Podcast First Look: Was the Nintendo Game & Watch the Most Important Video Game Ever?

This is the first look at my newest podcast episode all about the Nintendo Game and Watch. It may seem like a simple hand-held device, but it helped changed the trajectory of video games forever.If it wasn't for the success of the Game and Watch, Nintendo wouldn't have had been taken on the path to create the NES and change the future of video games forever.This is a look at the creation of this device that is more important than people realize. Among other things, we'll look at: the connection between the Game & Watch, Japanese businessmen, and calculators how the control pad may have been the most important feature ever the growth of the industry after the video game crash of 1983 how children were never the target audience.As a patron, you get first shot at the episode before it gets released tomorrow everywhere else.Hope you like it!-Jamie