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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.  Despite their simplicity, Game & Watch handhelds were completely unemulated for a very long time due to a lack of information about their hardware and difficulties with dumping ROMs and accurately recreating graphics. After an [http://forums.bannister.org//ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=97003#Post97003 extensive reverse -engineering effort by several MAME developers], MAME became the first emulator to support many retro handheld electronic games, including Game & Watch systems.

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;'''[[MAME]]''':It was officially the 1st Game & Watch emulator, with support for almost all games. 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]. <br> Since July 9 , 2020, MAME supports at least one version of each Game & Watch model.:* See [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/hh_sm510.cpp MAME driver] which covers several 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/SM511/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&current_version=0 Arcade Italia's database] of compatibility records for games on MAME. 

Although Game & Watch emulation has recently become possible, it took quite a while to achieve due to the [http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=17884.msg259362#msg259362 lack of information] about the microcontrollers driving them and the high difficulty of dumping the ROM from a system. (To dump a game's ROM, the microcontroller often must be decapped, which is not only very costly and complicated but highly destructive to the system.) The lack of information on the Game & Watch's hardware leads to the false belief that it does not contain a CPU or ROM and therefore could not be emulated. Even though this was disproven after reverse engineering efforts of several MAME developers which led to support for a few all of the games being added to MAME, emulation . Emulation of additional the games is had been progressing slowly due to the high amount of time and patience it takes to dump their ROMs and recreate their graphics.

Even when a Game & Watch game's ROM has had been dumped, one of the biggest challenges with accurately emulating it is was with how the Game & Watch displayed graphics. Rather than by sending output to an LCD display like most cartridge -based handhelds do, Game & Watch games (as well as most other handheld electronic games from the same time) displayed graphics by lighting up pre-drawn LCD segments, like a calculator. In order to To recreate this as accurately as possible, MAME uses .SVG files traced from high-quality scans of the LCD screen, allowing graphics in supported Game & Watch games to be displayed crisply at any resolution without the loss of any detail. While this is the most accurate way to recreate the LCD graphics outside of obtaining the original art from Nintendo, it is a difficult and time -consuming process, as not only does the LCD need to be scanned at a high resolution with all segments lit up to capture all of the graphics, but the scans must be traced very carefully to faithfully recreate the original artwork.

==Simulators=Games=For those who don't want to use MAME, this is your only option The main way of playing these games outside of buying 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)units second hand is MAME, 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 its accuracy automatically makes it the difficult-to-pirate DSiWare series, though every game in the DSiWare series appears in another collection.) However, some recommended way of the playing these games in the collection (notably but if you really don''Zelda'') may need t want 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 offlineuse it, 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, other ways in 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 handheldssimulators list.

==GamesMAME Support=={| class="wikitable sortable" mw-collapsible mw-collapsed|+ style="text-alignbackground:center#ECECEC;"|! scope="col"|GameModel! scope="col"|CollectionYear! scope="col"|DSiWareSeries ! scope="col"|Pica Pic[[MAME]] support! scope="col"|gw-libretroROMs! scope="col"|MAMEEmulators / Description

