LCD games from the Mario series
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Nintendo has released several Mario and Donkey Kong LCD video games for the Game & Watch system.
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[edit] Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong for Game & Watch is a port of the arcade game, where Mario is a carpenter trying to rescue his girlfriend from an evil ape. It was developed by Nintendo R&D1.
Like the arcade Donkey Kong, Mario must climb a building avoiding barrels. But beating the game is different from the original game. Mario must also trigger the lever on the upper screen, activating a hook. Then, Mario needs to jump and catch the hook; If he doesn't catch the hook, he'll fall on the ground and lose a life, and if he does, a peg will be removed and Mario will return to the starting point. Removing all pegs cause the Donkey Kong's platform to collapse, making him fall on the ground.
[edit] Donkey Kong 2
Donkey Kong II was developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released March 3, 1989 as a Game & Watch and is also called Donkey Kong Jr., but is not identical to the arcade game with which it shares this name.
In this game, Donkey Kong Jr. is in trouble by trying to save Donkey Kong. He must watch out for things like crocodiles, birds and electric flashes. It is a "Multi Screen" game, with two LCD display screens. This game was later included in Game Boy Color's Game & Watch Gallery 3 in 2000.
[edit] Donkey Kong Circus
Donkey Kong Circus, is a Game and Watch game released in September 1984. In this game, the user controls Donkey Kong on a barrel, juggling pineapples and avoiding flames.
[edit] Donkey Kong Hockey
Donkey Kong Hockey (Micro vs) is a Game and Watch game developed by Nintendo R&D1.
[edit] Mario's Bombs Away
Mario's Bombs Away is a game released as a Game & Watch. The game consisted of moving a military-clad Mario from left to right and strategically placing bombs. The game was in color. The game was odd because while playing, rather than looking directly at the screen, you played by watching a mirror in which the screen was reflected.
[edit] Mario Bros.
Mario Bros. is a Game & Watch game by Nintendo released in 1983. Despite the title, it is unrelated in gameplay to the Mario Bros. arcade game. The game had also been ported to the Commodore 64 as Mario Bros. II.
The game is a multi-screen game, with Luigi on the left screen and Mario on the right screen. The brothers are working in a bottling plant, moving packages between the various levels of the bottling machine. The game's clamshell design is unusual in the series, it is one of only three Multi Screen games which open horizontally like a book (in the Japanese right to left reading order) and not vertically (like the Nintendo DS does).
The only controls for the game are up and down buttons for each brother. Mario first gets a pallet out of the machine on the lowest level and puts in on the conveyor belt. Luigi then takes it from the other side and puts it on the belt above it. There are 3 points on each side the brothers must do this. Finally, once the package is filled Luigi tosses it onto the delivery truck. Once the truck is full the brothers get a short break. If the brothers should drop a pallet they will be yelled at by their bosses. Drop 3 pallets and it is game over. Repeat ad infinitum.
In the remakes of this game for Game & Watch Gallery 3 and 4, Mario and Luigi are catching what becomes a cake, and then boxed and wrapped up for delivery (with Wario portraying the delivery man). The remakes add a new twist to the game by having Bowser, who waits at the top middle of the screen, cause the conveyor belt to reverse, forcing Mario and Luigi to correct it with switches placed at their sides.
Like nearly all Game & Watch titles there is the standard Game A and harder Game B, plus the clock and alarm shared with all Game & Watch titles.
[edit] Mario's Cement Factory
Mario's Cement Factory was a game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and released in the 1980's for the Game and Watch handheld series. The game was released in the Game & Watch widescreen and tabletop versions, as well as the Mini-Classics series in 1998 (a set of four Game & Watch games ported to small keychain-bound handhelds). It was also released as part of the Game & Watch Gallery series for the Game Boy.
In this game, the player assumes the role of Mario, working in a cement factory. The player must empty cement from the hoppers into the cement trucks below. A conveyor belt at the top moves cement into hoppers which can only hold three loads at a time. An alarm sounds when one is full. To get around one uses elevators in the center of the screen. If the player moves to the center when an elevator isn't there Mario falls to the bottom and loses a life. Losing a life can also occur if one stays on the elevator too long, in which case Mario will either fall or get smashed.
[edit] Mario the Juggler
Mario the Juggler is a Game & Watch (widescreen) game featuring Mario (as the title implies) playing the role as a juggler. The game was released by Nintendo in 16 October 1991, and is noted for being the last game released in the Game & Watch series. As a sort of tribute to the Game & Watch series, the game is essentially a Mario-ized version of the very first Game & Watch, Ball.
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