Buying Tiger Handheld LCD Games in The 90s - We Were Duped ! | Retro Mysteries
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- Buying Tiger Handheld LCD Games In The 90s - We Were Duped ! | Retro Mysteries
Remember those handheld LCD games that were everywhere in the 80s and 90s? The ones with those tinny sound effects that were packaged in thick plastic that was sharper than any razor blade. Now while many popular companies found success in this genre, it was Tiger Electronics who clearly stood at the top of the LCD food chain in the 90s. Tiger sold more than 25 million handheld games during this era. But how did Tiger move that many units despite fierce portable competition like Sega’s Game Gear and even the original Nintendo Game Boy? Well it definitely wasn’t the quality of the games. It was actually well calculated and borderline sleazy marketing tactics that got the job done. And I’m gonna share the specific strategies they used to dupe all of us into buying these glorified calclulators when we were kids. #TigerHandheldGames #TigerElectronics #LCDGames #90s
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My parents couldn’t afford a game boy but these held me down as a kid.
Same here
@Jerry Nadler Crapped His Pants books,sports,kick the can, all that shit but no gameboy
Me 2. 1988 Road Race was my Staple www.ebay.com/i/223993692570?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338690630&toolid=20006&4236=&customid=gc%3A0ff49771f42d1c71bd37c8b561eb6b52
I had these for a while and the got a game gear, that's was a whole new level. Shit no other had a backlit screen for years to come.
@@nickpow6806 the game gear was dope. California games was the shit!
Yooo...
Playing these things on a long car ride hoping there would be a long stretch of street lights 😂😂😂
MiguellaGorilla factsssss I had the game boy color with the attachable light playing madden 01 omw from RI 2 NJ every year
Whos the guy on your profile pic
JC Denton
Battery hungry Gameboy Color light.
Looking at inflation and how poor my family was as a kid, I'm so grateful to my mom for buying me not one, but two of these!!! Wow.
I didn't have game gear or game boy as a child as they were too expensive but I had two of the LCD tiger electronic games bought for me at Xmas. I had Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. They weren't sega but I had lots of fun playing them.
The myth in my country, and probably throughout Eastern Europe, used to be that even "poor" Americans were rich. A GameBoy was really pricey for us for sure, even in 1996 it was sold for 200 German marks (100EUR), which is about what the common monthly household income was at the time. Our own household income was about 500 GM and I still couldn't even dream of my parents buying one for me. Anyway, it was assumed that the GameBoy price or the price of any modern technology was adjusted so it would be affordable for all Americans. Silly.
I enjoyed playing these games , I thought they were a cheap version of the big game but were enjoyable .
Double Dragon used to tide me over until I could scrounge up some change to go and play the real deal in the arcade once in a while.
Duh
I can’t agree, these games helped me a lot when I was in a group home for kids
Back then, kids were not as spoiled as they are now. Back then we were content to be given an action figure. I used to play with those little green army men when I was a kid. Also those little plastic dinosaurs. I loved them because I knew that my mom bought them for us even though we were poor.
@@nerychristian I had things much worse I had to draw Rasslin Superstars on inside cardboard weetabix boxes then cut them out 😂 to tell u the truth preferd them better than the toy figures cause would be able create even the jobbers of the WWF 😆😂🤣
I loved the games too.
@TinyBabyJesus LMAO!!! But Chuck Norris helped us get out of that POW camp then Chuck burned them down with these games 😂🤣
I had baseball and pinball from tiger. They were a upgrade from those old red lcd or green lcd screen games but all fun to play.
When you’re a kid simple things bring you joy. These handhelds were evidence of that.
Exactly preach
Exactly. I never had anything from tiger, but I did had Vtech talking football. Played that thing for hours.
FACTS
To the extreme so true
They didn’t bring much joy. It was just the only thing available until the game boy.
