Category: Game watches
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Casio CA-901 calculator game watch
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to write about the CA-901; it is (I think) my favourite Casio of all time. It’s got everything… time (12/24) date (although you do have to fudge it from the year 2000 onward) alarm (with 10 different buzzer pitch tones, amazing!) stopwatch dual-time 8-digit calculator GAME! Totally…
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Casio Game 401
Casio was always breaking new ground in their LCD watches in the 1980s rather than staying with a safe proven formula, and so it was with the Game 401. While most game watches either relied on shooting aliens, racing cars, playing sports or copying an arcade game, the Pyramid Game of the 401 was totally…
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Raid Off Bug Attack
Every now and again you see a watch with no obvious pedigree, that no one knows anything about, and that has a unique feature (like a game) that makes you wonder where on earth it came from and why there aren’t more of them around. One such example is the Raid Off Bug Attack game…
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Casio Game 20
Casio has produced a significant number of games in its long and illustrious history and, with the exception of some of their calculator games where they were seriously limited by the available LCD segments and lack of RAM, you were in no doubt you were buying a gaming device that may have had an extra…
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Piratron game
Piratron sounds like it should be a dodgy counterfeit brand but was, by all accounts, a genuine manufacturer at a time when you could never tell if your new Hong Kong watch was the real McCoy, or a good (or bad) copy! The watches, manufactured by Functional B Electronics, covered a variety of genres –…
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CompuChron Space Raider
Here’s a rarity from a company who were no strangers to making great LED watches before making the transition to LCDs – CompuChron. Finding any information about this game watch is nigh on impossible – even the CompuChron company doesn’t have a Wikipedia entry. They did make a large number of LED watches though –…
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Curtis Space Invaders game watch
Some game watches (in particular the Nelsonic Space Attacker) are seen in various guises, cases and manufacturer names, but the Curtis Space Invader is quite unique. Not only does it do a reasonable job in reproducing the invader graphics from the video game (if not the gameplay) but Curtis is also the only manufacturer to…
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GCE Game Time
Christmas 1981. I was 10 years old. New Zealand was a little distant from the bright lights of Hong Kong where many of the best new electronic toys were starting to slowly drift to Western markets. We certainly didn’t have any friends or family who made regular jaunts there to pick up the latest and…
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Armitron Piano Game
Armitron has been making watches for years, some with melodies, some with calculators, but nothing like this gem that appeared in 1983 – the Armitron Piano Game Watch. This may be the only calculator watch ever made that has a melody keypad – just like the full-size Casio calculators of a similar vintage, with 13…
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Nelsonic Grand Prix
The Nelsonic Grand Prix is one of my favourite calculator watches ever. It would never have been a high-priced item – plastic case, ‘budget’ brand, made in Hong Kong – and yet still manages to cram more into it’s miniscule memory space than equivalent Seikos and some Casios. This watch compares favourably to the Armitron…