Tiger GAME.COM (1997) Library | Trying all 20 Games
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- You're no doubt aware of Tiger's handheld LCD games. What if they made their own game system? Introducing the R-Zone! ...it sucked... now introducing the GAME.COM! IT SPEAKS!
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0:00 - Introduction
5:43 - Batman & Robin
7:54 - Centipede
8:34 - Duke Nukem 3D
10:39 - Fighters Megamix
11:18 - Frogger
12:01 - Henry
12:57 - Indy 500
13:29 - Jeopardy!
14:09 - Lights Out
14:43 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
15:40 - Monopoly
16:00 - Mortal Kombat Trilogy
16:38 - Quiz Wiz: Cyber Trivia
17:05 - Resident Evil 2
17:59 - Scrabble
18:23 - Sonic Jam
20:11 - TIGER Casino
21:05 - Wheel of Fortune
21:45 - Wheel of Fortune 2
21:59 - Williams Arcade Classics
23:34 - Reflection
Outro Music: Launch Base Rearranged - Savaged Regime
Background Music:
The Butcher's Deejay - Rayman Raving Rabbids OST
Don't Cry Jennifer - Mayhem of LapFox Trax
Cheryl - Klippa of LapFox Trax
Counterfelt Mermaids - Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero OST
#tigerelectronics #gamecom #retrogames 
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If you comment anything with gameDOTcom in it, it'll automatically be sent to spam as RUclips considers it a link.
Do what I do and just write "game-com".
In before someone says that you delete comments
that you delete comments
Even youtube hates that thing
Man this thing sucks so hard RUclips won't even let you properly name it.
I'm very displeased that you didn't let us hear the sound Batman makes when he gets hit!
ruclips.net/video/6iQnPjWU6pI/видео.html
If you think about it, the Game Com with the 2 game card slots could hold 1/10th of the entire library in the console.
You know I never understood the point of 2 game cards... Why would you ever need it outside maybe brief convenience?
@@SpaceyMcSpacer If one breaks, you have a backup, maybe?
Pokemon trading with yourself
Maybe there were planned in the future to have cards that expand the RAM so in one slot you have RAM in another a game
I'm the 200th like
I can give you the badge "most forgiving reviewer on youtube"
@Jack _ No, he's not. If you compare everything in game com scale, Batman & Robin is absolutely not the highest quality game in the library. If you play it on a real system using the real screen, it's tied for worst place because you can't play it due to not being able to see it. The highest quality games on game com are ones that don't scroll, like the pack-in games Lights Out and Solitaire. They're the only ones you can actually play.
It's a gentleman, no one could have ever described the game without swearing
I agree and I forgive him for pronouncing potpourri as pot-poory
He grades games on a curve in all his videos. Just consider anything under Great to be bad
Most forgiving? Honestly, I had to stop watching the video because of all the criticism. When this stuff came out, it was pretty cool, and even my friends that had good systems wanted these things. I wonder how old the uploader was when these came out... to put things into perspective, when I played those tiger games, I was 13. I'm 39 now. I think someone just researched on the internet and made a video.. sorry to come off salty but you don't crap on someone's nostalgia. We lived it.
"Even the developers of the damn system don't care"
Fun fact: Tiger developed ALL of the games for this system. Any third party support for this system is from Tiger getting the licence for the games and then Tiger developing the games themselves.
So yeah it makes what frame said about the devs of the system not caring alot more accurate.
As a kid, I bought this from the clearance bin at KB Toys. Always confused by it. Because as a kid you want to believe it's cool, you want to justify what you blew your birthday money on as being totally worth it.
And that's the story of how I got a jaguar.....
@@soknightsam Car or console?
My brother had an Atari Lynx. It sucked balls in a big way. I managed to convince a kid in my class to take it off his hands for about half what my parents had paid and we felt lucky...
@@caeserromero3013 you hustler
I think it is entirely normal part of human psychology that is just stronger in childhood and one can hope almost but never quite defeated in adulthood.
I mean console fanboyism exists...
That said, "PC masterrace" is very good at the opposite. Not being fanboys but not spending the money on what they play.
"I'm pretty sure a guy like this wouldn't be unlocked immediately?"
You'd think that. You'd be wrong, but you'd think that.
Classic Game Room fans aught to know that the Game-com makes for a great weapon
@@SECONDQUEST well he'd been doing it for nearly 2 decades. I don't blame him for wanting to retire
I dont blame him but it still makes me sad
CGR is the gaming equivalent to WatchMojo
I’ve never started a comment thread before woah 😮
@@Laynel8 I wouldn't go that far. Mark put in soul. WatchMojo is about as bland as it gets.
