/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9642923
I had these

>>9642926
I had the two in the middle but I don't remember them much - I think my brother liked them both more than me. I liked some of the hand-me-downs from years before but I don't recall what they were distinctly..

>>9642923
I played this a lot as a kid

>>9642943
I remember playing this on a game and watch collection on the gba :)

I had this as a kid. As far as I can remember, it was a Crash Bandicoot-branded Frogger clone. Shit game, but you felt cool as hell wearing it.

>inb4 picture for ants
This is literally the only picture I could find of it. I was beginning to question my memory.

>>9642957
looks based

Technically not LCD but I also had one of these

>>9642923
>Everyone was a poor baby like me
lol. no.
>Surely some of them are good or even great.
No. There were a handful that were less shit than the rest.

>Tiger does a rerelease of their classics
>fucks it up this badly

>>9642923
If I had a quarter for every time I saw this thing in the last two days I'd have 75 cents but that's still more than I would expect to see.

>>9643170
I don't expect less from Tiger.

>even japanese tiger handhelds get superior boxes to western "anti-theft plastic deathtrap"
it's not fair...

As absolute dogshit as most of these were, I still have fond memories of them and loved them at the time.

Peter Pan, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and a Power Rangers one with card swiping were the most memorable ones.

>>9643205
I still have my copy of this
I had a Home Alone 2 handheld but some fuck stole it when I was in the 4th grade.
For what they are, simple battery operated time wasters, they're fine, especially back in a time before smartphones and digimons and pokemans. It just gets tiresome with every Tiger thread having the "lol poorfag garbage shit" posters, yeah OK, fuck off.

>>9642923
I had batman the animated series and street fighter 2. I don't have fond memories of either

A retro game convention I was at a few years ago had a game.com new in the box. I thought about getting it but passed it up. Did I make the right call or are they at least cool/interesting as a novelty?

I had a weird pink one where you controlled a car and had to dodge motorcycles while waiting for a hot air balloon to appear. No idea what it was called, ring any bells?

>>9642923
I use to play this

>>9642923
>Surely some of them are good or even great.
i never encountered one

You watch Dankpods too?

>>9644621
you didn't buy garbage so you made the right decision

GOAT

>>9643170
They had literally one job, to put the right sticker on the right unit.

>>9644361
>with card swiping
Any pics of this?

>>9642923
He-Man and Dungeons & Dragons by Mattel from the 80s is a slow dungeon crawl. Tiger's Gauntlet as well. As for RPGs, you need to wait until the 2000s which had some stuff like the MegaMan Battle Network P.E.T. lcd handheld, various Digimon devices and there is another that the name of current escapes me, but was pretty much a full on top down RPG on an LCD device where you build an alien monster and had wireless connectivity with other devices.

>>9642943
Game&Watch and similar G&W wannabes are the high-standard of LCD games. Late 90s/2000s was actually the next best era imo since you had more complex stuff that made sense without being Tiger tier over-ambition.

>>9642923 I had many of them
The Street Fighter II one was so shit that you could stun lock every opponent. I was hyped when I got that one for some reason...
I remember Simon's Quest being hard as fuck. I cherished My Sonic ones since I had them prior to getting a Game Gear.
Ninja Gaiden was garbage. Spider-Man actually wasn't bad.
I wanted those oversized TMNT ones so goddamn bad but never did get one.
I'm old enough to have actually had pic related when it was new. It was loud an obnoxious...not really an LCD game though but in the same vein.

>>9642923
Tigers money maker was Wheel of Fortune. They made a dozen different WoF games, plus they made a series of cart based WoF. Not to mention the late 80s system that had simulplay for synchronization with the broadcast. Of course, they made alot of other neat things.

>>9645678
He-Man and D&D are nearly the exact same LCD die with different plastic housing.

>>9645670
Iirc the cards did almost nothing, but I spent a lot of time looking at them, pretending they did cool stuff.

>>9644605
Simon's Quest was probably in the top 3 among Tiger handheld games, for whatever that's worth. I remember Gauntlet being terrible, Double Dragon being god awful, Mega Man 2 being above average, Shinobi being unironically good.

I'll at least give Tiger credit for at least trying to do more than most other lcd game devs that basically just turned everything into a juggling simulator.

>>9644659
i lied. they made this which is the GOAT

>>9644605
Racing, Sports, Gameshows, Gambling and Puzzles tend to be good. The other stuff is a mixed bag that tends to be bad.

>>9646481
>Racing
example?
>Sports
there has never been a good sports game, including irl
>Gameshows
because of the limited memory in these devices you're lucky to get a couple dozen unique questions
>Gambling
maybe if you're 70+ and need your slot machine fix between trips to Laughlin
>Puzzles
probably the most acceptable since the puzzle can be designed in such a way that the limitations don't matter and the opportunity for unique interfaces can actually benefit it over a general purpose device like a gameboy

>>9642923
I would cut up Pokemon cards to use as new backgrounds. So I had shit like Batman Forever where Batman was running from a giant Krabby.

I had this

>>9644361
>As absolute dogshit as most of these were
Indeed, I had a few, but the only one that I remember positively is Jurassic Park.

The Mega Man 2 game let you switch between weapons. Remarkably advanced for an LCD game.

>>9646314
Oh hey I had this when I was a kid. I used to really like licking the side of the cards for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRPLrdVch4

despite what the guy reviewing it says this one looks like a banger

>>9646798
>had
So you bought it on ebay and then sold it because it filtered you? Or you're actually a grown ass man who doesn't know the difference between VFD and LCD?

I had a tyger that was shaped like a stick and you wiggled one side to make a shark swim and turned the knob on the other to control him. Very addictive.

