Editing Game & Watch

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The '''{{wp|Game & Watch}}''' series (initially released in North America as the '''Time-Out''' series)<ref>{{cite|author=Phil Salvador|date=June 13, 2024|url=https://gamehistory.org/mego-time-out-commercial/|title=Is this the first Nintendo commercial?|publisher=Video Game History Foundation|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627061609/https://gamehistory.org/mego-time-out-commercial/|accessdate=July 2, 2024}}</ref> is a series of handheld games developed by [[Nintendo]] from 1980 to 1991. The Game & Watch was Nintendo's earliest product to be very successful,<ref>{{cite|url=iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wii/mario25th/1/0|title=Iwata Asks: Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary|publisher=Nintendo|accessdate=April 30, 2023}}</ref> with the series selling a combined 43.4 million units worldwide.<ref>{{cite|url=iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/clubn/game-and-watch-ball-reward/0/3|title=Iwata Asks: Game & Watch|publisher=Nintendo|accessdate=April 30, 2023}}</ref> Each Game & Watch had its own game built in, in addition to a clock and an alarm, and many of them are of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]]. Nintendo also let the Game & Watch games be used as promotional items for businesses that put their own logos on them.<ref>{{cite|url=www.gameandwatch.ch/en/faq-questions-answers/promo-advertising-game-watch.html|title=FAQ Promotional (Advertising) Game&Watch Games|publisher=www.gameandwatch.ch|accessdate=March 10, 2021}}</ref>

Most Game & Watch titles have two modes: Game A and Game B, the latter usually being a faster, more difficult version of Game A. In the Micro VS. System series of games, such as ''[[Donkey Kong 3 (Game & Watch)|Donkey Kong 3]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Hockey]]'', Game B is the two-player mode. A few Game & Watch games such as ''[[Super Mario Bros. (Game & Watch)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' do not have a Game B. The Game & Watch games normally become harder as the player progresses, but the gameplay usually slows down every 100 [[point]]s the player receives. The games usually end when the player receives three misses (generally meaning "lives that are lost"). In most games, misses can be removed if the player reaches a certain number of points; in some games, doing so with no misses starts a period called Chance Time, in which the score increases either temporarily or until a miss is made. The maximum score the player can get in most games is 999 points. Getting a higher score resets the score tally to zero points.

==Games==

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*''[[Donkey Kong II]]''

*''[[Donkey Kong 3 (Game & Watch)|Donkey Kong 3]]''

*''[[Mario Bros. (Game & Watch)|Mario Bros.]]''

*''[[Mario's Bombs Away]]''

*''[[Mario the Juggler]]''

*''[[Donkey Kong Circus]]''

*''[[Donkey Kong Hockey]]''

*''[[Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.]]''

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===''Game & Watch Gallery'' series===

{{main|Game & Watch Gallery (series)}}

*''[[Game & Watch Gallery]]'' (''Game Boy Gallery'' in Japan; ''Game Boy Gallery 2'' in Australia)

*''[[Game & Watch Gallery 2]]'' (''Game Boy Gallery 2'' in Japan; ''Game Boy Gallery 3'' in Australia)

===''Game & Watch Collection''===

{{main|Game & Watch Collection}}

==Alarm function==

Mario Juggling.jpg|''[[Mario the Juggler]]'' (New Wide Screen)

MariosBombsAway.jpg|''[[Mario's Bombs Away]]'' (Panorama Screen)

Super_Mario_Bros_YM-801_Game_Front2.jpg|''[[Super Mario Bros. (Game & Watch)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' (Crystal Screen)

SMB G&W YM-901-S.jpg|''Super Mario Bros.'' (special edition)

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