Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- I take a look at products I bought and said "That's cool" and put away forever.
Edited by Sam Essig and Scott Wozniak
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Adoring how Scott's Stash is just becoming the Scott the Woz filler arc channel and not just "the extra bits"
Ironically I'm starting to like these videos more than the main series channel
It’s like episodes concepts that just won’t fully work for a full episode
@@cybershroom9240I like the shorter videos so Scott's Stash is more what i'm looking for
Don’t forget Scott’s snippets.
Literally a third channel.
I love them all
I don’t care what it is, I love it
I like how this channel is a simulation of what it would be like if you walked into Scott's room and asked him "hey what can you tell me about this lil trinket"
Repeatedly pressing E on an NPC in a Bethesda open world game
thinking about these as a friend just telling me about something new they got that they are interested in just makes me feel comforted
It's like if Scott was a tour guide or a used car salesman.
"Hey what's the inside of your eyelids look like?"
@@chipskylark8869one 40 minute in depth video later
He didn't say it during the video but my favorite part about the zelda game and watch is the fact that in the watch part unlike the mario one link is actually progressing through the game. So like at noon he will start the game and slowly progress and move screens and get items and beat dungeons until he beats Ganon at midnight and starts over which is really cool in my opinion!
Nice profile pic 😂 also, I have the zelda one and never noticed that he actually beats ganon, but I did notice him wandering around and fighting enemies. I absolutely love the zelda game and watch, just wish it had link to the past instead of link’s awakening. Or both, both would be nice too 😂
That's so neat!
My parents got me the Zelda one this year while I was at college! It was such a nice surprise receiving it in the mail. I used the display stand to show it off on my desk!
I’m with Scott, we need more of these doodad-esque systems!!!!
That's really cool sounds like a nice little thing to have for college life
I remember my roommate telling me that they brought their Legend of Zelda Game and Watch in Germany while they were active military and since they weren't allowed to have anything that connects to wifi and such this was their main source of entertainment and I just find this story really neat :)
Nice
There is one other change made to the builds of these games. If you press and hold A on the title screen for each game, it activates a new cheat code. In SMB and LL it gives you infinite lives, in Ball it lets you play as Luigi, in Zelda 1 and LA it maxes your hearts, in Zelda 2 it maxes your stats and gives you 8 lives, and in vermin it unlocks mode C.
I can now play as Luigi?
_[evaporates]_
That's pretty cool ngl. Nice little extra.
Wow, a handy built in cheat to max your stats in Zelda 2? Hot dog! I wish I could do that when I play the original ROM on my RetroPie.
@@marccaselle8108 technically there is a way to do that in the original. After you beat the game you unlock second quest, which is just the same game but now you start with max stats and all of your spells.
I've owned the Mario game and watch since it came out and I had no idea 🤯
I'd unironically love for more of these things to be released. Kirby deserved to get one last year with a pink trim, I would have loved to see Metroid, Donkey Kong, and imagine if they released linkable Pokémon units.
💯
I was certain we were going to get a Kirby Game & Watch last year too. It would have been prime for Dream Land, Adventure and Dream Land 2 or even spin-offs like Pinball Land or Block Ball.
These were made cus they are first party Nintendo series, Kirby belongs to Hal so they would have needed to manufacture this on their own accord
Nintendo would rather die than re-release any Pokemon game
@@Borsdeganis You mean GameFreak.
I really hope that they do more of these. I think that a Pokemon one with Yellow and Crystal would be so cool. Also Kirby or Metroid ones would be sick
Agreed, but for the price of $50, they should be "more substantial than Super Mario All Stars when it came out." Just go all-in and give us some of those collections you ALREADY made, Nintendo. Zelda, Mario, and Kirby all have great collection discs out there that would make for wonderful game and watches.
2 Megaman ones would be good
Also a Bomberman one
Nintendo would probably have to do some coding to get a Crystal ROM to be able to talk to the clock outside of the emulator.
Nintendo had all of 2022 to do a Kirby one.
One thing people don't talk about much is the audio on these things is fantastic, I always expect cheap toy audio and not something as crisp as what these things put out. Really high quality products
Good GOD I use these all the damn time. I wouldn't shut up about the Zelda one when I worked at GameStop. The secret features for these things are really what make these special!
