Game Watches: Better than you Don't Remember | Nostalgia Nerd

[@lordsofkoble]

I had this tank game on my watch, back in the early 80's. Played it to death, literally, to the death of the watch anyway, I ended up dismantling it to find out where all the little tanks came from. 😭

[@ClamBake7525]

I was 11 years old in 1982 and remember all these. I got a calculator watch for my 12th birthday and found out it had a decent side-scroll racing game, that was so cool.

[@TheKnockoutNerd]

It's amazing how in our life we've gone from LCD watch games to ps3 emulators in our pocket

[@sparkle935]

I still have the early eighties grand prix racing car calculater watch, it's amazing...

[@manoflego123]

As someone who likes opening up and tinkering with simple LCD watches, the idea of a double layer LCD is simultaneously insanely cool and terrifying to fix.

[@UberNeuman]

It's like Q made a watch that will make women avoid James Bond.

[@raycearcher5794]

"Now see here, 007, press just here and the watch will let you play American Football on a little screen." "This is lame, Q. This is for nerds." "Shut up, 007!"

[@biggiesmol]

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[@joshuachristian5443]

The old game wrist watches from early 80s looked much better than the 90s offerings. They looked like watches whereas the later models looked like toys. In the year 2000, I had purchased a ink pen with a lcd game within it. That was pretty cool just do to its novelty.

[@SilverGreeneye]

I remember getting a My Little Pony watch as a child, and I felt so betrayed when I realized it didn’t have a game on it.

[@pieluvr7362]

The little pony took ya for a ride

[@m4n4mk1]

@@pieluvr7362 lol

I only realised yesterday that Game & Watch meant a clock, and not watch as in to look at something...

[@Azuris190]

haha you are not alone, it was also my simple mind thinking that it ment watch as watching.

[@holnrew]

I didn't realise until watching this

[@ciotay5469]

Fuck me side ways 😂

[@kenhammscousin4716]

Same I just thought that about ten mins ago

[@rgerber]

so that means WATCHING actually translates to CLOCKING, thats genious

[@theurbangentry]

This is AMAZING, an exceptional video, so much to talk about! But I will just thank you for putting such much fastidious the work into. Right, off to ebay to track some of these down! 😅😅 I totally forgot about those Tiger watches, wow. Best regards, TGV

[@mrdorf2784]

These were all the rage when I was a kid. That and watches that played melodies.

[@jakebeetham1]

"In church whether satanic or normal" lol 😂

[@stevenjlovelace]

I wonder why dual-layer LCDs never caught on? Seems like a cool technology!

[@Roxor128]

I find myself thinking about the possibilities for a colour display. Instead of having your subpixels side-by-side, stack them up.

[@qallincha]

@@Roxor128 Colors are tainted layers so you won't see them separately. LCD are just masking the light, activating 2 layers at the same time would show black blobs.

[@AnotherFreakingDude]

It kinda did, mobvoi uses a dual layer screen on their ticwatch pro.

[@Nitrous-Oxide-Nitrous]

I know right!

[@mikebigelow561]

They also made a full color versions that I really liked alot... you had to be in a brite room or out in the sun to get the colors to scream out brite

[@sh2157]

Last time I was this early ET was being proudly advertised for the Atari 2600

[@holnrew]

Someone at school had one of those Mario watches, I was so jealous

[@JC-11111]

That's what I had! OMG! I couldn't remember any of the names of the ones I had until I read this 👌 Mario Bros was the first one I got!

[@emperoroftheknownuniverse3475]

Ah the nostalgia....Thanks for this vid, brings back so many fond wrist gaming memories!!

[@ingeburgknotke396]

We need these back!

[@S7EVE_P]

Back in the 1980s (yes I'm old), I had a game watch and a knight rider watch and was always fiddling with them. Fast forward to 2020, I have a smartphone with 12gb ram and yet hardly ever play games on it. These old devices had a magic...I miss that

[@TheRetroFuture]

Very enjoyable video. Doing the world a favour by documenting this history.

[@smt4090]

Where's the game AND watches

[@elijahowen1727]

A tip: watch series at kaldrostream. Me and my gf have been using it for watching loads of movies recently.

