This page features reasonably accurate simulators of the classic Nintendo Game & Watch game Toss Up (aka Ball).
Toss Up came out in 1980 and was the first in the very successful Game & Watch series of games made by Nintendo. Toss Up was in fact distributed by a company called TimeOut. Nintendo also released the game themselves calling it Ball. The game was also distributed in Germany by yet another company using the moniker of Jolly Jongleur. There is also some speculation that the game was originally called Acrobat, since the model code is AC-01. I've stuck to using the name Toss Up because that's how I remember it and is name used on the original game I own. Also, there's already a Ball simulator available for Windows (see the G&W Simulators site), therefore using the name Toss Up avoids potential mix ups.
The Game & Watch format was the brainchild of Gunpei Yokoi. Yokoi later went on to give us the Game Boy. It's easy to see a natural progression from these early handheld games to the hugely successful Game Boy.
I have fond memories of this game, I remember playing it at school around 1981. The game also has some extra significance for me, during the early 90's I developed a passion for real juggling and in '96 combined by passions for juggling and programming to produce my first piece of shareware Juggle Saver.
Toss Up Game & Watch Simulators
Toss Up came out in 1980 and was the first in the very successful Game & Watch series of games made by Nintendo. Toss Up was in fact distributed by a company called TimeOut. Nintendo also released the game themselves calling it Ball. The game was also distributed in Germany by yet another company using the moniker of Jolly Jongleur. There is also some speculation that the game was originally called Acrobat, since the model code is AC-01. I've stuck to using the name Toss Up because that's how I remember it and is name used on the original game I own. Also, there's already a Ball simulator available for Windows (see the G&W Simulators site), therefore using the name Toss Up avoids potential mix ups.
The Game & Watch format was the brainchild of Gunpei Yokoi. Yokoi later went on to give us the Game Boy. It's easy to see a natural progression from these early handheld games to the hugely successful Game Boy.
I have fond memories of this game, I remember playing it at school around 1981. The game also has some extra significance for me, during the early 90's I developed a passion for real juggling and in '96 combined by passions for juggling and programming to produce my first piece of shareware Juggle Saver.
Toss Up Game & Watch Simulators
