/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7924317
Doug

>>7924317
Doesn't matter, they're all the exact same.

>>7924317
There was a power rangers one I really liked

>>7924317
Honestly why the fuck would you ever waste your time with this shit. There's literally thousands of retro video games that would be so much more engaging. Hell even fucking mobile phone games are more deserving of your time. Fuck just download the Game & Watch Gallery games if you really have a boner for this stuff

>>7924317
I can't remember if Tiger released it, but someone did a rather ambitious Sonic Adventure lcd game in late 90s.

My personal favorites were this mouse maze game from 88 and they did a Pokemon LED pinball game thats pretty neat.

>>7924354
Despite your opinion, they are really collectible, some being incredibly rare and sought after.

>>7924354
It's a cool piece of plastic.

>>7924413
OP asked what the best ones are. If you want to say "Oh what ones are worth the most" just go to a fucking auction site or price index. Doesn't mean they have any value as video games, only as product, or exactly what >>7924414 says, he is only in it for being "cool plastic".

>>7924391
it was Tiger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKYWUfAgX98
and they also had a Crash Bandicoot game of the same complexity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TVF97CAjzE

I """like""" the Gauntlet one for trying to do a somewhat 3D dungeon crawler on such primitive technology. It looks more impressive than the actual console ports. If we're counting better hardware, I'd say Crash Bandicoot 99x or whatever the fuck it's called.

>>7924512
Case closed. This is it.

I don't think it was Tiger but I had one that was about Ninjas attacking from the sky it was a lot of fun like Nintendo's Game&Watch games. I can't remember any Tiger ones I actually found fun, then again I never played too many of them.
The problem with Tiger ones is they tried to do too much to "mimic" the real game or to make it feel more complex than it really was G&W worked because they were always meant to be simple ideas.

Still I would buy a Tiger Classics where they include a bunch of emulated LCD games from as many properties as they can into one $50 device or whatever, instead of the shitty rereleases of one game more expensive than when they originally came out. nostalgia only goes so far.

>the still make brand new tiger handhelds

>>7924317
a lot of people shit on tiger handhelds, but from a technical standpoint, they are incredibly impressive. they were made to a price point, and they needed to make them as engaging as possible while trying to stay as close to the source material as possible. they then needed to design the mask rom using late 80s\early 90s tools. they are unironically an engineering marvel

>>7924317
The pinball or that ninja one. Can't remember the name of it. There's also a football one that is surprisingly deep in the gameplay. The super bowl one I think

>>7924317
The one in the trash

I had the Lion King one. Can anyone tell me what the shit this thing is supposed to be?

>>7924317 >>7924470
> Sonic the Hedgehog 2
DINOSAURS!

My mam couldn't afford a Snes with Street Fighter 2 when it fist came out (got one a christmas later though, I love my mam) so I saved up for the Street Fighter Tiger instead. It wasn't very good.

>>7925236

>>7925242
Just noticed how Guile, Ryu and Ken look like cosplaying builders from Essex. And Blank'as massive chuff. Brilliant.

>>7924317
TMNT

>>7924317
https://www.retrohandheldgames.com/tiger/wrestling-50

>tiger handheld BAD
>game & watch GOOD
Why?

>>7925338
Because Game and Watch came out in the 80s while Tiger handhelds were prominent in the 90s when technology was supposed to have moved forward.

>30 years ago
>tiger handhelds were the shitty fake games that the poor kid in class used to play instead of gameboy
>now
>OMG TIGER HANDHELDS SO NOSTALGIC

>>7925338
Game & Watch were actual games. Tiger handhelds were just cashgrabs and most had very little real gameplay.

>>7925384
That's exactly what nostalgia means fool.

>>7924317
My childhood is picrel

>>7925402
Tiger knew the LCD game era had already ended so the only way to make it sell was to make it a cash grab.

>>7925370
It's a shame the cheaper yet capable alternatives to the GB like the Mega Duck and Supervision were unpopular. We could have decent RPG games on those things.

