If you had one of the original Game & Watch handhelds as a kid there’s every chance that the amount of joy this will give you could overwhelm you on the 25th of December, but it’s possible that all that happiness could be somewhat short-lived. It is about as perfect a stocking filler as you could find for that family member who simply can’t get enough of Nintendo. It’s all very neat, well thought out and exactly what you’d expect from Nintendo. There’s then a trio of selection buttons, with Game swapping between the three game choices, Time turning the unit into a handy little clock, and a Pause/Set button that also lets you change the volume and the brightness. The Game and Watch stylings have had an upgrade on the control front, with this remade version now hosting a NES-style D-Pad alongside an A and a B button. Marvellously it saves your state, so no matter where you are when you stop playing, whether that’s with multiple balls in the air, or as you leap past a Koopa Trooper, you can drop straight back in to where you were. The unit is rechargeable via USB-C, and there’s a neat little power button squirrelled away on the right-hand side. These are games that, if you’re a certain age or a dyed-in-the-wool Nintendo fan, you’ll have probably come across before, but never in quite this fashion.

It boasts a clear and compact colour LCD screen, and alongside the system’s original Ball, Nintendo have seen fit to add in the original NES version of Super Mario Bros. This 2020 re-release is a considerably more modern iteration, even if the games hidden inside it are still unequivocally retro.

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