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“First you have the arcade, then you have the home console versions, then you have the Game Boy version, and then at the very bottom you have the Tiger version. The only thing less than that will be using your imagination. Or playing the board game. But even THAT was better.”
Sixty four bits... Thirty two bits... Sixteen bits, Eight bits, Four bits. Two bits. One bit! HALF BIT!! QUARTER BIT!!!! DAAAAAAAAA WRIIISSSTTT GAAAAAMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only that, back then you didn't own the games, you pretty much have to rent them because they were expensive 70 bucks today for a 3d game that has like 20 hours worth of content get people bitching, Street Fighter ii cost 70 bucks in 1992 money that's 150 bucks today, I could buy a used Xbox 360 and Original Xbox for that price
Tiger Electronics games are revolutionary, not only are they torturous for the player but they're also capable of tormenting anyone in earshot with that shrill beeping
Tiger Electronics actually did some pretty cool stuff, take their Lazer Tag gear which was developed with help from Shoot the Moon, they were a stroke of genius! These things on the other hand, were pure rubbish.
These were considered bathroom machines in our home - it was the 90s and smartphones didn't exist, and you can only read the shampoo bottle so many times. We had the bowling one (among others including Double Dragon and Mega Man 2) and both my mom and I got to the point where we could consistently bowl a perfect game.
I don’t thinks it’s a Tiger game, but at my family’s cottage, we also have a bowling LCD game in a cabinet next to the toilet. It’s pretty fun and easy to control. The game is called King Pin I believe.
At least Sonic 3 didn't have a litany of bugs followed a barrage of post-release patches trying to fix them. Instead, it just worked, because it had to. Once it was burned in ROM, there was no going back.
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θ Except that games were a buggy mess back then too, and sometimes they were literally unbeatable because of that (Like Impossible Mission on Atari 7800), and even sonic games had tons of glitches themselves. The issue is that people didn't really look into that as much as they do right now. Look at early Pokemon games, especially 1st generation. Those are insanely glitchy and things like Missingno and Glitch Cities are stuff of legend, not something you look at with disgust. There is a ton of tons of examples for games that just were glitchy messes, and never could be fixed back then.
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θSonic games are especially known to be very buggy but that was honestly half the fun of them. S3&K is in my top 5 games of all time mostly because of how many secrets you can find by just looking at the code and finding old unused content
@@Calvin_Coolage dank pointed out the sad onions on the box of some nugget he looked at a while back though lol was hoping for a reprise here but I guess these boxes didn't have any hahah
5:03 I genuinely appreciate your desire to find out what they were trying to hide with the tape 😄 I work for a big box store and any time I see tape over text I'm like "what are they hiding?!"
There's something incredibly fitting about Wade using Sonic 3 as an example of a finished video game, not *only* because the game's developers (in)famously chopped the game in half and sold the second part as Sonic & Knuckles, but *also* because they were forced to do this in order to get the game shipped in time to release alongside promotional McDonald's Happy Meal toys. And I think we can all agree that the vast majority of us who've gotten LCD game nuggets during our childhoods got them from - say it with me now - McDonald's Happy Meals.
Yeah, I thought that was hilarious too. He picked the one game that was infamous for getting a patch that completed the game in the form of that weird dockable cartridge.
Except for Sonic 3, they found a cool way to sell you the other half of the game. Knuckles in Sonic 2 is badass. Heck, S&K by itself is a great Sonic game to breeze through. Modern games don't do anything cool about unfinished games.
We had a weird schoolmate back in the 90's named Eric. This kid only had these old handheld games and played them all the time. His parents were so controlling and probably paranoid that he would find out there were actual 3d games out there at the time. I guess they were afraid he would get manipulated by them. Anyway! He got invited to a birthday party at our friends house one day. The birthday boy handed him a controller for a Playstation, booted up Gran Turismo and blew Eric's mind away. He was hooked! His parents did eventually budge and bought him his own console. Can you guess why he hadn't been given one before? Digital "bewbs"....
Ah, yes, Gran Turismo for the PS1, well-known for having the highest amount of boobs out of any game ever released until then lmao. But yeah, same for me. My parents only ever allowed racing games until I was like 12, just about everything else was too violent
@@gabrielmalta1962 I think they were more afraid of the more well known fighting games and Tomb Raider (Lara Croft) to be honest. They just limited his range of games after that.
To answer your "What's this music?!" question at about 3:39 , I think it's trying to play the music for Angel Island Zone Act 2. ...Maybe "trying" isn't the word for it.
"This TIGER sure rose up to the challenge of its rivals! Had the guts, got the glory, went the distance, now it's not gonna stop! It's literally a survivor!" - AVGN
In Poland, there was a very popular handheld game called "Brick Game", and it was essentially the same deal of a set monochrome display, however it did have multiple games in it, like clones of Tetris, Frogger, Breakout, Pong, Arkanoid, and so on and so forth. And for a cheap little Chinese knockoff it was a load of fun back in the day, definitely better than whatever Tiger was doing.
Oh yeah, those handheld craps are super common at fairs and dollar stores. But the Tetris, basic as it is, is completely playable and will provide countless hours of entertainment. It's also considered the default version of Tetris.
I had several, they all claimed to have 9999 games (the number of nines may vary), but they only had about 16, all in like ten by twenty pixels plus a score and level counter resolution. All had most of the same games, with maybe one or two different ones present or missing.There was Tetris, tanks, Pong, Frogger, Arkanoid, Breakout, a kind of football ( similar to Pong, but the enemy has a narrow "goal" behind, and is one pixel instead of several, racing cars game where you have three lanes and have to dodge the slower-moving cars, Space Invaders, and sometimes Snake, helicopter (a side scroller where you fly a something that has to pass between obstacles sticking out of the floor and ceiling, but you move up and down normally, unlike Flappy Bird), and some others. The rest were just the same games again but faster and starting at a higher level or being in some way damaged. Yes, it was a lot of fun, played it more than I care to admit. Wasted at least one through mechanical wear. Gameboy and games for it were seemingly stupidly expensive, and I didn't know anyone with a Gameboy that would show me how much better it is (was like 7-8 years old). Brick game cost about as much as 5-15 individual popsicles or bags of snacks. So everyone seems to have had them at one point. We'd also tend to get a second one only to realize the games are the same as in the other one. I also had one that looked like a little PC with a mouse and a sliding out keyboard. It also had a calculator (that's what the keyboard was for), and an alarm clock. The game controls were buttons on the mouse. There were also single game LCD games like the Tigers, but more like Nintendo Game&Watch. Some of them were really old and Russian (Nu, Pogodi!), and some were later available as promotionals for Sonic or Spyro games at mcDonalds, as a Happy Meal toy.