>>7925432
>nostalgia
>[ no-stal-juh, -jee-uh, nuh- ]
>noun
>a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time
>something that elicits or displays nostalgia.

hmmm, nothing in there about being sentimental over shit that you hated at the time

>>7925464
>shit that you hated at the time

When I was a kid I could play shit for hours and still find it fun. Really wasn't until the internet and I could play any game ever created whenever I wanted that I got jaded and picky about what I played.

I used to have an hour long bus ride home. I remember the day I first beat this game. I was young, and I'm sure now it would be easy, but it was a major feat for me at the time.

>>7924317
The one that showed up in Babylon 5.

>>7924487
Wow, these are actually kinda cool and aren't limited by a single screen worth of stuff
Was this "technology" possible in the 90s at a low cost for a single system at whatever price they used to go at? I guess not

>>7925616
so, this is the power of replicators...

>>7924487
If only these things had ROM cartridges.

>>7924317
that girl is pretty cute

>>7925632
They actually probably does in some way?
The old 1 screen Tiger electronics ones would probably not be worth emulating and you'd have actually draw the overlay as the inside program probably just tells which part of the screen to light up
But these? They actually draw the whole sprites. They'd probably be worth emulating
But there has to be a chip that actually contains all the instructions or something

>>7925617
A lcd like that in bulk in 1998 would've only been a couple of dollars per unit. Very likely ran on some budget microcontroller. Cheap ROM/RAM chip with battery backup. Sold for $29.99, probably $25 of that was profit.

>>7925338
G&W games are fun, addictive, challenging in a satisfying way, have good art, good controls, and are in slick little (sometimes metal) cases

Tiger games play like garbage, look like trash, and have horrendous controls

>>7925650
>The old 1 screen Tiger electronics ones would probably not be worth emulating and you'd have actually draw the overlay as the inside program probably just tells which part of the screen to light up

Anon, I'm sorry to break this to you but the entire Tiger handheld library has been available via emulation for years.

>>7925660
Like actually emulated? Huh
Then are the Sonic and Crash one emulated too?

>>7925607
You could actually beat Tiger games? I thought they just looped forever in a perpetual high score chase

>>7925663
Yes, emulated. The ROM data was dumped, the processor was trivially emulated, and the displays/backgrounds/art were scanned and vectorized.

No idea about the 99X, wouldn't surprise me if MAME supports them.

>>7925675
Well, nice then

I had the Attack from Mars pinball handheld. Really cool art, and I played it for years even after getting the Game Boy Color. I think I was still playing it after getting the Advance SP.

There is apparently also a Pinbot version.

out of the way, losers, real video games coming through

>>7925689
I had one of these as a toddler

>>7925689
Looks like you'll be needing the fog lights.

>>7925689
weren't these like straight up analog? like a rotating cylinder with grooves in it to detect if you crashed or some shit?

>>7925445
The Ultimate Bathroom Buddy
>>7925708
Its been 30 years but iirc all you did was move side to side I don't remember obstacles or even turns. Though mine was a police motorcycle, and I can't find any evidence it exists outside of an old home movie I have yet to transfer

>>7925725
After years of searching I finally found evidence of an old Tiger game I have somewhere in a box, I have never seen any evidence of it existing on the internet but now one magically popped up on ebay. It had a very memorable tune that I'd pay the 9 bucks to hear again

Mega Man 2 is less garbage than many others

100% AUTHENTIC RETRO HANDHELD CONSOLE NEW HEAVILY USED $499 BOX ONLY [FOR REPAIR PARTS]

>>7924317
This and Bowling.

>>7924342
Couldn't be further from the truth.

>you will never be back in 2nd grade and it's raining so you're having lunch indoors and your bro pulls this bad boy out of his backpack and asks if you want to play it

why even live...

