @biggiesmol
      @biggiesmol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Avatar checks out

  • @manoflego123
    @manoflego123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    As someone who likes opening up and tinkering with simple LCD watches, the idea of a double layer LCD is simultaneously insanely cool and terrifying to fix.

  • @SilverGreeneye
    @SilverGreeneye 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I remember getting a My Little Pony watch as a child, and I felt so betrayed when I realized it didn’t have a game on it.

    • @pieluvr7362
      @pieluvr7362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The little pony took ya for a ride

    • @m4n4mk1
      @m4n4mk1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pieluvr7362 lol

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I only realised yesterday that Game & Watch meant a clock, and not watch as in to look at something...

    • @Azuris190
      @Azuris190 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      haha you are not alone, it was also my simple mind thinking that it ment watch as watching.

    • @holnrew
      @holnrew 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I didn't realise until watching this

    • @ciotay5469
      @ciotay5469 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fuck me side ways 😂

    • @kenhammscousin4716
      @kenhammscousin4716 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same I just thought that about ten mins ago

    • @rgerber
      @rgerber 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      so that means WATCHING actually translates to CLOCKING, thats genious

  • @stevenjlovelace
    @stevenjlovelace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I wonder why dual-layer LCDs never caught on? Seems like a cool technology!

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I find myself thinking about the possibilities for a colour display. Instead of having your subpixels side-by-side, stack them up.

    • @qallincha
      @qallincha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Roxor128 Colors are tainted layers so you won't see them separately. LCD are just masking the light, activating 2 layers at the same time would show black blobs.

    • @AnotherFreakingDude
      @AnotherFreakingDude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It kinda did, mobvoi uses a dual layer screen on their ticwatch pro.

    • @Nitrous-Oxide-Nitrous
      @Nitrous-Oxide-Nitrous 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know right!

    • @mikebigelow561
      @mikebigelow561 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They also made a full color versions that I really liked alot... you had to be in a brite room or out in the sun to get the colors to scream out brite

  • @theurbangentry
    @theurbangentry ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is AMAZING, an exceptional video, so much to talk about! But I will just thank you for putting such much fastidious the work into. Right, off to ebay to track some of these down! 😅😅
    I totally forgot about those Tiger watches, wow.
    Best regards,
    TGV

  • @holnrew
    @holnrew 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Someone at school had one of those Mario watches, I was so jealous

    • @JC-11111
      @JC-11111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's what I had! OMG! I couldn't remember any of the names of the ones I had until I read this 👌 Mario Bros was the first one I got!

  • @sh2157
    @sh2157 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Last time I was this early ET was being proudly advertised for the Atari 2600

  • @mrdorf2784
    @mrdorf2784 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    These were all the rage when I was a kid. That and watches that played melodies.

  • @TheRetroFuture
    @TheRetroFuture 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Very enjoyable video. Doing the world a favour by documenting this history.

    • @smt4090
      @smt4090 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where's the game AND watches

    • @elijahowen1727
      @elijahowen1727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A tip: watch series at kaldrostream. Me and my gf have been using it for watching loads of movies recently.

    • @andresking6220
      @andresking6220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Elijah Owen Yea, I have been watching on kaldroStream for years myself :D

    • @henrycannon4194
      @henrycannon4194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Elijah Owen yea, been using Kaldrostream for since november myself =)

    • @genekwagmyrsingh9433
      @genekwagmyrsingh9433 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who the heck is this jerk!? Just kidding, hello Elliot!

  • @jakebeetham1
    @jakebeetham1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    "In church whether satanic or normal" lol 😂

  • @TyphinHoofbun
    @TyphinHoofbun ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My sister and I got a pair of watches, the Mario and Zelda ones. I got the Mario and she got the Zelda, but I was constantly borrowing hers because it was a more fun game to play. Mario was just "step forward on the platforms that appear/disappear", but Zelda had you actually moving around, picking up items, placing bombs, etc.
    When I saw the video thumbnail, I commented out loud, "Oh wow, Nintendo game watches!" And then spent a bit explaining to my roommate what I was talking about. ^_^

  • @emperoroftheknownuniverse3475
    @emperoroftheknownuniverse3475 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Ah the nostalgia....Thanks for this vid, brings back so many fond wrist gaming memories!!

