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Game & Watch Gallery 4 (known as Game & Watch Gallery Advance in Europe) is a video game for the Game Boy Advance. It is the fourth game in the Game & Watch Gallery series. It was developed and published by Nintendo,and released on October 28,2002, with an ESRB rating of "E for everyone." It allows people to play classic Game & Watch games again, or experience them for the first time.

The games

There are six standard Game & Watch games included, both in their original and a modernized form with music, color, and Mario characters. All the games are simple, making them quick to learn and fairly easy to play. Below is a list of all playable games on the cartridge.

Standard games

Boxing - You must punch out your opponent before he does the same to you.
Donkey Kong 3
- You must spray bees (or Boo and a fireball, in the modern mode) at Donkey Kong to sting him.
Donkey Kong Jr. - You must collect keys to save Donkey Kong from Mario.
Fire - You must bounce all the occupants of the blazing building to safety using a trampoline.
Mario's Cement Factory - You must deliver the cement to the truck. This is a cookie factory reminiscent of Yoshi's Cookie
in modern mode.
Rain Shower - You must keep the raindrops off the sheets in classic mode, or move your friends out from under Bowser's paint balloons in modern mode.

Both Boxing and Donkey Kong 3 can be played with another human using another Game Boy Advance and a link cable. Only one cartridge is necessary.

Locked games

There are 14 locked games. In order to unlock them you need to collect stars. You get rewarded a star every time you score 200 points in a game. You can collect a total of five stars per game.

Chef - Collect 5 stars
Mario Bros.
- Collect 20 stars
Donkey Kong
- Collect 35 stars
Octopus - Collect 50 stars
Fire Attack - Collect 60 stars
Manhole - Collect 80 stars
Tropical Fish - Collect 90 stars
Mario's Bombs away - Collect 100 stars
Parachute - Collect 110 stars
Bombsweeper - Collect 120 stars
Climber - Collect 130 stars
Safebuster - Collect 140 stars
Lifeboat - Collect 150 stars
The Legend of Zelda
- Collect 160 stars

Gallery Corner

The Gallery Corner has tons of extras. You can go to the message board for hints & tips. Or go to the sound room to listen to G&W tunes. You can also go to the Museum to look at and play hidden Game & Watch games. Below is a list of games that can be seen at the Museum. To find out how to unlock them see Locked games above.

Manhole
Tropical Fish
Mario's Bombs away
Parachute
Bombsweeper
Climber (a remake of the original Ice Climber
)
Safebuster
Lifeboat
Zelda.

Modern & Classic

Game & Watch Gallery 4 featured both modern and classic versions of its six standard games, as well as the first five unlockable games. The classic version had dot matrix style graphics and the same gameplay as the original Game & Watch handheld games. While the modern version had updated graphics, and replaced the original characters and items with ones from the Mario series. Also the gameplay was changed in some games and might have had a new challenge.

History

The Game & Watch series dates back to the year 1980 with the original LCD handheld games. In 1997 the first Game and watch Gallery game released for the Game Boy.It featured four original Game & Watch games. Game & Watch Galleries 2 and 3 for the Game Boy Color were released in 1998 and 1999 respectively and featured five Game & Watch games each.

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