How do you stop its constant beeping
@@mrcat4508 throwing it at a brick wall unlocks an option to turn it off (don't look it up trust me)
Yeah you can keep the clock on past 3 mins and it has a light up triforce on the back but I didn't hear him mention that.
@@DarkJamesallday He didn’t mention the Japanese versions of the game or the time attack game (separate from timer mode) or the infinite lives on SMB1. Great little details I love!
@@wadedevinney9681 Oh I almost forgot about holding down the A button at the clock on the LOZ Game and Watch and listen to the music. I have them both and they're awesome
I always love these videos where he talks about a certain item or game for like 20 minutes and he still makes it interesting
“That’s not a feature, that belongs in the complaint department.”
Based Scott as always, Lost Levels is the only mainline Super Mario game I genuinely don’t like.
@@wesleyswafford2462 it’s not just the difficulty, the level design is ass in a way that makes it either _artificially_ difficult with things like leaps of faith and required hidden blocks, or outright boring with stretches of nothingness, or both. Usually both lol
Owned it on Wii U, and it really is a boring Mario game that lacks any form of charm or character. The American version of Mario 2 was a reskin, but still felt better to play.
I have a friend that loves Zelda but doesn't have any game consoles, so I bought her one of the Zelda game and watches when I saw it on sale.
she immediately got obsessed with it and actually beat Zelda 1 on it. I sent her a PDF of the original NES manual and printed out the map it originally came with, So she played it the way kids back in the '80s would have when it first came out. was pretty cool to see someone complete it like that.
The best part about the Mario Game & Watch was the original art you could unlock. Seeing Mario and Luigi (as well as several enemies) with their old designs drawn in the modern style was amazing! I wish the Zelda one would have had something like that.
15:07 I love how no one has pointed out he's filming this at 2:44 AM. Imagine you wake up and hear your neighbor talking about the Legend of Zelda timer.
He hadn't set the time for the clock for it.
The Mario Bros. system had around 11:30AM on it, so he probably just didn't set the time on the Zelda system like NH1507 said above me
@@MagicMason1000fair point, but Scott has said on Scott’s Stash with Sam and Eric and such (I forget it but I have the gist) he stays up late and sleeps til like 12, idk if he still does it but that may be plausible. As he already opened the Zelda one
Probably one of the coolest things made for Mario 35th anniversary.
Makes me baffled on why a Kirby Game & Watch wasn't considered during his 30th Anniversary...
Who are you
it would be for the kirby 35th aniversary, the mario and zelda ones were for the 35th anniversary@@TommyDeonauthsArchives
@@TommyDeonauthsArchiveskirby got plenty of stuff for the 35th anniversary, new 3D game, 2D remake, eshop game and a concert
As someone who likes Wario’s Woods, I can confirm that I am a masochist
18:46 “I think they just overproduced these” Me who has never found any of these Game and Watches in the wild not even in release week
Amazon
Gamestop online still has stock to this day and is selling them for $40
I just got one from my gf for Christmas
Not a Zelda fan but the Zelda Game & Watch stuck to my mind since I remember watching a streamer who got very silent and became very emotional over its announcement on the Direct, and mentions how it really shows how they value the long-time fans of the series. She couldn't even focus with the Tears of the Kingdom trailer playing afterwards as she was still happy about the Game & Watch.
It was Korone, btw. A hardcore retro gamer.
This is about the last video I was expecting to find Korone mentioned in the comments of but I'm here for it lol
Surprised at how she saw the Zelda Game & Watch as valuing “long-time fans of the series”, considering other people’s thoughts on how the Zelda anniversary was handled
But hey, if she's happy, more power to her
I like how these things also have a battery life where you can have it sit for months and it will never need a single charge
I would be super into a kirby version of this. The older games are super simple to pick up and play, I would definitely buy.
To this day I still see The Zelda Game and Watch's at my local Target. They have just been sitting their for years.
