The good LCD games

[Anonymous No.10238092]

ITT we talk about the more positive side of poverty gaming.

Post LCD handhelds that you actually enjoyed.

Picrel is a bomberman game from a line of Bandai keychains. There were a lot of conversions in this series. Crazy climber, and pac man also got keychains like this- and they’re pretty alright

What’s the best LCD game/conversion you’ve found? Typically puzzle games work the best, but I think it’s interesting when they try to do more action type games

[Anonymous No.10238102]

The beatmania pockets by Konami are pretty fun

They usually have around 10 ish songs, though they’re shortened.
They play just as you’d expect, and the audio quality is kinda passable in some of them. came in all sorts of versions too with different songs, or based on the beatmania spin-offs like ddr and guitar freaks

https://youtu.be/EPsHdUeo8qA?si=xtar_bosExPrQp3K

[Anonymous No.10238154]

>>10238092
I have this one, a yellow Pacman handheld and one SegaSonic game where you need to dodge the rockets.

Bomberman is fantastic for an LCD game. They gave their best to "port" original game to this tiny thing, even gave it a save function.
Others aren't half bad either.

I really wish I could get that elusive Sonic Adventure handheld by Tiger, it's probably their magnum opus. Catching a mythical beast would be easier though, it's incredibly rare and expensive.

[Anonymous No.10238156]

This thing was my entertainment while on the shitter for a long time. Served me well. I miss you sudoku lcd game

[Anonymous No.10238158]

>>10238092
Shame LCD games died around that time, or at least, almost none of the better ones were widely available in the west. The non-single screen ones actually looked kinda cool and actually had more possibilities

[Anonymous No.10238165]

>>10238154
Holy shit what the fuck???????

https://youtu.be/KCr8ybaHpmE?si=fJCyYFqMixLjwmcf

I never knew this thing existed holy balls that’s so stupid I fuckin love it

[Anonymous No.10238185]

>>10238154

[Anonymous No.10238212]

Japan seems to have gotten the better end of the deal with these things.
When tamagotchi got popular the whole genre of “little keychain games” got real popular again

Things like pocket dungeon actually kick ass. It’s a mix between a tamagotchi and a mini RPG. It’s got multiple episodes, and floored dungeons, and even multiplayer battles.

[Anonymous No.10238223]

>>10238212
https://youtu.be/gXS4ALc1ulE?si=Tzibrr9fhbJs3e9D

Here’s a bit of gameplay, it’s a genuine real bideo game.

Each chapter has exclusive monsters ala Pokémon, which you can capture and use in battle. You can trade them too if I remember right.

I’d love if Konami put these on mobile or something. It’s an awesome time killer game

[Anonymous No.10238236]

>>10238212
>>10238223
This is cool as shit. Very disappointed we got stuck with the basic ass Tamagotchis more or less and didn't get the actual cool shit. Tamagotchi are nice and all but they take over your life or you end up constantly pausing them, that's kind of really not fun

[Anonymous No.10238250]

>>10238236
Its not too bad, you can always just buy these things secondhand and try them that wa- oh they’re like $100 nevermind

Actually messed up it’s a keychain it shouldn’t be $100

[Anonymous No.10238259]

>>10238223
I remember how one of my classmates in 1st elementary grade got a fancy tamagotchi with a mini-game where knight fights dragon with a sword.
I was super envious of him and constantly asked to give it to me to play for a little bit. I myself only had very basic one with cat.

That shit was cool in its own right.

[Anonymous No.10238278]

>>10238212
Tamagotchi has become really popular in Japan again thanks to this new recent version Bandai released called Tamagotchi Uni. IIRC it's pretty technologically advanced compared.

[Anonymous No.10238285]

>>10238278
I saw some recent ones at Gamestop. Green Witch something and another Pink one, but they were close to freaking 100$. They were nice full color however, but is that really what I want? I just want a nice little cool toy, that's all
They also re-released Gen 1 and 2 and all of the anime/characters spin-off ones are apparently just clones of these, so it's just lame

[Anonymous No.10238298]

>>10238092
Behold, the only good one.
>knob rotates the plastic tank
>shoots where it's aimed
Shit was magic.

