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The first ''Game & Watch'' game became the earliest Nintendo product to garner major success, even before the industry-defining success of ''Donkey Kong'' just a year later, and the entire series sold over 43 million copies. The series is credited with making handhelds vastly popular and setting up for Nintendo's future handheld console business with the Game Boy line, as well as inspiring various other toy companies, most notably Tiger Electronics, to create their own dedicated handhelds. The series of dedicated handhelds gradually became more technologically advanced over the years and went through several different models that were designed to deliver some more creative twists to each individual game, including a clam-shell design with two separate screens displaying graphics simultaneously. As many modern retrospectives note, this particular "Multi-Screen" design was a forerunner to Nintendo's modern dual-screened handheld platforms, the DS and the 3DS, and bore a very close resemblance. | The first ''Game & Watch'' game became the earliest Nintendo product to garner major success, even before the industry-defining success of ''Donkey Kong'' just a year later, and the entire series sold over 43 million copies. The series is credited with making handhelds vastly popular and setting up for Nintendo's future handheld console business with the Game Boy line, as well as inspiring various other toy companies, most notably Tiger Electronics, to create their own dedicated handhelds. The series of dedicated handhelds gradually became more technologically advanced over the years and went through several different models that were designed to deliver some more creative twists to each individual game, including a clam-shell design with two separate screens displaying graphics simultaneously. As many modern retrospectives note, this particular "Multi-Screen" design was a forerunner to Nintendo's modern dual-screened handheld platforms, the DS and the 3DS, and bore a very close resemblance. | ||
The ''Game & Watch'' products themselves initially depicted cartoon-shaped characters resembling black silhouettes on white backgrounds, but as the series went on, they released several games based on external IPs unrelated to Nintendo: Disney's Mickey Mouse and the ''Popeye'' and ''Peanuts'' comic strips. Starting from 1982, ''Game & Watch'' titles also began depicting {{uv|Mario}} and {{uv|Donkey Kong}} characters as Nintendo's business in video games took hold, and near the end of the series' release history, ''Balloon Fight'' and {{uv|The Legend of Zelda}} also made incidental releases in handheld ''Game & Watch'' form. After the line was retired in 1991, Nintendo began to make occasional references to, and ports of, the ''Game & Watch'' brand; in between 1997 and 2002, four installments of a Game Boy / Game Boy Advance series called ''{{s|mariowiki|Game & Watch Gallery}}'' were released, each compiling several of the original games and offering them both in their original monochrome appearances and with "remade" versions featuring ''Mario'' characters and settings. More famously, a collective representation of the various black-silhouetted characters seen throughout the earlier games, [[Mr. Game & Watch]], debuted as a surprise playable character in 2001's ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. After the success of ''Melee'', Nintendo put cameos of this character in several other games, such as [[Wario (universe)| the ''WarioWare'' series]] and ''[[Donkey Kong (universe)|Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' | The ''Game & Watch'' products themselves initially depicted cartoon-shaped characters resembling black silhouettes on white backgrounds, but as the series went on, they released several games based on external IPs unrelated to Nintendo: Disney's Mickey Mouse and the ''Popeye'' and ''Peanuts'' comic strips. Starting from 1982, ''Game & Watch'' titles also began depicting {{uv|Mario}} and {{uv|Donkey Kong}} characters as Nintendo's business in video games took hold, and near the end of the series' release history, ''Balloon Fight'' and {{uv|The Legend of Zelda}} also made incidental releases in handheld ''Game & Watch'' form. After the line was retired in 1991, Nintendo began to make occasional references to, and ports of, the ''Game & Watch'' brand; in between 1997 and 2002, four installments of a Game Boy / Game Boy Advance series called ''{{s|mariowiki|Game & Watch Gallery}}'' were released, each compiling several of the original games and offering them both in their original monochrome appearances and with "remade" versions featuring ''Mario'' characters and settings. More famously, a collective representation of the various black-silhouetted characters seen throughout the earlier games, [[Mr. Game & Watch]], debuted as a surprise playable character in 2001's ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. After the success of ''Melee'', Nintendo put cameos of this character in several other games, such as [[Wario (universe)| the ''WarioWare'' series]], ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Odyssey}}'' and ''[[Donkey Kong (universe)|Donkey Kong Country Returns]]''. Mr. Game & Watch also reprised his role in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', with an important plot relevance in the game's [[Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary|story mode]]. | ||
==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''== | ==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''== | ||