Help me remember the name of this handheld!

[Good_Times]

Ok, so this would have been the late-90s, maybe 2000. (I know this because I was out of college for a few years and heading towards divorce at the time, heh.) This handheld was advertised on TV - even had the corny little 'TV!' sticker on the box - and looked sort of like a white/gray Genesis controller with a little flip-up screen. It was very Tiger-like, only much better and actually playable, and had a variety of rudimentary games like Tetris, Breakout, Pong, Indy 500, etc. Even in the era of SNES, Playstation, N64, etc. I still found myself having fun with this little bastard! It even played various public domain jingles at certain times!

It also had a calculator, lol.

 

??

[Jess Ragan]

I don't remember the name (it was something 2000 I think) but I do remember the INFURIATING commercial on television with the voice over shouting "never buy those expensive game cartridges again!," complete with a clip of a housewife throwing Street Fighter II in the garbage. How DARE you disrespect the classics that way!

 

Edit: Probably something like this. http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mVzC9u6877PHGnEUgfTXE-A.jpg

[0078265317]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_handheld_game_consoles

[StopDrop&Retro]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Handheld-Virella-Gamemaster-200-in-1-Games-with-Calculator-Vintage-New-In-Box-/182657697096?hash=item2a873f4548:g:Mj8AAOSwn-tZGd0g

 

$5.00 buy it now

[Jess Ragan]

 

Here's the ad! Scream in agony as the hand throws away a perfectly good Super NES cartridge, only to replace it with this LCD disaster!

 

 

[Video]

I've got a variant of that. Mines translucent blue and the screen is actually on the bottom calf, the flip up bit is just a screen protector. Its as near as I can tell functionally the exact same console. Like breakout and the racers, but otherwise its just a 'meh' device. Despite having the exact screen as the dedicated tetris handheld, iirc it doesn't actually have Tetris on it.

[Good_Times]

Yessss, that's it! lol Thank you!

 

 

 

Here's the ad! Scream in agony as the hand throws away a perfectly good Super NES cartridge, only to replace it with this LCD disaster!

 

 

 

Now I've GOT to get one in it's original packaging so I can FINALLY toss away all of these tedious and boring NES/SNES carts! Super Metroid, Tyson's, and Castlevania 3? You are the FIRST to go now that I'll be once again own the mighty 'Pro 2000'!

(Why did I think that the name began with an 'ex', as in Excelsior, Executive, etc. ? Weird.)

 

Call NOW!

[Asaki]

...I do remember the INFURIATING commercial on television with the voice over shouting "never buy those expensive game cartridges again!," complete with a clip of a housewife throwing Street Fighter II in the garbage.

[Flojomojo]

I think I have an idea for my new avatar.

 

[TPA5]

Damn, I had something exactly like this. The form factor was a little different, and it didn't have the keyboard. But other than that, very similar to that "Pro 200". Plus, it had a backlight (oooooh). I actually ended up playing it a lot, but that was before I got into handheld gaming with a GBA SP in the early 2000's.

[0078265317]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ProTech-Pro-200-Computer-Game-Entertainment-Center-Hand-Held-/311348268703?hash=item487dcd8e9f:g:SycAAOSwv0tVPq0E

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pro-Tech-200-Gaming-System-Hand-Held-Electronic-Toy-Game-GI-706H-Purple-/302327864774?epid=660183061&hash=item4664251dc6:g:y9oAAOSwfpVZJwiZ

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ProTech-Gold-Hand-Held-Toy-Game-GI-706H-Vintage-Works-Great-prior-to-Pro-200-/272575239971?hash=item3f76c01723:g:CGUAAOSwRGlXqMmj

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ProTech-200-Model-GI-705-Hand-Held-Game-FREE-SHIPPING-/172753362648?hash=item2838e71ed8:g:bu0AAOSwxu5ZLHoi

Edited July 10, 2017 by 0078265317

[Flojomojo]

That second one is labeled "Pro Color 200." I assume the "color" refers to the very 1990s translucent purple shell, not the monochrome LCD screen. Pretty sneaky!

 

 

I like retro games, but not all of them.

[Tanooki]

Lines have to be drawn in the sand somewhere, this is definitely would be a contender. I've played quite a few one to two style handheld LCD games over the decades, but nothing looks from what I've experienced to be as rotten as that. I remember that TV spot well and thought it was a disgusting joke even by that era. I mean in 90s you had the Gameboy which destroyed it, and even ignoring that, any common Nintendo, Tiger, Radio Shack, etc LCD game&watch or wrist watch style game had far more personality than this turd. If it didn't say it was a game on the front at least you could try and pass it as a calculator in class to goof off, but even fails at trying to pass for that.

[Eltigro]

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/Pro-600-Gaming-System-41355420.html

[Tanooki]

Got to love the price being about the same as the shipping because of them adding an added $2 handling fee (which includes in store pick up, because you know it's worth giving you something at the cash register paying an added $2.)

[jhd]

I had to make numerous long, cross-country plane trips between 1990 and 2000, and I remember that my Mother bought me one of those to use on the plane. She meant well, of course, but I think I only played it for a few hours, at best. I still have it in a box somewhere. These were all over the thrift shops a few years later.

 

There was a crude, Galaxian-like game that was actually fun, but the rest of the variations were nothing special.

 

For the best of both worlds, there is the Power Player Famiclone:

[DJ Clae]

Who could forget this thing? Actually, we all should.

 

I remember talking about this on a forum online at that time. Someone said something like, "That's a great idea. And why don'we all go live in dumbass land where people play nothing but bullshit?" and it went on like that.

[keepdreamin]

had a variety of rudimentary games like Tetris, Breakout, Pong, Indy 500, etc.

sounds better than the game.com already.