OMG! I remember being a kid and my uncle who was a teen at the time worked at Toys R Us and he bought me tons of those Tiger games. I loved those bad boys. Bo Jackson, Batman, Jordon Vs Bird just to name a few. At one point Konami started making them also. I had the TMNT and Castlevania. Those was great time as long as you had 2 fresh pair of AA.
"Duped" is too harsh of a term. We all knew what these games were and weren't.
Not our parents.
@@Iivaitte I'm sure they did. They probably understood how subversive games are and wanted to limit that as well as the amount of money wasted on utter garbage.
As someone who grew up with these yes we knew what they were. We just didn't care. It was better than nothing. Not everyone could afford a Gameboy. And yes eventually I did get a Gameboy Pocket and I never looked back. Never went back to these after that.
@@VeritasEtAequitas Which doesn’t make sense, because the Game and Watch Games do a better job than that, because Nintendo knew how much of an issue it is to make games without moving backgrounds like that.
@Tom Servo
What would you say about the people who bought the "Tiger Electronics GameCom"?
Were THEY duped?
Such a scam when your older, such a treasure when your a kid
The same can be said of most technology. In the late 80's you had to pay a couple thousand bucks for a cheap PC. Now you can get them for a few hundred.
This is true
You're
I’ll never forget the one year I got a Double Dragon one for my birthday. Not even close...
yep, I had so many of these and had so much fun with them.
Back then imagination was 90% of the graphics. RIP LCD
Now that was true VR. No lagging, over clocking was easy with some sugar sticks and multiplayer mode wasn't limited to 4 people.
We still use LCDs... in fact chances are you're reading this comment through one.
Yeah, that's the only way I even enjoyed Sonic 3 the Tiger Game. I didn't sit well with how Knuckles wasn't red, but I used the power of IMAGINATION to fix that. Nothing compared to how I reacted when I saw they changed the designs for Sonic Adventure.
agreed
I remember when they had tiny ones in kids meals
The Sonic the Hedgehog ones were pretty cool.
those were actually lit
I never felt ‘duped’ as a kid. I had several and each one sent me on long game play sessions because my imagination (and that of most kids back then) was so much stronger than kids today. I even had a few Game&Watch games and Coleco table tops. Such good times. Subbed.
difference is Game&Watch and Coleco table tops were actually good
They were an affordable alternative to the handhelds that Nintendo and Sega were offering.
They weren't really that affordable....they costed as much as legit video games.....
not for me. even as kid i knew these tiger games were a piece of shit. i bought the game gear and never looked back
@@wickedhouston5538 I got the Gameboy. Either way, I knew these games were utter trash as a kid too.
@@youngw1ze Must have a short memory then, "legit console games" were neither portable nor the same price. The average price range depending on "legit system" was $50-$70. These tiger ones were around $20 and portable with a screen though simple. As to "legit portable systems" in the 90's that ran from $80-$300 plus individual games from $20-70.
Upfront? Yes.
Overall? Barely.
Gameboy games were generally $20-$30 while Tiger games were $19.
Yeah, you had to cough up the money to get a Gameboy in the first place. But after that, the games themselves were not that much more expensive than Tiger games. Not including the newest games, they were virtually the same price.
(I got these prices by searching "old game catalog pics" on Google.)
I’m not watching for the “opinion”, I’m here for the nostalgia!
Facts
Absolutely
Yep. I cam to see if he shows the power rangers and lion king
Yes
Good for you. No one asked.
I'm not gonna lie. I had to get Bo Jackson's Baseball/Football back in the day.
Baseball games were decent to play
"Mom, can we have a gameboy!", "We allready have a gameboy at home!" ;P
Hahahahaha we kids of the 90’s feel this!
No kid of the 90's said this
@@user-ng9gd4vl9s yes, yes they did
Glad i was a kid with the Gba sp.
It wasn’t a scam. It supplied a lot of hours of entertainment and kept kids like me back in the days quiet on the school bus. The only problem was running out of batteries.
It was the poor man's verison of the Game Boy or Game Gear
@@6reen6rud6e2 It was just easier to convince mom to buy them for us. Since they also had Tiger games for girls.
