I'd like to think there was a bet behind the title. "Look, we can put Mario in ANYTHING and still have it sell a million units!" "Oh yeah? Put him in a cement factory then."
I actually like the art style on the tabletop version. It gives the game a unique feel, and I kind of wish another game did that. I mean, I don't even really know what to call that art style.
This is really cool Game&Watch game. My dads girlfriends kids owned this back in the days, and I was always playing this when I was visiting my dad. At around 2001-2003 my dads girlfriend was was throwing her childrens old stuff away, but my dad had taken Mario's Cement Factory and said that I might want it to my collection... I did want it and still have it. I guess I'll go to a store and buy some batteries and start playing again.
I used to own one of these table top Mario's Cement Factory. I sold it to a local shop that was interested in retro stuff about 10 years ago, when I decided I needed to have a bit of a clearout of old stuff, and do I ever regret it now...
It's a triple entendre! How can you not love it? 1. As Trelior said, Cement is dusty. 2. Mario dies falling off scaffolding... The driver dies if you drop a load of cement of his head. 3. They stole a song that's SO iconic that 40 years later we all recognize it. Didn't even have to pay for the copyright. They killed it!! And a- nother one gone another one gone- Another one bites the dust! It's perfect IMO.
I had the tabletop version as a kid in the early 80's. I used to play it for hours and hours at a time. I wish I still had it.Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed the memories! :)
Ah, Mario's Cement Factory... I have fond memories of it. While I didn't own the Game and Watch, or this table top version. I had one that was... actually on a little Gameboy shaped keychain. It was pretty neat to be honest. It looked kinda neat to wear around places. Since the thing was always on. (Though it didn't make noise. And it auto played a little demo of it.) I also played the Game and Watch Gallery 4 version of it too. Which was pretty fun.
Oh cool. Thanks for this. I've been quietly obsessed with this game since I was tiny, and too young to really process what was on the screen beyond "amazing shapes and patterns happen when I press these buttons," but I never knew about the tabletop version. I can only imagine what that would've done to me.
This is as up-close as I've seen any of the tabletop Game & Watches and it looks beautiful. Mario's Cement Factory was always one of my favorites as well and I've always been curious about this version so thanks for this video!
I remember the Game & Watch. I had the one with the parachutes and the sharks. I must have spent hours on that thing in the 80's when sitting in the back of the car on family vacations.
Actually, the bar/chain thing appeared in the European Gameboy Gallery, which was a predecessor to the Game & Watch series we have here. Fun random how-the-hell-did-it-get-there story by the way: i know this because I own a UK version of the game. Only problem is, I found it in a small town in Idaho for a couple of bucks, and have yet to figure out how the hell it ended up here, but it somehow made it halfway around the world to a little hodunk farm town.
+Steve Compton because he's able to find a lot of games and accessories that are pretty rare. Most of these games don't have any videos dedicated to them
+Steve Compton because he's able to find a lot of games and accessories that are pretty rare. Most of these games don't have any videos dedicated to them
I bought a Donkey Kong Coleco table top at a comic book convention. There's really something about these really old portables that sticks in your mind.
It did have a Europe release, cause I remember playing this as a kid in the 80s in Spain, and I guess it was just bought in a regular toy shop, not as an expensive import. Too bad my mother decided to throw it with the rest of my toys years later :(
When i was a kid i used to have this little mini keychain LCD gameboy that had this game on it. Got it at a giant tiger store out in niagara on the way to my grandmothers house lol you know it was gonna be a boring time when...
Ah, I've heard those sound effects before! The elevator and Mario walking sounds are in another version of the game. It's in a Game & Watch collection that came before the G&W Gallery games, called "Game Boy Gallery". It features versions of Ball, Manhole, Vermin, Flagman, and Cement Factory. (Weirdly, it doesn't have Mario's name in the title, and the character is just some generic guy.) This is the only _other_ version that has a hiding spot up at the top. Game Boy Gallery wasn't released in the US at all; I think it was only in Japan and a few other regions.
I own the portable version of Mario's Cement Factory (because it seems to be one of the most popular Game And Watch games), and I did know of this table top version, but I thought it was the exact same game!