[Anonymous No.10238316]

>>10238298
Tiger did some light gun game conversions, im pretty sure you can only shoot in the 4 corners. They suck lmao. I tried it and it didn’t even work

[Anonymous No.10238376]

The whole resurgence of lcd games from tamagotchi is what got us the VMU, and the pocketstation, which felt like the natural evolution of the doodads.

But then the Dreamcast did it’s whole bit with getting discontinued after 2 years. And then it was basically over it feels like

I think maybe this is an actual case of early phone games taking over the market of cheapo casual games like these.

[Anonymous No.10238383]

This guy is cool, it’s a dragon quest slime tamagotchi.
It has a pedometer in it, so you travel the game’s map by choosing a direction and then walking in real life

It’s cute and fun. Japan only though of course

[Anonymous No.10238429]

BEHOLD

the tokimeki compact friend park

https://youtu.be/MPZvvcfn-EE?si=lRDEMUDu_rgmVcso

[Anonymous No.10238453]

Still have this one.

[Anonymous No.10238457]

[Anonymous No.10238481]

>>10238453
FOR ADULTS

uh oh I bet it’s got tits in it

[Anonymous No.10238483]

>>10238092
I have a buddy in Japan who sometimes post up random stuff on eBay, he posted one of these keychain games for I want to say over 80. I guess there are some super sought after ones even in Japan?

[Anonymous No.10238509]

True poverty gaming

[Anonymous No.10238540]

>>10238509
PSP HAS GAME

[Anonymous No.10238548]

>>10238509
This fucking thing right here has brought me more joy back in 2000 than Game Boy or PSP could ever bring.

I remember just sitting on the balcony of our house, reading magazines and playing this over and over for HIGH SCORE.
Did it for about two weeks then water inside evaporated. Damn that planned obsolescence.

[Anonymous No.10238551]

Picrelated was also good

[Anonymous No.10238880]

Vpet where you feed him by sticking the end of the Vpet into real life food

[Anonymous No.10238917]

>>10238092
terminator by tiger is good. I love a number of game and watch games, especially squish.

[Anonymous No.10238923]

>>10238154
damn, sonics laughing at your broke ass when you even consider wanting to buy it. tiger was a cold cold company

[Anonymous No.10238927]

>>10238250
entropy is a bitch

[Anonymous No.10238940]

I like this one

[Anonymous No.10238949]

>>10238092
Digimon Vpets and Digivices were my shit

[Anonymous No.10238957]

>>10238548
Why didn't you just refill it?

[Anonymous No.10238973]

>>10238949
favorite digivice?

[Anonymous No.10238989]

>>10238548
that's strange, the water in these things usually lasts quite a few years until there isn't enough. Maybe that one was especially cheaply made, you left it in the sun too much or playing with it a lot makes it evaporate faster
>>10238957
Not possible for these, most of 'em aren't made to refill. You'd have to break 'em, then you probably couldn't close them as nicely again. Also it's not just water in these I think

[Anonymous No.10239186]

This is probably my favorite game&Watch. fast paced, addictive yet simple. Its a shame they never added it to any of the G&W gallery collections.

[Anonymous No.10239196]

Tamagotchi were cool when I was like 5
Also the tails happy meal toy from McDonald's was the best one from that promo

[Anonymous No.10239216]

[Anonymous No.10239364]

>>10238092
technically not /vr/ but come on it's a remake of the original and even connects with the original.

[Anonymous No.10239384]

Monopoly is a rather complicated game so it's super impressive that they got it to work on a machine like this. You can do almost anything you can do in the actual board game in this. Had it as a kid, bought it from a resale shop in the 2000s with some Genesis games since I had gotten a Genesis at a yard sale (It had Sonic 1, Sonic 2, NBA Jam, and Zombies ate my Neighbors, so I think I did pretty good.) lost it and recently bought another one from Ebay.

[Anonymous No.10239529]

>>10238165
this is oddly ambitious...

[Anonymous No.10239579]

LCD Casino games were always good time wasters on the toilet

[Anonymous No.10239676]

I bought pic related a few months ago and still play it from time to time. I also have an LCD Pac-Man game I bought sometime last year. They aren't bad as long as you have enough light to see the screen I guess

[Anonymous No.10240287]

i played the shit out of this in the 90s. the racing games were kinda based

[Anonymous No.10240295]

also had this one, was surprisingly good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiY_AVLA6wg

[Anonymous No.10240302]

>>10239579
Still have my Caesars palace blackjack from the early 90s, should slap some batteries in that bitch and hear those sweet voice samples.