Tiger was inexpensive, quick one hitters...cheap...quick..simple...and old after a few go-arounds.
Saying the Tiger hand-helds was a "scam" may be going too far, but I wasn't impressed by most of Tiger's hand-helds even in c.1989. (I did own one at the time that I actually liked.)
@@6reen6rud6e2 Not necessarily. Some people played on both
They were cheap. End of story! That’s why parents bought them
They were such trash, looking back at them...
If y'all feel that way y'all don't know nothing bout hand held games, they were very addicting
corneil Madison Game & Watch definitely but Tiger electronics sucked bad.
@@ShotOfSelf maybe, I do remember playing them, but you know what half of the time if you drop them or got the slightest bit of water on them they act up
Idk, I bought my own games...
I have the lion king one when i was like 7 or 8 yrs old. I remember playing it for hours. It was the only game i have and i had fun with it even though it was a very simple game.
In 30 years, someone will make the exact same video but replace "Tiger" with "Cellphone Games"
South Park made an episode on that.
I think I recently saw a game at a dollar type store recently that had the early flip phone games on it, like the snake and pipe game.
Box had a lot of dust on it.
Or "Plug and Play Games"
Cellphone games are actually pretty good. Those games can get expensive as hell if you spend real money on upgrades, and extra crap.
I had the Double Dragon one as a kid. I played that thing all the time.
Evan Li same
I remember that game! I think I wore the buttons out on it.
Same here. That game was awesome 👍
Yes.. !
I owned that one too. Got made fun of for being duped into buying it as a kid. "Why would you get Double Dragon? All you do is fight the same guy over and over again!" Hahaha...
Hate to say but this video brings back great memories. These games were awesome.
I agree.
For sure!
I hate to ask where u get little mermaid
oh my God, no they were not LOL!
Damn I'm old
I was born in 1968 and live in central NJ and the Game & Watches were in toy stores around here. Initially they were up by the counter or in a glass case because they were small and expensive, but eventually some of them did end up on aisle shelves. A lot of toy stores would have one or two out on display to play as a demo, connected to the counter by anti-theft wire of course. I used to play them and stare at all the different titles on the wall behind the counter. I saved up for months to get Donkey Kong Jr. and I used the alarm on it for over 15 years to wake up in the morning 😂 And it still works perfectly to this day. I also got 2 Bandai clamshell LCD solar powered games, Invaders of the Mummy's Tomb and Dr. Franken. I never had to worry about batteries, just parked myself under a lamp and play. It took a long time for the G&W to get marked down and even when they did they were still relatively expensive.
We live very near NYC and I think because it was the major port on the east coast for incoming international stuff, we got a lot of Japanese toys that didn't reach parts of the rest of the country until much later and more thinly spread. In the 1980s I used to attend a lot of conventions in Manhattan for comic books, sci fi and toys, and there were stores that had lots of import Japanese books & toys.
I loved the Gauntlet Tiger handheld. I was crazy for the arcade version and I genuinely enjoyed the Tiger version.
I loved these, as a kid in Africa in the 90s these were everything. Street fighter, Spiderman, Xmen were some of my favorites. They did their Job
SA ?
Yess
Kids are kids...
The only true scam is the modern 2010s gaming industry. Half finished games then making you buy the rest with DLC Is just one of hundreds of "new gen" scams that the 90s did not deal with. Video game industry was making loving relationships in the 90s from my experience, not scamming people.. that's more of a 2010s thing.
Lol true man. I remember some of my Tiger hand helds that were better than Fallout 76 or Anthem.
I always joke with my children how "back in my day" we were able to buy an ENTIRE game for one price....lol
@@youngw1ze Also tell them that after finishing games we were rewarded with extra content instead of dishing out more $$$ for it smh. Man how times have changed
Yet people continue to throw money at most of these bad actors.
