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A man in a blue jacket crouched, lighting a firecracker on a manhole. The children stuck their fingers in their ears. More »
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I may have explained this a few times already, but growing up in Australia in the 1980s usually meant growing up without Nintendo. The NES was here, and people bought it, but it was never the sensation it was elsewhere. Most kids/adults played on computers or Sega machines. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5876305&view=rss&microfeed=true Pica Pic is currently hosting a collection of "ports" of classic handheld game units from the 1980s and 1990s. Some were made by Nintendo. Go play now before lawyers get involved. More »
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Nintendo may have been around for over 100 years, but the Nintendo we know today does video games. And it first hit the handheld gaming big time with its line of Game & Watch units. Here's how they got their start! More »
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Nintendo's most loyal fans in the United States will be able to get their hands on the company's Ball, the Club Nintendo exclusive re-release of the 1980 Game & Watch portable. It's the latest Club Nintendo reward. More »
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It's holiday season, but if you're like us, you may still be at work. What you need in that case is something to pass the time on an office computer. Something like, oh, a Game & Watch version of Sonic. More »
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The Nintendo DS's design was influenced by the dual LCD clamshell Nintendo Game & Watch. But what influenced that? More »
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Mr. Game & Watch gets godly and grisly with Greek & Wicked, God of War reimagined for Nintendo's classic LCD handheld system, as seen on Newgrounds, where it's totally playable and as deep as any Game & Watch game you've played. More »
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Japan's Club Nintendo offered members the chance to redeem their points for this. Just look at it! More »
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It's Cave Story week on the Nintendo Download, and Nintendo has gotten every other WiiWare game out of the way in order to make sure Studio Pixel's eagerly anticipated action adventure has center stage. More »
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In the early 1980s, Nintendo began releasing a series of handhelds. They were created by Gunpei Yokoi, who would go on to create the Game Boy. And now they are keychains! More »
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The Japanese version of Club Nintendo flexes its clear superiority over its Western cousin with even more retro flavored fun for Platinum members. They're getting a real Game & Watch LCD game of Ball. More »
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As seen on on Hobby Blog. More »
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Game & Watch, the handheld games created by Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi, are coming to Japanese DSi Ware. The series was recently released as a Club Nintendo DS cartridge dubbed Game & Watch Collection. More »
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We told you to get those bootleg Game & Watch iPhone games before lawyers took 'em down. Hope you heeded our advice. Because lawyers have taken them down. More »
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No way in hell Nintendo will ever put games on the iPhone. Not even Game & Watch ones. Which is why, we guess, Mobile 1UP have stepped in and done the next best thing. More »
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Ever wanted to play the Game & Watch game Octopus on your cell phone? Probably not, but at least one Japanese electronics alchemist has, resulting in this fantastic cellphone mod that not only works as a phone, but as a classic LCD diversion as well. Not only fun and functional, the device folds up nicely and triples as a total pussy magnet. Chicks absolutely dig Game & Watch enthusiasts. Look it up. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351322&view=rss&microfeed=true Today, October 4th, 2007, marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Gunpei Yokoi, the Nintendo engineer responsible for inventing the company's Game & Watch and Game Boy hardware. Yokoi also acted as producer on Nintendo-developed software like Metroid and Kid Icarus with the R&D1 and Intelligent Systems teams. For those who haven't yet watched RobotBling's fantastic piece on Yokoi titled "The Greatest Inventor", I highly recommend doing so. More »
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Don't own any Game&Watch handhelds? No problem! Handheld.Remakes.org is a huge smorgasbord of retro gaming games that include a slew of old Game&Watch Nintendo games. There's even a Speak 'n Spell! This ate up a chunk of my morning, right here. Yup, yup. More »
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Over the weekend, I packed up the fam and took at road trip to Nagoya, where we stuffed our faces with miso katsu, marveled at the spacious city roads and headed over to the Toyota Automobile Musuem. More »
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There's not too much to say about this cool old-school Game & Watch ad, sent in by reader Eric T, except that I find it fascinating to see how much both Mario and Donkey Kong have changed over the years. Look how ornery Mario looks, compared to DK's slimy child molester mug. Here's a bit of gaming cred shattering trivia: I didn't even know what a Game & Watch was until about 4 years ago. And I'm old. More »
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In response to our Nintendo Business Card Holder Part II: Electric Boogaloo post, Kotakuite Ross H. wrote in: More »
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