Someone made a horror indie g Game out of it. It was on steam you played this Think monkey LCD game then a Monster appears. Then that junk happens in real life In your house.
These were my first lesson in buyer's remorse. I remember acquiring enough cash in 1980s dollars as a child to buy a crappy Ghosts n' Goblins handheld Tiger cart...$20 may have well been $1,000,000 in both the way my brain processed money and because of inflation now...but then I had to learn about something called "tax" and still needed to save a *little* bit more for a *little* bit longer to cover it. After months of setting aside the equivalent of my life savings, I got my parents to take me back to the toy store where I had seen one to buy it. And it was the worst piece of shit ever. I every bit of money thrown away on something with the graphics of a calculator. It looked nothing like the game I played on my buddy's Nintendo down the street. The idea I could hold something like that in my hands eventually, the disappointment felt upon having it, and just how long it took to earn & save...there was a lesson in there. And even worse: it took batteries.
Hearing about technically there being an official Mortal Kombat fighting game without Scorpion and Sub-Zero makes me double take on being in the correct universe.
@@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is the equivalent of that game with all of its DLC like they do with "Komplete Editions" now. I always counted that as well as Mortal Kombat 1 still having Sub-Zero despite not being Kuai Liang. The electronics games here though are just blunt in not having them, so that threw me off guard.
Today's kids will never know how lit it was to be driving at night with your mom in the 90s and see how lit up block buster and Hollywood video was man seeing all those bright lights at night just hit different back then 😢
There was also the Tiger LCD system with removable 'cartridges' called the R-ZONE which has 2 Virtua Fighter games, 2 Mortal Kombat games, Primal Rage, and more importantly Toshinden. Might be worth a future Part 2 episode. Edit: On second thought capturing footage for it would probably be like pulling teeth lmao
Coincidently, many subjects you covered in your channel remind me of my late mother. Anyway, around 2003 when I visit a CD/DVD store in the middle of my town, I saw a bunch of Gameboy cartridge display in glass in that store. I instantly had attention at the Megaman Zero 1 cartridge due to the cover on it with Zero hold saber, I know instantly it's Megaman stuff and Megaman was the things I ended up growing playing the most back then. My town was small, and it was at the end of my country, so accessibility to hardware, software were always limited to some very specific stores around the town. That being said, it's a miracle to see something like that in such a small and lesser known place like my town. Of course, I couldn't afford to get a Gameboy, so every time I visit the store, I look at the cartridge again and again, and Zero was there to look at me in his badass pose as well. Of course, as a kid I tend to tell my mom what I like, but I keep very little details to the story. My mom remembered the term "Gameboy" however, my mom was a victim of war in the past, aging and living in a time when she disconnected from advancement of the world as technology keep getting better every day. She only approached internet by some of the last years of her life. That didn't stop her from hearing me though, on a trip with her friends, she visited a remote marketplace which is some of the biggest market where there are plenty of goods from overseas being imported through the borders illegally and legally. What I assume is that she asked someone about a gameboy despite not knowing how it looks and what on earth does it do, she assumed it's a toy. Eventually, she brought home what she thought was the thing that I wanted. The moment I saw it, I know it's not a gameboy and despite my age at the point, I know my mom has been bamboozled, and that thing right there is a knock-off device from China. That being said, I was well raised by my parents. I learned to appreciate before complain. I accept the gift from her, saying thanks and then went in the back of my house, started to open the bootleg device. She bought 4 cartridges along with the device, I was huge, almost like a PS Vita and at that time the packaging and the device itself is impressive for the size and the quality of packaging. It was a KO of Tiger Electronics stuff. There was one of the cartridge I remembered having a Fallout 2 cover on it, I didn't know it was fallout at that time. I turned on the device with some spare batteries around the house, putting in a cartridge, and oh boy, having blessed by Playstation at that point, I knew terrible graphic when I saw one. The screen despite being big, was terrible with only black and gray on background, no sound, and the static image on the screen was terrible as well with how limited the movement is, I had been spoiled with PS1 so this is without a doubt, a straight downgrade. Anyway, I tried all of the cartridges, and you guessed it, there's a bloody fighting game in one of those 4 cartridge. It was crappy, I tell you, I can't remember how specifically bad it was, but I recalled not to have anything nice to say about it either. It was pretty much you control one character on the left side, fight the other character using 2 buttons on the right of the device. The fight doesn't end, and the score will increase infinitely. I tried it for a couple of hours before giving up, leaving it on the side. The device I believe is still in the storage of my mom's house. I have nothing nice to say about the device, but I can say that my mom deeply cared about me, and she paid attention to what I adore, and she did try her best to provide what I wanted within her grasp. Again, she didn't have much to begin with. All I can say is that I was well-raised enough to appreciate her for her efforts on the day she bought me that "gameboy" instead of yelling and screaming like some spoiled brats. It was fun memory, I recalled it today when watching this video and honestly it was some of the best memory I've ever had with my mom.