@@harryhines2861 do you throw money at em? I know I don't and many that don't buy these new video games. It's really bad that GameStop Is even sinking there is hardly anyone in there, it's so boring. The only way they making money is selling items and clothes of 90s franchises that are legend (Mario, Zelda, TMNT, Pokemon, DBZ, MegaMan) but anything newer like Fallouts, Assassin's Creed etc just doesn't sell for a long time and is in the discount bins. I'm sadly starting to see that video games is truly a 80s, 90s, early 2000s thing. But video games seem to be dying in the 2010s. It's just not that fun anymore and there's hardly any deep emotion in anything either so none of these new games stick in your memory. and on top of that its obvious they just scam us for more money with DLC. So in 2010s video games have been mostly pissing people off rather than making good relationships with people like in the 90s.
These were not a scam! These were fun. Collectable. Tradable. Portable. Accessable, especially for struggling working class people with bills and kids. These provided hours of entertainment and fun. Would take a tiger handheld any day over the modern day landscape of perpetually broken, glitchy, buggy games.
Dig the WVU hat.
I grew up in the 80's and 90's and my dad was in the military when I was a kid. Because of that we traveled a lot. We had a bunch of the Tiger games to keep us busy while on the road. Sure they may suck compared to games nowadays, but then it was the best that we had. I still look back on them fondly.
They were Affordable and fun for people who didnt have much money. Who cares
I care. It's the biggest issue in my life right now.
@Canadian Prepper Ha I didn't expect to find you here lol. I'm usually watching your videos, but I've been on a retro gaming kick lately lol.
It was not fun. They sucked
They kept me busy when I wasn't on my ZX Spectrum or Amiga 500, my parents wanted me to keep a balance to prevent me from using them too much. I didn't own a gameboy at the time and the LCD's worked great for long car journeys. Nowadays it's all on a smartphone.
They were great and awesome toys for kids who couldn't afford a gameboy.
I remember asking my mom and aunt for narc for the nes back in the days. Instead i received one of these narc tiger handheld ports. I never felt so ripped off in my life.
Bummer. Narc was a great game. Arcade and NES.
I got that one for my birthday one year. I managed to enjoy it. Honestly, it was one of the better Tiger handhelds.
Badguy10472: I want Narc.
His mom: We have Narc at home.
NARC in the arcade blew my freaking mind with all the explosions and shooting. The graphics were sweet. At first I felt let down by the NES port's graphics but honestly it's not a bad port in hindsight, considering the hardware limitations. I played the hell out of my NES copy.
@@tommiefunk2099 yeah the narc made by tiger is the wrong kind of narc.
Dude, I'm right there with you. I was born in 1980, and I'm from Pennsylvania. I never saw a single Nintendo Game & Watch back in the 80's in stores, and none of my friends in school had any of them. Now that I think of it, I don't even remember seeing them in the Sears Wishbook or any other catalog.
Im old enough to remember the Game and Watch going from "no one knows what this is" to "half the school has one" in the space of three months in the end of 82.And by 1984 it felt like they never had existed as nowhere sold them and the existing ones were all tucked away in the closets
Yea. I was a lucky one who got one. I was born in 84. I honestly thought mine was new till middle school. Then found out it was a hand down.
I had the Mario game
you lived to see the start and end of an era in gaming.
"ass fishing" lol
Reminds me I would go into the grocery store and I would use another magazine to cover up the "B" on the BassMaster magazines so it'll say "assMaster"
some entertainment will always remain free and simple.LOL
Hahaha
@@AdmiralBison is simple.lol a virus
Bruh we loved these games as kids. It was our time our generation
I don't believe you since you use the word 'bruh'
Yeah, no fucking way in hell were you a kid in the 90s or 80s using the word "bruh" like you're a 13 year old.
No one loved these games. They were terrible.
@@gargenfluckgosphenspiels4849 I did. All my friends did. And no they were not terrible. As you can see, 30 years later they still turn on
@@a.j.rusinek8856 says who, people were using it, are y'all 2000s kids because they were using that
OMG I totally forgot about these. Thank you so much for bringing back some childhood memories!
It's my pleasure Michael. Im glad you enjoyed the video.