Hey Scott, y'all here. And you wanted answers about the Zelda game and watch. Here's the answers to your two questions. 1. The SNES game: a link to the past was not included because then they would have had to have the SNES button layout on the device, and using A and B on an SNES button layout to play NES and game boy games feels like ass. 2. They chose the original game boy version of link's awakening because they actually hadn't ever rereleased that version before. The GBC version was on 3ds virtual console, and switch went with a full remake. This way you could experience the original version of the game without buying batteries and modding your GB for backlighting.
I've got the Zelda Game and Watch. I played a lot of Zelda II on it. While I barely touch the thing anymore, I can't help but be totally pleased with the purchase!
I think it's cool they added the french and german versions of links awakening which both had unique easter eggs with the character select name creation screens.
If you enter LOLO for the french version you get a unique theme and MOYSE for the German version.
The easter egg was for a I believe a musician who's name was Moyse who handled the german translation of Link's Awakening.
My aunt got my sister and I these units after we showed interest in her old Game and Watch she dug up.I got the Mario one and my sister got the Zelda one. Thanks to this video I now know which of us is her favourite niece!
i love game and watch for how simple it is. great video Scott!!!!!
My first and only play through of the first Legend of Zelda was on this game and watch. I now proudly display it on a shelf
Did you draw a map?
These little things are so cute. Especially Link's Awakening being my favorite Zelda game I can just throw one of these convenient little things in my bag and off I go!
Can we please just have a definitive Game & Watch released with all of the G&W games in one? I'd happily buy that.
that'd be hard considering multiscreen and the long ones
That's asking for the impossible from nintendo. Easily made yourself by dedicating an emulation handheld to it though
I have the Zelda one set up in clock mode in the box 'display' on my desk. As the day progresses, Link slowly makes his way through game screens, clears dungeons, and collects pieces of the triforce. Funny enough, I use the watch functionality much more than the game, but it's really a great desk clock.
The concept of a gameboy classic release would be so awesome and I think the gameboy modding community would looove it
I still see a few of these at my local Best Buy and gamestop, I’m tempted to buy the rest of them
I have my Zelda G&W on my desk as a clock and I love it there. Its powered by a USB hub I got nearby and it's just been sitting there showing me the time since forever. In my opinion the best use of the thing.
i still like to take mine to work with me since it's the most pocketable gaming device on the planet and Ball is perfect for 2 minute stretches of fidgeting. i think if they'd come in closer to a $30 price they could have kept going with a series of these, but fr, for $50 bucks they're still the most affordable and most advanced Game&Watch units you're going to find and sometimes they'll even be on sale for as low as $30 so I still recommend getting them, especially if you see it that low
The Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch saved my sanity during all the Zoom calls in 2020. I was constantly picking it up and playing it while folks figured out how to get their cameras/microphones/slide decks working during online meetings. It was a real comfort during lockdown, they could have charged $80 for it and I would have been happy with it.
This channel feels like dankpods for Scott the woz
A color screen Game & Watch unit with all of that series’ games would be kinda neat tbh, would be a cool way to reprint these things for a modern audience.
I love to think Scott is laying down on the carpet showing us fun things while he kicks his feet back and forth
There is a video of him showing the studio he does these in. Sorry to ruin the illusion, but it's a table with a camera above it and a piece of carpet on the table. Lol
@@bhume7535 Yeah, I saw a picture on Instagram of his setup. :/ sad to know, but I think I'll still try to keep my imagination going lol
My very first video game was Game and Watch Mario Bros in 1988 for car rides when I was 5. That blue one Scott showed. It was my first introduction to Nintendo and Mario. I’ve still got it but had to replace the battery cover. I’m old.
I've got the Mario one set up on a little phone stand on my desk as a little desk clock, it's surprisingly legible from the other side of my bedroom (about 9 feet away), especially when I'm waking up and still a little bleary-eyed, even when it's cycling through its night-time scenes and everything is in shades of blue
Also congrats on getting the video to 100 million views. Second Smosh video to do so
I’ve been waiting for SOMEONE to talk about this since they came out.
I beat Zelda 1 for the first time on that thing!
The new Zelda Game and watch was the way I played through Links Awakening for the first time.
Was a great way to experience this beautiful game!
I can't wait for more of these. The mario one is one of my favorite things I own.
The Zelda one seems like a fair prospect and the design format of it is pretty cool but there's cheaper ways to explore old NES classics...