The thing you have to take into account is that technology was mainly for games where you move left and right to Dodge or catch things, and that goes on until you lose. They managed to cram 6 different characters + 2 bosses AND fatality in there.
I played both the SF II and MK II Tiger Electronics game lol. I never thought I would see footage of those old games again lol. I remember excited to play a portable version of those games. Since I didn't have money to own a Game Boy back then. I'm glad you made a video of those games here. Crazy nostalgia trip.
so I did a quick google search to see if SNK had any tiger electronics games, only to instead end up being cursed with the knowledge that there's a pit-fighter LCD game
I had the Tiger Area 51 lightgun handheld they also made, and I did actually find that one to be shockingly responsive for the expectation that anything Tiger is just hot, hot trash. I had fun with it for 5 minutes maybe 1-3 times. I also had MK3 for the Tiger R-Zone, which was another Tiger "console" with interchangeable cartridges, but it basically was the same tech as the LCD handhelds, but lit up in bright red projected onto a plastic panel in front of one of your eyes. Basically trying to be a bootleg cheap monoscopic version of the Virtual Boy, wayyy overestimating the mid-'90s market for VB interest. MK3 was basically an identical experience to the MK1 or SFII you showed but with MK3 characters.
I remember that when I was a kid, I had a weird type of bootleg tiger console which looked like a f-22 fighter which played games by introducing small cartridges on it, and one of them was a copy of The King of Fighters 97 or 98, I don't remember much about it besides the fact that iori yagami and either kyo kusanagi or terry bogard appeared on it, and also that it was really bad and not as fun as the real game.
I actually had the Mortal combat one of these as a kid. It "worked" but it was only worth using if I didn't have pretty much any other option. It was a novelty toy at best.
I think the difference between those who hated these, and those who love them, are if you got your first Tiger Handheld before the Game Boy (or the Nintendo for that matter) was a Thing. I LOVED my Tiger Handhelds. Baseball, Football, Pinball, even some of the actual-game-based ones like Castlevania and Jordan vs. Bird. No, they were never as good as consoles, but if you grew up with them and knew what to expect, they did a damn good job of keeping this 7-year-old occupied during the car ride to Granny's.
As a kid I liked the tiger lcd games. If there was a popular kids tv show, cartoon or movie there was likely a tiger game for it. I liked the simple, arcade-like, gameplay that worked for killing some time on the bus. The art on most of them wasn't bad either - bright and colorful, with candy-colored like buttons. They could be had for pretty cheap, and were pretty collectable. Mind you, this was in the late 80s to early 90s. When the Gamecom came out it was in the later half of the 90s. Even though it had things like a calendar and email, internet use was already pretty common through things like Netscape and AoL. It was marketed towards kids anyway, so those internet and office features were pretty unnecessary - it needed to be about the games. It was a huge misstep for it to have grayscale graphics since we've already had the Lynx, Game Gear, and the Gameboy Color was coming out around that time. I was working at a toy/video game retail chain at the time and we could not sell these things. They were expensive because of those unnecessary internet features and the games looked inferior to what other handhelds offered. Its game library was pretty limited too. Its "best games" were not exclusive but ports of far better versions (Duke Nukem, Fighters Megamix, Resident Evil 2...). And, like I said, the price point was awful. These games were not much cheaper than their console counterparts.
1:20 Y'know, the funniest thing about the art on the Tiger Electronics SF2 handheld is that it was done by Mick McGinty (R.I.P.), who also drew the American boxart for SF2 on the SNES and Genesis. He's done artwork for plenty of North American home consoles releases back in the '90s.
The one Tiger fighting game I had was Primal Rage. If I remember correctly all the characters where playable and it was a fairly solid game. As solid as a Tiger game could be anyway. I remember using so many batteries on it but always had a big ol smile playing it. Was crushed when the buttons broke. RIP my Primal Rage Tiger, you made a childhood pretty cool.
It’s sooooo sad! I use to have a couple of these (lion king, Aladdin, Soccer and others) I use to think that these were the best hand held games, I think I would lie to myself because my mom couldn’t offered any other games. 😅
I remember getting the tiger Virtua cop and area 51 games for Christmas. They were actually pretty fun for what they were and this is after experiencing both the actual arcade versions of those games.
I had another MK Tiger game as a kid. It was ok for what it was. Fatalities were done the same way and turnerld them to bones and dust with a skull. The game also had a card system you could swipe before each fight to do everything from instant kills, to adding score, to weakening you
I had so many of these, and so many of them were absolute ass. There were definitely one or two that were actually kind of cool. I remember Contra being pretty difficult and unbeatable.
I accidentally scheduled the new vid for JP time cause I'm on vacation & uploaded earlier than I wanted it to. I rescheduled it quickly but by doing so I fucked up the initial push YT gives a new vid. Very stupid mistake 😔 Thank you for checking it out regardless!
