Prog & Watch

Germany has maintained its reputation as the home of badass heavy metal concepts. Or, at least, their translations of some of the Game & Watch names makes me think so.

The titles in question? Turtle Bridge, which became "Die lebende Brücke"  ("The Living Bridge"), and "Lion," which became "Der Lowe ist los!" Both of those names would be right at home in the track list of any prog metal concept album.

Aside from the chapter on localization, the latter part of the book offers some vaguely historical material when the final section about Game & Watch cameos and collections comes along.

Learning that the Zelda Game & Watch is unlockable in Game & Watch Gallery Advance has forced me to add it to the games on my "to watch for" list. It sounds like that particular Game & Watch is just a re-tooling of the Legend of Zelda on the NES, but it sill probably has some sort of extra significance. Plus, it's Zelda, so it's got to be good.

At any rate, that wraps it up for the second volume of Pix'n Love's The History of Nintendo. For now.

There are volumes out there about the Famicom/NES and the Gameboy series, so I'll definitely be picking them up once they're available. Hopefully, though, they have the first volume's focus on history and building social context, and keep collectors' information to a minimum.