To be honest. I personally appreciate the way they work around the limitations adding differnt sprites insnd fitting them in a single screen then working around that for all the actions is a dificult task. The Spiderman one actually was kinda ambitious with it going 2D to end the stage. Game and Watch are a good exception to this kind of games. Fun little rumps that you get to try and get the high score. The bad ones are just badly designed and usually went too ambitious for their own good. I still appreciate the effort in trying to bring big games into such a limited fashion its like working a de-make of the games.
I had fighting and soccer one , somehow I rember them being much faster ! The fighting one had multiple characters and each had special movies that's one of best I have ever seen unfortunately I don't rember name of manufactor or game name , everyone at my school wanted to play it ! It also had great sounds and music + design was great I left it in hot sun in a car and it was killed
@@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka Mortal Kombat on Tiger is kind of amazing. It has multiple characters too. There's a video of it on RUclips, I think it's called "every port of mortal kombat".
This was the electronic version of those “shoot hoops through water with air to get them to land on the pole” toys. They were SO bad, but I felt SO cool for having one as a child! Too bad it never lasted because I’ve lost every single one within days LOOOOL
Fun fact: when I was working in retail in North America as a young adult during the 1990s, "bin" simply referred to container, not just trash receptacle. So we often would have such games in the "sales bin" or "clearance bin" or "the customer's bin". British English has led to a more widespread use of it as the negative "trash bin", such as "binned processors" where some of the cores are turned off (often because of manufacturing errors).
That's not what binned means in relation to processors. Binning is just marking the chips by quality. Generally chips that are binned are done so for their high quality silicon, for example a Ryzen 3800x is just a binned ryzen 3700x. It doesn't only apply to processors but all silicon chips and the "binned" parts are the higher quality parts as yields are lower for the higher quality silicon. Core locking is a form of binning, but that's not what people mean generally when people call a processor "binned", they mean its binned as high quality silicon.
@@MichaelSidneyTimpson Sorry, got a bit carried away. My point was that binned in that context actually is the "container" meaning and not the "trash" meaning.
Even our NA meaning for Bin, in the sales context, holds a negative connotation, really! If it's in the "Returns Bin", "On Sale Bin", or "Clearance Bin"... in every car that boils down to: _"No one wanted this stuff and now we're marking it down in hopes of making _*_some_*_ money, as their next stop, is the _*_Trash_*_ Bin!"_ 🤣
Ah yes the Tiger handhelds, the physical embodiment of "What the frick is going on?! What do I do??". I never got the appeal even as a kid. It took all of 5 minutes of fumbling around with one of these things, having no idea how to play it, before it went into the depths of my closet and I started saving up for a GameBoy.
It’s because they predate the game boy - and still kept selling them after to kids who would never be able to own anything better. There were some good ones, game and watch was the rolls Royce as a prime example - but you’ve got to remember some kids would be saving for decades to buy a game boy - my pocket money for the week was about 10 us cents a week- legitimately would have taken me 4 years of constant saving - no doing anything with my friends for that long all for a western video game with Tetris and maybe a game a year - so these things were as good as it got. Fun as it is to watch rich people rag on them, I have loads of fond memories of these as a kid, it’s a shame you got a bad one, the good ones are special, but not as entertaining to smash up!
Holy shit my mum got the Wheel of Fortune one for herself ages ago, like really early 2000s. I remember taking it to the toilet on ocassion and playing, it was actually pretty fun and shockingly functional.
I gotta laugh at the "triple-A games were finished" line. The Sonic 3 manual talks about "Robotnik's evil traps that take advantage of Sonic's speed" that force you to restart the console. They were referring to an unfixed glitch that randomly made you clip into walls and softlock the game.
Im 22, born in 2000, and even I got to play these when i was about 8 and they were still brand new at the time! Thats how long they stuck around over here
Fun fact, that Sonic 3 box artwork was made with the mindset that it would be called "Sonic 3 Part 1" so Sonic holds 3 fingers up and one to the side, but they dropped the name to call Part 2 "Sonic and Knuckles" instead while making it so that you could just put the cartridges together to get the full extended experience.
Oh man, we had a similar one, but it was Tetris. It was actually *amazing* . It was always next to the toilet and everyone in the house played it. We played that thing into the ground, we retired it because some of the buttons stopped working.
7:47 The way you just SLAMMED the 1-Grit into the unit was _so_ satisfying to see. If you ask me, these Tiger games weren't meant to be played. They were meant to be DESTROYED.
0:40 "When a triple A game was finished" Just wait till he finds out that Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles were originally one game and were split to be in time for a maccas promotion 😂 ...You have a good taste in games though...
@@peppers515 CGR decided he wanted to make comic books and just basically killed his channel as a result. He barely gets any views now. I remember he was annoyed with RUclips and was doing everything on his own site then he came back to RUclips and then now he’s doing comics.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting He's always loved makimg comics, he did comics before RUclips and released a couple while CGR was still a thing. Sad reality, RUclips kind of completely killed his channel years ago, as well as the other channels under the banner. He did a series on amazon for a little bit, he's now doing what makes him happy which is being creative. Happy for him
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting I remember hearing that he was putting the brakes on CGR, but I didn't know he was making comics; that's really cool! I always loves his videos and his positive attitude about basically anything he reviewed. lol I always felt awful when he posted a bad review of something (Ridge Racer lol) because it's just so unusual to hear him tear something apart!