|{{✓}} 2010|Club Nintendo|{{✓}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} -|Ball / Toss-Up|1980|Silver| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1986|Crystal Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|BlackjackBalloon Fight|{{✗}} 1988|New Wide Screen| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes||-|{{✗}} Black Jack|1985|{{✗}} Vertical Multi Screen|style="background: LightGreen;"|{{✗}} Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1987|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|BoxingChef|{{✓}} 1981|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|ChefClimber|{{✓}} 1986|Crystal Screen|{{✓}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1988|New Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✗}} 1984|Super Color|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1982|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✓}} Yes||{{✓}} -|Donkey Kong|1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|style="background:gainsboro;"|None|||-|Donkey Kong II|1983|Vertical Multi Screen| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1984|Micro Vs.|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1984|Panorama|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✓}} -|Donkey Kong Jr. |1982|New Wide Screen| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|Donkey Kong Hockey Jr. |{{✓}} 1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|{{✗}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|Donkey Kong IIJr. |{{✓}} 1983|Panorama|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|Donkey Kong Jr.|{{✓}} 1983|Table Top|{{✓}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|Donkey Kong Jr. (Panorama)Hockey|{{✗}} 1984|Micro Vs.|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1981|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|{{✗}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|Fire (silver version)|{{✓}} 1981|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1982|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} -|Fireman / Fire|1980|Silver| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1980|Silver|{{✓}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|GoldcliffGold Cliff|{{✗}} 1988|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1982|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|Headache / Helmet|{{✓}} 1981|Gold|{{✓}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1980|Silver|{{✓}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|Life BoatLifeboat|{{✓}} 1983|Horizontal Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1981|Gold|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1981|Gold|{{✓}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|Manhole (gold version)|{{✗}} 1983|New Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|Mario Bros.'s Bombs Away|{{✓}} 1983|Panorama|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|Mario the Juggler's Cement Factory|{{✗}} 1983|New Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|Mario's Bombs AwayCement Factory|{{✓}} 1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|{{✗}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1983|Table Top|{{✓}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} -|Mario Bros.|1983|Horizontal Multi Screen| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|Mario's Cement Factory (Table Top)The Juggler|{{✗}} 1991|New Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✗}} 1982|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✓}} Yes||{{✗}} -|Mickey Mouse|1984|Panorama| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✗}} 1981|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|Mickey Mouse (Panorama)Mysteries of the Deep / Sea / Octopus|{{✗}} 1981|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|{{✗}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} -|Oil Panic|1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|style="background:gainsboro;"|None||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1982|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} -|Parachute|1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|style="background:gainsboro;"|None||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1981|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✓}} Yes||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✗}} 1983|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✗}} 1983|Panorama|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|Popeye (Panorama)|{{✗}} 1983|Table Top|style="background:gainsboro;"|None|||-|{{✗}} Popeye|1981|{{✗}} Wide Screen|style="background: LightGreen;"|{{✗}} Good|Yes||-|Punch Out / Boxing|1984|Micro Vs.| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1983|Horizontal Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1988|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} -|Snoopy|1983|Panorama| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✗}} 1983|Table Top|{{✗}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} -|Snoopy Tennis|1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|style="background:gainsboro;"|None||{{✓}}

|{{✗}} 1982|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1984|Super Color|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} -|Squish |1986|Vertical Multi Screen| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes||-|Super Mario Bros.|1986|Crystal Screen| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|SquishSuper Mario Bros.|{{✗}} 1988|New Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} |Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|{{✗}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} -|Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Edition|2020|Color Screen|style="background:gainsboro;"|None|||-|The Exterminator / Vermin|1980|Silver| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes||-|The Legend of Zelda 35th Anniversary Edition|2021|Color Screen|style="background:gainsboro;"|None|||-|Ball / Toss-Up|1980|Silver| style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|Yes|{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1985|New Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1982|Wide Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✗}} Yes||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|VerminZelda|{{✓}} 1998|<u>Nintendo Mini Classics<u>|{{✓}} style="background:gainsboro;"|None|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|{{✓}} 1989|Vertical Multi Screen|{{✗}} style="background: LightGreen;"|Good|{{✓}} Yes||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

From an emulation point of view, the 2009 List Note: underlined text = devices that are re-release releases of G&W games that are technically not apart of Ball is a completely new game with a different CPU and a different program compared to the original Ball releaseGame & Watch Series.