[Anonymous No.10240456]

>>10238185
oh hey I have that thing. you made me think it was some rare item but it sells on ebay for about twenty bucks.

[Anonymous No.10240480]

>>10239384
Things like this are really neat. There's something cozy about a giant game being reduced to a single handheld with no loss in playability.

[Anonymous No.10240489]

>>10238453
>game for adults
>misspells genius right on the box
I hope someone got fired over that blunder

[Anonymous No.10240653]

This guy is cool

[Anonymous No.10240680]

its just pinball

[Anonymous No.10240708]

>>10240680
Did you enjoy it?

[Anonymous No.10240813]

this thread caters to my interests

[Anonymous No.10240825]

>>10240295
I used to cut out Pokemon cards to put in the background of these because the card art was somehow the perfect size to fit. I had a Batman one with a crabby I used to pretend he was running away from

[Anonymous No.10240830]

>>10238973
As a kid it was the american black D3. I used to carry mine everywhere. I wish still had it and I wish I had the crazy toy only colors with transparent plastic and the terriermon colored one.

[Anonymous No.10240834]

>>10240830
Look at this shit

[Anonymous No.10240839]

>>10240834

[Anonymous No.10240843]

>>10240489
I know you’re just pretending to be retarded, but if I remember correctly, the original Trivial Pursuit set is called Genus and it has additions like Genus 2, Genus 3 etc. and ”The Best of Genus” includes questions from multiple Genus sets.

[Anonymous No.10240858]

>>10240825
Soulful

[Anonymous No.10241520]

>>10240830
>>10240834
>>10240839
It really pisses me off that the 20th/X are super cheap even when they were full price, but the re-release of this was around a fucking 100.

[Anonymous No.10241638]

>>10238298
literally infinite fps and real time lighting

[Anonymous No.10241646]

>>10238880
the fuck

[Anonymous No.10241678]

>>10239364
ill connect your original, you little shit

[Anonymous No.10241705]

>>10241646
yeah that sounds like a bad idea

[Anonymous No.10241810]

>>10241705
Its a little weird but the end pops off and is dishwasher safe. Lol

[Anonymous No.10241819]

>>10241810
Sounds a tad better then, they actually thought this out

[Anonymous No.10242540]

>>10240480
well there are losses, but they're super minor

[Anonymous No.10243339]

How is it that in the 80s, Nintendo perfectly understood how to make playable and fun games out of LCD screens- but then over 10 years later tiger somehow managed to screw the pooch time and time again.

I wanna talk to the people who actually designed the tiger games.

I wanna know if they genuinely did not give a shit about them, or if maybe they were trying their best under crappy circumstances

[Anonymous No.10243346]

>>10238092

This thing got me thru so many detentions

[Anonymous No.10243992]

>>10238212
If only Konami actually made anything anymore.

Speaking of Konami, I used to have Picrel. It had Tetris on it.

Idk what Tetris has to do with yugioh though lmao

[Anonymous No.10244381]

>>10243992
Explain this

[Anonymous No.10244395]

[Anonymous No.10244421]

>>10238185
way past cool

[Anonymous No.10244429]

>>10243346
This was actually decent for the time.

[Anonymous No.10244445]

>>10244381
>licensed by Nintendo
what in the fucking world? is this a bootleg?

[Anonymous No.10244528]

>>10243339
More like they were overly ambitious in trying to adapt as much as they could of the original games to the LCD format where as earlier Game&Watch and similar clones were based around a simple premise.

[Anonymous No.10244545]

>>10244445
Nope. Nintendo Mini Classics were re-releases of many Game&Watch titles, but they also had a couple new LCD games as well based on things like YuGiOh, Spiderman and Star Trek. I dont think anyone internally at Nintendo developed these however, since these had multiple distributors around the world making them that apparently have small differences between versions, so im assuming whichever regions got the rights to these new IPs were the ones designing the new games, though they are all still fully liscened by Nintendo.

I collect these and this YuGiOh one funnily enough I found at a thrift store by my house, where 5mins prior while walking there I was thinking about this very specific game.