I got into collecting consoles for a while. At one time I had collected 3 r-zones. Had two of them displayed on foam mannequin heads. I just loved their aesthetic growing up, lke I had a dbz scouter lol
Might just be me but i genuinely enjoyed these as a kid. They kept me entertained for car rides and during the summers I’d just sit outside and play them
There are a few of this style of game that I remember legitimately enjoying as a kid. I liked the Mattel electronic sports line, especially the baseball one, but these were more of a late 70s/80s thing than a 90s one I think. They have also been rereleased somewhat recently, and that’s how I (born in the ‘00s) got to enjoy them
The Jurassic Park game on the Genesis/Mega Drive was also one of my favourites, that intro where the t-rex eats the jeep in a thunderstorm still gives me chills to this day. (And the dinosaur saying "Segaaaaaa" at the beginning was hilarious)
My cousin had a Duke Nukem one of these that was shaped like a gun. It was sick, probably by far the most coherent LCD game ever. it had an ammo system, 3D pseudo-navigation with randomly generated levels, and multiple enemy and weapon types. i played the hell out of that thing lol [e] I misremembered it as a DOOM game, it was apparently a line of units called Grip Games and there was a Twisted Metal one too, never seen it though
0:43 using Sonic 3 as an example of a Triple-A game that comes out as "finished" is pretty ironic given that they had to release the second half through "& Knuckles" later
The fact that they started at around the 80s as a way to rival the Sega Game Gear and the Nintendo Gameboy with no chance at beating them and they kept going till the 90s And now the stuff's back? Jesus Christ, they don't quit! This never worked!
My grandparents absolutely loved these. They had a whole crate of them for at home and traveling. The gameboy was too difficult. But these were easy, and had been around before the gameboy.
I think parents and grandparents were the main buyers of these. They didn’t expect a “proper” gaming experience and were so cheap and easy to find they seem like a good deal. I know I ended up with a few of these as presents back in the day.
When I saw this upload, I just audibly exclaimed "YES!". I was hoping you would cover these sometime, and then gushing over Sonic 3 on top of that (hunting for a copy myself at the moment)! Mate, you made my day!
I have tried one of these once, and I couldn't make any sense of it. Nintendo also made games using similar technology (the “Game & Watch” series), but they knew exactly how to make the most out of the limitations, and those games were actually enjoyable.
"The day when a AAA released game was finished" while holding Sonic 3 is so ironic given that it was released unfinished and had Sonic and Knuckles as pretty much cartridge based DLC 😂
My guess is that some company acquired a shed load of shells, and just had to make the items in the game, the overlay, and program the controls. It reminds me of the early Magnavox Oddysey games, with an overlay you put over your TV.
Those old Tiger handhelds were crap, but I had so many of them and always had fun playing them back in the late 80's and early 90's. There was one where you had to get a mouse through a maze, collecting wedges of cheese while avoiding cats that were trying to eat you. I could spend hours playing that. Edit: AHH I just looked online and saw Tiger handheld Skeet Shooting! I forgot all about that one! It had a little dial that you'd use to "aim" the gun and then a big button you press to shoot.
I have a soft spot for these little games. I remember having a few of them as a kid. My favourite was a Simpsons one where you had to "catch" food that Marge was throwing (I think) And another one where you were a guy with an axe or something walking forwards through obstacles and had to fight monsters. This was nostalgic as fuck 🙂
I don't think I ever got to use the "proper" Tiger Electronics handhelds, but I did play the hell out of those Sonic ones they gave away with Happy Meals once upon a time. I also had this really neat one that was a NASCAR game where they used a model of Jeff Gordon's 24 car from that time period to house a game of scuffed Outrun.
Bro you’re killing me with this level of nostalgia. I had that thing from a garage sale before I got a GameCube and was able to get the Mega Collection for it and finally play a good emulation of the OG game.
I had a Tiger football game that was literally just you running 500 yards while dodging the opposing team... of like 100 players. It wasn't sensational gameplay, but every once in a while I'd pick it up and just play it. Also had a pinball game. Again, it wasn't top tier in any way, but since it wasn't a licensed property and just a pinball table, it wasn't terrible to play. I also had a Gameboy, so it wasn't like I was hard up for the latest game systems :P
Nice to hear dank is a sonic fan. My first game ever was actually Sonic 2, when i was just a wee 5 years old. And that got me started on my decades of gaming with Sonic still being one of me favorite franchises. Just wish they would do more with Blaze. *sigh*
I am SO happy to see you doing the TIGER line, especially the first one being Sonic 3, and it being the exact day S3 came out worldwide lol, keep up the good content man!
The only time I saw these were at school in a teachers draw confiscated and often never returned because the teacher didn't know who's it was they confiscated them from. Nobody really wanted them and often took them to school because they didn't care if they got taken during class. They were like the bait for teachers to see who would take their games, so they could avoid them when bringing in their gameboy :D Tiger electronics died so Nintendo could fly!
@@DeltaChairlines well idk but on new years i had sickness and that apparently messed with my tonsils and it hurt and the pain only went away with a wierd yellow pill
Those Tiger handhelds were the first "video games" I ever owned and played. My parents got me several, and kid me (not really experiencing any other video games) loved them. Well, right until I got my Super Nintendo. Then my Tiger handhelds were dead to me, lol. The only one I remember owning, for sure, was a Sonic one.
The Droid Fighter game from Star Wars Episode 1 was kinda awesome because it was TINY. The keyring in it was kind of fun if you pretended it was an extended arm as a child, clipping onto other fighter toys like some madlad horror during playtime dogfights. Seriously, having the stuff be super tiny makes sense for how simple it is. Anything larger was a waste. Ffs during the very early 00's there were toy calculators THAT HAD SNAKE BUILT IN AND LOOKED LIKE BRICK CELLPHONES
I was electronics nerd back in the day of these things. I thought these were somewhat cool as they were a super complex logic state machine you could interact with that fit in your hands.
We had a solitaire LCD game that was surprisingly good. Solitaire is a simple, time-tested game that doesn’t require a whole lot of graphics, so it was a perfect fit for these things, and it was genuinely a good time killer.