@@GenerationGapGaming Game and Watches are better than these cheep pieces of plastic. At least Nintendo knows that moving backgrounds are hard to achieve and decided to make stationary games. And for the games they did make that involves moving platforms, they manage to pull off what you can kill or not. Their controls were also simple, as it predates the Game Boy with the same button imput. Tiger, however, made their controls difficult to accomplish.
@@GenerationGapGaming4:34 mullet boy is on the bottom-right of the gladiator tiger game.
Dude how have I not found your channel before? I love watching stuff like this,thank you!
Best tiger handheld games I played was the streetfighter & mortal kombat 1
The streetfighter that had the character voices in it was legendary for handheld games at that time I can't count the number of batteries I had to put in the freezer just to get the game to work for 10 extra minutes after the batteries died LoL
@@Tonio5100 lmfao facts trust me you wasnt the only one i use hate that shit when the batteries use die out of no where 😂😂😂😂 and you had either freeze em up or go crazy all over the house looking for new ones 😂😂😂😂 ole the memories
Hell I'd swap the batteries out of remote controllers or my remote controlled cars! Batteries dying on you were serious! Now that was true anxiety! Lmbo
i loved the tiger streetfighter handheld t.hawk special was the broken and funniest to use.
The Double Dragon game was my favorite.
I’m a kid from the 80’s who did a lot of window shopping while my mom was busy elsewhere in the malls or department stores and I never once saw a game and watch game.
I think the Meijer's I used to go to had them. They were in the game department, and on a high shelf inside the glass case. From what I recall they were really pricey. The clerk didn't really even know what they were.
I still own a bunch of them. Maybe major cities got them. Just a guess. I live in south Florida. Always have. We had them.
I had a game watch when I was a kid. I think it was Mario Bros. Those, the Tiger handhelds, and slap bracelets were the cool things for me in the early 90’s.
I saw a few Nintendo games here in Perth Australia - not sure where they were sold though.
I had Donkey Kong...I remember it was a double screen flip open....i think i still have it somewhere
Awesome video!
Thank you so much for posting it!
3:08 , you had the little mermaid because we alllll loved it back in the day. Little Mermaid was the best back in the day. Also ^5 for '82 babies! woot!
Fair enough Lynne lol. 1982!!!!
1983 here I had ninja garden and a few others a NFL but really wanted the bo Jackson double
I was born in early 82 and when that game and the Nintendo games came out I loved them. To this day if someone says something about the sea here I go into full song mode in my head.
your lucky to be able to play tiger lcd games.The first Handheld games i ever play was a water ring handheld 😂
hey, I had some of those water ring games too when I was a kid. They were neat.
Those water toys were only good for car rides.
Our grandparents had them in their bathroom on the back of the toilet tank...something to keep your mind occupied while you're pooping I guess, it's not a bad idea so now I have a few in my bathroom.
I had a sweet one with triangles where you had to build certain designs.
Those are actually fun.....
Who remembers the little handheld games McDonald's gave out with you Happy meal?
I have a few Sonic ones from McDonalds. Probably 2002 or 2003
Oh yeah
I do! The last time I cared for one was some Spyro themed but I don’t remember if it was the legend of Spyro and from Wendy’s or Shadow Legacy and from McDonalds.
I had a sonic racing game in 2002
sonic sega.. spyro.. those things looked like little books!
love the video very funny nice to know theres still people that remember them great nostalgia
Wonderful video man, this was an excellent way to relive that Tiger Hanheld tragic sort of magic ;)
I got in trouble for "borrowing" double dragon from a friend.... Lol that azz kickin was legendary!!!
Every 80s ass kicking was legendary. 💯Haha 😂
AYOOOOO LMAO 😂 I caught one for borrowing my man’s Batman, a nice ass lashing with a cheap leather church belt from JC Penny....the memories
All of us neva 4got that azz kickin so it must have worked!!!lol😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
"It's difficult to see.." yeah it's difficult to see the screens period, especially when the batteries were dying.