I stuck a magnet on its back and put it on my refrigerator - I did the same thing with the Zelda one and they're pretty cool interactive fridge decorations
I would love more of these game and watches. Kirby and metroid would be sweet.
I have both and really enjoy them. I’m not gonna lie but these helped me get through some boring online classes, just because they are easy to take out and play.
I owned one of those blue Mario Game & Watches for about two weeks when I was in second grade...then some kid stole it out of my desk during lunch, and that was that. I'll probably have to grab one off of eBay some day!
The legend of Zelda one was absolutely worth it. All 3 classic titles? It’s def more of a collectors item but still..the fact I can whip out my little game and watch and play loz is amazing
It was kinda neat that Nintendo made Game & Watches that played specific NES games. I have the Mario one and while I don't use it to play Mario 1, I still like having it as a little novelty item to show to my folks. And while the flaws with the Mario one were mostly fixed with the Zelda Game and Watch, I will say that the latter doesn't have the cool original art the Mario one got.
I was hoping that Nintendo and Hal laboratories would do a Game and Watch themed to Kriby for his 30th anniversary last year... It's 2023 and I'm still waiting for it.
I do appreciate that Scott’s stash is almost exactly like Scott’s starting videos so the stupid “I miss the old Scott” comments never appear
I honestly really like how Scott seems to future-proof a lot of his videos. In this one, I noticed he said, "We didn't have DS games on Switch." Which, we still don't, but if that does happen, it won't date the video. I noticed this 1 or 2 Scott's Stash videos ago, too. It's neat
He also doesn't mention Covid because it'll age his Videos.
Oh I remember super Mario 35! Good memories with that game, i hope they bring it back😢
i received the zelda one as a gift and it was my first proper encounter with the zelda 1 game outside weird flash game sites, and i beat it for the first time on this lil handheld over 11 days. i'll keep it with fondness
Scott's Stash is slowly becoming the DankPods of stupid Nintendo sh*t, and I love it
I just bought the zelda one as a bday gift for myself, its such a cute little novelty.
I use both these on my desktop as clocks and I love them.
I can't wait for the day I have my own office and I fill the desk with stuff like this
I always felt that it was odd how the Super Mario Bros color Game and Watch included Ball but not the actual original Super Mario Bros Game and Watch game. I had that one as a kid and would have loved to play it again without forking over eBay prices to do so.
I found the Legend of Zelda one at Target completely by accident last year. They were doing some remodeling and they had a shelf with just a ton of random items just sitting there. I haven't seen any there since.
They are still in stores here, see them at Walmart every time I go, I always go back there just to see and yup, a lot of em too
I don't know what gaming watch that is that he showed when he showed the original one because I thought that Mario Bros had to have two buttons on both sides so that you could move both Mario and Luigi up and down to grab the stuff.
On the game boy advance you use up and down on the d-pad and then A and B on the other side.
Great video! I had these sitting for ages, played Mario mostly. You inspired me to make a video about these myself. Here’s a Mario Dad Joke. What does Mario make his pizzas 🍕 from? NINTEN DOUGH.
I'm old enough to remember the game and watch and my parents gave me knockoffs. Lol. Once gameboy comes out, they would buy that for me for my first communion. Lol.
I'd love a Metroid and Kid Icarus version of these. It'd be extra cool if Metroid 2 and Myth and Monsters came with some of the Gameboy Color filters included.
I feel like I'm the reason that there's only two of these because whenever I set out with the goal of "I will buy every (X)", it goes nowhere. I vowed to buy every one of this "line" of Game & Watch in hopes that it would be a whole thing, maybe celebrating Donkey Kong, Kirby and Yoshi, but they stopped after Zelda. Then I vowed to buy every Xbox "Shift" controller when the Aqua Shift came out, then the Lunar Shift and Stellar Shift came out and then kinda died out. Stormcloud Vapor and Gold Shadow were similar, so I bought those too, but yeah, kinda ended on a wet fart with both commitments
It’s funny to think that there may be Scott’s Stash fans who have no clue who Scott the Woz is
Such cool little trinkets that I wish Nintendo made more of as there are so many series that would pair well with the Game and Watch. Even taking the Game and Watch Gallery games and putting them on one of these units would be an absolute treat.
