Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda

Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda is a small handheld system Nintendo made for the series' 35th anniversary. It was announced at the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct and released on November 12th, 2021, for $49.99 in the US. It is shaped like the original Game & Watch Wide Screen models from the early 1980s, but has a full-color screen and a cross-shaped D-pad like the one on the old two-screen Zelda Game & Watch. Its gold-and-green body and box are covered in art from the first Legend of Zelda. Nintendo no longer sells it.

The games. Three complete games are built in: the original The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and the original Game Boy version of Link's Awakening. Each one can be played in English or in Japanese, so you can try the Famicom versions of the two NES games too. Our guides for those games all work on the Game & Watch.

Vermin, the clock and the timer. There is also a new version of Vermin, a 1980 Game & Watch game, with Link as the player: you swing a hammer at the creatures that pop up out of the ground. The clock shows the time in a scene from The Legend of Zelda, with Link fighting enemies around the numbers, and the timer is themed after Zelda II, with Link fighting enemies while the countdown runs.