Hey Dank! I know you probably won't see this, but I hope you do more content around retro gaming, because you seem like the perfect youtuber for that kind of content
I had no clue Tiger was re-releasing these :O Hopefully i'll get Sonic 3 THIS TIME. Also... Tiger should definitely re-release the Talkboy again as well. But preferably the Movie prop version. Not the cost-reduced production model they sold. Not that it was bad (heck i LOVED it) but it certainly could have been better. Like actually having a stereo output jack and stereo tapehead. The 4 AA batteries it was powered with actually lasted quite a while which really surprised me as a kid back then. And i used that thing quite a lot.
Well that wasn’t expected, but definitely something deserving of this channel! I was one of those kids who got a Game Boy so I was mostly free from these bin feeders. I say mostly because they were definitely around one way or another. I do remember the wheel of fortune one because my Auntie had it. One of the most notable things is that they had cartridges! Never seen any other then the one it came with it tho! Man this channel always surprises me 😂
I love how in the spiderman manual (the 'spidermanual', if you will), it has a column for fire. And for stage 1, it doesn't say 'no' for fire, it's just a dash. Is there fire or not, tiger!?
Still can’t get over the fact that Sonic 3 was used as an example of “when games were finished” when it potentially could be one of the first games that required actual physical DLC just to get the full intended game lol At least it’s still polished tho
I wanted one of these so bad as a kid. I couldn't afford a gameboy or any other real handheld, so the idea of ANY portable gaming was so exciting. I couldn't really afford these either, but I eventually got a Ninja Turtles one second hand and loved it. It wasn't Tiger, but it had the same LCD screen with static background.
“First you have the arcade, then you have the home console versions, then you have the Game Boy version, and then at the very bottom you have the Tiger version. The only thing less than that will be using your imagination. Or playing the board game. But even THAT was better.”
AVGN moment
What about The Wrist Tiger Games?
Sixty four bits...
Thirty two bits...
Sixteen bits,
Eight bits,
Four bits.
Two bits.
One bit!
HALF BIT!!
QUARTER BIT!!!!
DAAAAAAAAA WRIIISSSTTT GAAAAAMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
64 Bits...
@@ozan1234561 tiger pokemon walkie talkies? yeah!
What’s funny is sonic 3 IS unfinished. You need sonic and knuckles to get the whole thing by slappin em together.
Was my IMMEDIATE thought, picked one of the only example of early expandable content from the 90s xD
technically sonic and knuckles is more like an addon, its just a regular sonic game if you dont put them together.
Not only that, back then you didn't own the games, you pretty much have to rent them because they were expensive 70 bucks today for a 3d game that has like 20 hours worth of content get people bitching, Street Fighter ii cost 70 bucks in 1992 money that's 150 bucks today, I could buy a used Xbox 360 and Original Xbox for that price
was about to say this lmao
I think it was for one of these two reasons:
Meeting a specific deadline
or
Not having enough storage to fit the rest of the game.
I remember these as a kid, my parents would buy these for me from thrift shops for like $1 to keep me preoccupied during shopping trips
They overpaid
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@@taunull you anime nerds, man 🤦♂️
@@rorz999 let them be
They sell em these days new for like 10 euros where i live its absurd
Tiger Electronics games are revolutionary, not only are they torturous for the player but they're also capable of tormenting anyone in earshot with that shrill beeping
That's why I turned off the music for the sake of my parents.
Tiger Electronics actually did some pretty cool stuff, take their Lazer Tag gear which was developed with help from Shoot the Moon, they were a stroke of genius! These things on the other hand, were pure rubbish.
@@BoardGamesBricksHobbies some things tiger made were good and some were binworthy.
No wonder Mr. James AVGN Rolfe had a field day with them crazy Tiger Electronics "games"!
They were a God send for us poor kids who couldn't afford a Gameboy Advance
These were considered bathroom machines in our home - it was the 90s and smartphones didn't exist, and you can only read the shampoo bottle so many times. We had the bowling one (among others including Double Dragon and Mega Man 2) and both my mom and I got to the point where we could consistently bowl a perfect game.
I don’t thinks it’s a Tiger game, but at my family’s cottage, we also have a bowling LCD game in a cabinet next to the toilet. It’s pretty fun and easy to control. The game is called King Pin I believe.
@@retroryan838 the non-tiger ones werent half bad
It's the electronic version of a magazine
It's funny that of all games he uses as an example of a "finished" AAA game, he uses Sonic 3.
didnt occur to me, but thats a good point
Yeah, because Sonic 3 alone isn't the TRUE game...
At least Sonic 3 didn't have a litany of bugs followed a barrage of post-release patches trying to fix them. Instead, it just worked, because it had to. Once it was burned in ROM, there was no going back.
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θ Except that games were a buggy mess back then too, and sometimes they were literally unbeatable because of that (Like Impossible Mission on Atari 7800), and even sonic games had tons of glitches themselves. The issue is that people didn't really look into that as much as they do right now. Look at early Pokemon games, especially 1st generation. Those are insanely glitchy and things like Missingno and Glitch Cities are stuff of legend, not something you look at with disgust. There is a ton of tons of examples for games that just were glitchy messes, and never could be fixed back then.
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θSonic games are especially known to be very buggy but that was honestly half the fun of them. S3&K is in my top 5 games of all time mostly because of how many secrets you can find by just looking at the code and finding old unused content
After yet another crappy week at work, this is exactly the kind of video I need. Your content never fails to put a smile on my face.
@Don't Read My Profile Picture ok I wont
Crappy days + crappy tech, should cancel the crap out
Speaking facts
@Don't Read My Profile Picture can these channels just like stop existing kthx
@Don't Read My Profile Picture No one cares.
Reviewing a bottom-end retro handheld just isn't the same without the phrase "naught-to-three sad onions"
"Oh dear, these sad onions look particularly forlorn. Maybe bordering on existential crisis. Enough of that, back to the tat."
Dankpods going straight for the One Grit is a good compromise. Him crossing over with Ashens would be amazing.
@@Calvin_Coolage The calm laid back Brit and the Wild and mad Aussie.
