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[edit] Mr. Game & Watch

"Game & Watch" is the name of A character? I'm confused. -- Zoe

A generic little black stick figure that you played in a lot of games that didn't feature NES characters. They only bothered to give him a name for SSBM. You can write reminders on it.

Apparently his name was Hideo before that. Is that true? If so, his full name would be Mr. Hideo Game & Watch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.246.192.22 (talk) 10:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hideo was the name given to him by many Japanese players. Suichi (talk) 16:41, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
This is all nonsense. Every Game & Watch game featured totally different characters. The early ones were referred to as puppets and mannequins. The later ones were given names, or based off Nintendo's other characters (Mario, Link, Donkey Kong Jr., etc.) Mr. Game & Watch was simply given the name as representative of the Game & Watch exclusively for Super Smash Bros. Melee and later releases. There was never a character called Mr. Game & Watch before 2001, and if anyone can find anything on anyone called "Hideo" then I'd be very VERY surprised. Check the old manuals (US and Japanese)... they're all online. It's not hard to confirm. Fryguy64 (talk) 00:09, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] See also

Why is there 'Elektronika' in the See also section? They were a CCCP manufacturer of calculators that has nothing to do with the G&W.

[edit] Game modes

Please add detailed (and sure) information about what was main diffirence between "Game A" and "Game B" (time, obstacles count, etc.)

This was different for nearly every game. It would be a mighty list of differences... Fryguy64 (talk) 00:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Game & Watch as inspiration for DS?

I'm wondering if there should be a section about this. --Thaddius 13:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

It looks like it, they appear to have the same basic design without the DS's other functions. --D-hyo 17:03, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. I removed that. It's original research unless you can find something official which says that the DS was inspired by G&W. 199.126.137.209 18:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] g&w is the original d-pad?

Is it true that the Game & Watch features the original d-pad, for which Nintendo still holds the patent (hence the weird d-pads on the PlayStation--they get around the patent)? If so, it should be in the article.

I'm pretty sure this is the first 'system' to ever use the D-Pad. It'd be OK to throw that in, I'm sure. Fourange (talk) 12:47, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Factual errors and POV

"The Game & Watch consoles were small" We need dimensions.

"Most devices had one direction pad (D-pad) comprised of Up, Down, Left and Right buttons on the left hand side and usually one, sometimes two, buttons on the right." I think most devices didn't have a D-pad.

"On the top right hand side of the machine are three buttons: Alarm, Time & Game" This is not true for all games. kabbelen 01:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I recommend that you just go ahead and make any changes you see fit. I don't think this talk page gets enough attention for a "discussion first" approach to be very effective. I'm primarily focused on some other articles right now. Dancter 01:56, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
changes made. This article still needs considerable work.87.65.70.191 00:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Super mario bros g&w

I have one. Would it be a vio to upload a scanned image of it playing? Its the blue one that plays like Super Mario World, where you have to jump from platform to platform, etc. Quatreryukami 01:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. G&W tribute to Gunpei Yokoi?

I once heard a story that Mr. Game and Watch was included in SSBM specifically as a tribute to the late Gunpei Yokoi. Is this true? 24.127.145.27 18:27, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Woah woah woah.

Why was the character article merged with the hardware article? I had a lot of research done about Mr. Game & Watch. Things like personality and age. This just doesn't feel right. Fourange 15:03, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About Mr. Game & Watch in Brawl

There isn't more than one of him. Well, technically there ARE, but they're clones created by the Subspace Army. I'll just edit that little bit. Fourange (talk) 11:28, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A picture of Mr. Game & Watch.

We have plenty of Game & Watch pictures, but not one picture of Mr. Game & Watch. We should probably put one up. Once the Smash Bros. Dojo updates him, we shoud try to get that picture onto this article. Fourange (talk) 12:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ATTN: Anyone who is EVER going to edit/add to the Mr. Game & Watch article.

Don't refer to Mr. Game & Watch as simply "Game & Watch" or "GW" or anything like that. It's not hard to type "Mr.". So, Mr. Game & Watch = character. Game & Watch = game series. Fourange (talk) 12:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. Game & Watch cameos.

To keep things tidy, it might be a good idea to create a sub-catagory for his cameos, instead of cramming it all into his article alone. Fourange (talk) 12:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

But that would gum things up. The article was made to fit all infomation about this source into it, Making in neccesary to leave all infomation in this article, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.27.68.247 (talk) 00:38, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ...Passing wind?

Uh, I looked up a screenshot from Wario Ware: Touched! and it looks more like Mr. Game & Watch is jumping, not passing wind. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.248.10.65 (talk) 02:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image

What's the big deal this image is a whole lot better than the one on this article: Image:Game and Watch-DonkeyKongJR.jpg.

It's the same game, just this one you can see better. 208.127.133.43 (talk) 21:02, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from Mr. Game & Watch

I have merged Mr. Game & Watch with Game & Watch. Please read about it here. — OranL (talk) 20:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

This article needs more sources. I have reverted a change because these tags need to be here to let people know that these claims are unverified. I will concede that the tag at the top is good enough, so I we can take out the {{cleanupsection}} tag, but the {{fact}} tags are staying. — OranL (talk) 16:29, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nintendo Game Watch (Wristwatch)

I can find no mention on Wikipedia whatsoever of the Game Watch series wrist watches whatsoever with the exception of this photo on the zelda section: [[1]] I remember them being almost as numerous as the Game and Watches.