Have you heard of the R-Zone? It was another thing by tiger electronics that was essentially one of these LCD games, but with interchangeable cartridges. There were some "fighting games" on that (and Panzer Dragoon). I wonder how different they were to the regular tiger LCD version, I could only find a commercial after a brief search, no actual gameplay
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I remember these in the stores back in the day. One thing I noticed is that the earlier games they came out with (Pinball, Baseball, Bowling) were pretty okay for the price, but the games based on a license (Starting with Double Dragon) were when they started becoming...well "Tiger Handhelds". Thay said, they did come out with some great versions of Pinbot and Attack from Mars pinball machines in the late 90's. And when I was a kid, I did try to make Coleco style arcade machines out of them using a shoebox and a Print Shop created marquee.
I didnt grow up with it or anything, but about a decade ago I received a Gamescom with Mortal Kombat from my grandparents who had randomly come across it at a garage sale. I could hardly play it, but outside of its use as a game system it was interesting to see the different features such an old device had included.
I had a few Tiger handheld games. None of the fighting games, but X-Men and this NInja one that I remember. They were ok enough to pass some time. Thank God for Game Boy. That was one of the best portable gaming devices ever designed.
It’s just strange to see these awesome fighting games, and turn them into a Tiger Electronic Handheld. I mean which one you’ll prefer a calculator of the games or the console ports.
Nice Video ! Although they were really cheap and mostly crappy,they were kinda cool back then.Also the BOX art was usually cool and most of us would be drawn to buy one of these just from the Art and the Boxes Alone.
Just wanted to recommend you try the J2ME fighting games such as Tekken Mobile, Soul Calibur Mobile, G Gundam Ultimate Knight, SF2 New Challengers,UMK3 mobile,Virtua Fighter 3D Mobile,SF Alpha and Medieval Combat. Some have terrible controls, others mimic their arcade ports very well or even run at 60fps with air combos (Gundam). Java was an amazing platform, and the best versions of the games above are the 240x320 versions as j2me games went by screen resolution and the bigger ones were for beefier devices
@@GuileWinQuote thank you! The Gundam one is my favorite, also it has unlockable characters if you beat the story modes with rank s on all matches with all characters (you can play on easiest and savescum too)
Yesssss! You know I had some tigers. I was obsessed with street fighter so my dad got the tiger version for me. I played it to death. We didn’t know any better back then
I had the tiger street fighter game when it came out. The secret to getting priority attacks and *ahem* combos is timing. You want to strike as soon as your opponent has finished one of their own moves, not try to beat them to it unless it’s a hadouken. Once you land a hit the opponent gets i frames, so you have to time it so you hit them as soon as they are done flashing and you can get like three consecutive, unanswered hits in.
I still have my two MK tiger games I bought many many years ago. It still works and yeah it's still ass. But I love it 😂💚 Hopefully you do a java fighting games video. I recently downloaded J2ME emulator and got MK3 for java and street fighter. Those games are hilarious. Definitely consider review those.
now that we know how to play fighting games on the go, the logical next step is how to play fighting games without electronics at all (getting into fights in real life)
Man, there was a Mortal Kombat 3 that had a little light that pop out. I'm not sure if it tried to do some "3D effect" for the background. Sad not seeing that one referred in your video. These handheld thingies were baaaaad but for us low income families it was the best thing ever 😅
I had the Virtua Fighter tiger game. I actually though it had the best music of any tiger game I'd played (unless you count Sonic Pocket Arcade). I had fun playing it . Cool to hear it's not dumped in some sense since I've played it. My brain never tried to identify Jacky as Jacky. I just thought his head was on fire
Just to let you know, the reason why Tiger Virtua Cop apparently didn't work is because you need to aim and shoot at the red pad under the screen, the one under the yellow text that says "HIT!"
I always was given my older cousins toys when they outgrew them. That's how I ended up with a GameCom but no carts. The thing was a PDA/solitaire machine. Not as cool as when I inherited their Genesis with a CD and 32X.
A few years ago I decided to buy a secondhand Gamecom, and when I got it, the screen didn't work. I could turn it on, load the game and hear the sound effects, but nothing would ever show up on the screen. That's the extent of my experience with the Gamecom. It was somehow even more of a hunk of junk than I was expecting from it.
as a kid i asked for, and received, a game com, neo geo pocket color, and a cybiko. my child instincts were supernaturally attuned to failed handheld devices it seems. for the first and third of those i just knew from the marketing material they had some kind of internet capability and the idea of that blew my mind, not that i was ever able to take advantage of it. i only had two games for the game com. lights out came with it, and then i had williams arcade classics which included stuff like defender and sinistar. however every one of these games were impossible to play because the screen is shockingly blurry, far worse than even the fat game boy. everything just turns into mush with any motion whatsoever. however the ngpc ruled, and still rules. the little thumb joystick is so cool.
I never had an official tiger hand held, but you can bet my ass had cheap knock offs growing up in he early to mid 90s. Awesome video, brings back alot of memories
@07:04 Those flyback transformers are scary. I got popped by one working on a Soul caliber II cab in the early 2000's. Definitely will get your attention....or worse.
Have the MK one but not the SF one. Pretty sure I was more into SF and would have preferred it over MK even though it was a pretty decent Tiger game. Glad that didn't happen.