[@andresking6220]

@Elijah Owen Yea, I have been watching on kaldroStream for years myself :D

[@henrycannon4194]

@Elijah Owen yea, been using Kaldrostream for since november myself =)

[@genekwagmyrsingh9433]

Who the heck is this jerk!? Just kidding, hello Elliot!

[@briansenez7718]

I live in Asia and they sell knock off versions of these at the dollar store near my house. I've been tempted a few times because I grew up with these in the 80's.

[@beautyforashes2022]

I love all the old advertisements that you put in your videos, I always enjoy hitting pause to read them. They are like a little nostalgia time capsule back into my childhood in 80's and early 90's. Edit: "You'll have the most popular wrist in town!" That does sound pretty tawdry, lol.

[@arostwocents]

I know a girl with the most popular mouth in town 😂

[@Feark]

I got the Tiger Super Mario Bros 3 watch and I actually thought it was coolest watch ever. It was so cool I decided it could probably be cleaned under a stream of water, and it died. However later the water dried up and it worked again so yes, just amazing.

[@marcusfridh8489]

My Super Mario Bros 3 was from Nelsonic not Tiger

[@TyphinHoofbun]

My sister and I got a pair of watches, the Mario and Zelda ones. I got the Mario and she got the Zelda, but I was constantly borrowing hers because it was a more fun game to play. Mario was just "step forward on the platforms that appear/disappear", but Zelda had you actually moving around, picking up items, placing bombs, etc. When I saw the video thumbnail, I commented out loud, "Oh wow, Nintendo game watches!" And then spent a bit explaining to my roommate what I was talking about. ^_^

[@christopherprementine5287]

I remember specifically having a StarFox game watch and I would play it religiously... Oh how I miss those days.

[@FigmentHF]

This was a really great video, thanks for taking the time to make it :)

[@KemmerlingKomputers]

I had a couple handhelds with the same vibe as these and i distinctly remember them being the "beeper" line. they looked just like pagers and beepers of the era with the belt clip and stuff and had some random lcd games on them similar to tiger games. but also had a couple hidden features. when the game was seemingly turned off and clipped on your belt, if you previously tapped the designated button it would add a min to the built in timer. little kid me thought i was so cool, because i would walk out of the room, tap the button a few times then clip the device my belt then go socialize, then act all important when my "pager" went off.

[@Vokabre]

I wonder what came first, Nelsonic logo or Nescafe logo, because they sure do look alike

[@mikewheeler9011]

Nescafe logo is from the 60s I assume. Nelsonic from 80s

[@mikewheeler9011]

Ok Nescafe logo was designed in 1938, but had a line above and below the 'N'. The single line above design came about in 1968

[@Vokabre]

​@@mikewheeler9011 Someone behind Nelsonic perhaps rather liked coffee then

[@drd2093]

I had street fighter, Star fox and Mario 3. And they were so excellent as a kid.

[@LoveatFirstHike]

I still have a Nelsonic game watch, it’s one of those virtual pets, came out in ‘97 after the explosion of Tamagotchi

[@KLUTCHdot58]

I had mario 3 and Tetris! Wish I knew where they were now. I'm going to resist an eBay search.

[@Nostalgianerd]

This is a strong move. You have my respect.

[@snackplaylove]

I’ve got Zelda, turned down Tetris for £10 when Argos had it on sale for a GB game.

[@navibc31]

I remember having the Super Mario World watch that had a headphone jack

[@arostwocents]

They are surprisingly cheap if you get the most recently made ones, like £15.

[@GuillaumeDeson]

Thanks for crediting Gerry Carr. I know him personally and showed him the video he really liked it.

[@SneakiestChameleon]

I once had a Donkey Kong game watch, but then I accidentally gave it to Goodwill.

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

NO REGERTS

[@BadgerOff32]

I had that Mario watch when I was a kid, but it didn't even survive the first day. I loved it so much that I didn't want to take it off, so when I got into the bath with it still on later that night, water got into it immediately because it had a headphone jack on the side, and it instantly died. Soon took it off when it didn't bloody work anymore lol

[@sinkingdutchman7227]

Was probably the worst day of your childhood

[@nacerdjaafri9919]

how come you're not having much more views, your content is really unique and entertaining, I mean when I first saw the, quote on quote VERY CREATIVE channel name I didn't expect much, but man you're doing great! thumb up from the other side of the planet!!

