The portable LCD games were compact, took watch batteries, told the time--hence "Game & Watch"--and only played one game per unit.

Well before the Game Boy even existed, Nintendo%26rsquo;s LCD Game %26amp; Watch handhelds were considered the top choice for portable gaming %26ndash; and the built in alarm clocks were handy too.

In that era, Nintendo produced a few fun LCD games called Game & Watch. Now you can own smaller, though slightly less fun, representations of these pieces of video game history [via Technabob]: ...

Before Nintendo released the Game Boy, the company sold simplistic, LCD-based Game & Watch units—and lots of them. When sales broke 20 million units, creator Gunpei Yokoi commissioned special ...

Experience a piece of Nintendo history with the Game & Watch series for Nintendo DSiWare. Each title is a perfect recreation of a classic LCD game from the early 1980s, including normal Game A and ...

The juggling game is a fun little diversion but, like most of those old LCD games, goes from really boring to nearly impossible in the course of about 60 seconds.

The Zelda Game & Watch is, like last year's Mario edition, a perfectly made re-creation of the original Game & Watch design, but outfitted with a color LCD screen and a few 8-bit-era games.

Nintendo revives the classic Game & Watch, just in time for the game's 40th anniversary. Nintendo will give a throwback treat to those who grew up in the 80s with the revival of the classic Game ...

As this build was originally intended just for Game and Watch games, the screen is about the size of these old games, and while it can easily mimic the monochrome LCD-style video that would have ...

Experience a piece of Nintendo history with the Game & Watch series for Nintendo DSiWare. Each title is a perfect recreation of a classic LCD game from the early 1980s, including normal Game A and ...

Square Enix is giving Kingdom Hearts 3 players a double dose of nostalgia inspired by classic Disney animated shorts and 1980s-era LCD games with the role-playing game’s Classic Kingdom.