Game & Watch Comes To The Nintendo DS

[Miyamootoo]

GameBrink (http://www.gamebrink.com/) says

Nintendo of Japan has just announced that they will be featuring a Game & Watch compilation for the Nintendo DS exclusively for members of "Club Nintendo." In every Japanese Nintendo game you purchase there are inserts with codes for a certain number of Club Nintendo points and if you accrue 500 of these points you can get this compilation! The first compilation features three games, Donkey Kong, Oil Panic, and Greenhouse. No word yet on a US release or any regular Japanese commercial release.

Pics n stuff here (http://www.gamebrink.com/news/480-Game__Watch_Comes_To_The_Nintendo_DS.html)

[Heretic Machine]

Honestly... why would you want this? Those old LCD games were horrible.

[Sl1pstream]

Even if you want it, there's no way to get these unless you live in Japan.

[Silversmith]

Hey it's like reliving your childhood where the most powerful console was the NES and gameboy was never to be heard of. Hey you could say that if it wasn't for nintendo, tiger electronics would be the king of pettling cheap electronics shit.

[Rirath]

Even if you want it, there's no way to get these unless you live in Japan.

Well, I'm sure it's possible.

[TKO]

Dammit, why does this company keep making sucky decisions regarding retro software. Classic arcade titles on the Gameboy for ridiculous titles, a few game and watch titles that no-one can get hold of (seriously, people would pay for this in the right form), and I have yet to be convinced that the Wii virtual console titles will be at good prices.

IMHO if they'd done the Gameboy carts with 5 or more titles on a cart for a reasonable price, and if they'd put around 10 (heck, why not 20?) game and watch titles on a DS cart for a budget price, I bet those suckers would sell like hotcakes. (well, to people old enough to remember them, or curious about playing the original games.)

Okay, so I'm still gonna buy the Wii, no question. But this can be a hard company to like sometimes.

[emyln]

I for one would love to get this collection. I remember scrimping and saving in my teens to buy these games and the hours of fun it held for me.

GOD! That's almost as bad as admiting how old I am.

[[VSK]BadCRC]

Dammit, why does this company keep making sucky decisions regarding retro software.

They had another thing too where if you got so many points you could win a Wii controller shell, it did something, but it wasn't a functional controller, I want to say it may have been a universal remote or something.

[Last of the Red Hot Mamas]

IMHO if they'd done the Gameboy carts with 5 or more titles on a cart for a reasonable price, and if they'd put around 10 (heck, why not 20?) game and watch titles on a DS cart for a budget price, I bet those suckers would sell like hotcakes.

Game and Watch Gallery 4 had 20 games. Just scrounge up a copy of that (it's not that hard to find) if you really want to play these on your DS.

[TKO]

Game and Watch Gallery 4 had 20 games. Just scrounge up a copy of that (it's not that hard to find) if you really want to play these on your DS.
Okay, that is one good compilation. But it took them four compilations to to get to a decent number of titles, and many of the games I want to play have to be unlocked. (*sigh* ..goddamned unlocking.)

And they've still got awesome stuff from the arcades that could form a kick ass compilation cartridge, like the Namco one, but so far there's just terrible attempts to truly milk the customer of money, like the NES Donkey Kong, remade for the Gameboy, on its own. Goddammit, not even a Donkey Kong 1,2,3 collection or anything. (Frogger didn't fare much better either.)

I looks more and more to me like I'll have to go for a GP2x to get to play these like I want to.

[The Vidiot]

Game and Watch Gallery 4 had 20 games. Just scrounge up a copy of that (it's not that hard to find) if you really want to play these on your DS.
I think you’re missing the point that these three games (Donkey Kong, Oil Panic, and Greenhouse) were all dual-screen Game & Watch games, which could therefore be emulated perfectly on the DS. If you’ve ever played Donkey Kong on the GBA, you know that they try to cram the two screens into one, and it doesn’t work well. I for one am looking forward to this, if I can just find a way to get it!