Game & Watch Gallery

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This article is about the Game & Watch Gallery video game. For information on the entire series known as Game & Watch Gallery, see Game & Watch Gallery series.

Game & Watch Gallery

Developer(s)	Nintendo
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	1997
Genre(s)	Compilation game
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Game Boy
Media	Cartridge

Game & Watch Gallery is a game developed by Nintendo and released in 1997 for the Game Boy. It is the first game in the Game & Watch Gallery series and by far the simplest.

[edit] Games

Game & Watch Gallery features the following 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] Trivia

This game is the only game in the Game & Watch Gallery series to have its own soundtrack. The soundtrack also included updated versions of the music featured in the game.
The background beat of the music that plays during the modern version of Octopus is from the Popeye arcade game.
This game was not actually developed by Nintendo but by a company named TOSE.
Both "Octopus" and "Fire" are later included in Game & Watch Gallery 4.