Also, I think this a great way to bring back some series that have been dormant for a while and get them back into people's minds. For example, doing a two player versus Game and Watch unit for Punchout with both the game and Game and Watch version would be amazing.
It is quite fascinating that why Nintendo doesn't really care that much for x0th anniversaries,
but for every x5th anniversaries they tend to go full celebratory.
These are my fav types of vids I swear
I know Scott is old on the Nintendo game and watch but he reviewed even better
Pain in the butt to find, but these are awesome.
Donkey kong didn’t even get noticed for the 40th 😢
i played mine during so many online college lectures. ahhhhh those were the days. thanks for bringing me back
Do you regret missing out on your education
@@jamiehovis7722 you cant multitask?
Boy, I sure do love Scott the Woz on Scott's Stash taking a look at the cool Mario and Zelda Game & Watch series :)
Hey Scott, I was just about to have a lobotomy when I thought of something. Could you possibly go in depth about the rise and fall of Mii’s on this channel? I feel like they have become an afterthought in Nintendo’s games so I’d love to have an in depth video on their journey. Thank you Scott for all that you do.
You didnt mention that if you choose toplay the japanese version of the game it's the famicom disk version. They have different music, sound effects and texts. If you have the zelda one check it out.
Yeah. One of the coolest things about it. When else has Nintendo of America or Europe ever let us play the original FCD versions?
16:44 The only reason I see A Link to the Past not appear on the Zelda Game & Watch is that the SNES controller had an X and Y button as well as the A and B of the NES/GB/G&W. That said, it is odd that they chose the original Link's Awakening over DX.
18:31
I kinda go all in w/the idea of putting it in a shirt pocket and always take one w/me whenever I need to be dressed up.
For whatever reason (probably its form factor and just how nice it looks), it feels far more acceptable to pull one of these out than to pull out my switch XD
This Game & Watches are very underrated!
I have the SMB one, and I use it as a clock! In that regard/function I think it was absolutely worth my money. Adds a bit of fun to my room when I check the time.
If we got one of these for the main NES puzzle games like Dr. Mario, Yoshis Cookie, Tetris, and Hatris/ Tetris 2 would have been incredible.
If they put Mario 3 on it wouldve been an immediate purchase
No kidding. Mario bros 1, 2 and 3 would have been sweet
Really weird they didn't. It's like 256kb of data, and it's not like they sell Mario 3 on stores or something. It really didn't cost them anything, and would have made that Game & Watch infinitely better.
I have both of these and I love them. I honestly don't think I have an hour of play time in either of them but they're so nice!
The real missed opportunity with these Game & Watches was that Nintendo didn’t go the NES/SNES Classic Minis route and have a collection of G&W games in a single unit. That would have been cool! Especially if they then followed up with a Dual-Screen version with all the dual-screen game and watch games like Donkey Kong or Zelda.
Getting Alo vibes. Lovin' the work put in.
i had both on my desk at my pc for 2 years love them
I bought the Zelda G&W simply because Link’s Awakening is my favorite Zelda game (and one of my top 3 video games overall). I love having the original game boy version just sitting there at the ready.
got the Mario one pretty cheap at a retro shop. had it with me nearly all the time and used it as a distraction to help quit nicotine
"Super Mario Bros! Aw man what's this?" That got me good 🤣
I picked up both of these and enjoy having them around. I’ve definitely used the Mario one more.
I created a 3D plastic support and they become clocks at my living room and bedroom. Everyone asks about them and it was great!
Great video and i have both game &watch 😍👍
It just occurred to me that the WATCH in Game & Watch was a function of it. I just assumed it was part of the name.
17:34 _Oh, it's Mario. You can put him in any game you want_
Very true seeing as the final Game & Watch game was a rerelease of Ball using Mario titled Mario the Juggler.
Most of the time, in the 1st Quest of Legend Of Zelda, I would usually get 2 Heart Containers, the White Sword, buy the Blue Ring & then go into Level 3 first.
'That belongs in the complaint department', never have I related to Scott so much
Been waiting for Scott's video on these two so I can justify my purchase of them