Category: Game watches

They say all good things come to those who wait. Sometimes you just have to wait a bit longer than you think. That was the case with the Speed Shot watch which I’ve been looking for for more than 10 years, probably closer to 20… I saw a grainy picture of it in a Popular…

The Zeon Space Invaders is a cool clone of the Nelsonic Space Attacker watch (minus the melody) made by Collins Industrial and dropped into cases and badged by a tonne of watch companies in the 1980s. It was the quintessential schoolyard game watch (not that I ever saw one in NZ, but I have it…

The Remex Roulette watch was one of three Remex game watches that appeared near the beginning of the 1980s. The other two were Matrix and Polaris Attack (I have a Polaris Attack but it has been destroyed by battery leakage and won’t run again – but I’ll keep looking). For a while the Matrix and…

This watch was a long time coming – literally! First, it’s taken me ages to find one — several years — at a half-reasonable price. Thanks to Leo for alerting me to this one (on a non-eBay auction site) and bidding/forwarding for me — thanks mate, you rock!! And second, for some reason instead of…

This is a rare one — I must have seen only 3 of these in 20 years — the metal-cased version of the Space Raider game. The plastic versions are rare enough — like the Sinitron and the CompuChron — but the metal version is right up there in grail territory. This was a bit…

Collecting digital watches is a hobby full of surprises! After nearly 20 years collecting, I figure I’ve seen just about every digital watch produced from the late 70s to mid-80s – and then one I haven’t will come along and remind me I most definitely haven’t… Like this one – the RPG slot machine game…

Just like the Pierrot Game watch – this fun timepiece uses the same circuitboard with a different LCD, this time the sports-themed Soccer. Game watches generally are a testament to the talent of designers who are shown a watch LCD with typical time features and are told to go and make something fun with this,…

You’ll never see a game watch with the Seiko name on it — but that’s not to say they never made one, just not under the Seiko brand. They did, however, make a surprisingly large number of game watches, under their Alba and Orient brands. One of these was the Pierrot (clown) Game watch which…

From the earliest windup Mickey Mouse watch, Disney have made a tonne of timepieces and sold them to tourists visiting their theme parks and themed stores around the world. Surprisingly, though, very few of them have been game watches and this, the Winnie the Pooh game watch, might be the only one. That’s not to…

I’ve seen a few (not many but enough that it isn’t an ultra-rare watch) Juggler watches but had always believed it to be a one-off kind of thing. Picture me surprised then, when a very familiar-looking watch appeared in a bundle of old dead watches on a local auction site. Cue some more investigation and…

Nelsonic made a stack of great game watches in the 1980s — some which you see quite often like Pacman, others you rarely ever see like Simon. Then there is Soccer. This watch had a number of other manufacturer names on it (like Welde) and had a cheaper feel to it than the Pacman/Frogger/Q*Bert watches.…

Alba’s Y829 watch is a JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) game watch with limited or no international release. I say that with some confidence having never seen one with English text on the face, nor one with a different speaking voice other than Japanese. And with that, and having no instructions available anywhere for it; it’s…

The Unitrex Monte Carlo game watch is credited with being the first LCD game watch and dates back to 1977. It came in two different case designs and in gold or silver. And that was that. Until I found this – the Windert Micro Game watch. Few people know much about the Monte Carlo watch,…

Post number 200 on this website and it’s a bit of a special one — the Sinitron Burger Time! First time I saw this watch was about 10 years ago, with the brand name Diamant, and owned by a collector in Canada. Since then I’ve looked thoroughly (just a little short of obsessively) and midway…

The Space Raider game watch is a rarity; when it is seen, it’s usually the CompuChron watch, which I used to own and regretted ever selling it. There are two (at least) different game watches labelled as Space Raider – this one, and the one better known as Space Defender, which was branded as Space…

Submarine is a good example of the kind of cheap game watch you may have seen floating around at the beginning of the 1980s. There’s no manufacturer label, it looks kind of cheap and cheerful, and if you think you’ve seen this case design before, you probably have. There were plenty of watches in this…

Mamagon means Dragon Lady (apparently) or this may have just been a more western-sounding name someone gave the game, based on the image of the stern-looking protagonist. This watch is another of the Alba Y765 game watches, which also include the space game and American Football. It’s a dual-layered LCD (two LCDs sandwiched together) so…