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Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

Anybody else ever have one of these? Back in 199x, Kellogg's cereal did a promotional dealie with Nintendo, where if you sent in some UPCs and a few bucks, you could get the Coolest Damn Thing In The World, a Tetris watch:

It was a watch... and it played Tetris. Now, kids today with their cell phones, iPods, and hula hoops might not find that particularly impressive, but back then? Dude... you could play Tetris... in class... and your teacher would never know.

I had one, and holy crap it was one of the most awesome things I ever owned... till it broke. Later on, I got myself a Tiger Electronics Sonic the Hedgehog watch, but it was slightly less cool because it was actually just a "wrist game", with no ability to tell time. Ah well.

So... Tetris watch? Anyone? Bueller?

Posted: Apr 04 2007 11:51 am

Never had one of those, but Syd had a Super Mario Bros. watch. I love how the background for the game was always there...even when it was a watch!

Posted: Apr 04 2007 11:55 am

Hrrmm... Me thinks me little brother might've had something like that.

Posted: Apr 04 2007 12:04 pm

I want one!

Posted: Apr 04 2007 01:43 pm

Char Aznable wrote:

I want one!

for sure that looks awesome!

Posted: Apr 04 2007 02:12 pm

i had a pacman watch! it broke because I played it too much,but I remember making my mom spend a ton on the batteries as I wore them out rather quickly (or the watch wasn't very energy-efficient)

Posted: Apr 04 2007 05:41 pm

I had a Super Mario World Watch back in grade school, after that I got a Star Fox watch, I let a friend at school play it then it "disappeared"...I then cried...like a little bitch...for hours.

Posted: Apr 04 2007 05:47 pm

One of my "friends" stole my copy of Mario Tennis. Douchebag.

Title: Nothing Special Joined: Oct 25 2006 Posts: 396

I had a Donkey Kong Classic G&W that had this wire thing in the back so you could stand it up like an alarm clock. It was difficult, but I remember getting through first grade without it being confiscated or broken. I don't know what happened to it that following summer though Sad