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Tropical Fish

Tropical Fish is a rare New Wide Screen Game & Watch video game released in 1985. The game was never released in Japan. The model number for Tropical Fish is TF-104. In the game, you'll merge fish from an…

8 July 1985

Tropical Fish is an arcade developed by Nintendo, released 8 July 1985 on Game & Watch.

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What Tropical Fish is

Tropical Fish is an arcade game developed by Nintendo and released in 1985. It is available on Game & Watch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tropical Fish is a rare New Wide Screen Game & Watch video game released in 1985. The game was never released in Japan. The model number for Tropical Fish is TF-104. In the game, you'll merge fish from an aquarium into another aquarium via a fishbowl. Overall, the gameplay is very similar to Fire, though perhaps slightly improved. Tropical Fish has also appeared as an unlockable museum game in Game & Watch Gallery 4, albeit in Classic only.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Tropical Fish launched on 8 July 1985, within three weeks of Ghosts 'n Goblins, Nodes of Yesod and Rush'n Attack.

Released around the same time: Ghosts 'n Goblins, Nodes of Yesod, Rush'n Attack.

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When did Tropical Fish come out?
Tropical Fish was released on 8 July 1985 for Game & Watch.

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