It features five games and is the only title in the series not to be re-released on Virtual Console.
It was released for the Game Boy in 1997 for Japan on February 1,[2] for the United States on May 5,[3] for Europe on August 28,[4] and in Australia the same year.
[4] It was released on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in 2011 for Japan on June 22,[6] for North America on July 14,[7] and in Europe[8] and for Australia on July 21;[9] while it was originally released under the title Game Boy Gallery 2 in Australia, the Virtual Console release uses the title Game & Watch Gallery.
[12] The Game Boy version was released on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in Japan on March 21, 2012.
[13] The Game Boy Color version was released on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console the same year in Europe[14] and Australia on May 3,[15] and in North America on May 24;[16] while it was originally released under the title Game Boy Gallery 3 in Australia, the Virtual Console release uses the title Game & Watch Gallery 2.
It was released for the Game Boy Color in 1999 for Japan on April 8,[18] for the United States on December 6,[19] in Australia the same year,[20] and in Europe on February 1, 2000;[21] It was released for the Nintendo Power for the Game Boy in Japan on March 1, 2000.
Fire is limited to Game A, does not save high scores, does not allow the player to earn stars, and cannot be paused.
It was released for the Game Boy Advance in Europe[27] and the United States in October 2002,[28] and in Australia the same year.
[29] It is also the first title in the Game & Watch Gallery series to credit TOSE as a co-developer, after the company had gone uncredited in the previous installments.
It was released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in December 2015 for Europe[30] and Australia,[31] and in 2016 for Japan in March,[32] and for North America in April.
[33] The Wii U Virtual Console release was the first time the game was available in Japan.
[citation needed] For members of the North American Club Nintendo, it was available for 800 coins from December 2008.
[39] For members of the North American Club Nintendo, it was available for 800 coins from March 2010.
In the Soviet Union, clones of some wide-screen console games appeared by mid-1980s; they were sold under the universal Elektronika brand.
with the Wolf resembling the main character from the animated series), slightly different variants of Egg named Hunt (featuring a hunter firing at ducks) and Explorers from Space (featuring a space ship being fired upon), and many others.
[45] Programmers have also unofficially ported G&W games to many platforms, most notably Microsoft Windows, mobile phones, web browsers (usually through Adobe Flash Player), and others.