Category: Game watches
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Space Wars Game Watch
Most infuriating game watch ever! Even without a manual, you can usually work out how to play any game in a watch — they’re not exactly designed to be difficult to work out. Except for this one —an unbranded game watch called Space Wars. The case is generic, and would have been available for resellers to…
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Tokyo Flash Jackpot
TokyoFlash is renowned for making unique one-off watches in very limited numbers that are available for a short time, then never again. It’s good on one hand, since you can be assured of buying a quite individual watch that few others will have. The downside is if you no longer have a particular watch and…
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GCE Arcade Time
The second of three game watches produced by GCE (General Consumer Electronics) in the early 1980s, Arcade Time features four games and the time and date (what else do you need in a good game watch?). While its predecessor (Game Time) had two front buttons and two side buttons (one to fire against the invaders in…
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Armitron Martian Wars
One of the more ‘official’ clones of the Nelsonic Space Attacker came from Armitron with Martian Wars. Available in a plastic/resin case with soft rubber front buttons, and side buttons on the extreme corners of the case, Martian Wars had a metal version but not badged as Armitron (it was branded as Tomy Watchman). Like…
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Casio Game 10
The Game 10 was one of three different games in the same/similar case from the early 1980s and shared the [165] module with the Game-20. A similar game to the Armitron Piano Game watch, this is a horizontal shooter where you are being fired on from one of three positions and must move your ship…
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Casio Magic MGC-10
It was only a matter of time before Casio came up with a watch that did magic tricks — after all they had squeezed almost everything else into a digital watch you could think of…games, calculators, melody alarms, compasses, mp3 players, cameras, GPS, pedometers, databanks…everything but a phone! This watch, developed in association with Japanese…
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Alba Y765-5050 (American Football)
If you’re ever lucky enough to find one of these, there’s a good chance the gameplay will come quite naturally. That’s because this watch is the much rarer brother of the Pulsar/Alba Y765-5000 space game watch. It’s a dual-layer LCD and, like most watches with two LCDs, gives a faint look of ghosting depending where the…
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Casio GC-50 Straight Flush
The Casio GC-50 Straight Flush is not a common watch at all. While the Straight Flush watch does appear for sale periodically on eBay, it’s usually the plastic/resin version – the GC-10W – which is also nice, but the silver and stainless of the GC-50 gives it an extra touch of class and somehow makes…
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Conso Space Shuttle
This was a big seller in New Zealand in the early 1980s. Which is quite something, because other than the odd Nintendo Game & Watch, and the rare occasion where someone’s dad or family friend had travelled to Hong Kong or the US and brought back a game watch for some lucky kid, we didn’t…
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Tomy Wristbowling
Nothing lasts forever. And when it comes to rubber watchbands, you can probably put a finite life of around 20 years on them. Some defy the odds and are still ‘usable’ 30, 40 years later; but others perish long before that time meaning a replacement is necessary in order to wear the watch with any…
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Omni Space Defender
If this looks familiar, it should. It’s the plastic/resin version of the Meister Anker Space Raider, produced in big numbers by Omni in the early 1980s. Also rebadged by Timex, Trafalgar and Artron among others, yet really hard to find today. The biggest problem with these watches seems to be with the quality of the…
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Nelsonic Space Attacker
Nelsonic made a ton of these watches, and the design was ‘borrowed’ by a number of other manufacturers including Zeon, Piratron, Armitron, Caravelle, Tomy, Microsonic, Artron, Majestron, Alfatronic, Jupiter and others under names like Cosmic Wars, Martian Wars, Space Invaders, Alien Attacker etc. You’d think that with that many people making them they wouldn’t be all…
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Casio CA-503 Digital Invader Game
Casio released the CA-503 [433] Digital Invader Game calculator watch in around, I’m guessing, the mid to late 1980s – a number of years after they made the first watches with the same game in the [134] module. Those watches – the CA-85/851, CA-86, CA-90/901 were the wrist version of the game Casio had popularised in their desktop calculators…
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Advance Car Race calculator game watch
For years I had only ever seen one photo of this watch – on Handheld Museum – and really believed it must have been a Photoshop job since there was nothing (and I mean NOTHING) about it that I could find anywhere. The first watch I saw in person that had this game was the…
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Pulsar Y765 game watch
Seiko had (at least) two budget brands in the 1980s – ALBA and Pulsar – and both produced game watches, something the parent brand never did. While ALBA had a string of game watches (including the Y755 and Y760) Pulsar only produced a couple. Interestingly the only other Pulsar game watch I’m aware of (the…
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Alba Y760-5000 game watch
From Seiko’s budget brand, ALBA, comes a cool two-in-one game watch – the Y760-5000. It is what every watch from the early 1980s should have been, Alarm-Chrono-Game (a calculator would have been a bonus but I’ll let them off with that). So to the games. G-Point is all about getting points and you’ll either get…
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Meister Anker Space Raider
This watch was seen in different cases and different manufacturers during the 1980s – and now it’s hardly ever seen at all! One of the rarer game watches out there (and let’s face it, they are all pretty rare) this one is a pretty cool recreation of the Space Invaders game, complete with Mystery ship,…
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Sanyo V car racing game
Here’s a really rare piece that most people probably wouldn’t even bother trying to find a battery for if they picked it up in a garage sale lot, or found it in a thrift store box lot for a few dollars. And it is quite a plain looking calculator watch – there are loads of variations of the…
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Armitron Saturn I
Armitron must have made thousands of these watches, so you’d think they’d be reasonably easy to find…not so! Having been collecting game watches and various LCD ‘toys’ for more than five years (probably closer to 10, not that I’d admit it) this is the first Armitron Saturn I I’ve come across.I vaguely remember seeing one…
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Alba Y755 games
The Mickey Mouse watch has been around almost as long as Mickey himself (1928 if you can remember that far back). And the early ones were memorable for … their less than perfect build quality, leading to the term ‘Mickey Mouse’ becoming part of the vernacular to describe something cheap or badly made. Maybe so…