Collection: Game & Watch
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Sharp Corporation provided the CPUs for the Game & Watch series. At the time of the series' development, the company had been competing with Casio and the demand for LCD screens had been slowing down, with Sharp's LCD factories being in the process of downsizing. Series creator Gunpei Yokoi stated that Sharp executives would reminisce on Game & Watch years later for having "breathed new life" into Sharp's LCD business, and attributed all of its modern LCD production, even long advancing the limitations associated with Game & Watch, to having been benefited in part by Game & Watch. In a quote attributed to unnamed Sharp executives in the book Gunpei Yokoi's Game Museum, they stated:
"If the Game & Watch hadn’t come along then, Sharp’s LCD business would probably not be what it is today. Our LCD factories were in the process of contracting when the G&W came along and breathed life into them, so even our TFT business today is partially owed to the G&W’s success."