"the ultimate portable gay" lmao
😂 😂 😂
Oh.. Ha
the ultimate portable ga-
I think it was slightly cut off by whoever recorded it off whatever random VHS he decided to rescue from the vault. It's meant to say "the ultimate portable gaming system!", which is also the outro speech in the hardcore gamecom commercial (the one with the slackers getting chewed out by a dwarf).
Childish
Fighter’s Megamix is kind of like a SEGA King of Fighters. It combines characters and mechanics from Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers, plus a few extra characters from other AM2 games like Bean and Bark from Sonic the Fighters and the goddamn Hornet car from Daytona
The japanese version even had friggin' Pepsiman !
Pepsiman was in fighters megamix jp?
I consider Megamix more or Sega's Smash Bros., which is why it's a shame there hasn't been any sequel
@@warehousedave7937 That's a rumor, but apparently this was just a false rumor. Pepsiman isn't present in any version of the game.
Pepsiman is in Fighting Vipers, not Fighters Megamix.
Refreshing, somebody not shouting fake insults to consoles like the game com, but really putting time into each game. Thank you for posting this! I immediately subscribed to your channel.
No, these felt like real insults.
@@Jaffersin 😂😂
I was unfortunate enough to own one of these. In order to “check your email”, you had to buy a modem, and an internet cartridge (sold separately). Then you had to connect the modem to a phone line. Then you had to sign up for gamecom internet service, $6.99 a month I think. Then you could check your gamecom email. Woohoo! Honestly I doubt anybody actually signed up for this, and I have yet to see a video of it working.
"Hey stranger, what're ya buyin'?" "Uh..you got any.... internet cartridges? " "....Get the fuck out. Now."
I don't believe it myself. Imagine reading your emails on that thing, and you'd have to hook it up to a modem, so you couldn't leave your house anyway!
WHY NOT JUST USE A COMPUTER?!
@@ChaseMC215 it was released in 1997 when many, many households didn’t have a computer
@@ChaseMC215 as a kid, your parents were likely to be hogging it for work
@@jmap By 1997, even my grandma had a computer. Maybe if we were talking 1992, it would be a true statement, but we're not.
Potpourri is a category on Jeopardy that means a collection of questions that don't fit in a category, so they mush them all together and make potpourri.
At least that one category is Potpourri and not Great Moments in LA Clippers History :)
This was one of those don't attempt moments.
Nintendo ruled that market and trying to compete with them was just like wasting your time.
It's absolutely hilarious. At this point, both Sega and Atari had challenged and failed to make a significant impact. And Tiger thought they could challenge that, to any degree, when the only thing they had under their lineup were LCD games.
so it means that you shouldn't didn't even try?
oh wait, your username checks out
@DejaVoodooDoll Neo geo pocket was like 2000 times more powerful tnat nintendo's ghost-y and blurry device
Even Nintendo failed with one of their console
edge lord well, Sega didn’t dominate Nintendo till like 91’ and SNK was pretty successful in selling Neo Geo systems. Shortly after that though, Nintendo rose to fame again
My mom bought this for road trips when I was little, even though we had a Gameboy. We had Henry, Wheel of Fortune, Batman, and Mortal Kombat. Never knew of any other games for it. Thank you for filling me in on everything else that we “missed out on”. 😆
Backup system
The music for Sonic on gamecom sounds like “Human Music” from Rick and Morty..
Some interesting Fighters Megamix trivia: it was initially a crossover between Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers. The latter game is infamous for having Pepsiman as an unlockable character in the Japanese Sega Saturn version, as well as being the basis for Sonic the Fighters.
And 1, 2, 3...
PEPSIMAAAAAAAAAAN!
I owned one of these..picked it up for 20 bucks at a toy store. I owned Fighter's Megamix and Resident Evil 2. It was trash by today's standard, but versus a Gameboy, it looked pretty good. If more time had been given devs to make use of the hardware, it might have been alright.
The original Fighters Megamix was released on the Sega Saturn, and was a weird crossover fighting game featuring the entire rosters of Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers, Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar Bear from Sonic the Fighters, a chibi version of Sarah Bryant, and most infamously, *the **_car_** from Daytona USA.*
The car where once you break it's "armour" it increased it's moveset to Bahn's from Fighting Vipers :P
The funniest fighter to me though is the fact you can play as the AM2 logo's PALM TREE.
That was one of the best fighters on the Saturn
The Chibi Sarah was from Virtua Fighter Kids. Yes, even Sega was doing the "popular characters but kids" trend.
