3rd April 2022, 2:33 PM
I have one. I collect Zelda stuff after all. Okay, so "what is?".
It's a tiny cell phone processor in a Game & Watch shaped shell that runs a few emulators. It emulates the Famicom/Disk System addon, the Gameboy, and runs a modified Game & Watch game. Oh and it also has a clock and a timer.
The games include Zelda 1, 2, and Link's Awakening. No Link to the Past, no Oracle games, and not even the DX version of Link's Awakening. It's very barebones in it's offerings. However, what it DOES offer, it offers in every originally released language. So, you get the FDS Japanese versions of Zelda 1 and 2, plus the Japanese, French, and German releases of Link's Awakening. That means you can try every last "secret song" from across every revision should you wish to. It also has a single save state, one per every single version of the game.
The Game & Watch game in question is "Vermin", with the artwork retooled to show Link instead of Mr. Game & Watch. Instead of whacking moles, you whack octoroks. Alright, that's fine, except there's one notable absence in this thing. There actually was a Game & Watch Zelda game, and it's entirely absent from this thing. For some, it would be the singular reason to get this thing, but it's absent.
All in all, not a bad little collector's item, save for a rather substantial oversight. I don't think the thing's worth it's $40 asking price though. $20 seems more fair for what it is.
It's a tiny cell phone processor in a Game & Watch shaped shell that runs a few emulators. It emulates the Famicom/Disk System addon, the Gameboy, and runs a modified Game & Watch game. Oh and it also has a clock and a timer.
The games include Zelda 1, 2, and Link's Awakening. No Link to the Past, no Oracle games, and not even the DX version of Link's Awakening. It's very barebones in it's offerings. However, what it DOES offer, it offers in every originally released language. So, you get the FDS Japanese versions of Zelda 1 and 2, plus the Japanese, French, and German releases of Link's Awakening. That means you can try every last "secret song" from across every revision should you wish to. It also has a single save state, one per every single version of the game.
The Game & Watch game in question is "Vermin", with the artwork retooled to show Link instead of Mr. Game & Watch. Instead of whacking moles, you whack octoroks. Alright, that's fine, except there's one notable absence in this thing. There actually was a Game & Watch Zelda game, and it's entirely absent from this thing. For some, it would be the singular reason to get this thing, but it's absent.
All in all, not a bad little collector's item, save for a rather substantial oversight. I don't think the thing's worth it's $40 asking price though. $20 seems more fair for what it is.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)