The gameplay from what I remember, was you avoiding the blue eyes white dragons fireballs while you collected cards that would appear so you could power up your dark magician and then shoot back against your opponent.

Another interesting note of the Nintendo Mini series, its the only time Nintendo has ever officially re-released the Super Mario Bros. Game&Watch, since it has never shown up in any G&W Gallery or similar compilation.

[Anonymous No.10244547]

>>10244445
>>10244545
Actually, my mistake, looking at that picture again, it looks like this is a different YuGiOh game then the one I have, so there are at least 2 different games in this line using this IP.

[Anonymous No.10244569]

This was pretty neat
>steering wheel
>rumble
>normal racing and sort of a demolition derby mode
>multiple tracks
>minimap in the left corner
>upgrades which you got by winning races
>autosave

[Anonymous No.10244573]

>>10244545
I bought the SMB game & watch and unfortunately was quite disappointed. It's kind of a really poor LCD game, should've gotten any others

[Anonymous No.10244651]

>>10244573
Smb game and watch is sorta just worse squish desu

[Anonymous No.10244672]

>>10244573
*I mean for those keychain releases
>>10244651
Oh yeah, I looked it up and Squish definitively looks like the better game here. Reminds me of Devil's World actually

[Anonymous No.10244680]

>>10238383
>fat fingers with painted nails
why both? it's like putting a pig in a dress: entirely pointless unless it's for a joke

[Anonymous No.10244818]

>>10244547
actually, actually, correcting my mistake again after looking into it, upon further looking into that YuGiOh game posted, there is only just the one game. For some reason looking at that picture at first made me think it was a platformer.

[Anonymous No.10244835]

>>10244573
As far as G&W games are concerned, its actually pretty innovative, especially for the time. How long did you play it for? It actually has a full set of different stages as you progress before you get harder loops. For the time, I dont think any other LCD game came close, especially not from competitors. The fact they even attempted to squash down a SMB type experience for G&W is pretty neat.

I do get what you mean by it being like Squish though, there is a general theme of avoiding walls and obstacles and as far as an avoiding shit game, I do enjoy Squish much more. Id fucking stab a bitch through to get a Crystal Screen version of it.

[Anonymous No.10245213]

>>10238383
Been thinking of buying one of these but the prices on them have put me off on picking one up. Are they worth playing?

[Anonymous No.10245235]

>>10243339
>durrr, how do Japs, the undisputed kings of vidya, make better handheld game than stupid goy company???

[Anonymous No.10245413]

>>10245213
Arukuntbh is one of my favorite virtual pets. If you aren’t looking for version 2 or the remake they’re usually somewhat affordable, should be able to get a nice one for around $20 if you look around

Though that might entail importing one from yahoo or something, which has its own cost associated with it..
The map system is really unique compared to other raising mechanics on other Vpets. It’s not just about how many steps you take, but specifically where you go and hang out in the virtual map that affects the kind of things you’ll see.
There’s a lot of game to get out of them, like I said it’s one of my favorites. If you can one for a decent price ($30 ish for a V1, $50ish for a V2 or returns) I’d say go for it. It’s a Vpet I play at least once every few months

[Anonymous No.10245439]

>look up 'Tamagotchi Uni' because of thread
>every single review is a tranny
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

[Anonymous No.10245449]

>>10238156
how long do you need to spend on the shitter? do americans really?

[Anonymous No.10245459]

>>10238383
is that.. IS THAT A FEMALE GIRL???

>It has a pedometer in it, so you travel the game’s map by choosing a direction and then walking in real life
sounds like a recipe for walking into motor traffic like the pokemon go zombies

[Anonymous No.10245461]

>>10245459
>is that.. IS THAT A FEMALE GIRL???
Nope, man with nail polish.

[Anonymous No.10245480]

I had fun with Tamagotchi as a kid in the 90s. Virtual pets tend to work because they're simple things which don't promise more than what they can deliver guven the limitations, unlike some of the Tiger handheld games which latched onto big licenses and tried to present gameplay which didn't really work.

