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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 video gaming (There was one long-forgotten line of simple home
The games consisted of you controlling some guy doing some simple task, whether it was rescuing people jumping out of a burning building with a trampoline in ''Fire!'' (You had to bounce them three times before they'd get to the ambulance), or moving a single manhole cover to make sure people don't fall down as they walk across holes. Points were awarded each time you prevented disaster (Such as when someone successfully walked across the gap in ''Manhole''), and should you fail, you were marked with a miss. Three misses and you were done. The game would speed up and get more difficult as you went on, but there were methods to clear your misses, usually [[Every Ten Thousand Points|after two, five, and seven hundred points]] or similar, though the remakes on the [[Game Boy]] had you rescue a star (In ''Fire!'', if you bounced it into the ambulance, you erase a miss).
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