It’s also a joy to control. Despite its weird-ass characters, it’s classic AM2 fighting.
I like the bear with no animation
7:50 that picture on the left makes me hungry. And I know why. It was the picture on the box of the Batman and Robin fruit snacks at the time. You triggered a memory over 20 years old I didn't know was there!
I'll be honest, this is the first time I've ever watched one of your full console library reviews, and I very much appreciate how you're holding the games mostly just to the standard of the hardware that they were made for rather than rating them on an arbitrary scale of quality that ignores looking at them with some perspective.
The Nuke Nukem game is actually impressive, at least a bit. There's a lot of exclusive assets in here and I really like how they made some all-new centered versions of the weapons.
I remember my mom buying me it when it was brand new from toys r us, strictly for duke nukem and the lost world. I justified it to my mom by saying it will help with homework and can be my "computer."
Besides solitaire it was terrible. But so worth it for the nostalgia looking back. Taught me a valuable lesson, try before buy.
5:36 My 4'11 boyfriend objects!
Really digging this series. Can't imagine it's easy pumping out as many videos as you do, you have an increadible work ethic. Doing great work my man. ^.^
The wheel of fortune handheld had interchangeable carts that would add more puzzles, was a fun time killer on road trips
Thanks for making another one of these videos, especially on such an obscure console! This might be the most interesting one yet!
I remember the first commercial I saw of this thing. The hype was utterly fantastic (even for game commercial standards). I thought it was odd they waited so long to show the screen. The moment I saw the grid on the display, I dismissed it completely. "Ultimate game machine"?? Well, maybe if all you ever knew of gaming was Tiger's other "game machines".
Those Sonic screens were just mockups I imagine. I find it refreshing that you are not out to just intentionally bash every game or the system and look at it through the lens of 1997. That you go through every game is also very good since for a lot of these systems I wouldn't do it myself.
Who looked at the gameboy and said "keep the monochrome screen, I love it. My only concerns are that I can't check my email on it, and it's not touch sensitive " ?
You have done a great job, your channel is amazing, congratulations!
You're one of the most underrated channels I've ever seen. The content quality and output is better than most channels I frequent!
18:21
Mortal Kombat Trilogy is an upgraded port of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Every character in mortal kombat up to that point was playable, including bosses. It was released on playstation, saturn, n64, ms-dos, windows and for some reason, the game com and r-zone. it is called mk trilogy because it uses assets from mk1 and mk2.
@Fat Albert The Keyblade Master trilogy is usually ignored due to how fucking unbalanced the game is tho
@Fat Albert The Keyblade Master The N64 version is used for competition, not the PS1. The PS1 version is literally just a mod of UMK3 with all of its issues (jab blocking) and more (load times, lack of 3v3, unbalanced 'classic' versions).
Tne N64 version modified the game engine a bunch and plays like its own thing and not a UMK3 mod. Also 3v3 mode and no load times. I've never seen people use the ps1 version (that also freezes randomly or gets stuck in the finish him screen for over a minute) for anything competitive.
@Fat Albert The Keyblade Master I was just responding to "the Playstation One is considered the best by the competitive scene" which is wrong. I love both versions, but only the N64 version ever had a competitive scene, and it's really cool to watch matches. It plays much faster than the ps1 ver.
Top research here.
I was so excited for this. Chalk it up to the high expectations of a 12 year old. It has an internet connection? Duke Nukem? Resident Evil? Wow, so many options! The second I got it home I had to charge it and the thing was soooo slow. Duke Nukem was a joke (as you can tell in the video) and I wasn't able to use the crappy web browser for too long because other people had to use the internet and you had to plug it in directly to the modem.
I got it as an early birthday gift on sale and we took it back the next day.
It came with Duke3D? What other games it came with?
...charge it?
@@luka9967 But it used AAs, it didn't have a lithium battery
Imagine in the Christmas of 1997 getting this over a Tamagotchi.
God i was so excited for this video. I'm glad this dropped while taking a break in the middle of the editing dungeon.
Was honestly surprised any of these games got above average. I didn't know the game-com was capable of doing anything above 5 FPs
I like how you organize your playlists, very nice
Underrated channel fact
you really took one for the team on this episode, thanks FR
I can't believe there were only 20 games. To think I had like a third of the entire game library.
Thanks for making this video.
I was always kinda curious about the game-com but never enough to do any actual research.
19:49
"Invent-tory"?
Also, "Pot-pory" lmao.
I love the dancing Shantae at the end.
@9:20 Someone had a bit too much fun with that tank.
This is the only channel I’ve ever really wanted to be able to afford to support on patreon the content on this channel is some of the best on RUclips as a whole!!