I was talking to my mother, we were talking about nintendo. She told me she had a nintendo gameconsole. I was pretty suprised so she wanted to show me the gameconsole. After some googling she showed me this. She told me my grand parents have it in their house. I hope she still has it so i can play it!
I have the rare table top one my mom has had it since she was in 5th grade! I was playing it today and wondered if there were many left when I searched it up this video popped up.
Omg they need to that on the Switch! Like now! Hahahaha this was my favorite game. Plus I had one the Red table top game when I was younger. I also had Popeye! Man i wish I still had mine. I think my mom sold it. So mad!
Great video! I was actually just getting ready to make a video of MY table top Game & Watch, Popeye! I've had it since it came out and, like Mario's Cement Factory, I feel the simple gameplay really holds up over time. And the color, cartoony graphics still look good today!
The Game and Watch series were the absolute _best_ of these handheld LCD games. I find it weird that I like them so much now because at the time, I didn't think that much of them. They just seemed like less fun, more restricted versions of regular video games and to an extent, this is true. The Donkey Kong G&W suffered from comparison to the arcade or even the Atari 2600 port. The G&W series shined more when it was an original concept. Although not without the occasional misstep. Why G&W worked was because Nintendo (R&D1 under Gunpei Yokoi who later developed the Gameboy) took the time to design a game that would work and be fun under the limitations of the LCD gameplay, unlike, say, the Tiger Electronics games that fought against it. Most of the G&W games could be described as a juggling game. There's a kind of binary simplicity to them. Most have just three spaces of movement. The player is either left, right or center (neither left nor right). Play involves moving between these points doing a thing that usually involves a moving object and requires timing to interact with it properly. Later games increased the complexity of player movement but you can still look at it as branching or overlapping sets of three movements. Of the G&W I've been privileged to play, Ball, the first one, is surprisingly the most fun. It is literally a juggling game but the simplicity makes it more compelling that I would have originally thought. Less fun was Judge where the player controls a little man who is in some kind of rock-paper-scissors style contest (albeit using numbers on little signs) where you wait for the characters to reveal their numbers and if your number is higher, hit the button to knock the other guy on the head. If your number is lower, hit the other button to dodge. If you miss your change to hit or get hit, they both count as a miss. Maybe I just lack patience, but I didn't find this game much fun. Incidentally, the tabletop G&W like Mario's Cement Factory also came in a pocket version called Panarama Screen. It used the same mirror technology the table top has, which Nintendo still hold a patent on, but the unit can fold flat to fit in your pocket. Maybe a large pocket, but pocket-size nonetheless.
This is an interesting video. I knew about the original handheld and GBA/DSi/3DS versions from researching Mr. Game & Watch's Smash Bros. moveset (missing a grab is is the same animation as pulling a lever in this game), but I never knew that any of the games were made into these cool, backlit tabletop arcades. I wonder if the tabletop arcade works as a watch, too; or maybe it's just a Game &.
I found this on a second hand retro video game store and I said: "WOW! An even bigger version of the game! AWESOME!" but then I saw the price and: "WHAT THE HECK?! HOW EXPENSIVE!! HECK NO I'M BUYING DAT! It must be very rare..."
When I was a child I always assumed the truck driver was Luigi. That actually doesn't make that much sense since there are two truck drivers, but it worked within my child logic xD
I remember seeing the table top verision before in Blue? is that possibly? back in the mid 90's at my sister's friend's house. I had the donkey Kong jr table top myself, but eventually the joystick broke.
OMG, somebody actually made a video of my long lost Tabletop Mario Cement Factory game! Not sure what happened to it, but I guess it must be worth something today. Any clue as to how many units were sold? Btw, thanks for posting such nostalgia, made me feel like I'm 7 years old again!
