Lion
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| Developer | Nintendo EAD | ||
| Publisher | Nintendo | ||
| Platform(s) | Game & Watch | ||
| Release date | April 29, 1981 | ||
| Genre | Platformer | ||
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| Mode(s) | Single player | ||
| Media | Game & Watch:
Built-in
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| Input | Game & Watch:
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Lion is a Game & Watch game released as a part of the Gold series on April 29, 1981.[1] It is also an unlockable minigame in Game & Watch Gallery 3. Only the Classic version is playable in the port.
The alarm indicator of this game is a bear that is located beside the miss counter, and the bear swings a bell when the alarm goes off.
Gameplay
Lions are on the loose, forcing the lion tamers to use chairs to keep the lions in their cage. Each time the player keeps a lion in a cage, they earn two points. As the game progresses, the lions will move faster. If a lion escapes, the player gets a miss. At 200 and 500 points, any misses the player has will be cleared. When the player gets three misses, they receive a Game Over. Game A has two lions, while Game B has three.
Controls
(up and down): Move left zookeeper
and 
: Move right zookeeper
Appearances in other games
Lion appears as a microgame in WarioWare: Touched! called Game & Watch Lion.
Lion is Mr. Game & Watch's side-tilt move in the Super Smash Bros. series. In these games, Mr. Game & Watch pulls out a chair to keep enemies away. In the stages Flat Zone 2 and Flat Zone X, there is a model based on Lion, and players fill the roles of the lions. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl there is a sticker of the Lion handheld, and in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U, there is a Lion handheld trophy in both games.