Remember having a super streetfighter one. It was cammy(fei long with a beret) Ken, fei long. Guile,dj, and T hawk on the other side. No ryu,no m bison,not even akuma.
I had so many of these growing up along with my friends, the fighting games were trash but everything else was actually fun, the turtles games were dope, every sports game, I remember my friend had this sick Tennis game, it even had voices, the SEGA games erm yeah not VF lol, stuff like Outrun and Afterburner, and I remember the Batman game, well their were a few, but the one where you're in the batmobile. The BMX game which used actual colour, yeah I could go and on about these, certainly a product from that time.
I remember playing the Flintstones movie one. You play as fred you fight a brontosaurus Charging your way and save pebbles an Bam Bam from the movie villain.
These games even had boss fights too. Some of the stages will change despite Still being on the same screen. Like you'll get a driving stage on batman Forever.
These are one step removed from imitating a fighting game using shadow puppets.
I mean, shadow puppets move more fluidly and don’t die on a car ride.
I mean, that sounds way more fun. I'd actually pay to see an adaptation of MK 1 through 3 in Shadow Puppet form.
Yes, and I had that exact street fighter II LCD game, it was a thing lol.
Someone made a horror indie g
Game out of it.
It was on steam you played this
Think monkey LCD game then a
Monster appears.
Then that junk happens in real life
In your house.
These games even had boss fights.
BOSS FIGHTS!!!!
These were my first lesson in buyer's remorse. I remember acquiring enough cash in 1980s dollars as a child to buy a crappy Ghosts n' Goblins handheld Tiger cart...$20 may have well been $1,000,000 in both the way my brain processed money and because of inflation now...but then I had to learn about something called "tax" and still needed to save a *little* bit more for a *little* bit longer to cover it. After months of setting aside the equivalent of my life savings, I got my parents to take me back to the toy store where I had seen one to buy it. And it was the worst piece of shit ever. I every bit of money thrown away on something with the graphics of a calculator. It looked nothing like the game I played on my buddy's Nintendo down the street. The idea I could hold something like that in my hands eventually, the disappointment felt upon having it, and just how long it took to earn & save...there was a lesson in there. And even worse: it took batteries.
saddest post of the year I've read. Especially since I was a bit more spoiled. You must be a humble soul.
I wish your parents steered you better lol
This is not normal kusoge
This is
Advanced kusoge
can't wait to see Tiger Electronics Street Fighter II at EVO 2023
Especially THE WRIIIIIIIIIST GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!
The way they combined multiple characters into one with swappable cosmetics is pretty clever considering the hardware!
The best tiger handheld game I bought as a kid was Full House
Everywhere you look, everywhere you go~
bob sagat as the final boss
I use the main the Milkman and Paperboy
Uncle Joey's down B attack is OP
"I just can't fit an arcade cabinet in my pocket."
Skill issue
I can, if you know what I mean 😏
and what I mean is I'm 470 pounds and wear custom made JNCOs
Hearing about technically there being an official Mortal Kombat fighting game without Scorpion and Sub-Zero makes me double take on being in the correct universe.
Kronikaaaaa...!
XD
@@Ramsey276one Lol!
It was called Mortal Kombat 3.
Scorpion was in the lcd game I thought
@@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is the equivalent of that game with all of its DLC like they do with "Komplete Editions" now. I always counted that as well as Mortal Kombat 1 still having Sub-Zero despite not being Kuai Liang.
The electronics games here though are just blunt in not having them, so that threw me off guard.
Today's kids will never know how lit it was to be driving at night with your mom in the 90s and see how lit up block buster and Hollywood video was man seeing all those bright lights at night just hit different back then 😢
Fighters Megamix definitely needs more love. Awesome video as always GWQ!!
Fighters Megamix was a massive part of my childhood! I'd bring my Saturn to a friend's house and we'd kill the entire weekend playing that game.
I have been banging on Sega's door to get them to make a follow-up for decades.
There was a really cool starwars one.
You fly to the top to save princess
Leia while fighting tie fighters.
You see her and vader up on the screen.
I totally agree! I love that game and played it to death!!..I would really like to see a HD version re release one day...
@@robertdanker6193 it really needs one
There was also the Tiger LCD system with removable 'cartridges' called the R-ZONE which has 2 Virtua Fighter games, 2 Mortal Kombat games, Primal Rage, and more importantly Toshinden. Might be worth a future Part 2 episode.
Edit: On second thought capturing footage for it would probably be like pulling teeth lmao
I played batman forever and battle arena
Toshinden beated it.
@airthrowDBT also played by will
Smith on fresh prince.
Recording footage on a real R-Zone seems like hell, thank god Mame can emulate the R-Zone!
There’s also the Mortal Kombat Trilogy Giga Pet.