@Jimmy Devine or it's dark
I've got a Donkey Kong 2 game and watch. I remember them being under glass and behind lock and key at toys'r'us. The tiger games were hanging on a rack. It felt so special when they opened the cabinet, took out the game and handed it to me. Keep up the great vids.
I was born in 1982 as well I never heard of game and watch until about 2 years ago and I had a lot of these tiger games
I don’t think we were duped. These games were cheaper than the NES version and we knew it would be a simplified version of the console game. It’s like complaining that Adventure for the Atari tricked us because it’s not as good as Final Fantasy and Zelda
Exactly! Though to be fair when you're dirt poor as a child and your parents can not afford even one game console such as a Sega Genesis these handhelds were excellent consolation prizes.
No, but ET was an unmitigated disaster. I got a hand-me-down 2600 and I still felt ripped off by that game! It's 15 minutes of my life I will never get back.
Skorpius That has to do with the development time with the game and the decision to create one copy per Atari console that existed at the time.
Yeah, @@TNTITAN. From what I've seen of the ET game it is one of the better Atari games out there. Only this would of been obvious if more time was allotted to game development and manual development too.
Adam Gray Speaking as a Atari owner no. Great Atari games just off the top of my head, Pitfall and Pitfall 2, Circus, Keystone Kapers, Kaboom, Defender, Space Invaders. That’s without me looking at google so I’m sure I’m missing a few
I loved the TMNT green Konami handheld when I was little. I remember I first saw it at the old theatre in town where they were showing the first turtle movie, and my friend in first grade had this. I remember wanting this so bad. I never got it unfortunately, but I did play my friends when I could. To this day I still don't have it.
Anyhow, thanks for the content. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to you and your family mate. Take care
I had that green one, it was pretty cool. I had a few other ones, I know my sister had the Little Mermaid and my grandpa had one of those old basketball games with only red lights lol.
I always hated Konami handheld games tiger felt better
Had the green one also
I can't believe I never had a TMNT lcd game. Does seem out of character for me lol. Merry Christmas to you and your family too William!
My folks bought me and my siblings that one! We had to share it of course. It ate batteries fast, but we loved it. It even talked!
This was a awesome video this took me back to a simpler time with innocence and just all around fun time in my young life thank you for this video guys!!!
I had so many of these, loved them...still have a few!
It is fascinating how the Tiger games you showed still turn on, play sounds and are functional regardless of how cheap they were. Those were the decades of quality materials and longevity
I had the Tiger Baseball game. I played that thing for hours and hours
I loved these when I was a kid, I also grew up without a lot of money and my parents couldn’t afford to buy me a console
Chill dude. We all enjoyed these things for hours and hours. They brought enjoyment; enough said.
The Batman game and double dragon were half decent for the time period.
I don't know, I played the hell out of Batman hand held as a kid
Still my favorites when I was a kid riding in the car because my parents traveled a lot good call
I had Batman and narc
Batman was actually a re-skin of Shinobi. I had only had two of these, and unfortunately it was both those. :(
@Da Nobel Element in elementary school, my friends and I played the heck out of Double Dragon.
It’s like he-man making a cartoon to sell the toys they couldn’t move.
lol yeah i know now but back then i was all about some he man action figures transformers and even the hated go-bots
@@MrGundam0083 never "hated" go bots, I just discovered them AFTER transformers. Thought they were the DG version of transformers
I just discovered this channel today and am already a fan and have subscribed. NICE JOB!! Personally I had the Sonic the Hedgehog one as a child
Thanks so much Roose! Welcome to G3!
From the west coast, 42 yrs old and grew up with nintendo. I never even heard of a Game and Watch until they announced the rerelease 6 months ago. Your not alone.
Lol hell I thought the Talkboy was the coolest damn thing I had ever seen at the time, and yes, I wanted one BADLY!
skins4thewin I still want one just to have it...
I never saw the point of the Talkboy, we had a GE walkman with a mic and speaker on it and as far as I'm aware it performed the same function and still works today as a damn good dictaphone!