[Anonymous No.10245561]

>>10243346
i miss LCD wrist games, i want them back

[Anonymous No.10245580]

>>10245413
Thanks for the recommendation! The map thing does sound neat. Will look into it.
>>10245439
I actually just got a Uni the other day. Been enjoying it so far. One thing that seems like a missed opportunity is that, even though the Uni has WiFi support, the feature where you invite or visit someone else's tamagotchi is still in-person only. Pretty disappointing. At least with the previous interaction, the tamagotchi pix, you could invite/visit other people's tamas using QR codes.

[Anonymous No.10245582]

>>10245580
I'm not buying it, you faggot shill. Just know that literally every single YouTube review was a tranny. Where does that leave you?

[Anonymous No.10245594]

>>10245582

[Anonymous No.10246301]

Digimon is my shit. Did you know you can battle the Vpets with the wonderswan games?
You can even trade em

[Anonymous No.10246346]

>>10246301
I only have the anniversary digivices and vpets that cant do that anymore sadly

[Anonymous No.10246435]

>>10245582
>Not buying it
>Shills for his and every other kektube channel
Nuce try eceleb cuck. Not gonna listen to your sqeaky soi infused voice while you play your tamoGAYchies

>>10246301
Arent these still a thing?

[Anonymous No.10246595]

>>10246346
I’m pretty sure the anniversary digivices work actually.

[Anonymous No.10246609]

>>10245580
Saw this and thought of you anon

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/1102329132

[Anonymous No.10246612]

>>10246609
Oh wait the clip is broke nevermind

[Anonymous No.10247016]

>>10246609
>>10246612
Thanks anon. I probably won't be buying one right now as I've got other shit going on, but I do appreciate the link. Had no idea they came in purple either. A broken clip probably wouldn't be a deal breaker for me, could probably just make another out of metal or some shit.

[Anonymous No.10247362]

There’s a lost art to these handhelds

Most of them were running on 4 bit CPUs, with rom sizes in the range of the smallest Atari games

dungeon quest for example has only 4K of rom.

LCD games with fixed displays came in ever lower spec. Without graphics data to store, game and watch games came in sizes less than a kilobyte.

Coding games in only a few hundred words of data is so impressive to me
You don’t see 4 bit computing being used for games anywhere else.
The rest of the game computing world went from fixed logic to 8 bit machines the moment we stepped away from pong.

Idk I just think it’s neat

[Anonymous No.10247478]

>>10240287
I remember getting one of these brick games from an ice cream van (I think the idea was that you got one for free when you bought a whole lot) and it was about the size of those G&W keychain things. I already had a GBC back then but the racing game and what seemed like a Battle City clone were really fun.
Later on they gave away some pinball LCD things (same shell and all) which were not as fun. After that I was a bit disappointed they just gave you a Super Mario Sunshine t-shirt instead of games before going out of business.

>>10247362
>Idk I just think it’s neat
I agree. I can't claim to understand game dev too much (I dabbled in some "game maker programs" and Visual Basic a bit, but everything more complicated went over my head), but I'm still amazed they did so much with so little. The brick game I mentioned earlier in my post was absolutely primitive at the time (late 90s/early 2000s) but still managed to be as engaging as some of the Gameboy titles. I've often seen people say limitations bring about creativity, and it seems truer the more years pass.

[Anonymous No.10247564]

>>10247362
Of all the kickstarter shit to come about in the past 10 years, I cant believe nothing (that im aware of) has been done to attempt to create a series of new LCD games. Tiger brought back some of their old stuff a few years ago, so its not like the "art" or knowledge of making them is lost. I think those mini-arcade cabinets that have full roms on them like Asteroids or Dragon's Lair have probably filled that niche of the nostalgia seeker market that would be interested in new LCD stuff. Though I guess Bandai keeps it alive to an extent with Digimon and Tamagotchi.

Hell, even just a game that attempts to imitate the basic, simple nature of this stuff would be neat to see. I know Kingdom Hearts 3 of all things had a couple Game&Watch style mini games thrown in it.

[Anonymous No.10247605]

>>10247564
I can’t even count how many virtual pet open source hardware projects exist. I see them crop up all the time but WITHOUT FAIL they get a recreation of a version 1 tama, and then never touched again by the creators, or any would be developers.

[Anonymous No.10249110]

>>10244395
cozy

[Anonymous No.10249137]

>>10244395
Id play it