That'd be a cool crossover
@@Calvin_Coolage dank pointed out the sad onions on the box of some nugget he looked at a while back though lol was hoping for a reprise here but I guess these boxes didn't have any hahah
@@JoCaTen "calm and laid-back" have you even seen him torching tats
the scary part is, this isn't close to the worst BS that Hasbro is pulling out these days.
Hasbro fell off.
What’s the worst they’ve done?
@@alexandersotomurillo5795 Look at like 97% of their latest Nerf offerings lol
@@alexandersotomurillo5795 Ms. Monopoly
@@Thesnakerox The dinosaur stuff is cool but the D&D and Roblox is very meh.
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The funniest part here is that Sonic 3 wasn't even a finished game, you needed to buy Sonic & Knuckles to actually play the whole thing!
I didn’t know that
Oh how ironic.
5:03 I genuinely appreciate your desire to find out what they were trying to hide with the tape 😄 I work for a big box store and any time I see tape over text I'm like "what are they hiding?!"
There's something incredibly fitting about Wade using Sonic 3 as an example of a finished video game, not *only* because the game's developers (in)famously chopped the game in half and sold the second part as Sonic & Knuckles, but *also* because they were forced to do this in order to get the game shipped in time to release alongside promotional McDonald's Happy Meal toys. And I think we can all agree that the vast majority of us who've gotten LCD game nuggets during our childhoods got them from - say it with me now - McDonald's Happy Meals.
Yo dawg, I herd you like nuggets...
Yeah, I thought that was hilarious too. He picked the one game that was infamous for getting a patch that completed the game in the form of that weird dockable cartridge.
You gotta get your nugget to go with your nuggets!
Except for Sonic 3, they found a cool way to sell you the other half of the game. Knuckles in Sonic 2 is badass. Heck, S&K by itself is a great Sonic game to breeze through. Modern games don't do anything cool about unfinished games.
I got one by collecting tokens from boxes of Kellogg’s start. It was a racing car game , I liked it but it was the 80s.
We had a weird schoolmate back in the 90's named Eric. This kid only had these old handheld games and played them all the time. His parents were so controlling and probably paranoid that he would find out there were actual 3d games out there at the time. I guess they were afraid he would get manipulated by them. Anyway! He got invited to a birthday party at our friends house one day. The birthday boy handed him a controller for a Playstation, booted up Gran Turismo and blew Eric's mind away. He was hooked! His parents did eventually budge and bought him his own console. Can you guess why he hadn't been given one before? Digital "bewbs"....
But were they Lora Croft's digital _pointy_ bewbs?
this honestly doesn't surprise me in the slightest
Ah, yes, Gran Turismo for the PS1, well-known for having the highest amount of boobs out of any game ever released until then lmao.
But yeah, same for me. My parents only ever allowed racing games until I was like 12, just about everything else was too violent
please call cps if this happens. that's straight up abuse.
@@gabrielmalta1962 I think they were more afraid of the more well known fighting games and Tomb Raider (Lara Croft) to be honest. They just limited his range of games after that.
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To answer your "What's this music?!" question at about 3:39 , I think it's trying to play the music for Angel Island Zone Act 2.
...Maybe "trying" isn't the word for it.
AVGN’s rant about these is still iconic. The pure bafflement at the wrist game or the R-zone still stands up as some of the best he’s done.
Doom on Tiger wristwatch but not on C64
⅛bit
the wrist game
The handheld version of the R Zone was actually alright, mostly.
"Sixty-four bits."
Thirty-two bits.
Sixteen bits.
Eight bit.
Four bit.
_Two bit._
*One bit.*
*THE. WRIST. GAME!!!*
"This TIGER sure rose up to the challenge of its rivals! Had the guts, got the glory, went the distance, now it's not gonna stop! It's literally a survivor!"
- AVGN
You watch Angry Video Game Nerd too.😎👍
I watch him too.
I love the episode 😂
F yea AVGN! He's the angriest gamer you ever heard!
In Poland, there was a very popular handheld game called "Brick Game", and it was essentially the same deal of a set monochrome display, however it did have multiple games in it, like clones of Tetris, Frogger, Breakout, Pong, Arkanoid, and so on and so forth. And for a cheap little Chinese knockoff it was a load of fun back in the day, definitely better than whatever Tiger was doing.
Oh yeah, those handheld craps are super common at fairs and dollar stores. But the Tetris, basic as it is, is completely playable and will provide countless hours of entertainment. It's also considered the default version of Tetris.
We had "Brick Game" in Italy too, that thing was almost closer to a Gameboy than this, it had real games like Tetris and Snake in it, it was fun
I traded some cool magnets I found for a RadioShack version in 5th grade.
I had several, they all claimed to have 9999 games (the number of nines may vary), but they only had about 16, all in like ten by twenty pixels plus a score and level counter resolution. All had most of the same games, with maybe one or two different ones present or missing.There was Tetris, tanks, Pong, Frogger, Arkanoid, Breakout, a kind of football ( similar to Pong, but the enemy has a narrow "goal" behind, and is one pixel instead of several, racing cars game where you have three lanes and have to dodge the slower-moving cars, Space Invaders, and sometimes Snake, helicopter (a side scroller where you fly a something that has to pass between obstacles sticking out of the floor and ceiling, but you move up and down normally, unlike Flappy Bird), and some others. The rest were just the same games again but faster and starting at a higher level or being in some way damaged. Yes, it was a lot of fun, played it more than I care to admit. Wasted at least one through mechanical wear. Gameboy and games for it were seemingly stupidly expensive, and I didn't know anyone with a Gameboy that would show me how much better it is (was like 7-8 years old). Brick game cost about as much as 5-15 individual popsicles or bags of snacks. So everyone seems to have had them at one point. We'd also tend to get a second one only to realize the games are the same as in the other one. I also had one that looked like a little PC with a mouse and a sliding out keyboard. It also had a calculator (that's what the keyboard was for), and an alarm clock. The game controls were buttons on the mouse. There were also single game LCD games like the Tigers, but more like Nintendo Game&Watch. Some of them were really old and Russian (Nu, Pogodi!), and some were later available as promotionals for Sonic or Spyro games at mcDonalds, as a Happy Meal toy.
we had the Brick Game in Chile too! It had 9999 games in 1 and it was super fun
10:08 that moment you realise the 1 grit is the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs
1:06 Does that make it a PooStation? 😂
YAAAY, THE FUNNY AUSTRALIAN UPLOADED A NEW NUGGET VIDEO
To be honest. I personally appreciate the way they work around the limitations adding differnt sprites insnd fitting them in a single screen then working around that for all the actions is a dificult task. The Spiderman one actually was kinda ambitious with it going 2D to end the stage.