Coincidently, many subjects you covered in your channel remind me of my late mother. Anyway, around 2003 when I visit a CD/DVD store in the middle of my town, I saw a bunch of Gameboy cartridge display in glass in that store. I instantly had attention at the Megaman Zero 1 cartridge due to the cover on it with Zero hold saber, I know instantly it's Megaman stuff and Megaman was the things I ended up growing playing the most back then. My town was small, and it was at the end of my country, so accessibility to hardware, software were always limited to some very specific stores around the town. That being said, it's a miracle to see something like that in such a small and lesser known place like my town. Of course, I couldn't afford to get a Gameboy, so every time I visit the store, I look at the cartridge again and again, and Zero was there to look at me in his badass pose as well. Of course, as a kid I tend to tell my mom what I like, but I keep very little details to the story.
My mom remembered the term "Gameboy" however, my mom was a victim of war in the past, aging and living in a time when she disconnected from advancement of the world as technology keep getting better every day. She only approached internet by some of the last years of her life. That didn't stop her from hearing me though, on a trip with her friends, she visited a remote marketplace which is some of the biggest market where there are plenty of goods from overseas being imported through the borders illegally and legally. What I assume is that she asked someone about a gameboy despite not knowing how it looks and what on earth does it do, she assumed it's a toy. Eventually, she brought home what she thought was the thing that I wanted. The moment I saw it, I know it's not a gameboy and despite my age at the point, I know my mom has been bamboozled, and that thing right there is a knock-off device from China. That being said, I was well raised by my parents. I learned to appreciate before complain. I accept the gift from her, saying thanks and then went in the back of my house, started to open the bootleg device.
She bought 4 cartridges along with the device, I was huge, almost like a PS Vita and at that time the packaging and the device itself is impressive for the size and the quality of packaging. It was a KO of Tiger Electronics stuff. There was one of the cartridge I remembered having a Fallout 2 cover on it, I didn't know it was fallout at that time. I turned on the device with some spare batteries around the house, putting in a cartridge, and oh boy, having blessed by Playstation at that point, I knew terrible graphic when I saw one. The screen despite being big, was terrible with only black and gray on background, no sound, and the static image on the screen was terrible as well with how limited the movement is, I had been spoiled with PS1 so this is without a doubt, a straight downgrade. Anyway, I tried all of the cartridges, and you guessed it, there's a bloody fighting game in one of those 4 cartridge. It was crappy, I tell you, I can't remember how specifically bad it was, but I recalled not to have anything nice to say about it either. It was pretty much you control one character on the left side, fight the other character using 2 buttons on the right of the device. The fight doesn't end, and the score will increase infinitely. I tried it for a couple of hours before giving up, leaving it on the side. The device I believe is still in the storage of my mom's house.
I have nothing nice to say about the device, but I can say that my mom deeply cared about me, and she paid attention to what I adore, and she did try her best to provide what I wanted within her grasp. Again, she didn't have much to begin with. All I can say is that I was well-raised enough to appreciate her for her efforts on the day she bought me that "gameboy" instead of yelling and screaming like some spoiled brats. It was fun memory, I recalled it today when watching this video and honestly it was some of the best memory I've ever had with my mom.
Thank you for sharing this story! Those are special memories
@@hadesthegod9181 glad you enjoy the story, it's fun to recall some of stories in the past.
I'm guessing it was one of those Gameboy knock-offs like the MegaDuck/CougarBoy or the Watara Supervision?
@@Newsdee not really looking like a Gameboy, but it was rathe looking like a PSP.
Did you ever play Megaman Zero tho
If there aren't limbs being torn off and thrown at each other, I'm going to riot.
The thing you have to take into account is that technology was mainly for games where you move left and right to Dodge or catch things, and that goes on until you lose.
They managed to cram 6 different characters + 2 bosses AND fatality in there.
i to this day still have a tiger electronics handheld street fighter 2 game. its not working because it doesn't have batteries but it's still there
I played both the SF II and MK II Tiger Electronics game lol. I never thought I would see footage of those old games again lol. I remember excited to play a portable version of those games. Since I didn't have money to own a Game Boy back then. I'm glad you made a video of those games here. Crazy nostalgia trip.
I don't know what clip I like the most, the image of playing the SF2 Tiger handheld in the shower or GWQ playing an arcade cab on the toilet.
so I did a quick google search to see if SNK had any tiger electronics games, only to instead end up being cursed with the knowledge that there's a pit-fighter LCD game
I had the Tiger Area 51 lightgun handheld they also made, and I did actually find that one to be shockingly responsive for the expectation that anything Tiger is just hot, hot trash. I had fun with it for 5 minutes maybe 1-3 times.
I also had MK3 for the Tiger R-Zone, which was another Tiger "console" with interchangeable cartridges, but it basically was the same tech as the LCD handhelds, but lit up in bright red projected onto a plastic panel in front of one of your eyes. Basically trying to be a bootleg cheap monoscopic version of the Virtual Boy, wayyy overestimating the mid-'90s market for VB interest. MK3 was basically an identical experience to the MK1 or SFII you showed but with MK3 characters.
Can we mention that Tiger Virtua Fighter has more buttons than real VF?
