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The Nintendo DS - Is It a Game and Watch?



Posted: Monday, April 27, 2009

by Cameron Home

We have all heard of the DS. I have, as I am a big gaming fan, and you would of, even if you aren't a gamer. Your kids might have one, you might of watched the adverts for the DSi, or maybe you just research stuff like this because you're bored. Even hermits who live under rocks will have heard of the DS, even if some of them deny it's very existence.

One question I recently have started pondering is this: is it just a Game and Watch with touch screens, and a better screen? Well, this is what I am going to attempt to find out. Before we begin comparing the two, let's describe the Game and Watch.

In 1980, Gunpei Yokoi saw a business man playing with a calculator. Then he got this brilliant idea. He created a console with an Liquid Crystal Display screen (like a calculator's) so people could stop being so blooming bored all of the time. It was a success. the Game and Watch, Nintendo's first handheld, had multiple versions made, and was popular in many countries, including Japan where it was made.

One version of the Game and Watch had two screens. This is where my question comes from. Both versions look almost exactly the same. Here are the pictures. Guess which is which.
 
 
 
But even so, the Game and Watch had no touch screen. So to bring my article to an anti-climatic end, no the DS is not a newfangled G&W, it's design was probably just based after it.
-Mr C Home 4/27/09

Mr. Cameron Home is an average joe who enjoys writing, gaming and just overthinking about the world in general. He also enjoys reading, and take time out of his life just to read and write.

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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)
» left by Connor Davidson
 3 years 14 days ago.
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Great article. Well done.
 
I still find it hard to see similarities between the Game and Watch and the DS.
» left by Connor Davidson
 3 years 11 days ago.
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Oh, the pictures help. There are some similarities. But I guess the game and Watch is not touch screen... "well na"
» left by Nenita Wells
 3 years 10 days ago.
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Hi Mr. Home,
 
Thanks for writing the informative article about G&W. I enjoyed reading it.
 
Nenita
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