2:16 Hmm wait, I remember that from the day one training course we had at the cement plant... *Dudu dun dun dun* Don’t breathe in cement dust *Dudu dun dun dun* Don’t breathe in cement dust ‘Cause if you get it in your lung Then it’s gonna be gone Don’t breathe in cement dust Hey! It’ll get the other one too Silicosis is a bust. *dun dun* I believe that was from the Nintendo Cement Factory HR department, in partnership with the American Lung Association...
there was another game similar to this one i had probably in like the early 90s but the one i had was a split screen with mario on one side and luigi on the other each side had there own controls and they had to pass the boxes back and forth to each other as they went down a conveyor belt
Holy cow I have one in my kitchen! And it looks like a miniature game boy and its a key chain so ya that's cool but I'm not allowed to open the package and play it :(
I'd like to think there was a bet behind the title. "Look, we can put Mario in ANYTHING and still have it sell a million units!" "Oh yeah? Put him in a cement factory then."
This came out before Super Mario Bros.
Gold Yoshi Mario Bros.
Jacob Bramer Mario Bros..1983. Super Mario Bros. 1985.
Doug Glassman And try to save his creator from being asassinated.
It was a solid game
I remember have this game in a Game Boy Pocket cartridge collection of Game and Watch games and this was one of my favorites. :)
I actually like the art style on the tabletop version. It gives the game a unique feel, and I kind of wish another game did that.
I mean, I don't even really know what to call that art style.
It reminds me of French comic books. So, "BD" I suppose.
It has a pretty european cartoon style
You can call it mirror-match-83 😅
I love your fascination with rarities. Don't stop making videos.
I.... I can't stop....
he never has
I had a friend that had Mario's Cement Factory back in the day. Totally forgot about it until I saw this. Thanks for the nostalgia overload!
You're very welcome!
This is really cool Game&Watch game. My dads girlfriends kids owned this back in the days, and I was always playing this when I was visiting my dad. At around 2001-2003 my dads girlfriend was was throwing her childrens old stuff away, but my dad had taken Mario's Cement Factory and said that I might want it to my collection... I did want it and still have it. I guess I'll go to a store and buy some batteries and start playing again.
I used to own one of these table top Mario's Cement Factory. I sold it to a local shop that was interested in retro stuff about 10 years ago, when I decided I needed to have a bit of a clearout of old stuff, and do I ever regret it now...
Although we already knew Mario worked with Queen since guest-starring in the song where he asks, "Mama-mia, mama-mia, let me go."
Another one bites the....cement? ...I got nothing for this one.
Smashter! :D
Another bites the Mush[room]!
My favorite music is from Queen
Cement is dusty.
It's a triple entendre! How can you not love it?
1. As Trelior said, Cement is dusty.
2. Mario dies falling off scaffolding... The driver dies if you drop a load of cement of his head.
3. They stole a song that's SO iconic that 40 years later we all recognize it. Didn't even have to pay for the copyright. They killed it!!
And a- nother one gone another one gone- Another one bites the dust!
It's perfect IMO.
I was scared this game of the white version when i was 5. So this game gave me a extremely scary memories.
I have some strange phobias
I had the tabletop version as a kid in the early 80's. I used to play it for hours and hours at a time. I wish I still had it.Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed the memories! :)
Tabletop version would be my way to go for sure.
Right? I think it's got a little more going for it than the original.
Agreed. (Here I am replying to a comment from 6 years ago.)
Ah, Mario's Cement Factory... I have fond memories of it.
While I didn't own the Game and Watch, or this table top version. I had one that was... actually on a little Gameboy shaped keychain. It was pretty neat to be honest. It looked kinda neat to wear around places. Since the thing was always on. (Though it didn't make noise. And it auto played a little demo of it.)
I also played the Game and Watch Gallery 4 version of it too. Which was pretty fun.
That's the Game Boy Pocket.
***** ah.
Oh cool. Thanks for this. I've been quietly obsessed with this game since I was tiny, and too young to really process what was on the screen beyond "amazing shapes and patterns happen when I press these buttons," but I never knew about the tabletop version. I can only imagine what that would've done to me.
This is as up-close as I've seen any of the tabletop Game & Watches and it looks beautiful. Mario's Cement Factory was always one of my favorites as well and I've always been curious about this version so thanks for this video!