  • @Feark
    @Feark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I got the Tiger Super Mario Bros 3 watch and I actually thought it was coolest watch ever. It was so cool I decided it could probably be cleaned under a stream of water, and it died. However later the water dried up and it worked again so yes, just amazing.

    • @marcusfridh8489
      @marcusfridh8489 ปีที่แล้ว

      My Super Mario Bros 3 was from Nelsonic not Tiger

  • @ingeburgknotke396
    @ingeburgknotke396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We need these back!

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back in the 1980s (yes I'm old), I had a game watch and a knight rider watch and was always fiddling with them. Fast forward to 2020, I have a smartphone with 12gb ram and yet hardly ever play games on it. These old devices had a magic...I miss that

  • @briansenez7718
    @briansenez7718 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live in Asia and they sell knock off versions of these at the dollar store near my house. I've been tempted a few times because I grew up with these in the 80's.

  • @Vokabre
    @Vokabre 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I wonder what came first, Nelsonic logo or Nescafe logo, because they sure do look alike

    • @mikewheeler9011
      @mikewheeler9011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nescafe logo is from the 60s I assume. Nelsonic from 80s

    • @mikewheeler9011
      @mikewheeler9011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ok Nescafe logo was designed in 1938, but had a line above and below the 'N'. The single line above design came about in 1968

    • @Vokabre
      @Vokabre 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@mikewheeler9011 Someone behind Nelsonic perhaps rather liked coffee then

  • @beautyforashes2022
    @beautyforashes2022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love all the old advertisements that you put in your videos, I always enjoy hitting pause to read them. They are like a little nostalgia time capsule back into my childhood in 80's and early 90's. Edit: "You'll have the most popular wrist in town!" That does sound pretty tawdry, lol.

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I know a girl with the most popular mouth in town 😂

  • @JonManProductions
    @JonManProductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Nerd, gotta ask: how many minutes of backlog is there of you just staring menacingly into the camera before you get started on your script?

    • @justinbussell7637
      @justinbussell7637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or staring into our soul!

    • @Gadgetman1989
      @Gadgetman1989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The answer is simply;
      Yes

    • @login0false
      @login0false 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *All* the minutes.

    • @tearfulsmiles9901
      @tearfulsmiles9901 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, with a stare like that, he is obviously eternal, so *ALL THE TIME*.

  • @FigmentHF
    @FigmentHF 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was a really great video, thanks for taking the time to make it :)

  • @KemmerlingKomputers
    @KemmerlingKomputers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had a couple handhelds with the same vibe as these and i distinctly remember them being the "beeper" line. they looked just like pagers and beepers of the era with the belt clip and stuff and had some random lcd games on them similar to tiger games. but also had a couple hidden features. when the game was seemingly turned off and clipped on your belt, if you previously tapped the designated button it would add a min to the built in timer. little kid me thought i was so cool, because i would walk out of the room, tap the button a few times then clip the device my belt then go socialize, then act all important when my "pager" went off.

  • @christopherprementine5287
    @christopherprementine5287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I remember specifically having a StarFox game watch and I would play it religiously... Oh how I miss those days.

  • @KLUTCHdot58
    @KLUTCHdot58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I had mario 3 and Tetris! Wish I knew where they were now. I'm going to resist an eBay search.

    • @Nostalgianerd
      @Nostalgianerd  4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This is a strong move. You have my respect.

    • @snackplaylove
      @snackplaylove 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’ve got Zelda, turned down Tetris for £10 when Argos had it on sale for a GB game.

    • @navibc31
      @navibc31 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember having the Super Mario World watch that had a headphone jack

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They are surprisingly cheap if you get the most recently made ones, like £15.

  • @ProctorSilex
    @ProctorSilex 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I never understood the watch and Tiger style games. I would say I was spoiled by my NES at home, but you had game systems too. Interesting to see a bit of how they worked.