Game and Watch are a good exception to this kind of games. Fun little rumps that you get to try and get the high score. The bad ones are just badly designed and usually went too ambitious for their own good. I still appreciate the effort in trying to bring big games into such a limited fashion its like working a de-make of the games.
Same. These are really, really ingenious.
I had fighting and soccer one , somehow I rember them being much faster ! The fighting one had multiple characters and each had special movies that's one of best I have ever seen unfortunately I don't rember name of manufactor or game name , everyone at my school wanted to play it ! It also had great sounds and music + design was great I left it in hot sun in a car and it was killed
@@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka Mortal Kombat on Tiger is kind of amazing. It has multiple characters too. There's a video of it on RUclips, I think it's called "every port of mortal kombat".
64 bits!
32 bits!
16 bits.
8 bits.
4 bits.
2 BITS
1 BIT
HALF A BIT
QUARTER BIT
THEEEE WRIIIIIIIST GAAAAAAAME!
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This was the electronic version of those “shoot hoops through water with air to get them to land on the pole” toys. They were SO bad, but I felt SO cool for having one as a child! Too bad it never lasted because I’ve lost every single one within days LOOOOL
Fun fact: when I was working in retail in North America as a young adult during the 1990s, "bin" simply referred to container, not just trash receptacle. So we often would have such games in the "sales bin" or "clearance bin" or "the customer's bin". British English has led to a more widespread use of it as the negative "trash bin", such as "binned processors" where some of the cores are turned off (often because of manufacturing errors).
That's not what binned means in relation to processors. Binning is just marking the chips by quality. Generally chips that are binned are done so for their high quality silicon, for example a Ryzen 3800x is just a binned ryzen 3700x. It doesn't only apply to processors but all silicon chips and the "binned" parts are the higher quality parts as yields are lower for the higher quality silicon. Core locking is a form of binning, but that's not what people mean generally when people call a processor "binned", they mean its binned as high quality silicon.
@@jamescelliers3195 Yes, I understood that too.
@@MichaelSidneyTimpson Sorry, got a bit carried away. My point was that binned in that context actually is the "container" meaning and not the "trash" meaning.
"Rubbish" for "garbage" is becoming more common in the US too.
Even our NA meaning for Bin, in the sales context, holds a negative connotation, really!
If it's in the "Returns Bin", "On Sale Bin", or "Clearance Bin"... in every car that boils down to:
_"No one wanted this stuff and now we're marking it down in hopes of making _*_some_*_ money, as their next stop, is the _*_Trash_*_ Bin!"_ 🤣
2:36 "Oh there's the good button, Off!" Made me laugh a lot harder than I expected.
Fun fact, sonic 3 wasn't finished, that's why sonic and knuckles was released so you could play the "full" game
Ah yes the Tiger handhelds, the physical embodiment of "What the frick is going on?! What do I do??". I never got the appeal even as a kid. It took all of 5 minutes of fumbling around with one of these things, having no idea how to play it, before it went into the depths of my closet and I started saving up for a GameBoy.
It’s because they predate the game boy - and still kept selling them after to kids who would never be able to own anything better. There were some good ones, game and watch was the rolls Royce as a prime example - but you’ve got to remember some kids would be saving for decades to buy a game boy - my pocket money for the week was about 10 us cents a week- legitimately would have taken me 4 years of constant saving - no doing anything with my friends for that long all for a western video game with Tetris and maybe a game a year - so these things were as good as it got. Fun as it is to watch rich people rag on them, I have loads of fond memories of these as a kid, it’s a shame you got a bad one, the good ones are special, but not as entertaining to smash up!
Holy shit my mum got the Wheel of Fortune one for herself ages ago, like really early 2000s. I remember taking it to the toilet on ocassion and playing, it was actually pretty fun and shockingly functional.
I gotta laugh at the "triple-A games were finished" line. The Sonic 3 manual talks about "Robotnik's evil traps that take advantage of Sonic's speed" that force you to restart the console. They were referring to an unfixed glitch that randomly made you clip into walls and softlock the game.
Im 22, born in 2000, and even I got to play these when i was about 8 and they were still brand new at the time! Thats how long they stuck around over here
Same thing here, never understood how they "worked"
Fun fact, that Sonic 3 box artwork was made with the mindset that it would be called "Sonic 3 Part 1" so Sonic holds 3 fingers up and one to the side, but they dropped the name to call Part 2 "Sonic and Knuckles" instead while making it so that you could just put the cartridges together to get the full extended experience.
Oh man, we had a similar one, but it was Tetris. It was actually *amazing* . It was always next to the toilet and everyone in the house played it. We played that thing into the ground, we retired it because some of the buttons stopped working.
One of those 9999 in 1 brick games that tried to resemble a gameboy?
ew
@@the2323guy yes, that was exactly it. I don't remember it having any other games than Tetris though
Tetris is one of the few games that could actually work fine as one of these.
@@Stego27 not with super rotation. That’s a bit more sophisticated
7:47
The way you just SLAMMED the 1-Grit into the unit was _so_ satisfying to see.
If you ask me, these Tiger games weren't meant to be played. They were meant to be DESTROYED.
0:57 I'm sorry, HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH????????????????????????? IS THAT THE BETA OR IS THAT JUST HOW IT WAS ON THE NOMAD???
The beta has a solid blue background, no sprites behind sonic. That's just how it looked lol
Is sonic 3 delta
0:40 "When a triple A game was finished"
Just wait till he finds out that Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles were originally one game and were split to be in time for a maccas promotion 😂
...You have a good taste in games though...