[@heggy_69]

Fun fact, in a draft script for the breakfast club, allison has a galaxian wrist watch game

[@benjaminkitaura498]

This was awesome to see all those nostalgic moments……really brings back those childhood memories.

[@pauliejay4161]

The Casio golf Game Watch was magnificent!

[@Barph]

Don't forget the Casio GM-40 UFO Pyramid Game Watch Module 245, I loved that game!

[@imranahmad2733]

Used to have one and now they're selling for silly money

[@ProctorSilex]

I never understood the watch and Tiger style games. I would say I was spoiled by my NES at home, but you had game systems too. Interesting to see a bit of how they worked.

[@fssofdeath]

I had the "Nintendo" Tetris one. It was pretty awesome for the time. Fond memories. Tetris translated pretty well to a watch game.

[@arnold20139]

I don’t care what anyone says, I still think playing a game on any watch is still cool. One time at work, I watched my friend on our lunch break playing Tetris on his Apple Watch. My mind was blown. 🤯

[@XrisD147]

Ahh Index 1990, where my video game journey began with a Game Boy and Super Mario Land and of course Tetris.

[@vyperii]

I have the mario 3 unit. I don't remember who bought it for me, but I played it so much that I could beat it over and over. When you get to the end it loops.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

My brother had the Pac-Man watch (buttons version). It played Dixie for some reason. He would always stop it after the first few notes to match the horn from the General Lee on The Dukes of Hazard.

[@TheRugEmporium]

I remember having that Zelda watch, my younger brother had the Mario watch, I still have 2 Nintendo Game & Watch multi screen games, Donkey Kong (1982) and Squish (1986).

[@CatManDoom84]

Totally had the SMB3 watch in like 1st grade haha. It was so fun haha!

[@FlyBoyEnterprises]

Man this video & watches take me back. I have a Zelda and Q-Bert. I even remember just the Calculator watches, I didn't have but a few kids in grade school got in trouble for using the calculator in class.

[@Christopher-N]

(1:49) _Spaceballs_ the instant cassette: it's out in stores before the movie is finished.

[@gaxiola1701]

We had all three GCE watches as a kid: Game-Time, Arcade-Time and Sports-Time. I was worried they'd get damaged if I took them to school and we didn't really go anywhere where I would be idle. When I went away to summer camp I would take my Donkey Kong Game and Watch which was more fun and physically easier to hold & play. So, the GCE watches ended up being mostly novelty items.

[@nilus2k]

I feel like no one was happy with a Tiger game. They were cheap and what your parents got you if they didn’t want to get you a Gameboy. They said “They were just as good” but they weren’t

[@jacksat2252]

I remember when I was 8 I had pac man watch and one with a lot of melodies and Donkey kong JR game and watch and the famous digital red clock pen in the late 70 th. Ahh i am old now

[@SonicAlpha]

I too had that Mario 3 watch, brilliant at the time :)

[@demonsorrows]

I remember being about four years old playing my older brother's Batman watch game. I thought it was the most boring game. I watched Fievel Goes West instead and then played Snake Rattle'N'Roll. I find it odd that a lot of people don't remember much of being a few years old.

[@BlastinRope]

We're better off not remembering

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

Had the super mario 3 watch myself, was brilliant way to pass the time in Sunday school

[@frankowalker4662]

In my late teens I had a Fishing game watch. I missed quite a few busses to work playing that.

[@1930SeanConnery]

I actually had the Mario watch. I loved it as a kid. A long oil panic from game and watch. Memories...😊

[@rennmaxbeta]

Awesome to see that Star Trek II game watch in action again after all these decades. It was my first digital watch back in 1982 and I loved it! Unfortunately I broke the sound somehow while opening it up to change the battery myself... I still remember it after 40 years.

[@rustyshackelford1413]

Game and Watch didn't just lay the foundation for Gameboy, but every game system ever; by introducing the D-Pad.

[@livefreeprintguns]

I had the Super Mario Bros. Game and Watch and have nothing but fond memories of it!

[@ShadowWingTronix]

I had one of the Super Mario watches, only mine was red. I think it's still around here somewhere. The beeping could get annoying after a while but as a short time waster it was fun enough.