  • @GuillaumeDeson
    @GuillaumeDeson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for crediting Gerry Carr. I know him personally and showed him the video he really liked it.

  • @Barph
    @Barph 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Don't forget the Casio GM-40 UFO Pyramid Game Watch Module 245, I loved that game!

    • @imranahmad2733
      @imranahmad2733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Used to have one and now they're selling for silly money

  • @nacerdjaafri9919
    @nacerdjaafri9919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    how come you're not having much more views, your content is really unique and entertaining, I mean when I first saw the, quote on quote VERY CREATIVE channel name I didn't expect much, but man you're doing great! thumb up from the other side of the planet!!

  • @KasumiKenshirou
    @KasumiKenshirou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My brother had the Pac-Man watch (buttons version). It played Dixie for some reason. He would always stop it after the first few notes to match the horn from the General Lee on The Dukes of Hazard.

  • @LoveatFirstHike
    @LoveatFirstHike 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still have a Nelsonic game watch, it’s one of those virtual pets, came out in ‘97 after the explosion of Tamagotchi

  • @drd2093
    @drd2093 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had street fighter, Star fox and Mario 3. And they were so excellent as a kid.

  • @heggy_69
    @heggy_69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fun fact, in a draft script for the breakfast club, allison has a galaxian wrist watch game

  • @vyperii
    @vyperii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have the mario 3 unit. I don't remember who bought it for me, but I played it so much that I could beat it over and over. When you get to the end it loops.

  • @FlyBoyEnterprises
    @FlyBoyEnterprises 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man this video & watches take me back. I have a Zelda and Q-Bert.
    I even remember just the Calculator watches, I didn't have but a few kids in grade school got in trouble for using the calculator in class.

  • @nilus2k
    @nilus2k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I feel like no one was happy with a Tiger game. They were cheap and what your parents got you if they didn’t want to get you a Gameboy. They said “They were just as good” but they weren’t

  • @TheRugEmporium
    @TheRugEmporium 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember having that Zelda watch, my younger brother had the Mario watch, I still have 2 Nintendo Game & Watch multi screen games, Donkey Kong (1982) and Squish (1986).

  • @XrisD147
    @XrisD147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ahh Index 1990, where my video game journey began with a Game Boy and Super Mario Land and of course Tetris.

  • @fssofdeath
    @fssofdeath 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had the "Nintendo" Tetris one. It was pretty awesome for the time. Fond memories. Tetris translated pretty well to a watch game.

  • @ShadowWingTronix
    @ShadowWingTronix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had one of the Super Mario watches, only mine was red. I think it's still around here somewhere. The beeping could get annoying after a while but as a short time waster it was fun enough.

  • @BadgerOff32
    @BadgerOff32 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had that Mario watch when I was a kid, but it didn't even survive the first day. I loved it so much that I didn't want to take it off, so when I got into the bath with it still on later that night, water got into it immediately because it had a headphone jack on the side, and it instantly died. Soon took it off when it didn't bloody work anymore lol

    • @sinkingdutchman7227
      @sinkingdutchman7227 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was probably the worst day of your childhood

  • @demonsorrows
    @demonsorrows 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember being about four years old playing my older brother's Batman watch game. I thought it was the most boring game. I watched Fievel Goes West instead and then played Snake Rattle'N'Roll.
    I find it odd that a lot of people don't remember much of being a few years old.

    • @BlastinRope
      @BlastinRope 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      We're better off not remembering

  • @frankowalker4662
    @frankowalker4662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In my late teens I had a Fishing game watch. I missed quite a few busses to work playing that.

  • @benjaminkitaura498
    @benjaminkitaura498 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was awesome to see all those nostalgic moments……really brings back those childhood memories.

  • @Seiferboi
    @Seiferboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a Star Fox game watch. Mine came in a box of cereal and it's decent quality for something so cheap. I have another one that's newer, but I forgot what it is, and I don't feel like searching around for it right now lol. It's a large chunky green watch, though.

  • @christopherkelly577
    @christopherkelly577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had the mario 3 one. I recall falling and being devastated it had been slightly scuffed.

