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1	* EnsembleDarkhorse: An unusual case of the main character getting this treatment. When the first three ''Gallery'' games were released, the updated versions of the games with Mario and friends were [[WolverinePublicity the main attraction]]. After ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'', though, the Classic versions with Mr. Game & Watch got a lot more popular.
2	* FridgeBrilliance: Flat Zoners later being revealed to [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl not have any sense of good or evil]] could be part of the reason why they're so dang careless.
3	* GameBreaker:
4	** Any game with "Chance Time". If you make it to 300 points without getting any misses, your points will be doubled until you do get a miss. This makes getting high scores in certain games fairly trivial.
5	** In ''Oil Panic'', you can get two kinds of misses but only three of one will end the game. For instance, if you fear you're about to get a third miss by causing a fire, you can dump oil outside and get a miss that way instead provided that you don't have two of those already.
6	** In three other games, you can technically miss up to six times.
7	*** In ''Popeye'', getting attacked by Bluto is a whole miss, but failing to catch food thrown by Olive is a half-miss.
8	*** In ''Mickey Mouse'' and ''Egg'', eggs that fall when Minnie or the hen is watching count as a half-miss.
9	* ItsShortSoItSucks: For such an influential series, the fandom's pretty small, and this is usually the reason why, [[VindicatedByHistory especially by modern standards]].
10	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The series of tones that play when misses are cleared. If you reach 300 points without a miss in some later games, the same sound plays to signify doubled point values until you get a miss.
11	* NightmareFuel:
12	** Misses in ''Fire'' are represented by angels, implying that uncaught people did not survive the fall. The remakes changed this to the fallen person [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou storming off in a huff]] with bandages as miss icons.
13	** Fail to catch one of the skydivers in ''Parachute'' and he [[ThreateningShark gets eaten by shark]]. The last segment in the sequence amplifies it with a close-up of his OhCrap reaction.
14	** Get too close to a tentacle in ''Octopus'' and your diver will be constricted until he disappears. For added horror, this is one of the rare games which use lives in place of misses. And unlike ''Fire'', neither this nor ''Parachute'' were changed to be less grisly in the remakes.
15	* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: ''Snoopy Tennis'' and ''Popeye'' were very popular in their day, so it's a shame that they likely won't see a rerelease even if ''Gallery 5'' ever comes along.
16	* OlderThanTheyThink: While ''Mario Bros.'' is thought of as a spinoff of its arcade sibling, it's actually the older of the two by three months. Luigi's big break was helping his bro shelve bottles rather than pest control.
17	* ScrappyMechanic:
18	** In Game B of ''Parachute'', some skydivers who fall on the rightmost path will get [[ParachuteInATree caught on a tree]]. When one is freed, he will drop faster to stay in line, forcing you to move all the way to the right to catch him.
19	** A similar situation occurs in the widescreen version of ''Fire''. In Game B, some people will jump from the third floor instead of the fourth, and they will fall faster to catch up with the rhythm of the game.
20	* SpiritualSequel: ''Climber'' is basically a simpler sequel of ''VideoGame/IceClimber''.
21	* ValuesDissonance: Nintendo did a lot of things here that they would probably never get away with now [[GrandfatherClause with the exception of rereleases]].
22	** ''Fire Attack'' features stereotypical [[TheSavageIndian Savage Indians]] as the antagonists, which is something that has become much less acceptable as time has gone by. Nintendo preemptively edited the feathers off of their heads in ''Game & Watch Gallery 4'' to make them appear more like generic bandits. Later, when Nintendo tried to include an homage to the characters with one of Mr. Game & Watch's moves in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' they received complaints that it was racist, which prompted them to apologize and alter the move in a Day 1 patch for the game to match its ''Gallery 4'' depiction.
23	** In ''Oil Panic'', one of the fire hazards is [[NoSmoking an ashtray with cigarette butts]].
24	** ''Mario's Bombs Away'' has Mario (yes, ''that'' Mario) fighting in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, [[NoSmoking with someone visibly smoking]]. This is available as an unlockable minigame in ''Gallery 4''.

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