Not to be confused withGame & Watch orGamewatch Boy.

Super Mario Bros.

TheNelsonic Game Watch is a multipurpose wristwatch developed byNelsonic that uses an LCD display. Nelsonic obtained licensing fromNintendo in 1989 to adapt many of Nintendo's popular games, including various entries of theSuper Mario franchise; these were done in a much simplerGame & Watch–esque format, due to the game watch's limitations. The instruction leaflets contain many capitalization mistakes and poor grammar and spelling, as well as unusual names for characters, such asBowser being called "Koopa's Dragon" andDolphin being called "Globfish." All of the Nelsonic Game Watch products were released in North America, and they were produced while Nelsonic acted as a division of the watch-making company M. Z. Berger prior to and after their acquisition in 1990. Nelsonic/M. Z. Berger was also the main distributor of Game & Watch games in North America from late 1985 until the series' initial discontinuation in the early 1990s.

The followingSuper Mario games were made for the Nelsonic Game Watch:

• Super Mario Bros. (1989)
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
• Super Mario World (1991)
• Donkey Kong (based onStage 1-7 ofDonkey Kong for theGame Boy) (1994)

The latter three were released as tie-in products with Nintendo's games. TheSuper Mario Bros. 3 watch was rereleased in Europe, along with a couple of other Nelsonic Game Watches, by United Kingdom–based timepiece distributor Zeon in late 1992.^[1] Zeon also distributed theSuper Mario World andDonkey Kong watches.

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  Super Mario Bros. 3, also labeled asSuper Mario 3 (bezel) andSuper Mario III (instruction leaflet)

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  Super Mario World, also labeled asSuper Mario Bros. 4 (bezel) andSuper Mario 4 (instruction leaflet)

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  Donkey Kong

Notes[edit]

• The Russian dancer seen on the box of theTetris Nelsonic Game Watch also appears inSuper Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up.

References[edit]

• Systems unreleased in Japan
• Systems