Old oold nintendo

[Zukunft23]

Slightly off topic, but still in the "legacy" electronics vein... did anyone ever have a "Teachin Teddy" ? It was this.... uh... thing that plugged into the TV and you used a VHS to learn and play along. My mom says that my dad heard it advertised on Stern one year at Christmas and they thought (joke's on them) that it'd make me real smart-like.

That reminds me of Ralph Baer's other inventions that had VHS-Bear interaction called the Smarty Bear Video.

[madgamer]

I got my first handheld (the original Game Boy) from this kid in middle school for $11 I had so many games for it but I gave them to my cousin and then they were all stolen I miss Donkey Kong Land

Here are all the handhelds that my brother and I have owned:

[morningrise]

my first handheld was some radio shack black and white game where you were a tank and had to go across the screen back and forth without getting hit by bombs.

Then I got a gameboy and later a gamegear.....

then every other nintendo handheld from there (sans the GB Micro)

[sleemo]

I can still recall the christmas I got the Donkey Kong Game & Watch. It's orange, with 2 screens. The following year, I got the Mario Bros. one. I've picked them up at flea markets when I see them (years ago, haven't seen one in awhile), and I think I have 2 Donkey Kongs, 2 Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., and Oil Panic...at least. I'd have to dig out the collection to see what else there was.

The odd thing about the Mario Bros. game, was that you had to load Soda into a truck. That was the plot. Was really fun though.

Also have 3 of the Game & Watch Galleries for GB/GBC (were there more?!).

That's all. G&W used to be my favorite thing ever.

[Toad64]

There's a Game and Watch Gallery 4 for Game Boy Advance. It's really great, probably the best one, I'd highly recommend it if you are into those. Probably dirt cheap by now, too, it came out around 2001.

[PsycloneD]

I have that Game & Watch gallery game. Two of them, actually.

But, does anyone have the CARDS Nintendo used to make? I'd really like to get my hands on those.

[Jaden]

those are so expensive now its not even funny.

[sleemo]

Cards as in Trading? With game tips and such on the backs? I have some of these, not even close to all of them, but some none the less.

[PsycloneD]

No. The original playing cards.

[revofan]

My FIRST handheld and it was awesomelly black!!

[wisekris]

No. The original playing cards.

From before Nintendo was video gaming company?

[PsychoJones]

No. The original playing cards.

From before Nintendo was video gaming company?

From back before video games existed, 1889.

[wisekris]

right, even slightly before 1977 they still made them

Here is the History

Here are the type of cards they made
and
Here is the guy who founded Nintendo Koppai (Big-N to Hardcore gamers out there)

[t27duck]

Anyone know what the "Alarm" button does on the Game & Watches?

[cortjezter]

Anyone know what the "Alarm" button does on the Game & Watches?

the reason they were called 'game & watch', was because besides being a game, it also had a clock function, and the alarm was attached to the clock so that you could use it a bit like an alarm clock. this was in the 80s.. so the technology was impressive then

[t27duck]

Of course! It just dawned on me.

"Watch" isn't refering to "watching something." It's refering to "a clock."

It's all clear to me now.

[NES_Master]

oh man! I almost forgot about those games. i had a few between my 2 brothers and myself. for the double screen we had donkey kong, I think it was bombsweeper and oil panic. And the single screen I have popeye.

My mom was giving them away as X-mas presents one year. One of my cousins got Zelda. I hope he still has it.

[Korkow]

yeah, theres a game and watch gallery 4 (and its for GBA this time) only$10 too.

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=914356

[do0rkn0b]

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