Omfg I didn't even realize that 😭
I remember that when I was a kid, I had a weird type of bootleg tiger console which looked like a f-22 fighter which played games by introducing small cartridges on it, and one of them was a copy of The King of Fighters 97 or 98, I don't remember much about it besides the fact that iori yagami and either kyo kusanagi or terry bogard appeared on it, and also that it was really bad and not as fun as the real game.
This channel deserves to get to 100k subscribers yesterday.
30k in itself feels like a crazy milestone for the kinda stuff I put out, but I hope it's possible. Thanks for the support 🙇🏼
I actually had the Mortal combat one of these as a kid. It "worked" but it was only worth using if I didn't have pretty much any other option. It was a novelty toy at best.
I think the difference between those who hated these, and those who love them, are if you got your first Tiger Handheld before the Game Boy (or the Nintendo for that matter) was a Thing. I LOVED my Tiger Handhelds. Baseball, Football, Pinball, even some of the actual-game-based ones like Castlevania and Jordan vs. Bird. No, they were never as good as consoles, but if you grew up with them and knew what to expect, they did a damn good job of keeping this 7-year-old occupied during the car ride to Granny's.
EXACTLY!!!!
I dont even like fighting games but I like watching your videos
That's very important to me and means a lot!!
Thanks for the support 🙇🏼
As a kid I liked the tiger lcd games. If there was a popular kids tv show, cartoon or movie there was likely a tiger game for it. I liked the simple, arcade-like, gameplay that worked for killing some time on the bus. The art on most of them wasn't bad either - bright and colorful, with candy-colored like buttons. They could be had for pretty cheap, and were pretty collectable.
Mind you, this was in the late 80s to early 90s. When the Gamecom came out it was in the later half of the 90s. Even though it had things like a calendar and email, internet use was already pretty common through things like Netscape and AoL. It was marketed towards kids anyway, so those internet and office features were pretty unnecessary - it needed to be about the games.
It was a huge misstep for it to have grayscale graphics since we've already had the Lynx, Game Gear, and the Gameboy Color was coming out around that time.
I was working at a toy/video game retail chain at the time and we could not sell these things. They were expensive because of those unnecessary internet features and the games looked inferior to what other handhelds offered. Its game library was pretty limited too. Its "best games" were not exclusive but ports of far better versions (Duke Nukem, Fighters Megamix, Resident Evil 2...). And, like I said, the price point was awful. These games were not much cheaper than their console counterparts.
1:20 Y'know, the funniest thing about the art on the Tiger Electronics SF2 handheld is that it was done by Mick McGinty (R.I.P.), who also drew the American boxart for SF2 on the SNES and Genesis. He's done artwork for plenty of North American home consoles releases back in the '90s.
Bro why did you have to call me out playing tiger electronics in the back of my mom's car on the way to hollywood video like that? Too real. Lol
Tiger is basically porting games into the original Game & Watch
The one Tiger fighting game I had was Primal Rage. If I remember correctly all the characters where playable and it was a fairly solid game. As solid as a Tiger game could be anyway. I remember using so many batteries on it but always had a big ol smile playing it. Was crushed when the buttons broke. RIP my Primal Rage Tiger, you made a childhood pretty cool.
I remember getting Tiger games when I was a kid for years. They weren’t great, but I was always happy to get one for a birthday or Christmas present.
I mean all of this is standard Tiger games, but interesting enough-
"So anyway here is a Tiger portable light gun game"
Here is a WHAT
I gave a thumbs up because you actually dragged your arcade cabinet into the bathroom for a single shot. Respect.
I was never good at using Guile in any version of Street Fighter, except this one. I still got mine too
It’s sooooo sad! I use to have a couple of these (lion king, Aladdin, Soccer and others) I use to think that these were the best hand held games, I think I would lie to myself because my mom couldn’t offered any other games. 😅
I remember getting the tiger Virtua cop and area 51 games for Christmas. They were actually pretty fun for what they were and this is after experiencing both the actual arcade versions of those games.
Even though I had Street Fighter 2 on the SNES, I still borrowed my friends Tiger Street Fighter 2 game, why? I don't know.
I had another MK Tiger game as a kid. It was ok for what it was. Fatalities were done the same way and turnerld them to bones and dust with a skull.
The game also had a card system you could swipe before each fight to do everything from instant kills, to adding score, to weakening you
Could tiger electronics release Footsies or Nidhogg in 2023? I'd buy it
I was so happy to have real fighting games with a good d-pad when the Neo Geo Pocket Color released!
I got this for Christmas in 92. no joke. and I tried to master it, in church, on silent mode
I had so many of these, and so many of them were absolute ass. There were definitely one or two that were actually kind of cool. I remember Contra being pretty difficult and unbeatable.
My first one was silkworm and one
With hulk hogan.
Actually borrowed from my cousin's.
Even played the non tiger one's like
The MGA one's.
These games even had boss fights.
Even played the mini arcade cabinet's.
I don't think I received this in my subscriptions. I found it as a recommended video and was confused. Maybe I just glazed over.