Ahaha, I love Queen (probably my favorite band), so the Another one Bites the Dust ripoff theme really made me laugh XD
I remember the Game & Watch. I had the one with the parachutes and the sharks. I must have spent hours on that thing in the 80's when sitting in the back of the car on family vacations.
Actually, the bar/chain thing appeared in the European Gameboy Gallery, which was a predecessor to the Game & Watch series we have here. Fun random how-the-hell-did-it-get-there story by the way: i know this because I own a UK version of the game. Only problem is, I found it in a small town in Idaho for a couple of bucks, and have yet to figure out how the hell it ended up here, but it somehow made it halfway around the world to a little hodunk farm town.
Game and watch were awesome for their time use to take these with me as a kid to movies on long train or bus trips etc
it really looks beautiful, never would have thought
wow i cant believe how creative your channel is! its great fun watching
Thank you. :)
+Chris8c8 whats creative about talking about games and accessories? their are many channels that do the exact same thing.. in the exact same way..
+Steve Compton because he's able to find a lot of games and accessories that are pretty rare. Most of these games don't have any videos dedicated to them
+Steve Compton because he's able to find a lot of games and accessories that are pretty rare. Most of these games don't have any videos dedicated to them
*CRUSHING* Mario? That's a surprisingly gruesome death for a beloved video game character.
Thwomps have been doing that since SMB3.
I bought a Donkey Kong Coleco table top at a comic book convention. There's really something about these really old portables that sticks in your mind.
Never seen the tabletop version! I Assume it never got a PAL release!
I am actually not sure! I'll have to check on that...
It did have a Europe release, cause I remember playing this as a kid in the 80s in Spain, and I guess it was just bought in a regular toy shop, not as an expensive import. Too bad my mother decided to throw it with the rest of my toys years later :(
OMA2k In Spain!? Gotta find it!!! :D
¿La encontraste? :)
ICapoe
Greenhouse and Donkey Kong Junior are my personal favorite Game & Watch games.
Also worth mentioning that in the US only, Game & Watch Gallery Advance is simply titled Game & Watch Gallery 4
Excellent video! I had no idea that Nintendo ever did any table top games like this!
Most people don't know, it's just sorta lost in the past for many people!
How cool was this table top! 🤩💕
Ti Ti Tiiii Ti di di di di di doooo 🎶😍
Now I know I'm not the only one who likes Marios Cement Factory
That tabletop version looks really good for what it is.
Never heard of this game until now!
When i was a kid i used to have this little mini keychain LCD gameboy that had this game on it.
Got it at a giant tiger store out in niagara on the way to my grandmothers house lol you know it was gonna be a boring time when...
Amazing work as usual dude. I loved everything about it.
Thanks! :D
Ah, I've heard those sound effects before! The elevator and Mario walking sounds are in another version of the game. It's in a Game & Watch collection that came before the G&W Gallery games, called "Game Boy Gallery". It features versions of Ball, Manhole, Vermin, Flagman, and Cement Factory. (Weirdly, it doesn't have Mario's name in the title, and the character is just some generic guy.) This is the only _other_ version that has a hiding spot up at the top.
Game Boy Gallery wasn't released in the US at all; I think it was only in Japan and a few other regions.
Game Boy Gallery was only released in Europe, there was no japanese release
I own the portable version of Mario's Cement Factory (because it seems to be one of the most popular Game And Watch games), and I did know of this table top version, but I thought it was the exact same game!
I have played it many times :) found one in our grandparent’s garage and restored it
My gift for Christmas 1986…and I bought it last week CIB ❤❤❤
OMG!!! This WAS my most prized toy back then! I would bring everywhere 😂....
Very awesome, I've always wanted more of those table top games for my collection, I'm trying to go for a complete Coleco/Nintendo set at some point.
If I could get all of them I would film all of them!
I was talking to my mother, we were talking about nintendo. She told me she had a nintendo gameconsole. I was pretty suprised so she wanted to show me the gameconsole. After some googling she showed me this. She told me my grand parents have it in their house. I hope she still has it so i can play it!
I have the rare table top one my mom has had it since she was in 5th grade! I was playing it today and wondered if there were many left when I searched it up this video popped up.