@@JohnnyProctor9 Every party needs a pooper that's why they invited you, party poooooooperrrrr, party pooooperrrrrr.
I had the talkboy. It was a piece of shit. It worked for a couple weeks and then it stopped working.
A more successful feminine version of the Talkboy was also released which was in a feminine pink color, known as Talkgirl, and is literally marketed to girls (including Alexis, my #1 girlfriend)
I still hear the beeps and boops from the football game in the 70’s 😅 I feel old! I’m right with you as a kid born in 1981!
I loved the Denver Broncos and especially John Elway, so my favorite Tiger was John Elway’s Quarterback!
These are great videos, Tyler! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
thanks my friend. Always happy to see you here in the comments. Hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas too. Happy early new year!
Love the content! All the nostalgia!
Gameboy color with a Pokemon cartridge was a sacred item that was coveted and protected at all costs.
My first ever gaming system ever owned was the Tiger's handheld Darkwing Duck: I was 5 years old (just a few weeks before my 6th birthday) and I still remember everything from that day. My dad brang me to the toy store, I picked it up and even in the way back to home, in the family car's backseat I started playin' the game and...I finished it! It was just 3 levels. But at that time I hadn't any experience about videogames at all, so I tought it was fun. Only a few weeks after I would have received my first Atari 2600...it was the last period of year 1991! I tried it again some weeks ago and...I was speakless, it still works! And, along with a 9 in 1 Tetris-style LCD game and a very basic space shooter who still work flawlessly, the other tons of these little pieces of wasted plastic (kept in some old boxes) I found, are not working.
Here in Italy the cost for a Tiger handheld was around 50.000 lire, and at that time it was the equivalent of 20/25$ in the United States.
For nowadays' standards, that Darkwing Duck is an absolute CRAP, but it represents a HUGE piece of my childhood, my gaming experience (my first ever) and my whole LIFE.
I've too much memories based around it.
I will keep it with me everywhere.
(my english is still imperfect sometimes, sorry for that)
I enjoyed your story a lot. It's awesome to have fond memories like that.
*double fistbumps for Darkwing*
Really enjoyed reading your story here. Great and cherished memories. Thanks for sharing with us.
@@GenerationGapGaming glad you enjoyed it! :)
The Good Old Toys "R" US Advertising Paper 👍🏻 3:23
First handheld I ever played was the game and watch snoopy tennis. My mom was so weird, the crappy tiger games were the only “video games” I was allowed to play. Another great video!!
100% agree with you about Game and Watch. Born 85, growing up in Southern Ca.
Scam? Perhaps, but aside of Gameboy, and the battery eaters that are the Game Gear, Atari Lynx, and Turbo Express, those were the cheap go to handheld games at the time.
Nowadays, I am beyond spoiled in my near 40's, I'm playing The Witcher 3 on the Nintendo Switch on the go. I am so thankful to get this far in life. Before then, I am also thankful to be playing A Link to the Past and Final Fantasy IV Advance on Gameboy Advance.
@Dmac 740 are you talking about game gear? Like, the thing I saw kids play with on the bus and by the second or 3rd day, they left it home cause they had to wait for parents to buy batteries? lol
Yea, you could plug them in, but the whole point of the game was to game on the go..and that's what we did...and that's where they got the reputation of "battery eaters" from
When you were too poor to get the actual Mega Man 2, you settled for the Tiger handheld version instead.
Yeah
I remember when I finished it. Years before I finished the NES version.
I can’t begin to imagine how horrible it would be. But I do understand that these LCDs were better than nothing... in small doses.
Thats about the size of it
When I was a kid, my grandpa bought a 2nd season MMPR tiger game and man did I play that thing for hours!
Hey man, like the videos. I was born in 89 and as a kid who lived in the Midwest myself I never had or heard of Game and watch games.
They were the best thing when visiting the dentist when I was a kid.
