On This Day in Nintendo History: Game & Watch; Ball; Donkey Kong Junior; Mario's Cement Factory; Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 and more On this day (April 28) in Nintendo history... - The **Game & Watch series**  was released in 1980 in Japan. This series of handheld electronic games, developed by _Nintendo R&D1_, was produced by _Nintendo_ from 1980 to 1991. Created by game designer Gunpei Yokoi, each _Game & Watch_ features a single game to be played on an LCD screen in addition to a clock, an alarm, or both. It was the earliest _Nintendo_ video game product to gain major success. The units are based on a 4-bit CPU from the Sharp SM5xx family, that include a small ROM and RAM area and an LCD screen driver circuit, although prior to the emulation in MAME there was a misconception in that every unit used a custom ASIC instead of a proper microcontroller. The series sold a combined of 43.4 million units worldwide. The _Game & Watch_ made handheld video games vastly popular.…