Omg they need to that on the Switch! Like now! Hahahaha this was my favorite game. Plus I had one the Red table top game when I was younger. I also had Popeye! Man i wish I still had mine. I think my mom sold it. So mad!
I used to have this growing up. For whatever reason, it all of a sudden stopped working one day.
Wow! Never heard of those! They look sweet! :D
wow i was barely swallow by a tunnel of time when i hear and saw the Mario's cement Tabletop
Great video! I was actually just getting ready to make a video of MY table top Game & Watch, Popeye! I've had it since it came out and, like Mario's Cement Factory, I feel the simple gameplay really holds up over time. And the color, cartoony graphics still look good today!
I've got the tabletop version in the original box. Still works great.
Seriously dangerous working conditions in that factory. Mario should check with the union.
Fun fact! This coleco layout was actually reused in the game boy gallery in the game, cement factory. Same game, just doesn't have mario in it.
I hope we get to see a Game & Watch Mario Bombs Away video soon
Never seen one of those before until I watched this vid.
The Game and Watch series were the absolute _best_ of these handheld LCD games.
I find it weird that I like them so much now because at the time, I didn't think that much of them. They just seemed like less fun, more restricted versions of regular video games and to an extent, this is true. The Donkey Kong G&W suffered from comparison to the arcade or even the Atari 2600 port. The G&W series shined more when it was an original concept. Although not without the occasional misstep.
Why G&W worked was because Nintendo (R&D1 under Gunpei Yokoi who later developed the Gameboy) took the time to design a game that would work and be fun under the limitations of the LCD gameplay, unlike, say, the Tiger Electronics games that fought against it. Most of the G&W games could be described as a juggling game. There's a kind of binary simplicity to them. Most have just three spaces of movement. The player is either left, right or center (neither left nor right). Play involves moving between these points doing a thing that usually involves a moving object and requires timing to interact with it properly. Later games increased the complexity of player movement but you can still look at it as branching or overlapping sets of three movements.
Of the G&W I've been privileged to play, Ball, the first one, is surprisingly the most fun. It is literally a juggling game but the simplicity makes it more compelling that I would have originally thought.
Less fun was Judge where the player controls a little man who is in some kind of rock-paper-scissors style contest (albeit using numbers on little signs) where you wait for the characters to reveal their numbers and if your number is higher, hit the button to knock the other guy on the head. If your number is lower, hit the other button to dodge. If you miss your change to hit or get hit, they both count as a miss. Maybe I just lack patience, but I didn't find this game much fun.
Incidentally, the tabletop G&W like Mario's Cement Factory also came in a pocket version called Panarama Screen. It used the same mirror technology the table top has, which Nintendo still hold a patent on, but the unit can fold flat to fit in your pocket. Maybe a large pocket, but pocket-size nonetheless.
This is an interesting video. I knew about the original handheld and GBA/DSi/3DS versions from researching Mr. Game & Watch's Smash Bros. moveset (missing a grab is is the same animation as pulling a lever in this game), but I never knew that any of the games were made into these cool, backlit tabletop arcades.
I wonder if the tabletop arcade works as a watch, too; or maybe it's just a Game &.
I had the juggling version of that LCD game. :)
mario cement factory looks cool
Hey Shane in North America Game & Watch Gallery Advance is called Game & Watch Gallery 4.
There's a version of this on gameboy colour
You, it appears in the video! :)
***** Oh, sorry I thought you only mentioned the game boy advanced one
K Michael
Oh wait my mistake! Only the GBA one appears in the video. :P
I have this one. It's fun, but it takes way too long for the difficulty to ramp up.
It's another news what i really never see of Super Mario Games,is preatty cool
"Hey what's your favourite game by Nintendo?"
"Mario's cement factory"
"... what?"
Poles you can grab onto. That looks exactly like the mechanics featured in Donkey Kong Junior.
very rare found such video
I've played this on Game and Watch Gallery 4.