>the japanese even got better box art on their Tiger handhelds

>>7925773
>Sega's logo
>on a Tiger handheld
>based on a Konami video game
>for the NES

This or Tamagotchi

the original sports games like bowling, pinball,baseball were the only good ones. And the best single one was pic related

I have no idea if it was a tiger handheld, but I had one that was an actual dinosaur toy, looked like a robotic trex or something like that, with movable head and limbs, and it also had an lcd screen with a game with the same dinosaur. It was your generic lcd game, but the idea was pretty cool. I'm trying to find a pic but I'm not having much luck

the Bayou Billy LCD game is better than the NES game

Theyre fucking dog shit

>>7925384
I imagine it is fake nostalgia from people too young to have ever really experienced them. I had a couple in the 90s, and they were garbage, beyond the maybe 5 minutes of entertainment they provided. It would be like having nostalgia for the time you had the chicken pox.

they're not nostalgic for the tiger handheld, they're nostalgic for their childhood when the mere act of being alive wasn't pure suffering

>>7925939
So why choose to relive the painful moments of getting stuck with a shitty Tiger handheld that some friend's mom who didn't really know you grabbed as a last second gift at the drug store before dropping her kid off at your birthday party?

>>7925943
because they've already nostalgia'd over everything else, they're scrapping the bottom of the barrel

>>7925959
I would be interested to know how many people who are interested in these things nowadays are people who actually grew up with them. I'm a sentimental nostalgia whore, and even I can't bring myself to dig out and play my old Tigershit. Can't even remember which ones I had. I think they were things that lured me in based on the license and packaging art, but of course quickly disappointed me. I think it probably only took a couple before even dumbass little me figured out they were crappy cashgrabs meant to lure kids in with, well, what initially lured me in.

>>7925464
Dont be a faggot. Obviously shit you disliked as a kid you can look fondly back on as an adult and get a chuckle out of. But its alright, as a 9 year old you wouldn't know that yet.

>>7925782
to sell your shit in japan you either partner with a domestic corporation or you pay tariffs out the ass

>>7925930
The RadioShack brand multi-screen official Pacman lcd was great and as a kid was my first home version of it. The Nintendo Mini Classics line of Game&Watch titles were also very enjoyable.

>>7925943
>why choose to have nostalgia for the shitty old nes you played when you were 5 and not the amazing ps1 with better graphics you had as a teenager?

>>7925725
I remember a friend had one like this when I was a kid. Yeah, it wasn't a game, just a screen with some effects and a sprite you could move around.

>>7925782
Nips wouldn't know "Castlevania" or "Simon's Quest" had anything to do with any Konami games anyway, the game was titled Dracula 2 over there.

>>7925972
It's more the "holy shit I had this as a kid let me play it for 5 minutes to jog my memories" aspect. Same as the one you get when you look through some toddler picture book you had as a kid. It's not about the experience, it's about the memories the experience brings.

>>7926089
ya how would they ever make the connection from the box art

>>7926097
If anything they'd probably think it was a cheap knockoff.

>>7925686

How do you make an LCD pinball game? Wouldn't the ball graphic which has to basically be spread everywhere on the screen obstruct everything? Also very limited trajectories.

>>7925667

Yes, they were more sophiticated than it seems, they had actual levels and you could beat the game.
It would then play a fanfare and some elements would blink in celebration of your amazing victory.

>>7926115
>How do you make an LCD pinball game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FULN3CHLSP4

>>7924317
Batman

I still have this little qt lying around my parent's house. Doesn't work anymore but I don't have the heart to toss it out because it gives me so much nostalgia.

Thinking of pasting it to the wall in as an ambience collage once I get my new home soon.

>>7925242
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sZ9kjt7zY&ab_channel=ScottithGames

>>7926408
>"Fireballs and hurricane kicks are your weapons"
>tfw I can still remember a phrase from that ad 20+ years later
>still creeps in my mind randomly through-out the day

so the ad did it's job right?

>>7925930
I choose to believe this because it's funny.

>>7925907
The NES game is only shitty because they upped the difficulty way too much in the western release

>>7924327
FASTER

>>7925445
These kinds of casino games were okay. I had a slot machine one in the 2000s and it was good then, even.

