/vr/ - Retro Games

5) The particular case of the LCD-based games

Although I tend to think that the Game & Watch games and their slightly less famous cousins should be seen as video games, partly because of their game mechanics and controls, they don’t display pixels but are made of crystals which go from transparent to opaque in reaction to electric fields. The development process of the Game & Watch games shares some similarities with that of a traditional video game, but the use of computers is totally optional, be it for designing graphics or testing the games. If you want to learn more about the Game & Watch, here are a few sources:
1) Iwata asks - Game & Watch
2) The History of Nintendo, volume 2 (Florent Gorges, Omake Books)
3) 未来が生まれたとき~世界に誇る大衆文化の仕掛け人~ ゲーム編, a documentary aired on History Channel in Japan on February 20, 2016


II] Hardware interface