The Game and Watch
The first Nintendo handheld system that was mass-produced, was the Game and Watch, or Tricotronic, in West Germany and Austria. These handheld devices were created by Gunpei Yokoi and featured one game, a clock or an alarm, or sometimes both. There were sixty different Game and Watch models produced from 1980 to 1991, each with a different game. The story behind them goes that Gunpei Yokoi was on a train one day when he saw a man playing on a calculator. As a result, Gunpei set out to design a device that had a watch, as well as a single game on an LCD display, in order to be a time killer. These devices were Nintendo first steps into the major success they would see one day. The original Game and Watch design was a single screened, non-color LCD, device. As time went on they made several variants of this design and even experimented with twin screens. These were the handhelds that Nintendo would someday reach back to in designing the hugely successful Gameboy Advance Sp, DS,