The table top version of Mario's Cement Factory is similar to the widesreen and panorama versions but has different artwork and slightly different gameplay.{|class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed|+ style="background: #ECECEC;"|! SimulatorThe silver version of Fire has slightly different gameplay than the widescreen version.!Description |-==Games exclusive to some collections==|Nintendo ===SM5xx CPU | Nintendo officially released virtual reproductions in the games and compiled them in MAME that are not part of the ''Game & Watch Series=== Elektronika:*Merry Cook Gallery'' (same Chef G&W ROM)*Nuand, later, pogodi! (same Mickey Mouse G''Game &W ROMWatch Collection'')*Explorers series of games. These games had both "classic" and "modern" variations of these games. While these collections have a loss of Space "authenticity" (same Mickey Mouse G&W ROMespecially in the collections that are running on earlier hardware)*Space Bridge , these collections are Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS games for which emulators are widespread. (same Fire G&W ROMA few games are from the DSiWare series, though every game in the DSiWare series appears in another collection.) Konami:*Double Dribble*Top Gun *Contra *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles *Gradius *Lone Ranger *Blades However, some of Steel *NFL Football *The Adventures of Bayou Billy*Bucky Othe games in the collection (notably ''Zelda''Hare*Garfield Tronica:*Shuttle Voyage*Thief in Garden*Space Rescue) may need to be unlocked before play.VTech:*Electronic Number Muncher [[Tiger LCD Handhelds|Tiger]] 72-xxx models:*Batman: The Animated Series|Pica Pic[[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 Developed by Hipopotam, Pica Pic is an online collection of Game & Watch games under an authentic presentation (using Adobe Flash*MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This*Battletoads*Hook*Back ). While there seems to be no way to play these games offline, there are a few games that are exclusive to the Futurewebsite.*The Addams Family*Home Alone*X|-Men - Project X*Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York|Madrigal Simulations *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 |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 Menace*Nightmare Before Christmas*Transformers gw- 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 libretro core. There are also some that are not part of the Game & Watch Series===series.* Aerogun Field* Autoslalom* Barrier* Bartman* Castle Adventure* Caveman* Coffee House* Fishing Boy* G|-Man* Merry Cook* Ncha! Bycha* Nu, pogodi!* Penguin Land* Plane & Tank* Pirate 777* Search Light* Space Bridge* Sub Attack* The Terminator* Thief in Garden ===Games in |[http://bdrgames.nl/lcdgames/ lcdgame.js ]|An open-source JavaScript library that are not part currently supports authentic representations of the Game & Watch Series===Donkey Kong II and Mario Bros.* Highway|-* Sea Ranger|[http://www.emulator3000.org/hq.htm Handheld Quake]* Jungle Kong (Cresta)|A free simulator that simulates some Elektronika and Nintendo handhelds.* Eagle n Chicken* Tom's Adventure|}

===Games that are not part of the Game Miscellaneous G& Watch SeriesW Info==<div style="display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; justify-content: space-between;">* Armor Battle<div style="flex: 1 0 240px;">* BananaThe silver version of Fire has slightly different gameplay than the widescreen version.* Baseball* Bomb Fight* Caccia al Ladra/Heatcliff* Cessate il Fuoco/Heatcliff* Chick Woggy (2 The three Panorama titles listed above are completely different games than the standard versions)despite the same names.* Condor* Crazy Chewy* Defendo* Donkey Angler* Donkey Kong (Coleco version)* Donkey Kong Junior (Coleco The tabletop version)* Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game* Engine Room* Escape* Explorers of Space* Fowling* Frog Boaster* Galaxy II* Grab Man* Hippo Teeth (2 Mario's Cement Factory is similar to the widescreen and panorama versions)but has different artwork and slightly different gameplay.* Hot Line (2 versions)* Las Vegas* Monkey* Monkey Jump* Motor Cross* Pac Man* Pancake* Penguin Land* Pirate* Roller Coaster* Safari* Sleep Walker* Sub Chase* Tennis Menace* Tom & Jerry Popper* Towering Rescue* Tron* Wild Man JumpFrom an emulation point of view, the 2009 re-release of Ball is a completely new game with a different CPU and a different program compared to the original Ball release.

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* [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.)