I accidentally scheduled the new vid for JP time cause I'm on vacation & uploaded earlier than I wanted it to. I rescheduled it quickly but by doing so I fucked up the initial push YT gives a new vid. Very stupid mistake 😔
Thank you for checking it out regardless!
Have you heard of the R-Zone? It was another thing by tiger electronics that was essentially one of these LCD games, but with interchangeable cartridges. There were some "fighting games" on that (and Panzer Dragoon). I wonder how different they were to the regular tiger LCD version, I could only find a commercial after a brief search, no actual gameplay
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I remember these in the stores back in the day. One thing I noticed is that the earlier games they came out with (Pinball, Baseball, Bowling) were pretty okay for the price, but the games based on a license (Starting with Double Dragon) were when they started becoming...well "Tiger Handhelds".
Thay said, they did come out with some great versions of Pinbot and Attack from Mars pinball machines in the late 90's.
And when I was a kid, I did try to make Coleco style arcade machines out of them using a shoebox and a Print Shop created marquee.
I didnt grow up with it or anything, but about a decade ago I received a Gamescom with Mortal Kombat from my grandparents who had randomly come across it at a garage sale.
I could hardly play it, but outside of its use as a game system it was interesting to see the different features such an old device had included.
I had a few Tiger handheld games. None of the fighting games, but X-Men and this NInja one that I remember. They were ok enough to pass some time. Thank God for Game Boy. That was one of the best portable gaming devices ever designed.
It's amazing that people will try the arcade moves on this thing😂😊
My brother and I had the SF2 and Mortal Kombat. We played them quite a lot.
I remember having the jurassic park tiger electronics toy when I was 5. Probably the best age to enjoy these kinds of games.
It’s just strange to see these awesome fighting games, and turn them into a Tiger Electronic Handheld. I mean which one you’ll prefer a calculator of the games or the console ports.
They brought em back once.
Remember these coming back.
If they came back again then I'll
Probably have wifi on it.
Nice Video ! Although they were really cheap and mostly crappy,they were kinda cool back then.Also the BOX art was usually cool and most of us would be drawn to buy one of these just from the Art and the Boxes Alone.
Just wanted to recommend you try the J2ME fighting games such as Tekken Mobile, Soul Calibur Mobile, G Gundam Ultimate Knight, SF2 New Challengers,UMK3 mobile,Virtua Fighter 3D Mobile,SF Alpha and Medieval Combat. Some have terrible controls, others mimic their arcade ports very well or even run at 60fps with air combos (Gundam). Java was an amazing platform, and the best versions of the games above are the 240x320 versions as j2me games went by screen resolution and the bigger ones were for beefier devices
A J2ME video will definitely happen 🫡
@@GuileWinQuote thank you! The Gundam one is my favorite, also it has unlockable characters if you beat the story modes with rank s on all matches with all characters (you can play on easiest and savescum too)
just as i'm scouring ebay and going on my own personal LCD game deep dive, this video drops
It's nice to see John Carmack commenting on a gaming fad of his days in the limelight of the industry!
You always hae the most amazing video ideas, love whenever a new one pops up!
Hell yeah dude, I had the Virtua Fighter and Dragon Ball Z ones.
YES I HAD THE DBZ ONE I WAS GOING TO BRING IT UP BUT CUT IT!!
Finally my man is talking about real fighting games
Yesssss! You know I had some tigers. I was obsessed with street fighter so my dad got the tiger version for me. I played it to death. We didn’t know any better back then
I had the tiger street fighter game when it came out. The secret to getting priority attacks and *ahem* combos is timing. You want to strike as soon as your opponent has finished one of their own moves, not try to beat them to it unless it’s a hadouken. Once you land a hit the opponent gets i frames, so you have to time it so you hit them as soon as they are done flashing and you can get like three consecutive, unanswered hits in.
I was a fiend for those Tiger Electronics games. They weren't great, but when you're poor, you make do with what you can get.
I still have my two MK tiger games I bought many many years ago. It still works and yeah it's still ass. But I love it 😂💚
Hopefully you do a java fighting games video. I recently downloaded J2ME emulator and got MK3 for java and street fighter. Those games are hilarious. Definitely consider review those.
J2ME video will DEFINITELY happen!
@@GuileWinQuote Eeeee, I'm ready! Let's go!
There's also a tekken java game. Uses to play it on my breaks at school.
I would say that these handheld games were awesome, for that time. It was a nice wave. It has legendary status
The Game Com fighters are the only fighting games I've ever beaten because of how you can pretty much just mash a move and win effortlessly.
"you know i had to cop" made me laugh. this sparked so much nostalgia.
now that we know how to play fighting games on the go, the logical next step is how to play fighting games without electronics at all (getting into fights in real life)
😂😂
Man, there was a Mortal Kombat 3 that had a little light that pop out. I'm not sure if it tried to do some "3D effect" for the background. Sad not seeing that one referred in your video. These handheld thingies were baaaaad but for us low income families it was the best thing ever 😅
@airthrowDBT it was like a little lamp that would pop out a little bit and illuminate the screen
@airthrowDBT MORTAL KOMBAT 3 TIGER ELECTRONIC HANDHELD GAME VRT-X
I remember as a kid I really wanted these but looking back now I don’t blame my parents for saying no
I played the Tiger Virtua Fighter game and it was frustrating even as a kid but I was just grateful for anything, lol.
