There was a Zelda watch, a Mario watch, a Star Fox watch, and possibly some others. Mario & Zelda were a lot more basic than the G&W versions, and Star Fox never had a G&W.

Not unless they're super special promotional cherries like the ones Yoshi eats in Super Mario World.

Douche McCallister wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote: There was a Zelda watch, a Mario watch, a Star Fox watch, and possibly some others. Mario & Zelda were a lot more basic than the G&W versions, and Star Fox never had a G&W. Are you saying there wasn't a StarFox Watch that had a game on it? Cause if so I call bullshit sir. I owned that and the Super Mario World one.

No, that is not what I am saying at all.

Game & Watch is a series of rectangular devices that had an LCD game and an LCD clock. They were technically both a game and a watch, but none of them were wristwatches, which are universally what most people assume you mean when you're talking about watches.

Nintendo also had a series of Game Watches (note the lack of an ampersand), that were wristwatch-shaped devices that played a tiny LCD game. There were a few. There was LoZ, SMB, Star Fox, and according to you, SMW. I had the SMB one. If I recall correctly, these devices were JUST a game, and could not actually tell time.

Douche McCallister wrote:

I guess I just read that wrong. There most definitely is a Super Mario World Watch though. It held your highscore and I'm pretty sure it had a time telling function. Cant remember if the startfox watch did or not, it probably didn't.

Not sure. I believe the Star Fox watch a cereal prize though. One of those deals where you had to send in 4.95 shipping and X number of UPCs.

I almost addressed that in the article, but the dictionary defines a watch as any small portable device capable of telling time.

These days, the only kind of watch that is widely sold is the wristwatch, so people assume that a watch is a clock that straps onto your wrist. This is incorrect. In previous centuries, the watch of choice was the pocketwatch. Game and Watch fills the basic standards of watchiness, and thus it is a watch.

I got a package in the mail today, so there's been a small update to the article: http://www.sydlexia.com/who_watches_the_watchmen.htm#Egg

I got some hatemail today on this article. You'll find it below, followed by my response.

Tyrone L. Warbasse wrote:

"Unless you've spent the last several years hiding in caves in or near Afghanistan, or unless you fucking hate video games, you've almost certainly played Super Smash Bros. Melee or its sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl." Could you explain this to me? I hate the Super Smash Bros. series and other fighting games where I have to push a jump button instead of up as in Street Fighter, and ergo, I don't play games that're like that. Nor do my Wii-loving friends. I was going to read your article on the Game and Watch series, but I think I'll pass, because of this statement. We don't hate video games at all, I personally own over 5000 games myself on over 35 to 40 different game systems and computer systems, so I'd like to know why you'd compose such a statement in the first place, assuming that we "fucking hate video games" and assuming we've "almost certainly played Super Smash Bros. Melee or its sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl." We have not, nor care to. Thanks for your time if you read this all the way through, and it doesn't mean I won't poke around your site, or read other articles composed by you, it's just something that hit me in the face, so to state, because it's making an assumption and a claim without a basis of fact. I wish you all the well, and take care. -- Tyrone L. Warbasse

First of all, it is my opinion and it not presented as fact. It is not explicitly stated as opinion because it doesn't have to be. This isn't third grade English class, and you should be able to infer that it's an opinion without me directing stating so. I consistently use the first person at various points in my articles, and if you were a regular reader of the site, or if you had even read further, that would have become very apparent.

Secondly, I stand by my statement. You don't have to own a Smash Bros. game. You don't have to play it religiously. You don't even have to have played it more than once or twice. But if you profess to love video games and you are not at least dimly aware of two of Nintendo's biggest selling console games in the last 8 years, their rosters, and their mechanics, then yes, something is definitely and seriously wrong with you. If you immediately wrote these games off and never even attempted to play one of these games just because someone told you that they have a jump button, then I openly question your alleged passion for video games. I fucking hate the Halo series. Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3 are vapid, cliche, and completely uninspired excuses for first person shooters. And while I do not and will not ever own them, if I'm over a friend's house and the majority of people there want to play Halo, I don't throw a hissy fit and run out of the room; I join in and make the most out of the experience. Sir, you seem to be entirely too judgmental and entirely too hasty in your decisions. You say that you will never consider playing a Smash Bros. game because you think pressing a button to jump is stupid. You say that you refuse to read my article because you didn't like the first line. I pity you, sir. You are overly emotional, and you have likely missed out on many great experiences in love, life, and video games because of this.

- Syd Lexia

PS: If you had ever actually bothered to play Melee or Brawl, you'd know that you can jump by pressing up.