  • @pauliejay4161
    @pauliejay4161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Casio golf Game Watch was magnificent!

  • @SneakiestChameleon
    @SneakiestChameleon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I once had a Donkey Kong game watch, but then I accidentally gave it to Goodwill.

  • @rgstever
    @rgstever 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You forgot Fossil
    They designed the first Palm OS on a wrist watch. Because it utilizes the m68K CPU you can run in realtime GB GBC and Amiga games. It was rather interesting playing pokemon yellow on a touchscreen watch back in 2003.

  • @SwedishEmpire1700
    @SwedishEmpire1700 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember wanting one of those Super Mario watches as a kid in the 80's, but i got the ordinary game & watch handhelds instead.

  • @SonicAlpha
    @SonicAlpha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I too had that Mario 3 watch, brilliant at the time :)

  • @rennmaxbeta
    @rennmaxbeta ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome to see that Star Trek II game watch in action again after all these decades. It was my first digital watch back in 1982 and I loved it! Unfortunately I broke the sound somehow while opening it up to change the battery myself... I still remember it after 40 years.

  • @CatManDoom84
    @CatManDoom84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Totally had the SMB3 watch in like 1st grade haha. It was so fun haha!

  • @rustyshackelford1413
    @rustyshackelford1413 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Game and Watch didn't just lay the foundation for Gameboy, but every game system ever; by introducing the D-Pad.

  • @Kamunchu
    @Kamunchu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its baffling to me how this channel is only at 500k. It should be in the millions.

  • @1930SeanConnery
    @1930SeanConnery 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually had the Mario watch. I loved it as a kid. A long oil panic from game and watch. Memories...😊

  • @jacksat2252
    @jacksat2252 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember when I was 8 I had pac man watch and one with a lot of melodies and Donkey kong JR game and watch and the famous digital red clock pen in the late 70 th.
    Ahh i am old now

  • @cottonfoo
    @cottonfoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks enjoyed that. My mum bought me the Nelsonic Pac Man with joystick, and my brother had Space War. Wish I still had them, for sentimental reasons rather than the value.

  • @davekennedy6315
    @davekennedy6315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I owned a Casio gamewatch in the mid to late 80s. It had a game where you flew a helicopter and shot down baddies. We used to have contests during lessons at high school haha!

  • @gaxiola1701
    @gaxiola1701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We had all three GCE watches as a kid: Game-Time, Arcade-Time and Sports-Time. I was worried they'd get damaged if I took them to school and we didn't really go anywhere where I would be idle. When I went away to summer camp I would take my Donkey Kong Game and Watch which was more fun and physically easier to hold & play. So, the GCE watches ended up being mostly novelty items.

  • @strayling1
    @strayling1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I just realised I never even considered playing games on my smart watch. I wonder if it can play Doom?
    Edit: one search later, duh - of course it can

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think you'd be hard pressed to find something with a colour display these days that _doesn't_ have 386 levels of computing power.

    • @wes788411
      @wes788411 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Roxor128 i386?

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wes788411 Would you rather I have written the full "80386" instead?
      Still, you can't deny it's a better name than anything Intel or AMD have used in the last 20 years.

    • @Kikker861
      @Kikker861 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Roxor128 ngl, Intel had a good thing going with the Core i naming scheme between 2011 through 2017.
      Core i -

    • @mywifesboyfriend5558
      @mywifesboyfriend5558 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Toasters can run DOOM nowadays.

  • @8wealthyone8
    @8wealthyone8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are really collectable now. cool episode . pls make more!

  • @leohuangchunwang
    @leohuangchunwang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have an LG G watch - an Android Wear smartwatch from 2014 - and it plays Minecraft. My friends were pretty amazed, though when they did ask to borrow it they'd rather play something like 2048, which controls a lot better than Minecraft does on that tiny watch.

  • @Left-Earth
    @Left-Earth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    *"Now Behold, the rise in eBay prices for these watches !"* 💹⌚

    • @Robbnlinzi
      @Robbnlinzi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They are not cheap as of now lol

    • @imranahmad2733
      @imranahmad2733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have a look at the Casio Game-40 on eBay (eye watering prices), used to have one 30 years ago until it got pinched at school.

