Nintendo Mini Classics

China Product


Design

Each Mini Classics unit is designed to look like a small Game Boy. Units typically have all the buttons of a Game Boy, with A, B, Start, and Select buttons, a keychain attached to the top left hand corner, and a stand on the back. Mini Classics are sold in an assortment of colors, varying from game to game. (Mario's Cement Factory, for example, is blue and Donkey Kong is gold.) Similar to the Game and Watch, the Nintendo Mini Classics units have alarm clock features. Some games, like Oil Panic, have two displays.

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The stand on the back of a Nintendo Mini Classics system. 1800 rpm generator

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The unit is powered by two AG13/Button Cell/LR44 batteries, which are packaged with the Nintendo Mini Classic. The Mini Classics version of Super Mario Bros. reportedly drains batteries fairly quickly.

Games

Game & Watch reissues

Parachute

Octopus

Fire

Snoopy Tennis

Oil Panic (Dual Screen) (Europe exclusive)

Donkey Kong (Dual-Screen)

Donkey Kong Jr.

Mario's Cement Factory

Super Mario Bros

Zelda Game & Watch (Dual-Screen) (1998)

Original Titles

Carrera

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Europe exclusive)

Poker (Europe exclusive)

Smurfs (Europe exclusive)

Soccer

Spider-Man

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Single Screen) (Europe exclusive)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Dual-Screen) (Europe exclusive)

Star Trek: TOS Beam me up! (Europe exclusive)

Sudoku (Europe exclusive)

Tetris (Europe Exclusive)

UEFA Euro 2008 (Europe exclusive)

Yu-Gi-Oh!

Different Colors

Some of the Mini Classics models, particularly the often-reissued Mario and Donkey Kong titles, have undergone several different color changes since the original 1998 releases. A couple of titles have also been given new color-tinted LCD displays since then.

Octopus

Toymax: Light Blue Case (1999)

Take 2:

Donkey Kong Jr.

Toymax: Dark Green Case (1998)

MGA: Yellow-Green Case (2000) (later reissued with color LCD circa 2005)

It's Outrageous: Yellow Case with Color LCD (2007)

Mario's Cement Factory

Toymax: Yellow Case (1999)

MGA: Grey Case (2000)

Take 2: Transparent Yellow Case (2002[citation needed])

It's Outrageous: Dark Blue Case (2007)

Super Mario Bros.

Toymax: White Case (1998)

MGA: Blue Case (2000)

It's Outrageous: Green Case with Color LCD (2007)

The Smurfs

Take 2: Transparent Blue-Green Case (2001[citation needed])

Take 2 (?): Yellow Case (2006[citation needed])

Distributors

Zappies Ltd, exclusive distributor in the UK.

Stadlbauer, maker of the Nintendo Mini Classics, and principal distributor of the titles in Europe.

Take 2 Interactive, current[citation needed] distributor of the Mini Classics in parts of Europe. The only known distributor of Oil Panic and the games based on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Toymax, first American distributor of the Mini Classics. The first wave released in 1998 consisted of Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., Fire, and Parachute. Octopus and Mario's Cement Factory were issued shortly thereafter in 1999. The packaging and an insert included for the last two games indicate that Snoopy Tennis apparently was also released in that time, but a Toymax-branded version of the game has yet to be discovered.

MGA Entertainment, after the Toymax releases, MGA reissued Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., and Mario's Cement Factory in the USA beginning in 2000.

It's Outrageous, current distributor of the Mini Classics in the United States. The company re-reissued Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., and Mario's Cement Factory, and introduced several of the newer Mini Classics to America, including Donkey Kong, Zelda, Soccer, Spiderman, and Carrea.

Candide, current distributor of the Mini Classics in Brazil. 5 titles were released, all of them are the It's Outrageous versions. The games are Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong Jr., Soccer, SMB Cement Factory, and Carrera.

See also

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Nintendo portal

Game & Watch

Game & Watch Gallery

References

^ "The Return of Retro". Zelda Universe. 2007-01-30. http://www.zeldauniverse.net/zelda-news/the-return-of-retro/. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 

^ http://shop.zappies.com

External links

Stadlbauer EN, English-translated site for the original distributor

Stadlbauer DE, original Austrian website for Stadlbauer

It's Outrageous, official website of the current USA distributor

Game & Watch, fan site for Game & Watch collectors

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