>>7925930
>>7925930
>>7925930
Zoomer? Or was already too old when these were "popular"
It depends at which age you got 'em. Teenager? Yeah, these would suck ass for sure
3 to 9ish years old? You'd probably get some mileage out of them
I got an Aladdin one as a kid, played it a lot despite having a NES and Snes. I swear I accidently discovered a glitch that if abused, could actually max out the score, but I was never able to replicate it

Kind of unrelated but still LCD. Digimon vpets and digivices were the shit

>>7925235

>>7926646
I remember the Tamagotchi boom and how quickly they were banned in class lol
I got a Dinky Dino myself. Only managed to beat the game once during a summer vacation. It was a bitch to beat, the damn thing would change it's bed schedule each evolution
A few years ago, I saw the new Tamagotchis at Gamestop, but they were something ridiculous like 90$CAN. If they were half the price I probably would have bought one

>>7925689

Kinda looks like the Outrun Tiger LCD. Except at least that one is in full color.

I wanted the Afterburner one on the left when I saw in a Toy R' Us catalog as a kid mainly because of the neato case design.

>>7925464
rose colored glasses you absolute monkey

>>7926690
If he's the monkey, why can he articulate an argument for his opinion and you can't?

>>7925907
The Konami handhelds were so much superior to the Tiger counterparts.

As bland as the games were, they were nice to look at. Thought about maybe grabbing some on ebay just to have on a wall in my game room but hooooooo those prices.

What's /vr/ opinion on the Coleco tabletops? They looked kinda like the b&w Tiger handhelds but apparently they had full color screens. They had to be "table-top" instead of handheld because they needed a canopy to keep outside light from blocking the screen.

I thought of starting a collection for decorating my place but not sure if it's worth it at collector.

>>7926708
>quotes a literal word definition instead of being intelligent enough to comprehend context of a discussion

Where is this so called argument?

>>7926659
My grandma got me a dinky dino at a faire, day after my dumb ass dropped it in the toilet, con artist old lady went back and madeva stink claiming she bought 2 and they never gave her the 2nd. They caved and i still have that one all this time later.

>>7926716
had this, it was awesome. Cant believe I sold it as a kid

Tiger Stix were fun because they were made with the limitations of the medium in mind, and weren't based on existing franchises.

>>7924317

>>7925338

Tiger's games were far more ambitious than G&W (you can boil 90% of G&W titles down to beep-based rhythm games) but that ambition often made them unplayable. There's only so much you can do with a fixed LCD screen.

>>7927076
Probably why shit like Tamagotchi worked. The screen displayed what was needed, and not much more was really needed. Simple LCD could convey all that was needed to make it fun (or as fun as a simple always-on digital pet can be).

>>7927397
tamagotchi actually had a screen that displayed pixels like a game boy would, only the bottom and top menus were static LCD.

>>7925667


Beat is relative. There were levels, and you could get to the end. It would give you a win screen, then immediately launch you back to the beginning, but it atleast let you know that it won.

>>7927338
>he's nude under that
based

>>7924354
Yes... Yes... Only play the games with a high meta critic score and acclaim from game publications

>>7925851
this is the correct answer, Football and Baseball got me through some long car rides back in the day

>>7925773
I think even early on the american packaging was totally plastic, I don't remember boxes like that at all.

>>7925616
It's sort of unnerving to think that two of the three people in that shot are dead.

>>7924317
Gauntlet and Mario's Cement Factory

>>7926934
From what I remember of those things they were much superior to the tiger games, they were scaled down but still legitimately playable ports of the original games. They were cool little pieces of tech back when portable anything wasn't common, but they also were a little pricey compared to the dirt cheap LCD handhelds

I can't speak to their monetary value as collectibles now, but IMO the look is timeless since they're modelled on actual arcade cabinets. If you can find one at a reasonable price why the fuck not

>>7931202
Yeah I had MCF. Technically my first Mario game. FIRE was good too, my mom called it "Burning Babies". Later inspired Peter Puppy level in EWJ2

I think the fighting game ones where actually decent.

Picerel is actually fun


>>7926646
>>7926659
Digimon remake ones were like $20 or so at GameStop, same with tamagotchi

>>7931775
Why is the batter running to hit the ball?

>>7924327
Based Doug handheld