    • @royp9344
      @royp9344 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tbh the price of the game and watch and tiger watches has been quite high and on the up for a while

    • @bencheshire
      @bencheshire 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@royp9344 really! Nostalgia for terrible things

    • @gurgy3
      @gurgy3 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don’t waste your money, these things are truly horrible. I threw out a bunch of lcd games about 10 years ago, never thought anybody would want these.

  • @cameronb851
    @cameronb851 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually had one of the 'cosmic war' watches (shown in this video) as a kid. That thing was awesome. It was entirely metal, unlike many of the later watches, so it actually looked like a decent watch as well. I remember one of my crowning achievements as a kid was clocking the score (looping back to zero).
    Liked the video just for the nostalgia bump, but great information too.

  • @RobsonRoverRepair
    @RobsonRoverRepair 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Had the super mario 3 watch myself, was brilliant way to pass the time in Sunday school

  • @livefreeprintguns
    @livefreeprintguns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had the Super Mario Bros. Game and Watch and have nothing but fond memories of it!

  • @johneygd
    @johneygd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wooow that street fighter 2 & aladdin watches really really looks cool., they also give you the elussion as if the lcd screen was really color, if i got the money and know were to find all those watches, i would definitely buy them.

  • @XMguy
    @XMguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had a StarFox watch game in 1992. Sadly it broke and lost it long ago.

  • @Christopher-N
    @Christopher-N 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    (1:49) _Spaceballs_ the instant cassette: it's out in stores before the movie is finished.

  • @arnold20139
    @arnold20139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don’t care what anyone says, I still think playing a game on any watch is still cool.
    One time at work, I watched my friend on our lunch break playing Tetris on his Apple Watch. My mind was blown. 🤯

  • @HikingFeral
    @HikingFeral ปีที่แล้ว

    That Casio WR was no Gimmick, amazing watch, I remember my entire class at school being in awe of our teacher changing the channel on the TV with his watch lol - I plan to get one soon but I always forget. Thanks for reminding me.

  • @audrisampson
    @audrisampson ปีที่แล้ว

    I had the PacMan watch with the buttons in the late 80s. Loved playing that game. The watch even survived a fall into the pool. Just took a few days to dry out. Eventually the wrist band broke and it got lost in time.

  • @volvo09
    @volvo09 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I never could play those lcd action games... I suck at games so much that the stuttered movement of objects made it impossible. The advertising always got me though! Then the frustration set in.

  • @joetalentoh
    @joetalentoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man, I remember playing my tiger games on the bus on the way to kindergarten in the early 90s.

  • @JohnKelly2
    @JohnKelly2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I never had one of these, but I had a boom box watch. It was shaped like a boom box and had AM radio plus a watch!

  • @rolandkatsuragi
    @rolandkatsuragi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I hate how long it took me to realize that "Game & Watch" is game and a watch.

  • @mrcoolr429
    @mrcoolr429 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    its nice to see game watches getting the attention they deserve!

  • @agentj642
    @agentj642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had that same Tetris watch when I was a kid. Played the crap out of it.

  • @Kumimono
    @Kumimono 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Watch with alarm."
    I will.

  • @thebachelordj
    @thebachelordj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had the super mario 3 watch...loved it!

  • @VampiricHoshi
    @VampiricHoshi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had a double dragon game watch that totally kept me sane during a summer holiday, and later got the street fighter one you showed at the end. Ah those were the days

  • @n057828
    @n057828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There was a space shuttle one too!

  • @DavidWonn
    @DavidWonn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    13:07 My friend had that Zelda Game & Watch. It was oddly more entertaining to watch him play that instead of the NES version for some reason.

  • @runcmd8851
    @runcmd8851 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow I had the same Mario watch for Christmas I loved it..

  • @michaeldonovan305
    @michaeldonovan305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember getting the Super Mario World Watch. I loved that thing so much.

    • @mywifesboyfriend5558
      @mywifesboyfriend5558 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I loved mine too. Damn teacher stole it and sold it at an auction.

