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When ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' came out, there was a strange character that nobody except the most hardcore of [[Nintendo]] fans recognized. [[Completely Missing the Point|His name was]] [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros|Marth]].
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No, he's not the guy we're talking about today, we're talking about the guy that NOBODY recognized, or at least remembered. He was Mr. Game & Watch, the ''Smash'' [[Composite Character|representative]] of one of the first popular hand held game series: [[Character Title|Game & Watch.]]
Back when Nintendo was in its early days ([[Long Runner|early for videogames]], at least), [[Gunpei Yokoi]] saw a business man playing with his LCD calculator on his way home. This inspired him to make a watch that doubled as a game to kill time with. Thus the Game & Watch, a watch and a game that looks slightly like a calculator, was born.
Think it's boring? Think again. It was so entertaining, the success of this game helped popularize handheld videogames, started Nintendo's monopoly on handhelds, and catapulted Yokoi to a high position in Nintendo. From that position, Yokoi would create the [[Game Boy]], the ''[[Dr. Mario]]'' series, and ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', before the... [[Obvious Beta|unfortunate mistake that the executives made with the]] [[Virtual Boy]]. In fact, the Game & Watch was Nintendo's first major success in the world of gaming (There was one long-forgotten home console and a few arcade games, but with [[Donkey Kong|one exception]], nothing came out of them). Also, one of the templates for the Game & Watch was used in [[Nintendo DS]]. So, if you ever owned a handheld, you know who to thank now.
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The games were rereleased on a series of [[Game Boy]] games, in sets of four with both the old unaltered version and a new better looking, with a couple of bonus features, version, and tracked scores on each version separately. This was actually one of the first remakes for a console game (albeit, handheld), long before the days of SNES->GBA.
The mascot himself is a bit of an enigma. Still, we have some information due to his role in the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' games. [[Flat Character|As far as we know, he has no personality]]. Because of this, he's Nintendo's first [[The Everyman|everyman,]] as Mario's a year younger than him. By [[Word of God]], he's [[True Neutral]], as he has no understanding of good or evil. He may be a [[Disco Dan]], as he still speaks [[The Unintelligible|in calculator beeps]] (with the exception of the "present" section in Game and Watch Gallery 4), he uses [[Limited Animation]] and he and his tools remain two-dimensional (except for a manhole cover). This probably isn't his fault; no game designer wants to be the one who updates him and [[The Artifact|gets attacked by his fans]]. His fighting style is, more or less, a mix of [[Confusion Fu]] and [[Hammerspace]]. And that's all we know on the monochrome enigma.
===== Some of the popular Game & Watch games: =====
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