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Each Although Game & Watch game emulation is possible, it was difficult to achieve for a self-contained unit long time due to the [http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=17884.msg259362#msg259362 lack of information] about the microcontrollers that drive these handhelds and because the ROM containing the program have to be extracted by decapping the microcontroller which is custom-built an expensive and destructive process, this lack of information lead to the false belief that Game & Watch do not contain any CPU or ROMs. Following an [http://forums.bannister.org//ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=97003#Post97003 effort by several MAME developpers] to each reverse engineer various handheld electronic gamefrom the 80's it is now known that Game and Watch have a Sharp 4 bit MCU, therefore they can be emulated. HoweverMAME now support genuine of various handheld electonic games including some Game & Watch but not all of them, there the other software are different ways to play the games in a virtual mattersimulators.
A separate effort was made to produce so-called "ROMs" of various G&W games from decapped hardware and vectorized replicas of the LCD drawings, for use with the [[MAME]] emulator. It didn't go much further.
Game & Watch emulation is possible and I provided some links and explanation that explain why it's true.
==Emulators==
* Nintendo officially released virtual reproductions in the games and compiled them in the ''Game & Watch Gallery'' (and, later, ''Game & Watch Collection'') series of games. These games had both "classic" and "modern" variations of these games. While these collections have a loss of "authenticity" (especially in the collections that are running on earlier hardware), these collections are Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and DS games for which emulators are widespread. (A few games are from the difficult-to-pirate DSiWare series, though every game in the DSiWare series appears in another collection.) However, some of the games in the collection (notably ''Zelda'') may need to be unlocked before play.
* [http://www.pica-pic.com/ Pica Pic] (by Hipopotam) is an online collection of Game & Watch games under an authentic presentation. While there seems to be no way to play these games offline, there are a few games that are exclusive to the website, one example being ''Nu, pogodi!''
* Madrigal wrote some [http://www.madrigaldesign.it/sim/ simulations] that give an offline, authentic presentation of the Game & Watch games, the collection of these games growing through time. Of particular note is that these simulations are available to play through [[RetroArch]] through the gw-libretro core. There are also some simulations that are not of the Game & Watch series.
==Games==