[@cottonfoo]

Thanks enjoyed that. My mum bought me the Nelsonic Pac Man with joystick, and my brother had Space War. Wish I still had them, for sentimental reasons rather than the value.

[@8wealthyone8]

They are really collectable now. cool episode . pls make more!

[@Kamunchu]

Its baffling to me how this channel is only at 500k. It should be in the millions.

[@cameronb851]

I actually had one of the 'cosmic war' watches (shown in this video) as a kid. That thing was awesome. It was entirely metal, unlike many of the later watches, so it actually looked like a decent watch as well. I remember one of my crowning achievements as a kid was clocking the score (looping back to zero). Liked the video just for the nostalgia bump, but great information too.

[@davekennedy6315]

I owned a Casio gamewatch in the mid to late 80s. It had a game where you flew a helicopter and shot down baddies. We used to have contests during lessons at high school haha!

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

I remember wanting one of those Super Mario watches as a kid in the 80's, but i got the ordinary game & watch handhelds instead.

[@Kumimono]

"Watch with alarm." I will.

[@tragiclantern]

Ah... I had the Super Mario Bros 3 watch. I still remember the alarm melody.

[@n057828]

There was a space shuttle one too!

[@rgstever]

You forgot Fossil They designed the first Palm OS on a wrist watch. Because it utilizes the m68K CPU you can run in realtime GB GBC and Amiga games. It was rather interesting playing pokemon yellow on a touchscreen watch back in 2003.

[@HikingFeral]

That Casio WR was no Gimmick, amazing watch, I remember my entire class at school being in awe of our teacher changing the channel on the TV with his watch lol - I plan to get one soon but I always forget. Thanks for reminding me.

[@Seiferboi]

I have a Star Fox game watch. Mine came in a box of cereal and it's decent quality for something so cheap. I have another one that's newer, but I forgot what it is, and I don't feel like searching around for it right now lol. It's a large chunky green watch, though.

[@rolandkatsuragi]

I hate how long it took me to realize that "Game & Watch" is game and a watch.

[@thebachelordj]

I had the super mario 3 watch...loved it!

[@audrisampson]

I had the PacMan watch with the buttons in the late 80s. Loved playing that game. The watch even survived a fall into the pool. Just took a few days to dry out. Eventually the wrist band broke and it got lost in time.

[@leohuangchunwang]

I have an LG G watch - an Android Wear smartwatch from 2014 - and it plays Minecraft. My friends were pretty amazed, though when they did ask to borrow it they'd rather play something like 2048, which controls a lot better than Minecraft does on that tiny watch.

[@christopherkelly577]

I had the mario 3 one. I recall falling and being devastated it had been slightly scuffed.

[@jesusramirez4537]

Those tiger electronic games were great. I remember those times fondly from my youth. I wish I could turn back the clock (I would have freaked out if I saw a smartphone). Evading an LCD bullet in some tiger game was so exciting at the time. It was a perfectly reasonable way to spend precious minutes of life. Goodby forever sweet time. goodbye forever

[@JamesR624]

7:43. Interesting cause we’d see something like this resurface decades later to provide a simplistic LCD screen for battery saving clock mode on top of a modern full color LCD or OLED in many smartwatches today, that’d switch between the two when the watch was put to sleep or in use.

[@garyv83]

Imagine my face as the realization dawned that the Star Trek: Wrath of Khan watch is actually designed to make it look like you're firing from the top of the Enterprise as that little sticker/art is positioned directly underneath where you shoot on the LCD screen.

[@licensetodrive9930]

What a great video, thanks for making it, was fascinating to hear the background of these fun toys. I've managed to collect a pile of old handheld LCD games over the years, including these wrist watch games: Nelsonic: Pac Man, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Tetris, Q*Bert, Zelda (black strap & white strap versions), StarFox, StarWing, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Race, Super Mario World, Black Jack. Tiger: RoboCop, Batman Returns, Jurassic Park, Minnie Mouse, Street Fighter II, Sonic The Hedgehog, Beauty and the Beast, Ninja Gaiden, The Little Mermaid, The Simpsons, WWF Super Stars. Plus about 20 more like Ribena, Nintendo Super Mario Bros Egg Catch, Casio Zoomnzap, Imado branded Pac Man, and some extremely rare Sega Game Gear shaped watches.

[@agentj642]

I had that same Tetris watch when I was a kid. Played the crap out of it.

