The gaming watch is back: Remember these classics?
Android video games aren’t just headed to your TV or your sunglasses: they’re now on your arm too. The first smartwatches running Android Wear, Google’s operating system designed for your wrist, have gone on sale, and with them have come the first Android Wear apps – and Android Wear games.Get more news about
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First out of the gate is Flopsy Droid, an inevitable take on the smash hit, super frustrating Flappy Bird, which switches out the doomed avian for Google’s Android mascot. Cheap clone it may sound like, but with its simple controls (Er, tap-to-flap) it’s actually well suited for the small screen of a smartwatch.
Flopsy Bird might be the advance guard of a new Android gaming invasion, but video game watches are anything but new. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, video game watches were all the rage: many of the biggest gaming franchises of the day were licensed out to manufacturers like Nelsonic and Tiger Electronics. Today’s kids may have tablets and smartphones to play on, but a quarter of a century ago they had Nintendo timepieces too. Join us as we look back at some of the greatest game watches from yesteryear – which of these would you like to see make a return on Android Wear?
While most of these Nintendo watches were pale imitations of their NES and SNES counterparts, Tetris on your watch was the real deal. Okay, it wasn’t quite as wide as a regular Tetris grid, but otherwise this was the full-fat thing, with smooth falling tetrominoes and even a Next Block hint at the top of the screen. Easily the best video game watch ever made, and just as fun today as it was 25 years ago. Who needs Flopsy Bird?
Current eBay value: These were pretty popular back in the day, so used ones go for under $20 on eBay. New and boxed will cost you over $100 however.
Back in the early 1980s when Mario was still Jump Man, Nintendo’s breakout hit was the barrel dodging Donkey Kong, but it took 13 long years for Nelsonic to turn it into a game watch, one of the last it worked on with the Japanese gaming giant. It was also one of the least entertaining. While the layout draws closely from the Mario Bros. 3 watch, the two button controls are far less addictive. Purists are much better off with the Nintendo Mini Classic keyring version of the game, or the Game and Watch classic which would go on to inspire Nintendo’s DS and 3DS handheld line.
The first Nintendo game watch is now a sought after commodity. Though Nelsonic partnered with arch-rival Sega in the early 1980s to produce a Frogger interactive timepiece, it wasn’t until the close of the decade that its big competitor muscled in on the action with blockbuster fantasy franchise Zelda. Nelsonic did a surprisingly good job of emulating Nintendo’s famous series: you progress through the caves of a dungeon, collecting your sword and boomerang as you go, and taking down dragons to collect the piece of the Triforce. It may not be up there with A Link To The Past, but it’s certainly better than the diabolical Philips CD-I Zelda games: Do yourself a favour and don’t Google them unless you want nightmares tonight.
The gaming watch is back: Remember these classics?
