/vr/ - Retro Games

That was a surprisingly fun game when you got used to it.

Someone just watched AVGN.

These pieces of shit were too complicated for their own good. If they kept them simple they could have been really fun like Game & Watch.

>>1093490
I've rambled about this before, but I think it's more a symptom of the era than anything.

In the beginning when they were trying to emulate single-screen Donkey Kong-style games on lcd handhelds it was passable enough. But by the time time Tiger came along, kids wanted versions of side-scrollers and fighters which were a lot tougher to approximate.

>>1093448
Tiger's Sonic Spinball was arguably more fun than the original, or at least less frustrating.

>tfw when your mother got you a tiger instead of a game boy or a game gear

i don't like remembering these feels ;_;

Man, the shit I used to buy when I was a kid.

This thing is awfully pink and girly-looking, what was I even thinking? I coulda bought something like Sonic or Street Fighter, but no.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK1GArEL9jQ

>>1093584
i know that feeling. its a horrible feeling. having old parents sucks cause they never knew jack about modern technology. "he just wants the gameboy cause his friends want it, lets buy him a few of these tiger things...its all the same and its cheaper!. i saw this video game thingy daget on tv that says it has over a thousand games, and its only 20 bucks!"

but this was all ok, when the fateful birthday came that i got a gameboy color along with pokemon blue and super mario bros.

Anyone know how long they made these things for? I remember seeing a Chicken Run one once and that must have been the early 2000's. Hell they could still be going for all I know

Neat idea.
Just as mediocre.

it really is astounding how bad these things are, and yet they're so memorable.. and Game and Watch seems really legit

>>1093665

I actually specifically asked for some of those things.

And speaking of Tiger, I actually asked for a game.com after I got a Gameboy Color, thinking the game.com was going to blow it out of the water.

That was a pretty big mistake. I forced myself to play that piece of shit so my parents wouldn't think they wasted their money.

>>1093604
>And best of all, you can do it again and again.

>>1093604
man my sister had that, I would steal it when mine ran out of batteries. Funny thing though I cant remember which one I had but I remember that one clear as day.

>>1093604

I like looking at the writing for these ads. Love how the copywriter struggled to explain the repetitiveness of the game as a feature.

I didn't even know this thing was real until it was offered as a prize at SGDQ 2013.

I had three that I can remember. I had a Gargoyles one, a Mighty ducks one, and some ninja one. Looking back, I don't know how I could stand playing them.

>>1093604
It's kinda funny how they tried to market this as a game for girls, but the game's premise is very traditionally "male": You play as a guy with a sword who has to beat up the other sword guy to win your girlfriend back.

And it's PANK

>>1094298

Wait, you play as Gaston?

I actually owned the R-Zone back in the day. It was awful. It gave me headaches and the R-Zone game I owned was terrible. It was some weird racing game. The only other Tiger game I owned was Space Jam.

The Tiger games really were the bottom-of-the-barrel video games. If anything, they showed how deceptive marketing can be.

anyone have this one? I found it one day in a store all by itself and bought it for my uncle but I have never seen another again besides a few times on ebay.

...anyone ever beaten a Tiger game?

I had Double Dragon as a kid, and I loved it. Played it all the time. It was incredibly repetitive but I didn't care. Basically a guy would appear on the screen and you would have to hit "punch" or "kick" (it didn't really matter which) really fast to hit him a few times and kill him before he hit you, and you could jump or move back a space to avoid his punches or kicks. So after maybe 20 of these guys you'd go to the next level. Anyway, you would think that such a simple and stupid game wouldn't be that hard, but inevitably after fighting almost a hundred guys you're going to get hit enough times to die, no matter how hard you try to avoid their hits, and you only got one life. So I never beat it, but I'm sure I got pretty close. I'm not sure if I did though that there would be room on the lcd for anything other than "Game Over" as an ending.

The sonic 2 one reminds me of this for some reason, not exactly tiger but had some tough levels. Had one as a kid and never saw another again

>>1094414
I had a Batman forever Tiger game that I managed to beat. From what I remember it only had five levels and once you beat it it just said Game Over until reset the game.