8:18 If you got a Sega Nomad you can play the mega drive version on the toilet too :)
Better poo quickly or the batts will die
I remember when Classic Game Room would ream these things awhile ago. Hopefully one day we get a DankPods Tiger R-Zone Episode
Another man of culture! I haven't heard anyone mention CGR in years!
@@peppers515 CGR decided he wanted to make comic books and just basically killed his channel as a result. He barely gets any views now. I remember he was annoyed with RUclips and was doing everything on his own site then he came back to RUclips and then now he’s doing comics.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting He's always loved makimg comics, he did comics before RUclips and released a couple while CGR was still a thing.
Sad reality, RUclips kind of completely killed his channel years ago, as well as the other channels under the banner. He did a series on amazon for a little bit, he's now doing what makes him happy which is being creative. Happy for him
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting I remember hearing that he was putting the brakes on CGR, but I didn't know he was making comics; that's really cool! I always loves his videos and his positive attitude about basically anything he reviewed. lol I always felt awful when he posted a bad review of something (Ridge Racer lol) because it's just so unusual to hear him tear something apart!
I got into collecting consoles for a while. At one time I had collected 3 r-zones. Had two of them displayed on foam mannequin heads. I just loved their aesthetic growing up, lke I had a dbz scouter lol
At 5:55 when you say "99 floors" in your accent the subtitle reads "99 flaws" which is about as Freudian as it gets.
(2:43) CHEWBACA SCREEEEAM
Might just be me but i genuinely enjoyed these as a kid. They kept me entertained for car rides and during the summers I’d just sit outside and play them
There are a few of this style of game that I remember legitimately enjoying as a kid. I liked the Mattel electronic sports line, especially the baseball one, but these were more of a late 70s/80s thing than a 90s one I think.
They have also been rereleased somewhat recently, and that’s how I (born in the ‘00s) got to enjoy them
7:33 - It's all in the mind!
The Jurassic Park game on the Genesis/Mega Drive was also one of my favourites, that intro where the t-rex eats the jeep in a thunderstorm still gives me chills to this day. (And the dinosaur saying "Segaaaaaa" at the beginning was hilarious)
"From the vault. You mean from the bin.".
Favorite line so far.
I love Danks work choices, goes straight for the funny bone.
My cousin had a Duke Nukem one of these that was shaped like a gun. It was sick, probably by far the most coherent LCD game ever. it had an ammo system, 3D pseudo-navigation with randomly generated levels, and multiple enemy and weapon types. i played the hell out of that thing lol
[e] I misremembered it as a DOOM game, it was apparently a line of units called Grip Games and there was a Twisted Metal one too, never seen it though
The sound of this device reminds me of those annoying birthday cards which play a melody when they are opened
Same
0:43 using Sonic 3 as an example of a Triple-A game that comes out as "finished" is pretty ironic given that they had to release the second half through "& Knuckles" later
The fact that they started at around the 80s as a way to rival the Sega Game Gear and the Nintendo Gameboy with no chance at beating them and they kept going till the 90s
And now the stuff's back? Jesus Christ, they don't quit! This never worked!
4:23 As someone who spent an unnamed amount of hours making an emulator for the Sonic Happy Meal games I feel terribly seen by this comment :')
My grandparents absolutely loved these. They had a whole crate of them for at home and traveling. The gameboy was too difficult. But these were easy, and had been around before the gameboy.
I think parents and grandparents were the main buyers of these. They didn’t expect a “proper” gaming experience and were so cheap and easy to find they seem like a good deal. I know I ended up with a few of these as presents back in the day.
When I saw this upload, I just audibly exclaimed "YES!". I was hoping you would cover these sometime, and then gushing over Sonic 3 on top of that (hunting for a copy myself at the moment)! Mate, you made my day!
Reminds me of AVGN days
I have tried one of these once, and I couldn't make any sense of it. Nintendo also made games using similar technology (the “Game & Watch” series), but they knew exactly how to make the most out of the limitations, and those games were actually enjoyable.
"The day when a AAA released game was finished" while holding Sonic 3 is so ironic given that it was released unfinished and had Sonic and Knuckles as pretty much cartridge based DLC 😂
My guess is that some company acquired a shed load of shells, and just had to make the items in the game, the overlay, and program the controls. It reminds me of the early Magnavox Oddysey games, with an overlay you put over your TV.
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The Tiger Jurassic Park was my jam as a kid, I still remember when my dad bought them for us , would spend hours playing it.
2 secs in and we already got a perfectly cut scream from Dank
Those old Tiger handhelds were crap, but I had so many of them and always had fun playing them back in the late 80's and early 90's. There was one where you had to get a mouse through a maze, collecting wedges of cheese while avoiding cats that were trying to eat you. I could spend hours playing that.
Edit: AHH I just looked online and saw Tiger handheld Skeet Shooting! I forgot all about that one! It had a little dial that you'd use to "aim" the gun and then a big button you press to shoot.
Thanks for making me feel ancient, lol.
@Soitisisit My guy, if you remember them as much as I do - we're both ancient.
I have a soft spot for these little games. I remember having a few of them as a kid. My favourite was a Simpsons one where you had to "catch" food that Marge was throwing (I think) And another one where you were a guy with an axe or something walking forwards through obstacles and had to fight monsters. This was nostalgic as fuck 🙂
Sounds like Golden Axe.
I don't think I ever got to use the "proper" Tiger Electronics handhelds, but I did play the hell out of those Sonic ones they gave away with Happy Meals once upon a time. I also had this really neat one that was a NASCAR game where they used a model of Jeff Gordon's 24 car from that time period to house a game of scuffed Outrun.
