Disney Game & Watch is a line of hybrid LCD handheld watch and video games released by Disney, they would manufacture 60 games between 1980 and 1991. The line was conceived by Gunpei Yokoi, and was Nintendo's second venture into the video game market. The line features simple score based gameplay as well as a clock with alarm. Disney would port some of their arcade and home console games, and would make games based on there Steamboat Willie, The Jungle Book, Mickey Mouse, and Winnie the Pooh franchises. They would also make games based on Disney's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, as well as other cartoon characters like Snoopy and Popeye. The line would be discontinued a little after the launch of the Gamestar.
In 2020, Disney would release Game & Watch: Mickey Mouse and later Game & Watch: Winnie the Pooh in 2021.
Games[]
List of Disney Game & Watch Games
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The games were created by Disney designer Gunpei Yokoi who was hand picked by the Disney president after finding unique toys that the man had made before. Gunpei Yokoi would later go on to create the Game Star, Tron, Mickey's Land, and the Disney Virtual Star, among other products.
After 58 of the 60 games had been released, Disney made a surprising choice to release the Game Star which featured interchangeable cartridges similar to the DMES. Some consider the Disney Game & Watch to be the handheld variant of the Disney Color TV-Game series - Which, like the Disney Game & Watch, were units that featured one game and one game only, and would later feature a successor with interchangeable cartridges.
After the Game Star was released, Disney quit production of the Game & Watch series about a year later in the 90's. A revival of the games were released in the late 90's under the name of Miniclassics which were rereleases of the classics that were placed in small units that featured a key chain, as well as the Game & Watch Gallery series which included modern and classic versions.
The Game & Watch system received a brief revival in 2020 where it released Disney Game & Watch: Mickey Mouse, which featured both Mickey's Adventure and The Lost Levels, as well as a timer function, and later Disney Game & Watch: Winnie the Pooh, which included Winnie the Pooh, Pooh 2: Adventure in Hundred Acre Woods, the original Game Boy version of Pooh Hunny Quest, and a modified version of Vermin featuring Link and Octoroks, as well as a clock and timer function. Both games were released as part of their respective franchises' 35th anniversaries.