Category: Game watches

Very rare and highly sought-after game watch from ADEC (Citizen) from the early 1980s.

Alba watches are great fun — and bang-for-buck, you can’t go past the Y755 series of watches. It tells the time and data, plus it’s got a (long) melody alarm built in as well. AND…it’s got a simple, but frustratingly-challenging game too! Just like the other Y755 watches I’ve written about, this is the same,…

Ever seen this one before? Nope, me neither. I saw it on eBay, non-working, for a steal of a price and of course was beaten to it. Disappointing, but Seth, a US collector and highly talented repairer of old and corroded LCD watches, was the person who won it so I figured I’d at least…

Watch companies often have sub-brands — Seiko has Alba and Lorus (and other companies they acquired like Orient and Pulsar) and Citizen has Q&Q, Vega and Adec. And when it comes to game watches, it’s these sub-brands you find that have the games — not the parent company (Casio being the obvious exception). I’m not…

This Aldo Game & Watch is an almost identical clone of the Nelsonic Tanks & Planes Battle watch and started life as a handheld LCD game branded with Horec, Ectron and others (Europe) and Radio Shack (US). The LCD on the Aldo isn’t quite as detailed as the Nelsonic (it may be smaller; I don’t…

It doesn’t happen often, but very occasionally a watch will appear that is a real rarity — and this Tressa Castle Venture is one such watch. Castle Venture, also known as Adventure of Bat Castle, is a handheld LCD game made by Epoch some time in the 1980s. It’s a bit like Pooyan, where you…

If you think you’ve seen this watch on this website before, you’re half-right. It’s the silver version of the Curtis Space Invaders watch. Casino, like Curtis, isn’t a particularly well-known watch brand and searching Google only returns a couple of melody watches (interestingly, two different styles with the same melodies; La Cucaracha and Rancho Grande)…

Creating wristwatch -sized versions of successful arcade games was becoming second nature to Nelsonic by the time they unveiled the Frogger (licensed by Sega) watch in 1983. They had already had great success with Pacman the previous year, and Q*Bert was released at around the same time too. Nelsonic had a knack for producing very…

Nelsonic made some of the coolest game watches of the 1980s — somehow they managed to get licences (at least I assume they did) for some of the great arcade classics — Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Frogger (although that may have been Sega — some of these watch layouts look pretty much identical) and this one…

Pacman was everywhere in the 1980s. First introduced by Namco as an arcade game, it wasn’t long before everyone knew about the pizza-shaped character and his ghostly adversaries. There was a Pacman clone for just about every imaginable video game console, a tv series, top 10 pop song, handheld versions, board games and, of course,…

Ever heard of the famous watch manufacturer Platron? No? How about Andros? No, me neither. But this very rare game watch, in the style of Nelsonic watches like Q*Bert, Pacman, Frogger and more, was released under both those brands — and both in Argentina. If you’ve ever seen a Jungle Kong game watch, and there…

Seiko may never have released a game watch under their flagship brand, but under their Alba sub-brand, they made a reasonable number. As the most popular sport in the world, Soccer (or Football if you’re in the UK) has existed in electronic form since the 1970s (and maybe earlier) in LED and VFD handhelds and…

There’s no doubt the Space Attacker game was hugely popular in the 1980s — plenty of watch brands bought the Hong Kong-produced modules and put their own badges on them. The three-position turret game also extended to at least one calculator and potentially several handhelds too, and then came a subtle variation in the form…

People who played Nintendo’s earliest Game & Watch handhelds will remember this game well — chances are it came out about the same time. Nintendo called the game Ball and it appeared in their first ever Game & Watch (AC-01) released in 1980. By the time they stopped making the Game & Watch series there…

Nelsonic was a well-known watch brand in the 1980s and, where game watches are concerned, the brand was synonymous with the Space Attacker. They had a number of other watches based on arcade games of the early 1980s, including Q-Bert, Pacman, Frogger and Donkey Kong. Some kind of licensing agreement with Nintendo meant they were…

When you’ve been collecting rare and unique game watches for more years you care to remember, finding one you haven’t seen before is itself a rare event. Finding one that no one has heard of, that’s next level stuff. I hasten to add that yes, some people may well be aware of (and possibly own)…