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{{Game infobox
|title=Vermin
|image=[[File:Game_&_Watch_Vermin_Cover.jpg|300px]]
|developer=[[Nintendo Research & Development 1]]
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|release='''[[Game & Watch]]'''<br>July 10, 1980<br>'''[[Nintendo DSi]]'''<br>JP July 15, 2009<br>US April 5, 2010<br>EU April 9, 2010
|platforms=[[Game & Watch]], [[Nintendo DSi]]
}}
'''''Vermin''''' is a game released in 1980 for the [[Game & Watch]], it is the third Game & Watch handheld after [[Flagman]], and is the third in the ''[[Silver (Game & Watch series)|Silver]]'' series, it was originally known as '''''The Exterminator''''' in North America. Like [[Ball (game)|Ball]] and Flagman, it has been re-released multiple times.
== Gameplay ==
Like previous games, the player can choose to play Game A or Game B, or have it display the time. In Game A and Game B, the player has to hit the moles coming out of the holes, in Game A, moles come out of all holes except the middle one, and in Game B, they come out of all holes. If the player fails to hit a mole in time, they player loses a life, losing all three lives loses the game. If the player chooses to have it display the time, it will show the time where the score is while the game plays itself.
== Ports ==
''Vermin'' appears in ''[[Game Boy Gallery]]'', where the gameplay is the same, with characters appearing when the player gets a specific amount of points, with a girl appearing at 200 points and a man with a spear at 500 points. This game takes place in between ''[[Ball (game)|Ball]]'' and ''[[Flagman]]'' in the story, where after failing to get a job at the circus, they start working at the local pest control company where they have to hit moles on the head when they surface, but each time they hit them, they become angrier and faster, they end up losing that job and start working at the local boating lake which leads into ''Flagman''.

''Vermin'' appears in the [[Game & Watch Gallery (series)|Game & Watch Gallery series]], where it's featured in the [[Gallery Corner]] in ''[[Game & Watch Gallery]]'', being unlocked when the player gets 400 points in the modern version of [[Octopus]], it can be unlocked in the next two game's Gallery Corner by either linking them to ''Game & Watch Gallery'' or an extra method in ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 3]]'' where it can be unlocked by getting all stars. It is a playable game in [[Game & Watch Gallery 2]].

In the modern version in ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 2]]'', the player plays as a [[Orange Yoshi]] protecting six [[Yoshi Egg|Yoshi Eggs]] from [[Koopa Paratroopa|Koopa Paratroopas]], [[Fly Guy|Fly Guys]], and [[Boo|Boos]], which all move at different speeds, with Boos not moving if the player is looking at them. If an enemy gets to an egg, they start breaking it, each egg takes three hits to break, if an egg breaks, the player gets a [[Game Over]]. Every 200 points, each egg break themselves to reveal something good, [[Yoshi Cookie|Yoshi Cookies]] at 200 points, [[Fruit|fruits]] at 400 points, [[Baby Yoshi|Baby Yoshis]] at 600 points, [[Coin|coins]] at 800 points, and [[Super Star|Super Stars]] at 1000 points, and after that, it repeats, they also give five points for each egg. If an egg is broken at 200 points, all other eggs don't reveal what's inside of them, but if the same happens at 400 points and after, they do reveal what's inside, but they will start from 200 again. [[Monty Mole|Monty Moles]] appear at 200, 500, and 700 points to put a heart on the field, if the player hits it, it recovers a third of the damage done to the eggs.

''Vermin'' is one of nine [[Game & Watch]] games to release as digital software on the [[Nintendo DSi]], and it was one of the first four to release in Japan, it was also in the second group of games to be released in North America and Europe with ''[[Helmet]]'' and ''[[Manhole]]''. It plays the same as the original release alongside all of the features in the other releases.

A version of ''Vermin'' is included in the 2021 [[Game & Watch]] game ''[[Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda]]'' alongside ''[[The Legend of Zelda (game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]'', and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]''. It has no differences other than the character's face which has been changed to [[Link]]'s face, but if the player holds the A button while starting the game, the game starts a hard mode where the player only has one life and the moles become faster at the start.
== Representation in ''Super Smash Bros.'' ==
=== Moves ===
[[Mr. Game & Watch]]'s down smash and floor attacks originate from this game. In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', his down smash is changed to look more like the character in ''Vermin''.
=== Stickers ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! No. !! Name !! Sticker !! Effect !! Characters
|-
| 490 || Vermin || [[File:Sticker_490_Vermin.png]] || Weapon Attack +15 || [[Mr. Game & Watch]]
|}
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