>>1094302
You play as the beast.

>>1093489
OH YES, BECAUSE NO ONE KNEW ABOUT LCD GAMES BEFORE WATCHING JAMES ROLFE GAB ABOUT HOW THESE THINGS ARE INFERIOR IN EVERY WAY TO GAMEBOY!!

>>1093383

Still got a Formula1 one. But the batteries are dead. But i remember playing it a lot

>>1094047
Yeah, demonstratively playing it in front of your parents so they can see and feel happy that their kid likes what they got them.... We all did that.
Though I must say even if it wasn't what I really wanted I always appreciated what they got me. I even would have played with a game.com as good as possible, after all they would have bought it for me...

>>1094298
>you can help Belle get through the Beast's castle to find her father

>>1094298
Where there any moderately good "girl games" that fall within the /vr/ guidelines? Just curious

>>1095604
Barbie Adventures

I own a game.com and this piece of shit. Never released in Europe, I actually imported them out of curiosity.

Don't even. don't even do it for curiosity sake. Worst gaming experience ever, and I've seen some shit... i've seen some shit...

RE2 on game.com is actually not as bad playing on emulator than on real hardware, and it's still shit. (because, yes, a game.com emulator with all the games got released a couple of years back. nobody knows about it because nobody cares)

>>1095604
Spyro
Mario 2
Sailor Moon
Jap rpgs
any game with a female protagonist(there's many)

>>1095604
Hello Kitty's Cube Frenzy.

Seriously.

Not even a joke.

>>1095607

At least you can now play them without ghosting, just LIKE THE DEVELOPERS INTENDED(TM)

>>1095625
I concur. This game is fucking awesome. Played the shit out of it as a kid.

>>1095625
>>1095764
Looking at screen shots. I figure because it's a puzzle game, just with HK imagery applied.

I wager if there was Justin Bieber's Mean Bean Machine. You'd grudgingly admit to enjoying the game.

>>1097394
That depends. If it's just Beebs imagery on top of a tight puzzle game, it wouldn't even be grudging. If I have to listen to one second of his voice or "music"? Hell no.

>>1095610
>Spyro
>Mario 2
>Sailor Moon
>Jap rpgs

How are any of those girl games? OK, maybe Sailor Moon, but I I knew way more guys who watched Sailor Moon than girls.

>>1095417
I get your point, but also the AVGN episode has giving more attention to Tiger LCD games, making it a hot topic for discussion.
It's not that no one knew, its now just that it's popular to talk about.

What does the Doug button do?

The best one I ever had some "VR" game that you wore like a Virtual Boy where you had to fight the ninjas that were coming towards you with three or four motion detectors, one in each hand and at least one for kicking.
The batteries went in the central part that clipped on your belt.

>>1099474
IT GOES doo da doo da do da doo da doo da do

>>1099428
At least you can actually see the screen!

>>1099486

one of my cousins had that

i was so disappointed once i got to try it

>>1099474
The game is actually a handheld sex simulator with the player taking the role of Patty Mayonnaise -- thus the two "action" buttons are, in fact, dialogue options of "Doug" and "Faster" which can be pressed simultaneously for increased effect.

>>1099486
I actually had one of these. It was power rangers branded.

Does skannerz go here? I had some good times with my Green skannerz toy.

ITT people too poor to afford game boys

I got two tiger handhelds instead of a game boy the first christmas i asked for one

Who /X-Men/ in here?

Stand still and the world will pass you by
step up, to a higher challenge
take the plunge into the virtual world
INTO THE VRT-X
WHERE ZEDD HAS FLED
AND RANGERS RULE A HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE
WHERE YOU COULD SWEAR YOU COULD FEEL THE SABER SWORD IN YOUR VERY OWN HANDS
AS YOU POWER UP WITH POWER RANGERS ON VRT-X GAMES
ONLY FROM TIGER

batteries not included

>>1101429
Aw shit nigga. I had the maroon one and my neighbour had the green one. Great times