0:49 this one second of music cracked me up. Well done.
To answer FR’s question about mortal kombat, it was called trilogy because the main versions featured all the characters from the original trilogy of games, and tiger just callled it that because it was the most recent game at the time
“Potpourri” is an official Jeopardy category meaning “miscellaneous.”
19:34 Resident Evil 2!
Wheel of fortune, "some times I'd get two bad turns in a row" someone needs to show his Dan's luck with wheel of fortune on game grumps lol
Lol I've seen that before. Fun stuff.
IS THIS WHEEL WEIGHTED?!?
At 17:07, I would think Potpourri means 'mixed questions', not literally questions about dried flowers. But I've been wrong before.
I find it way too bizarre to find ports of Duke Nukem 3D, Fighters Megamix and Resident Evil 2 on a black & white plastic brick with framerates lower than a calculator.
4:41 Jesus Christ I remember seeing that on TV it caught me off guard lmao
I did have to laugh at how you managed to pronounce poT-poor-ee. Great video :D
Potpourri is a fairly common category in trivia games.
I have no idea why the Henry review was so funny.
Nothing gets me dying more than a howling cheesecake and a meowing piece of candy.
11:12 i thank you for showing us what you were saying was wrong. Most youtubers dont do that
I actually had (well, still have) a Game Com as a kid, I got it for dirt cheap on clearance, and I actually kinda liked it. I didn't spend anywhere near as much time with it as say, any of my other game systems, but I had Lights Out and Henry and had good fun with those, and having a quick way to look up my friends' phone numbers and addresses before modern cell phones were a thing was pretty neat
2:43 - I had to go back and hear that music sting haha
3:40
You had to say that while I was sipping coffee. :'D
14:03 Slice of cake with wolf howl.... thankfully i have already gulped down the drink.
person from 2099 after ww3 playing his game com he found in a basement and playing all the games with it
I could have sworn at some point I had a silver, vaguely Gameboy advance shaped handheld that was incredibly basic. All I remember being able to do on it was a calculator, and snake. And youtube recommends me my own thoughts in the form of an incredibly detailed video, huh.
In Fighters Megamix, did you get to the part where you fight a walking, punching sports car?
I noticed that you placed an ad right after "ga-" in game com. Well done
Tiger games always struck me as the sort of thing that was appealing for people who were just bad with their money. The games were not dirt cheap. I remember some of them being upwards of 20$. I remember going to this friends house who was not (to put it politely) not very well off. This was early-mid 90s. He didn't have any game consoles or anything because he parents said they were too expensive, but instead in his play room he had literally a graveyard of Tiger or similar handhelds. Like easily 30 of them. Of course they had all run out of their batteries, and back then batteries were freaking expensive. I remember us taking all the batteries out trying to get just one game work by pooling all the batteries and testing which ones had a little juice left in them. To this day I remember commenting on the fact that he could have easily bought a Super Nintendo or Genesis with the cost of the 30 handhelds and even with 1 game he would have had a much better time.
Wow, when I owned a Game com with 4 games, I had no idea I owned 20% of the console’s library.
My grandparents had one, and I actually kind of enjoyed it as a kid 😅 The trivia game and Lights Out were stand-outs to me lmao
Fighters Megamix is from SEGA. A Fighting Game featuring the fighters from Virtura Fighter and Fighting Vipers
You have the most professional review of the game-com on RUclips
Awesome review
What a freaking commercial XD 4:26.
I actually got a gamecom at my old house with Sonic, Batman and that arcade game :D
8:41 "How's the level design?" *title card reads Entering Toxic Dump*
Apt.
New favorite channel.
You bet your ass im going to beat that sonic jam port! Great video :)
5:31
hOLY cRAP that keyboard is so small, I thought that the QWERTY keys were the number line.
Me and all my friends in middle school bought these up from the local mall when they went on mad clearance (2004ish?). I loved the thing. We were PDA nerds, so it was a really fun device.
The static LCD handhelds and rzones were w/e, but technically pretty bad.
I got the slimmed down "pocket pro" edition from a kmart clearance bin for $25 back in the day. Don't know what ever happened to it, but I really only used it to store phone numbers and the occasional game of solitaire. I was intrigued by Duke Nukem 3D, but never had a chance to play it.
Fighters Megamix was a big game for the Saturn. 'Megamix' refers to featuring fighters from a mix of Sega IPs including Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Cop and Daytona USA.
