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The '''[[wikipedia:Game & Watch|Game & Watch]]''' is a series of self-contained handheld LCD games by Nintendo where the first one was released on April 28, 1980 and which are often seen as the precursor to the [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy/Color]], although new Game & Watch games were still released as late as 1991.
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;'''[[MAME]]''':It was officially the 1st Game & Watch emulator, with support for a growing number of almost all games (An example being Mickey and Donald). It started to comprehensively cover the Game & Watch games from around just before mid-2017 (e.g. [https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.185 0.185] in May 2017) and emulated its first game in [https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.186 0.186]. For the games it does supportSince July 9 2020, MAME is recommended, although some supports at least one version of each Game & Watch games still can only be played outside of the original hardware through simulationmodel.:* See [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/hh_sm510.cpp MAME driver] which covers several all of the Game & Watch series of games and those of a similar ilk from other companies running on the LCD game handhelds with Sharp SM5xx family of CPUs (SM5A/SM510/SM500/SM5ASM511/SM512) (Other companies that released similar games included Konami, Elektronika, [[Tiger_LCD_Handhelds|Tiger Electronics]], Tronica and VTech).
:* [http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mame.php?game_sourcefile=hh_sm510.cpp&arcade_only=0¤t_version=0 Arcade Italia's database] of compatibility records for games on MAME.
;'''DSP''':It was officially the 2nd Game & Watch emulator. Just before mid-June 2017, it also it started to emulate a few notable Game & Watch "Thanks to MAME for the ROMs and the info." (as stated in the [https://github.com/leniad/dsp-emulator readme]).
===Emulation issues===
==Simulators==
For a lot of Game & Watch gamesthose who don't want to use MAME, this is your only option outside of buying them any unit used.
* 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 Nintendo 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.
* 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 are available to play through [[RetroArch]] through the gw-libretro core. There are also some that are not of the Game & Watch series.
* [http://bdrgames.nl/lcdgames/ lcdgame.js] is an open -source JavaScript library which currently supports authentic representations of Donkey Kong II and Mario Bros.* [http://www.emulator3000.org/hq.htm Handheld Quake] is a free simulator that simulates some Электроника and Nintendo handhelds.
==Games==
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|Crab Grab
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|Donkey Kong
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|Donkey Kong 3
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|Donkey Kong Circus
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|Donkey Kong Hockey
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|Donkey Kong II
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|Pinball
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|Popeye
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|Popeye (Panorama)
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|Rain Shower
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|Snoopy
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|Snoopy Tennis
==Games exclusive to some collections==
===SM5xx CPU games in MAME that are not part of the Game & Watch Series===
Elektronika:
*Merry Cook (same Chef G&W ROM)
*Nu, pogodi! (same Mickey Mouse G&W ROM)
*Explorers of Space (same Mickey Mouse G&W ROM)
*Space Bridge (same Fire G&W ROM)
Konami:
*Double Dribble
*Top Gun
*Contra
*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
*Gradius
*Lone Ranger
*Blades of Steel
*NFL Football
*The Adventures of Bayou Billy
*Bucky O'Hare
*Garfield
Tronica:
*Shuttle Voyage
*Thief in Garden
*Space Rescue
VTech:
*Electronic Number Muncher
[[Tiger LCD Handhelds|Tiger]] 72-xxx models:
*Batman: The Animated Series
[[Tiger LCD Handhelds|Tiger]] 7-xxx/78-xxx models:
*Gauntlet
*Robin Hood
*Double Dragon
*Karnov
*Vindicators
*Ninja Gaiden
*Batman
*Space Harrier II
*Strider
*Golden Axe
*Robocop 2
*The Rocketeer
*Altered Beast
*Street Fighter 2010
*Swamp Thing
*Spider-Man
*X-Men
*Double Dragon 3
*The Flash
*MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This
*Battletoads
*Hook
*Back to the Future
*The Addams Family
*Home Alone
*X-Men - Project X
*Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York
*Sonic The Hedgehog
*Robocop 3
*The Incredible Crash Dummies
*Street Fighter II
*Wayne's World
*Jurassic Park
*Sonic The Hedgehog 2
*Super Double Dragon
*Dennis the Menace
*Nightmare Before Christmas
*Transformers - Generation 2
*Operation: Aliens
*Mortal Kombat
*The Shadow
*Skeleton Warriors - The Dark Crusade
*Batman Forever - Double Dose of Doom
*Judge Dredd
*Apollo 13
*007: GoldenEye
*Kazaam
*Space Jam
*Independence Day
===Games in Pica Pic that are not part of the Game & Watch Series===
* Aerogun Field
==Resources==
* [[wikipedia:Game & Watch ports and remakes|List from Wikipedia of Game & Watch ports and remakes]]
* [https://www.gameandwatch.ch/en/game-watch-information/all-60-games.html All 60 Games list] detailing the Nintendo's Game & Watch series (Nice list with technical names and links to details and photos of 60 different Game & Watch)
* [https://www.mariowiki.com/Game_%26_Watch Super Mario Wiki] covering Nintendo's Game & Watch series (Nice wiki-style page with many photos of different handhelds)
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WLKcvynl0ky2mRL1UacA9yaiMTnNs4x5 Design, layout and artwork] (Made by Lee Robson (hydef). Storage of background art files for LCD handheld games from Elektronika, Gakken, Konami, Nintendo G&W, Tiger Electronics and Tronica.)