Bro you’re killing me with this level of nostalgia. I had that thing from a garage sale before I got a GameCube and was able to get the Mega Collection for it and finally play a good emulation of the OG game.
wade reviewing a pop station is yet another sign of a potential ashens collab in the works and i absolutely can't wait
6:13 ah yes the first half-second of Metal Crusher
>back when triple A games were finished on release
>Shows sonic 3, who had to split ots release into 2 games because it wasn't finished on release
XD
You need to do a video on Everdrives! They are an absolute necessity for retro video games imo
I had a Tiger football game that was literally just you running 500 yards while dodging the opposing team... of like 100 players. It wasn't sensational gameplay, but every once in a while I'd pick it up and just play it. Also had a pinball game. Again, it wasn't top tier in any way, but since it wasn't a licensed property and just a pinball table, it wasn't terrible to play. I also had a Gameboy, so it wasn't like I was hard up for the latest game systems :P
Nice to hear dank is a sonic fan. My first game ever was actually Sonic 2, when i was just a wee 5 years old. And that got me started on my decades of gaming with Sonic still being one of me favorite franchises. Just wish they would do more with Blaze. *sigh*
I am SO happy to see you doing the TIGER line, especially the first one being Sonic 3, and it being the exact day S3 came out worldwide lol, keep up the good content man!
7:53 bro the screen exploded
The only time I saw these were at school in a teachers draw confiscated and often never returned because the teacher didn't know who's it was they confiscated them from.
Nobody really wanted them and often took them to school because they didn't care if they got taken during class. They were like the bait for teachers to see who would take their games, so they could avoid them when bringing in their gameboy :D
Tiger electronics died so Nintendo could fly!
Oh hell yeah. Been sick the past two days, and the only cure for my upper respiratory infection is more -cowbell- dankpods! 🎉
Thats a bad infection 💀
@@tylern6420 yeah tell me about it
@@DeltaChairlines well idk but on new years i had sickness and that apparently messed with my tonsils and it hurt and the pain only went away with a wierd yellow pill
mate, cheers for all the content, been watching since late 2019/ early 2020, just wanna say, we as a community will never stop liking your content
"'From the vault'? More like 'from the bin'"!
you didn't have to murder them like that bro
Those Tiger handhelds were the first "video games" I ever owned and played. My parents got me several, and kid me (not really experiencing any other video games) loved them. Well, right until I got my Super Nintendo. Then my Tiger handhelds were dead to me, lol.
The only one I remember owning, for sure, was a Sonic one.
The Droid Fighter game from Star Wars Episode 1 was kinda awesome because it was TINY.
The keyring in it was kind of fun if you pretended it was an extended arm as a child, clipping onto other fighter toys like some madlad horror during playtime dogfights.
Seriously, having the stuff be super tiny makes sense for how simple it is. Anything larger was a waste.
Ffs during the very early 00's there were toy calculators THAT HAD SNAKE BUILT IN AND LOOKED LIKE BRICK CELLPHONES
Wade 1-gritting a Tiger Game brings levels of catharsis that can't be seen in most places.
I was electronics nerd back in the day of these things. I thought these were somewhat cool as they were a super complex logic state machine you could interact with that fit in your hands.
I absolutely loved the Tiger game show handhelds. I had Wheel, Family Feud & The Price is Right. All brilliant.
We had a solitaire LCD game that was surprisingly good. Solitaire is a simple, time-tested game that doesn’t require a whole lot of graphics, so it was a perfect fit for these things, and it was genuinely a good time killer.
@Lurch They need to come out with a movie based on Pong 1976 A.D. edition...
Love the videos keep them up! From a person in a 2 day long power outage…
Sonic in 1:55 be like:
-How many chromosomes does your 23rd pair of chromosomes have?
-Sonic:
Hey Dank! I know you probably won't see this, but I hope you do more content around retro gaming, because you seem like the perfect youtuber for that kind of content
0:25 I would this is #Nostalgia for me. I know that it's on a set platform that's drawn out on the screen.
I had no clue Tiger was re-releasing these :O Hopefully i'll get Sonic 3 THIS TIME. Also... Tiger should definitely re-release the Talkboy again as well. But preferably the Movie prop version. Not the cost-reduced production model they sold. Not that it was bad (heck i LOVED it) but it certainly could have been better. Like actually having a stereo output jack and stereo tapehead. The 4 AA batteries it was powered with actually lasted quite a while which really surprised me as a kid back then. And i used that thing quite a lot.
First: (edit) hello dankpods, I wonder what I have in store today
Yeah nah mate
Well that wasn’t expected, but definitely something deserving of this channel! I was one of those kids who got a Game Boy so I was mostly free from these bin feeders. I say mostly because they were definitely around one way or another. I do remember the wheel of fortune one because my Auntie had it. One of the most notable things is that they had cartridges! Never seen any other then the one it came with it tho!
Man this channel always surprises me 😂
Seeing wheel of fortune brought me back to my youth. There was cartridges you could buy so you had more puzzles to solve
0:13 THE UNDERTAKER!!
I had these as a kid. I can not believe they're making a come back. I saw them at Gamestop the other day.
That painful scream while putting up the gloves, that got me :D
I used to have one of these and loved it to death
YOOOO I had that Wheel of Fortune handheld!!! I hope you enjoyed it on the extra vid, it was the only one of these monsters that I remember being fun
The ones with a swappable cartridge? I had one of those too!
Ahh yes, the Game Gear. The handheld that drank AAs like beer.
Couldn't you buy rechargable batteries? Even on a GameBoy they essentially paid for themselves after a short while.
I had a long Contra themed one that was actually fun and challenging (to an 8 year old) and this video is giving big nostalgia right now
I love how in the spiderman manual (the 'spidermanual', if you will), it has a column for fire. And for stage 1, it doesn't say 'no' for fire, it's just a dash. Is there fire or not, tiger!?
The dude hadn't made an ipod video in 3 months and still makes insanely entertaining content, this channel is a killer honestly
This video best moment 2:55 LoL
Still can’t get over the fact that Sonic 3 was used as an example of “when games were finished” when it potentially could be one of the first games that required actual physical DLC just to get the full intended game lol
At least it’s still polished tho
I wanted one of these so bad as a kid. I couldn't afford a gameboy or any other real handheld, so the idea of ANY portable gaming was so exciting. I couldn't really afford these either, but I eventually got a Ninja Turtles one second hand and loved it. It wasn't Tiger, but it had the same LCD screen with static background.
Bruh this is what you badly wanted as a kid you couldn't have been that poor because these were not all that expensive