>>9647410
What does the doug button do???

>>9647440
The Tiger Stix were a high mark from Tiger since they were essential their Game&Watch. Simple yet unique games, the winning recipe it would seem for LCD games. Trying to square a full arcade or home game into these rarely if ever worked. The compact design also made them fun to collect.

>>9647462
Based Tiger history bro. I played mine shit ton. These werent trying to replicate actual handhelds so you werent let down by comparing it to gb or gamegear, it was its own man. Sturdy fucker too, I wiggled the hell outta that yellow knob, you'd think i would have snapped it at some point.

>>9647440
>I had a tyger that was shaped like a vibrator

>>9647751
Hopeless coomer.

>>9647751
I remember that game. It was one of the more interesting ones. Jokes aside, most of these were just about the packaging. It's easy to get a kid excited about a cool box/blister and board with a colorful plastic case. I might've had a higher opinion if I saw top tier G&W as a kid, but the Tiger games were almost all just the shit your parents got you because you already had a Sega and it's not Christmas and fuck you we just bought Sea Monkeys and Stretch Armstrong, kid. Daddy could've paid for a vasectomy by now. Ahem..
Something like that.

one that I remember enjoying was the ones you got from a cereal box, I forgot exactly which one it was, but remember it being a galaga/space-shooter clone, it was a xbox 360 promotion

>>9643170
>>PUT A LITTLE FENCE AROUND UT

>>9645713
It was a good fit for a Tiger game. If it can display digital clock lettering it can do Wheel of Fortune. I had this too and got a lot of playtime out of it for whatever it cost at the time

>>9642923
I had this one which was pretty fun for road trips

I'd say that Tiger should do a collection release on Steam, but these are all licensed IPs so I'm guessing whatever license they have wouldn't allow it

I pretended to like it because I would act like I liked everything my parents gave me whether I did or didn't

Had this one. Actually managed to git gud and finish it. But it took me a long time before I could figure the game out. I didn't really understand how it worked and the graphics weren't very clear. Don't know why there's a little speaker, there's no music just some bleeps and bloops. But the casing looks cool as fuck.

Had this. The controls were reversed iirc, don't know what happened there.

I was spending hundreds slowly restoring one. Then I found a brand new one on eBay for $30. It was called Lift Boat and I loved that game. There's a movie prop in the Fifth Element that had the same shape :D

>>9648120

>>9648085
I had the mario world one that also used the Super Mario Bros 4 logo. Problem is you need like a magnifying glass to play them and they suck compared to game&watch. Also had Zelda, StarFox and the only decent one, Tetris.

imagine if they kept pushing this tech, what would we have seen?

color tiger handhelds?

multilayered LCDs with distinct overlapping images?

full motion video?

>>9648194
What if they, get this, what if they replaced the characters/objects on the lcd with a grid of squares? Then you could approximate any shape you wanted by activating specific patterns of squares. If you made the squares smaller and added more of them you could create more and more detailed objects out of them. Think of all the crazy shit you could do.

>>9647767
projecting coomer

>>9648194
see >>9648204

>>9648204
Cant tell if sarcasm or ignorance.

>>9647442
It Dougs

>>9648204
>replacing these beautiful, smooth characters with disgusting blocky abominations

>>9648194
So basically the Nu Game & Watch? Oh yeah. I pray every day for more of those. The lack of convenience and/or pocketability with most other modern options is maddening. I just want something elegant and focused.

>>9648194
I think this was the pinnacle of this tech.

>>9648204
Tiger games worked because of the limited number of characters the screen could display. To do what you suggest would require a separate processor just to build images from all those blocks. A graphics processing unit, if you will.

>>9648124
>Lift Boat
Holy shit, that image unlocked a memory of having a car themed one as a child.

Soviet copies of Game&Watch were pure SOVL. Also I got to handle an actual Game&Watch (Super Mario Bros no less), came across Sonic 1 game from Tiger as well which was complete dogshit, both in gameplay and plastic quality. Chinese brick games were still the best bang for the buck though.

>>9648272
probably just chinese pop station garbage with cyrillic labels

>>9648282
Nah, it's actual stuff from the 80s, Elektronika brand. They even made some chess computers.

>>9644631
Still the only Spyro game I’ve played

>>9648259
I had a similar one: it also had a space invaders game on it and a boxing game, but the characters were built with those tetris squares, so the boxing game looked pretty abstract.

>>9646631
one button?

>>9648646
simple as

>>9642923
played a lot of sonic and terminator
They're not really great, but it's impressive to see how good they got with such limitations.

>>9642923
Pretty amazing how we collectively got fooled into wantintg the trash that were Tiger games. They looked cool and the commercials were on heavy rotation.

>>9648834
>wantintg
anon, nobody wanted a tiger handheld, they're just something you got because you asked for mega man and the dick at the toys r us told your parents that this is the mega man all the kids are crazy about

My favorite one was alien theme featuring 5 games or so, but 1 of which was far superior than the rest. It was a maze/sokoban game where you could push the walls to find your way out.

>>9642926
I worked at McDonalds at the time. Pretty sure I still have all of these in storage.

>>9648851
>Pretty sure I still have all of these in storage
Doubt they're worth anything. By the 90s everyone saw how much old collectibles from the 70s were going for and assumed it'd be the same for shit from their generation so they loaded up on Burger King golden pokemon cards and the like. Literally millions of them out there in mint condition.

What they should've been loading up on is CIB mint condition video games.

>>9648834
>>9648839
go shit up another thread faggots

>>9648839
True, I got mine as a present from my parents. Cheaper than a gameboy I guess.