Game & Watch Gallery series
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The Game & Watch Gallery series is comprised of collections of some of Nintendo's original Game & Watch titles remade with characters from the Super Mario Bros. games. Known in Japan as the Game Boy Gallery series, four installments have been released, each for various incarnations of Nintendo's portable systems, like Game Boy and Game Boy Advance. In many cases, the mini-games ported onto these collections exist in their graphically upgraded forms as well as their original ones. Also, the titles often feature actual galleries explaining the history of the Game & Watch system and the various games released for it. The first three titles in the series also feature Super Game Boy borders which mimic the original Game & Watch casing designs.
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[edit] Game & Watch Gallery
Released in 1997 for the Game Boy, this is the first of the series and by far the simplest. It features four games.
- Manhole - Mario, Toad and Donkey Kong Jr. are walking across a platform. Players control Yoshi and must maneuver him in order to hold a manhole up to various gaps in the platform so that the characters do not fall.
- Oil Panic - Mario must catch leaking oil with a bucket, then dump it out the window to Yoshi.
- Octopus - Mario swims for treasure but must avoid an octopus' moving tentacles.
- Fire - Peach's castle is burning and Toad, Yoshi and Donkey Kong Jr. are leaping out to escape. Players control Mario and Luigi, who hold a tarp and must bounce their friends to safety.
Again, players can also choose to play these games in their original form, playing as the character who eventually became known as Mr. Game & Watch. The games play basically the same in their original versions.
[edit] Game & Watch Gallery 2
The follow-up appeared in 1998 as a launch title for the Game Boy Color. It includes six games.
- Parachute - Mario must catch Toad, baby Yoshi and Donkey Kong Jr. as they float down the screen with their parachutes.
- Chef - Peach must flip different food items with her pan and allow and feed them to Yoshi
- Donkey Kong - A remake of the Game & Watch version of the Donkey Kong arcade game. Peach substitutes for Pauline in the remake version, though Pauline still appears in the original.
- Ball - Mario must juggle various objects. This game must be unlocked.
- Helmet - Mario must walk across the screen, dodging various falling tools.
- Vermin - Yoshi must protect six eggs from predatory Koopa Troopas, Shyguys and Boos.
[edit] Game & Watch Gallery 3
This third installment, released in 1999 for the Game Boy Color, features the most games yet.
- Egg - Yoshi must eat cookies as they pop out of the oven. In the original, the player controls a fox who must grab falling eggs laid by hens before they hit the ground.
- Greenhouse - Yoshi must protect his plants from Shyguys and monkeys by spitting watermelon seeds machine gun-style.
- Turtle Bridge - Toad must relay packages between Mario and Peach by using a bridge of Goonie Birds, who keep diving away at balloons that float by. In the original version, the players crossed a bridge made of turtles.
- Mario Bros. - Far different from the Mario Bros. arcade title, this game has Mario and Luigi scurrying around to keep a series of cakes moving on a conveyor belt. Players control both Mario and Luigi with different buttons in both versions of the game.
- Donkey Kong Jr. - Also different from the arcade title of the same name, this game has players controlling Donkey Kong Jr. through various stages toward his father, who is trapped in a cage.
Game & Watch Gallery 3 also includes five unlockable games that exist only in their original forms.
- Judge- Also a two-player game (requires two Game Boys and two copies of the game with this game unlocked)
- Flagman
- Lion
- Spitball Sparky
- Donkey Kong II
- Fire - A reversed version of the game included previously in the first Game & Watch Gallery
[edit] Game & Watch Gallery 4
The last of the series to date, this title was released for the Game Boy Advance on October 28, 2002 with an ESRB rating of "E for everyone." It is the second title in the series to feature two-player play, provided players have two Game Boy Advances and a Game Link cable. It also marks one of the last playable appearances to date by Donkey Kong Jr. Several of the games in this title, however, previously appeared in other installments of Game & Watch Gallery.
- Donkey Kong 3 - A match between Mario and Donkey Kong, who try to direct a fireball and Boo towards each other by shooting bubbles. This game can also be played with two human players.
- Donkey Kong Jr. - A further graphical upgrade of the title featured in Game & Watch Gallery 3.
- Fire Also in Game & Watch Gallery and Game & Watch Gallery 3.
- Mario's Cement Factory - Mario must process cookie dough into ovens, then hand the cookies off to Yoshi and Toad. In the original version, Mario must deliver cement through the conver belt to a truck.
- Rain Shower - Players control Mario, who must pull on various clotheslines from which his friends are suspended in order to prevent them from getting splashed with paint balloons thrown by Bowser.
- Boxing - Controlling Luigi, players must punch out a series of opponents — Wiggler, the Big Boo and Waluigi. This game can be played with two players. This title was also released as Punch-Out.
The game also includes fourteen games that players can unlock by earning stars — rewards for playing other games well.
- Chef Also in Game & Watch Gallery 2.
- Donkey Kong Also in Game & Watch Gallery 2.
- Octopus Also in Game & Watch Gallery.
- Fire Attack - the only unlockable game not in previous Game and Watch Galleries.
- Mario Bros. Also in Game & Watch Gallery 3.
The following games are also unlockable, but only in their original forms.
- Manhole Also in Game & Watch Gallery.
- Tropical Fish
- Mario's Bombs Away
- Parachute Also in Game & Watch Gallery 2.
- Bombsweeper
- Climber
- Safebuster
- Lifeboat
- Zelda
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[edit] Cameos and other references
- In Wario Land 2 for SGB and GBC flagman DD (unlockable when all treasures are collected) a version of Flagman from specifically from Game Boy Gallery appears exceept different colors and a main character DD(A.K.A. Dangerous Duck an enemy that throws boomerangs at Wario when he sees him) is replaced by the one in Game Boy Gallery and even displays the Game Boy Gallery Flagman Super Game Boy Border only in the Game Boy or Super Game Boy cartridge(Monochrome or grey cartridge) not the Game Boy Color version of the game Wario Land 2 (Black cartridge) as for sounds in flagman DD it is unknown to be new sounds or from the old Game & Watch version.
[edit] Trivia
- Before the G&W Gallery series, there was the original Game Boy Gallery which was only available in Europe and was released by mistake, and it consists of five classic G&W games which are Ball, Vermin, Flagman, Manhole and Cement Factory. This inspired Nintendo of Japan to make its own Game & Watch Gallery series that we know today.
[edit] External links
- The Official Game & Watch Gallery 4 site.
- About.com Guide to Game Boy - All things Game Boy: News, reviews, history, culture and development. Updated several times a week.
