Game & Watch Gallery 4, known in Japan as Game Boy Gallery 4[e] and in Europe and Australia as Game & Watch Gallery Advance, is the fifth game in the series in Europe and Australia and the fourth in Japan and North America. It was released for the Game Boy Advance in Europe on October 25, 2002,[27] in the United States on October 28, 2002,[28] and in Australia in 2002.[29] It is also the first title in the Game & Watch Gallery series to credit TOSE as a co-developer, after the company had gone uncredited in the previous installments.
It was released on Wii U Virtual Console on December 10, 2015 in Europe,[30] December 11, 2015 in Australia,[31] March 16, 2016 in Japan,[32] and April 7, 2016 in North America.[33] The Wii U Virtual Console release was the first time the game was available in Japan.[32]
This game features Game & Watch games in two styles: Classic, which features faithful reproductions of the original games, and Modern, which gives the games a different visual style using characters from the Mario series. It features 11 games with both Modern and Classic modes and nine games with only Classic mode. This game facilitates multiplayer for Boxing and Donkey Kong 3.
List of games
- Fire
- Boxing
- Rain Shower
- Mario's Cement Factory
- Donkey Kong Jr.
- Donkey Kong 3
- Chef (unlockable)
- Mario Bros. (unlockable)
- Donkey Kong (unlockable)
- Octopus (unlockable)
- Fire Attack (unlockable)
The game also includes a museum feature, where the player can view screenshots of several Game & Watch games. In this version, the games could be unlocked as playable in Classic Mode. The games listed include:
- Manhole
- Tropical Fish
- Mario's Bombs Away
- Parachute
- Bomb Sweeper
- Climber
- Safebuster
- Life Boat
- Zelda