So years back when I was in middle school I bought a gamecom at a flee market for 20 bucks. It had a broken touchscreen, but it did come with 2 games. Jurassic Park, and Mortal Kombat. Although I basically havn't touched it since the day I bought it, I do remember finding a consistant way to dodge the dinos in the driving sections of Jurassic Park. Select the motorcycle (at least I remember a motorcycle existing, although maybe it doesn't), wait till you hear dino sound effect, then push a direction. The sound effect represents when a dino is about to come, I remember that much, and I personally have a memory of it being very easy for me to dodge them all once I figured that out.
I remember seeing this in a toy store and the idea of portable Duke 3d excited me. I'm glad I didn't get it lol
I nearly bought one of these things back in the day. I was a big Sonic fan when I was a kid, and when they released Sonic Jam for this, I thought that it was the real Genesis trilogy, and not the trimmed down games like the Game Gear got. When I saw the Gamecom in a clearance bin, I came so close to picking it up... but decided to keep saving for a Nomad, instead. Now that one had problems of its own, but it worked pretty well at places you might be stuck in for long periods of time, but had access to an outlet (like the car or the doctor’s office... I was sick a lot). Thanks, Sega.
The Sega Nomad looks awesome. A handheld genesis from 95 sounds sick.
Wow.... this really brought back memories for me
I still have the one I bought when they were still at retail. Only ever had two games for it, Lights Out, which is fine, and The Lost World, which was utterly unplayable due to the ghosting on the screen. There's so much on screen and it's all a blur. The ghosting on the screen really ruined what was a pointless game system to begin with.
I had one too. Two games as well, Lights Out and Batman and Robin.
I saved up and bought a Gameboy Color.
Instead of coming back later to this video when you get the feature, you could put the timestamps in the description with “Intro 0:00” at the top
I owned one of these as a kid. I had lights out, which came with the hand held as a bundle, duke nukem 3d, and arcade classics. Lol. I enjoyed it.....until gameboy color came out.
Hey Framerater, where is the dancing Shantae in your credits from?
You know your console is sad when the *Virtual Boy* has more games than you.
I loved the handhelds back in the day. They reminded me of Choose Your Own Adventure books. It's like, here's Street Fighter. Page 1 got pictures of Ryu and Ken next to each other. Then under that it says "turn to page 2 to jump, turn to page 3 to move back" and so on. You turn to page 2. With the picture you're in the air. Under that it says "turn to page 30 to punch in air, 31 to block, 32 to kick," etc. Then you can determine success and opponent movements using a dice. You don't even need the pictures. Just describe what's going on. That way you can save space in the book and have character select. The books can come with colored cards for visuals. Or hey, how about the turn the page part can just say "turn to page 2 to press A, turn to page 3 to press B." So it's like you're playing with a mental controller. Imagine you follow the page guide like this, you turn to the page to press down, then the page to press forward, then the page to press A, then it says "turn to page 100 to throw a fireball." I'm just making this up here. Crazy idea, I know. Anyway, those handhelds were great. You heard of Electro-mechanical games. Tiger handhelds felt like they were electro-paper games. You're right to use the word calculator, and that's what made them special.
Really enjoyed this one
*So Bad I bought it twice thinking the first one was broken*
Lights Out just seems to flip the setting of the tile you touch and all diagonals it touches, if that's what you were referring to with the pattern.
@4:40-4:44 Did they seriously air that on television?! 🤣 _That's messed up._
it was cut off in the source upooad. he was supposed to say "the ultimate portable gaming system" but it got cut off.
What?
What was that car safety commercial that you used at 4:27?
Potpourri means like social studies. I. E. Flowery fun topics
I've seen as a topic in a lot of puzzle games as a kid.
Most of these games actually have pretty good pixel-art, surprisingly
where did you learn to fly
Jesus Christ that commercial...
That's a "What were they thinking?!" moment right there.
That's how many commercials were in the 90s.
I actually had one of these when I was a kid. I thought it was so cool and thought the graphics were amazing for a handheld at the time. The problem was I was never able to find any of their games for sale. Looks like I wasn't missing out.
For a cheap handheld the backgrounds look excellent. The pixel artists should be proud of whoever made these random game com games.
Now who wants an Ngage video?!
Great video. Was always interested just how bad the Game Com was, but never enough to actually get one!
58 released games in the US, including a pretty impressive port of THPS, a bad port of the first Call Of Duty, one of the worst WWE games ever made, amd a port of Red Faction done by a studio ran by John Romero, Tom Hall, Stevie Case, and Brian Moon. And yes, I said John Romero, as in one of the most important video game developers of all time! He had another studio after Ion Storm called Monkeystone Games, who was responsible for that N-Gage port of Red Faction.