  • @licensetodrive9930
    @licensetodrive9930 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great video, thanks for making it, was fascinating to hear the background of these fun toys. I've managed to collect a pile of old handheld LCD games over the years, including these wrist watch games:
    Nelsonic: Pac Man, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Tetris, Q*Bert, Zelda (black strap & white strap versions), StarFox, StarWing, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Race, Super Mario World, Black Jack.
    Tiger: RoboCop, Batman Returns, Jurassic Park, Minnie Mouse, Street Fighter II, Sonic The Hedgehog, Beauty and the Beast, Ninja Gaiden, The Little Mermaid, The Simpsons, WWF Super Stars.
    Plus about 20 more like Ribena, Nintendo Super Mario Bros Egg Catch, Casio Zoomnzap, Imado branded Pac Man, and some extremely rare Sega Game Gear shaped watches.

  • @Datan0de
    @Datan0de ปีที่แล้ว

    As a kid I had friends with watches that played a bowling game and later a Space Invaders game, and that were the envy of us all. I never had a game watch, but I did get a few Tiger handhelds: Gauntlet, Mortal Kombat, and Terminator (my favorite). I still have them. May need to go fire one up for a few rounds now.

  • @dj_paultuk7052
    @dj_paultuk7052 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh wow what a flashback. I had that Casio 10 game watch !. I had completely forgot all about it until you showed it here and the memory came back. They were all the rage amongst 80's school kids.

  • @Theoriginalborgy
    @Theoriginalborgy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video, a great trip down memory lane. I remember having a Pac man clone with the joystick. but I can’t find anything about it. Sold in England 1982/3 ish.

  • @jeffstephenson9316
    @jeffstephenson9316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow Pac-Man wrist watch with joystick I had one of these when I was a freshman in high school back in 82 here in the states got kicked out of a few classes playing this but it was worth it and I passed the class

  • @JamesR624
    @JamesR624 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    7:43. Interesting cause we’d see something like this resurface decades later to provide a simplistic LCD screen for battery saving clock mode on top of a modern full color LCD or OLED in many smartwatches today, that’d switch between the two when the watch was put to sleep or in use.

  • @MatSpeedle
    @MatSpeedle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I too got the SMB3 watch for Crimbo 92 and loved it! Still have it and still works great! I also got the Sonic Tiger watch.... never liked it :p

  • @mywifesboyfriend5558
    @mywifesboyfriend5558 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had the Super Mario World and Zelda watches. Loved those as a kid, until someone stole them.

  • @Bluith
    @Bluith 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wish Casio would do a re-release of the game watches. They go for crazy money for what they are on Ebay.

    • @imranahmad2733
      @imranahmad2733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I used to have the Game-40 about 30 years ago, can't believe how much they're selling for now, would love for a re-release or even emulator of it.

  • @jesusramirez4537
    @jesusramirez4537 ปีที่แล้ว

    Those tiger electronic games were great. I remember those times fondly from my youth. I wish I could turn back the clock (I would have freaked out if I saw a smartphone). Evading an LCD bullet in some tiger game was so exciting at the time. It was a perfectly reasonable way to spend precious minutes of life. Goodby forever sweet time. goodbye forever

  • @ddespair
    @ddespair 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember when the super Mario world watch came out. That thing was the stuff of legend and when I finally got one I was very underwhelmed and never bout another game wristwatch again.

  • @Monkey_SK
    @Monkey_SK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Peter where can I get more details on the Sex & Watch?
    Asking for a friend.

    • @richpickings2845
      @richpickings2845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You just need to make sure it is worn on the appropriate wrist leaving the other appropriate wrist free. 😂

    • @alsatusmd1A13
      @alsatusmd1A13 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@richpickings2845 why should there be an appropriate wrist to masturbate with though, especially when the image is nothing to look at compared to full-size pornography?

    • @richpickings2845
      @richpickings2845 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alsatusmd1A13 It is a joke in the non-literal sense, I'll include a disclaimer next time, thanks.

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try looking for "Sexum watch", that's it's actual name. One of the more unusual genres of sexiness on the Internet.