I had the Virtua Fighter tiger game. I actually though it had the best music of any tiger game I'd played (unless you count Sonic Pocket Arcade). I had fun playing it . Cool to hear it's not dumped in some sense since I've played it. My brain never tried to identify Jacky as Jacky. I just thought his head was on fire
It’s an amazing feet to even try to make a game like street fighter on a tiger electronic handheld, that impresses me
Just the sheer cinematography of the intro was godtier.
I used to love these games as a kid. 😂🎉❤
Just to let you know, the reason why Tiger Virtua Cop apparently didn't work is because you need to aim and shoot at the red pad under the screen, the one under the yellow text that says "HIT!"
Still somehow better than Shadow: War of Succession on 3DO.
I always was given my older cousins toys when they outgrew them. That's how I ended up with a GameCom but no carts. The thing was a PDA/solitaire machine. Not as cool as when I inherited their Genesis with a CD and 32X.
They actually brought these back once.
The tiger games.
You know it's Guile because he has ass-camo
"Street Fighter at Home"
Tiger SF2 is honestly more robust then I would expect
A few years ago I decided to buy a secondhand Gamecom, and when I got it, the screen didn't work. I could turn it on, load the game and hear the sound effects, but nothing would ever show up on the screen.
That's the extent of my experience with the Gamecom. It was somehow even more of a hunk of junk than I was expecting from it.
OMG I HAD THAT ROCK EM SOCK EM!!! so much nostalgia just poured in!
Street Fighter 2 game was my first and only Tiger Electronics game.
I had the Tiger Battle Arena Toshinden, which I cleared a handful of times.
as a kid i asked for, and received, a game com, neo geo pocket color, and a cybiko. my child instincts were supernaturally attuned to failed handheld devices it seems. for the first and third of those i just knew from the marketing material they had some kind of internet capability and the idea of that blew my mind, not that i was ever able to take advantage of it.
i only had two games for the game com. lights out came with it, and then i had williams arcade classics which included stuff like defender and sinistar. however every one of these games were impossible to play because the screen is shockingly blurry, far worse than even the fat game boy. everything just turns into mush with any motion whatsoever.
however the ngpc ruled, and still rules. the little thumb joystick is so cool.
リュウとケン悲壮感と哀愁を漂わせているな。ブランカ顔は結構好きなんですよ。
I blinked, and for a split second it looked like the guy in the theater was possibly playing a Tiger game, then I realized it was just his phone lol
I never had an official tiger hand held, but you can bet my ass had cheap knock offs growing up in he early to mid 90s. Awesome video, brings back alot of memories
DUDE I had that Virtua Cop one. I actually had a lot of fun with it as a little 8 year old.
Back in the day i had some fun with tiger electrronics wrestling games
To all the kids that got this by parents to substitute the game. You have been blessed with a great imagination now you're older you understand 😊
I remember owning those Tiger Grips with Road Rash 3. It may not have been a gameboy but maann it was fun...for a few months. 🤷♂
@07:04 Those flyback transformers are scary. I got popped by one working on a Soul caliber II cab in the early 2000's. Definitely will get your attention....or worse.
I had the SF game and a Batman game. I loved both. I technically still have them but I believe they don’t work anymore.
Have the MK one but not the SF one. Pretty sure I was more into SF and would have preferred it over MK even though it was a pretty decent Tiger game. Glad that didn't happen.
LCD games were popular at school until Game Boy came out, then it was what the poor kids gamed on at lunch lol.
Virtua fighter broke my heart.
I honestly believe the Tiger games were crafted by artists that cared for the IP and were attempting wizardry.
Remember having a super streetfighter one.
It was cammy(fei long with a beret)
Ken, fei long.
Guile,dj, and T hawk on the other side.
No ryu,no m bison,not even akuma.
They even made some based on movies
An sitcoms too:
Batman returns
Ace Ventura
Mission impossible
Full house?
this feels like a video from 2009
Gametrailers type beat
I had so many of these growing up along with my friends, the fighting games were trash but everything else was actually fun, the turtles games were dope, every sports game, I remember my friend had this sick Tennis game, it even had voices, the SEGA games erm yeah not VF lol, stuff like Outrun and Afterburner, and I remember the Batman game, well their were a few, but the one where you're in the batmobile. The BMX game which used actual colour, yeah I could go and on about these, certainly a product from that time.
I remember playing the Flintstones movie
one.
You play as fred you fight a brontosaurus
Charging your way and save pebbles an
Bam Bam from the movie villain.
These games even had boss fights too.
Some of the stages will change despite
Still being on the same screen.
Like you'll get a driving stage on batman
Forever.