[@runcmd8851]

Wow I had the same Mario watch for Christmas I loved it..

[@JohnKelly2]

I never had one of these, but I had a boom box watch. It was shaped like a boom box and had AM radio plus a watch!

[@DavidWonn]

13:07 My friend had that Zelda Game & Watch. It was oddly more entertaining to watch him play that instead of the NES version for some reason.

[@XMguy]

I had a StarFox watch game in 1992. Sadly it broke and lost it long ago.

[@mrcoolr429]

its nice to see game watches getting the attention they deserve!

[@joetalentoh]

Man, I remember playing my tiger games on the bus on the way to kindergarten in the early 90s.

[@volvo09]

I never could play those lcd action games... I suck at games so much that the stuttered movement of objects made it impossible. The advertising always got me though! Then the frustration set in.

[@tearfulsmiles9901]

I had that batman handheld as a kid. Shit was dope.

[@JonManProductions]

Nerd, gotta ask: how many minutes of backlog is there of you just staring menacingly into the camera before you get started on your script?

[@justinbussell7637]

Or staring into our soul!

[@Gadgetman1989]

The answer is simply; Yes

[@login0false]

*All* the minutes.

[@tearfulsmiles9901]

Well, with a stare like that, he is obviously eternal, so *ALL THE TIME*.

[@strayling1]

I just realised I never even considered playing games on my smart watch. I wonder if it can play Doom? Edit: one search later, duh - of course it can

[@Roxor128]

I think you'd be hard pressed to find something with a colour display these days that _doesn't_ have 386 levels of computing power.

[@wes788411]

@@Roxor128 i386?

[@Roxor128]

@@wes788411 Would you rather I have written the full "80386" instead? Still, you can't deny it's a better name than anything Intel or AMD have used in the last 20 years.

[@Kikker861]

@@Roxor128 ngl, Intel had a good thing going with the Core i naming scheme between 2011 through 2017. Core i -

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Toasters can run DOOM nowadays.

[@Datan0de]

As a kid I had friends with watches that played a bowling game and later a Space Invaders game, and that were the envy of us all. I never had a game watch, but I did get a few Tiger handhelds: Gauntlet, Mortal Kombat, and Terminator (my favorite). I still have them. May need to go fire one up for a few rounds now.

[@VampiricHoshi]

I had a double dragon game watch that totally kept me sane during a summer holiday, and later got the street fighter one you showed at the end. Ah those were the days

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Ah yes, the DD2 lcd game was pretty good.

[@michaeldonovan305]

I remember getting the Super Mario World Watch. I loved that thing so much.

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

I loved mine too. Damn teacher stole it and sold it at an auction.

[@Left-Earth]

*"Now Behold, the rise in eBay prices for these watches !"* 💹⌚

[@Robbnlinzi]

They are not cheap as of now lol

[@imranahmad2733]

Have a look at the Casio Game-40 on eBay (eye watering prices), used to have one 30 years ago until it got pinched at school.

[@royp9344]

Tbh the price of the game and watch and tiger watches has been quite high and on the up for a while

[@bencheshire]

@@royp9344 really! Nostalgia for terrible things

[@gurgy3]

Don’t waste your money, these things are truly horrible. I threw out a bunch of lcd games about 10 years ago, never thought anybody would want these.

[@The_Wendigo]

I used to have Super Mario 3. Then someone stole it 😢. Kept me occupied during school punishment all through elementary school.

[@Disthron]

8:08 *Duel layered LCD* OMG! I was wondering why no one did this for LCD games, this shows that it was actually possible!

[@Disthron]

*Duel layered LCD* 8:08 OMG! I was wondering why no one did this for LCD games, this shows that it was actually possible!

[@johneygd]

Wooow that street fighter 2 & aladdin watches really really looks cool., they also give you the elussion as if the lcd screen was really color, if i got the money and know were to find all those watches, i would definitely buy them.

[@PopCultureFan_]

1977 was a few more yrs before i was born, in '85, but i love hearing about earlier era's. This would have been my siblings time. There is a 10 or so difference between us soo..lol well anyways..they deffo experienced this stuff in the late 70's, early 80's.

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

I had the Super Mario World and Zelda watches. Loved those as a kid, until someone stole them.