How alarming Because it was the 1980s, Game & Watch games were also alarm clocks. This was loads of fun when the things went off at random hours and you had no idea what was happening.
Seriously? All of Nintendo’s rich gaming history, and you pick this?
Yep. Perhaps younglings might find it hard to comprehend how exciting the likes of Fire, Parachute and Octopus were back in 1980, but this was the dawn of mobile gaming. As an alternative to having a colossal console plugged into the back of your telly, or visiting an arcade with horrible sticky floors and suspiciously sticky people, this was nothing short of revolutionary. And besides, if Nintendo hadn’t cut its teeth with the Game & Watch, we wouldn’t have had the GameBoy, the DS and the Switch. So there.