I'm fairly certain it was dentist offices that were keeping the company aflost
*afloat
4:34 mullet boy sighting!
Oh shit that was good.
Wow dude you nailed it! I thought this one was gonna stump some people!
Holy crap!
As an 80's baby I loved the tiger westling game. Forgot about it till this vid. Aw..Nostalgia!
Oooooo I remember these!!! Wow y’all took me back!! 😃😃😂
There is no reason to hurt my grandma's feelings even if I didn't have that stuff I still would not do it
Double Dragon holy shittt that's a old one I cranked hrssss on that
Same here
Yess
My Mom and I would play Bass fishing for hours. Good times
Damn brother seeing that bass fishing game flooded my brain with old memories I had long forgotten. I fell down a rabbit hole of watching old commercials for these handheld games on RUclips. Nostalgia overload
My kids wouldn't even know what to make of those tiger handhelds lol
My kids would be asking why the touchscreen doesn't work. And how can they wirelessly connect to the TV.
Had a Simpson's watch game where you threw rocks at Homer as he painted a house.
Lmao awesome
Matt I had that same watch, but I have lost it over the years. Oh wow, I played that game longer than I should have lol.
@@GenerationGapGaming lost mine too, but great memories of playing it for hours.
That talkboy was fire. Used to record my favorite cartoons to listen to ar night as I fell asleep.
I used to record me talking about my Sonic fanon so I could make note of it when I wrote stories.
I'm with u man! I've never seen a game and watch in my life until today. I've definitely played the tiger ones....so weird!
It was all about that artwork. If the art on the game was legit you were dumb enough to buy it
^THIS
I feel you. I remember looking at the artwork and being like WOW a handheld Sonic 2! And then like.. oh this is a little fun but not exactly .
LMMFAO omg the gamepro magazines,smh I feel like crying right now. I’m a 80’s baby this brings back so many memories it’s not even funny,this was the next best thing out. My first one was double dragon.
GoodTimes!!
I loved my RadioShack's Air Bomber handheld game! I especially loved that it was shaped like a B2. Man, good times.
I remember having the bowling Tiger game; I had a lot of fun ,😁👍
These were awesome back in the day.I remember playing mine for hours.
Idk bout "duped." I felt it was somewhere between " get what you pay for" to "its better than nothing." i had one good memories playing em
that is a fair statement Carlos.
Damn bro u bring back so many memories. Thank u
Dude thanks for showing these - man i put some HOURS into Gauntlet
I member calling numerous toy stores to get a “ talk boy”. No one had it though 😭
talk boy was one of those virtually impossible devices to get. One of the like #1 xmas gifts for its year.
or TurboMan
Andy Peterson -- "Hey kids, we're home early.."
I knew exactly what these devices were about, I loved these growing up. I was fond of snakes revenge.
Snake is hot, but not until Metal Gear Solid.
Never heard of Tiger LCD games… but in the early to mid 80’s in Australia we had lots of Nintendo game and watch games on the shelf
Same thing.
In Indonesia we have non branded lcd games that usually come with tetris.
I had the exact mario game you were holding up when asking if people had these as a kid. Born in 81 raised in RI.
We got my dad that Bass fishing game back in the day. He called it his “Scepter”
Born in 81'. I had so many of them. Double dragon, baseball, bowling, gauntlet, wrestling, little mermaid, had a mario watch, never saw the game&watch tho ever!
dad did give me his mattel football. Best one
'81 here myself, but I only had a few before I managed to badger my mum into getting me a Gameboy for my birthday...were any of those other ones any good? I had a few of the best, Megaman 2&3 and Simon's Quest and one of the worst Acclaim's Wizards &Warriors...
Johnny Proctor to be honest the baseball wasnt bad and bowling was probably the best one of them all
I’m a year older than you, and I can say that this video was definitely on-point. I have no idea why we were so excited by those handheld games either; to be fair though, that Bo Jackson baseball game looked a lot better than most of the other LCD games I’ve seen.
I remember seeing these in stores and salivating over them when I was a kid