The legend of zelda game & watch was incredible, my brother had it and it was really hard, and surprisingly complicated! :)
I found this on a second hand retro video game store and I said: "WOW! An even bigger version of the game! AWESOME!" but then I saw the price and: "WHAT THE HECK?! HOW EXPENSIVE!! HECK NO I'M BUYING DAT! It must be very rare..."
my fave game & watch by far Green house nothing is more frantic :)
I have one of those tabletop versions. Got it from my dad.
"only, they weren't complete shit" lol suuubbeeeddd
When I was a child I always assumed the truck driver was Luigi. That actually doesn't make that much sense since there are two truck drivers, but it worked within my child logic xD
My brother still has his tabletop version. None of the newer ones even come close.
I've never owned a Game and Watch, but I'd like to, as I have never seen one in person, before.
Hey, I once saw one of these mini cabinets with Donkey Kong Jr. at a pawn shop...about ten years ago. I should've boguht it...
Good video, keep up the good work.
Thanks dude!
Hi, Shane! When you get your hands on that new Game & Watch Super Mario Bros. Color Screen unit, will you review it in a new video?
Im playing this game right now at my grandparents
I had the juggler and exterminator game and watch circa 1982.
I remember seeing the table top verision before in Blue? is that possibly?
back in the mid 90's at my sister's friend's house. I had the donkey Kong jr table top myself, but eventually the joystick broke.
Hmm the modernized GBA version seems cool
I wish it would make a comeback put with updated graphics for a minigame in a feature mario game
i bought one of these off of ebay for $25, and i didn't know about the tabletop version
omg I had that mario cement factory
OMG, somebody actually made a video of my long lost Tabletop Mario Cement Factory game! Not sure what happened to it, but I guess it must be worth something today. Any clue as to how many units were sold? Btw, thanks for posting such nostalgia, made me feel like I'm 7 years old again!
Mario is a plumber, yet the only manual labor we see him do is run the loading dock at cement factory.
2:16 Hmm wait, I remember that from the day one training course we had at the cement plant...
*Dudu dun dun dun*
Don’t breathe in cement dust
*Dudu dun dun dun*
Don’t breathe in cement dust
‘Cause if you get it in your lung
Then it’s gonna be gone
Don’t breathe in cement dust
Hey! It’ll get the other one too
Silicosis is a bust.
*dun dun*
I believe that was from the Nintendo Cement Factory HR department, in partnership with the American Lung Association...
I saw the Tabletop one at an a shop in Kansas called Antique Mall. I would have gotten it if it wasn't $120!!!
My favorite Game & Watch games are Tetris and donkey Kong junior.
Were you in Europe? In America, it's Game and Watch Gallery 4. In Japan, it wasn't released. In Australia, it's Game Boy Gallery 5.
He's Canadian.
Oh. I didn't know.
Even though I have only played the gameboy version but my favorite game and watch game is vermin. I would love to get an actual game and watch
there was another game similar to this one i had probably in like the early 90s but the one i had was a split screen with mario on one side and luigi on the other each side had there own controls and they had to pass the boxes back and forth to each other as they went down a conveyor belt
Oh, that one! I saw it on G&W Gallery 2, I think.
I WANT THAT TABLETOP ARCADE, ONLY THEY ARE EXPENSIVE
matt fahringer
Kewl
This must also use the LCD flashlight trick.
I have a fully working Table Top Atcade Version in Excellent Condition. How much is it worth
I played this on G&W Gallery
"beat,beat,beat" another one bites Cement
Holy cow I have one in my kitchen! And it looks like a miniature game boy and its a key chain so ya that's cool but I'm not allowed to open the package and play it :(
I still have the table top! !!!
That's awesome! Do you know what other games were released in tabletop form?
They had a pretty big selection of the games. I plan to film a lot more of them and show them on the channel in the future.
***** i think the rarest one is Mario the juggler
stupidTRISTEN
Is that the one where mario is forcing donkey kong to juggle fire?
believe so
I actually own the tabletop version, but it has a different opening song.
I personally prefer both the handheld and tabletop versions of Donkey Kong Junior.
i just found one of these in my grandma's house and she let me have it
it's really fun but I'm going to try and sell it
I own the original mario table top cement factory...' best version of the game' What is it worth?