Sweet! Nintendo game and watch haul!

[Pipercub]

My wife had these as a kid, and the mother in law brought them with her when she came to visit from Italy for Xmass. They have been stored in their boxes in a drawer for 20 years or so!

 

[8th lutz]

Nice Haul of game And Watch games.

[Smiley]

The only game and watches I had were those wristwatches that also served as games..they had super mario 4; starfox, and some others...man, I miss those..

 

anyway, nice collection...but one of the uber rare zelda ones would make it more complete.

[Atarifever]

You can see the inspiration for the DS, Micro, and SP in there. I didn't realize that before.

[Smiley]

Yeah, ninty hasn't had an original idea in years..and I've always thought the micro looked more like a neo geo pocket than anything

[shep]

Yeah, ninty hasn't had an original idea in years..

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...rrrright.

 

Anywho, those Game and Watch's are in excellent shape! I'm really jealous!

[jferio]

Reminds me... I need batteries for my own DK Jr Game and Watch. (It's the same as the wrapped flip-open unit at the bottom)

 

I had the Spitball Sparky at one point, but it died in a horrible fall to the pavement.

[classicgamingguy]

NICE collection. I don't think I've EVER seen anything like that. Must have missed that part of my gaming phase..I'm jealous!

 

Good collection!

 

Steve

[Xizer]

Yeah, ninty hasn't had an original idea in years..and I've always thought the micro looked more like a neo geo pocket than anything

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Does anyone smell something? I think it resembles troll.

 

I'd be interested in knowing exactly how many Game & Watch variations Nintendo produced. It seems like a rough thing to collect.

[Pipercub]

I don't know about troll. He has a point in general, granted not an absolute one. Atari is great, but they suffered from repetition of product as much as they did from not releasing the 7800 and not marketing the NES when Nintendo came to them. The 5200 and 7800 both saw the same core arcade games re-released while other systems had uniqe games that had never been done before. Nintendo took Atari's domination of the market because they had original ideas while Atari was just porting over past hits. Nintendo gave you SMB and Zelda, Atari ported over Mrs Pacman and Centipede, again. But Nintendo also lost their market domination in part by reusing the same stuff.

[yuppicide]

LOL @ Zelda. These are pre-zelda.. pre-SM4, pre-Starfox. I'd say these would be worth more.

 

Amazing that nobody ever took these out of the package or really used them.

 

The only game and watches I had were those wristwatches that also served as games..they had super mario 4; starfox, and some others...man, I miss those..

 

anyway, nice collection...but one of the uber rare zelda ones would make it more complete.

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[kevincal]

The only game and watches I had were those wristwatches that also served as games..they had super mario 4; starfox, and some others...man, I miss those..

 

anyway, nice collection...but one of the uber rare zelda ones would make it more complete.

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Super Mario 4?!

[kevincal]

You can see the inspiration for the DS, Micro, and SP in there.  I didn't realize that before.

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Ya, wow, that one in the pic on the bottom-right CLOSELY as heck resembles a DS.

[keilbaca]

Wow nice haul!

 

They are expensive as hell to get nowadays, even in japan in the used shops.

 

In Hard Off, I seen game and watches normally for $40 at least, some of the rare ones much, much higher.

 

Oh, and you're talking about Ninty being uninnovative? Take a look at the ps2 console. I forget which computer it was, but it looked _identical_ to it, the 360 looks like a PC case and the ps3 is another copycat of another system.

 

At least Ninty used their own design, not taking other people's ideas.

[J.Max]

Beautiful! It's always nice to get old treasures. My mother recently found a Mattel Gin game that was my very first video game ever. And it still worked!

[Dones]

Might as well plug this link:

 

http://madrigal.retrogames.com/

 

Has simulated versions of many of those collectable 80's handhelds. worth checking out.

[tholly]

Might as well plug this link:

 

http://madrigal.retrogames.com/

 

Has simulated versions of many of those collectable 80's handhelds. worth checking out.

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wow....nice haul....being stored for so long, they almost look brand new.....congrats...

[varneyd]

HOw much for me to buy the lot?

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[Famicoman]

So envious. They are scarce in my area.

[Cheese007]

nintendo hasnt had an orignal idea in years but sony and microsoft have?

Edited January 2, 2006 by Cheese007

[super_dos_man]

[AtariJr]

nintendo hasnt had an orignal idea in years but sony and microsoft have?

 

i was just going to say the same thing... at least nintendo doesnt re-use controllers system to system...thats real imaginative... feels reeeaaaal new

[Dave Farquhar]

Oh, and you're talking about Ninty being uninnovative? Take a look at the ps2 console. I forget which computer it was, but it looked _identical_ to it, the 360 looks like a PC case and the ps3 is another copycat of another system.

 

The PS2 looks a lot like the NeXT computers I used in college. NeXT was the venture Steve Jobs did when he left Apple the first time; when Apple bought NeXT, that company's software became the basis of OS X.

 

As for the 360, I would expect it to look like a PC case, seeing as it's from Microsoft. When the Nintendo GameCube came out, people were oogling the Apple Mac cube (although most people ended up buying something else), so that was probably Nintendo's inspiration. And Apple's iPods look like 1950s portable radios. When it comes to design, I don't think anyone's being very original right now. But at least there are a few people stealing good ideas.

 

But lest this go off topic, yes, that was a very nice haul indeed!

Edited July 13, 2006 by Dave Farquhar