{"id":127775,"date":"2022-09-02T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-137071"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T20:30:00","slug":"random-nintendo-needs-to-make-this-fan-designed-pokemon-game-watch-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/02\/random-nintendo-needs-to-make-this-fan-designed-pokemon-game-watch-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Nintendo Needs To Make This Fan-Designed Pok\u00e9mon Game &amp; Watch A Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a4e16539f3ca\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a4e16539f3ca\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pokemon Game Watch\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a4e16539f3ca\/pokemon-game-watch.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5a4e16539f3ca\/pokemon-game-watch.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Game Watch\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are a few Nintendo products that hold an innate nostalgic feel, and the humble Game &amp; Watch line is one of them. Originally released in 1980, the game\/digital clock combo takes gaming back to simpler state, and has recently been something of a nostalgic signifier for Nintendo&#8217;s anniversaries (last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/game-and-watch-the-legend-of-zelda-a-link-to-links-past\"><strong>Game &amp; Watch: The Legend of Zelda<\/strong><\/a> particularly won our affections in our 8\/10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/game-and-watch-the-legend-of-zelda-a-link-to-links-past\">review<\/a>). While not an official product (<em>yet<\/em>), this Pok\u00e9mon Game &amp; Watch design, created earlier this year by Redditor <a data-click-id=\"user\" data-testid=\"post_author_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Some-Resource2202\/\">u\/Some-Resource2202<\/a>, is getting us seriously wishing for a physical release.<\/p>\n<p>Put together to showcase the hardware&#8217;s box design and internal game collection, the creator&#8217;s eye for detail has got this prospective blueprint pretty much nailed as a real copy. Check out the images below for an idea of what we would love to see on the Pok\u00e9mon edition of the classic console:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-oembed\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nintendo\/comments\/x3yxe2\/fan_made_pok%C3%A9mon_game_watch\/ @ 2022-09-02T17:35:11+01:00 --> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nintendo\/comments\/x3yxe2\/fan_made_pok\u00e9mon_game_watch\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">Fan Made Pok\u00e9mon Game &amp; Watch<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nintendo\/\">nintendo<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Game Watch1\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa58760e63195\/game-watch1.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjQ3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"247\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa58760e63195\/game-watch1.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Game Watch1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Game Watch\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1b31cb1385654\/game-watch.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1b31cb1385654\/game-watch.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Game Watch\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: u\/Some-Resource2202<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>The original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gameandwatch\/comments\/u0la33\/fan_made_pok%C3%A9mon_game_watch\/\">Reddit post<\/a> explains the game choices, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/pokemon_yellow_version_special_pikachu_edition\">Pok\u00e9mon Yellow<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gbc\/pokemon_crystal1\">Pok\u00e9mon Crystal<\/a> being the two games that the designer felt were the best examples of &#8220;a love letter to early Pok\u00e9mon games&#8221;. The imagined device would also contain a selection of games from the early 2000&#8217;s console, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/06\/hardware_classics_pokemon_mini\">Pok\u00e9mon Mini<\/a>. Combined with the addition of an adaptation of Fire \u2014 a Game &amp; Watch classic \u2014 we feel that these minigames are where the system would really shine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/the_super_mario_bros_game_and_watch_can_now_run_pokemon_zelda_and_more\">Hackers already got Pok\u00e9mon running<\/a> on the latest Game &amp; Watches, but we&#8217;d love to see an official release along these lines. With the Pok\u00e9mon franchise first starting back in 1996, we still have a little way to go until a big anniversary and (hopefully) the release of some exclusive merch. But if this design has got us hoping for one thing, it&#8217;s for Nintendo to release some <em>more<\/em> Game &amp; Watch special editions. The box design is made, all that&#8217;s needed is for Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company to fill it.<\/p>\n<p><em>What would you like to see translated to the Game &amp; Watch? Let us know your nostalgic needs in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life There are a few Nintendo products that hold an innate nostalgic feel, and the humble Game &amp; Watch line is one of them. Originally released in 1980, the game\/digital clock combo takes gaming back to simpler state, and has recently been something of a nostalgic signifier for Nintendo&#8217;s anniversaries (last year&#8217;s Game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}