And GOOD Tiger Electronics LCD Games?

[Animan]

I've always been curious if Tiger Electronics has ever made any good LCD Games. We all know they created literally BILLIONS of those things that have ruined more children birthdays and Christmas's than any other thing ever known to man, but was there one that wasn't half bad, or at least playable to the point of mild amusement?

 

The only one I own is Out Run, and it's pretty crappy. It isn't completely trash, but it pretty much removes every aspect of the original: Forks in the road, music (unless you count the horrid rendition of Magical Sound Shower when you finish the game), and good control (it feels like it's broken half the time).

 

So, anybody know of a decent Tiger LCD Game?

[+pboland]

I've always been curious if Tiger Electronics has ever made any good LCD Games. We all know they created literally BILLIONS of those things that have ruined more children birthdays and Christmas's than any other thing ever known to man, but was there one that wasn't half bad, or at least playable to the point of mild amusement?

 

The only one I own is Out Run, and it's pretty crappy. It isn't completely trash, but it pretty much removes every aspect of the original: Forks in the road, music (unless you count the horrid rendition of Magical Sound Shower when you finish the game), and good control (it feels like it's broken half the time).

 

So, anybody know of a decent Tiger LCD Game?

Bombs Away! is a good Tiger LCD game. What makes it good is the fact the screen is a dot matrix LCD and is back lit. I also liked the 99X Games by Tiger. The two I have are Resident Evil 2 and Crash Bandicoot. Again dot matrix LCD's and the games are linkable. Pretty cool for LCD games.

[Jess Ragan]

I enjoyed Pinball enough to roll the score when I was a kid. Not sure how well it would hold up NOW but it must have been pretty good to hold my attention for that long twenty years ago.

 

Right now I've got a Tiger handheld based on Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's got two styles of gameplay... one's a racing game where you pilot the Enterprise through space, blasting Romulans and dodging asteroids. In the second half of the game you beam down onto a planet as Worf and zap Romulans hiding behind rocks. Like most of the Tiger handhelds, it's better merchandising than a game, but in all honesty Star Trek was never a franchise that lent itself well to simple action games anyway.

[SoulBlazer]

I share the feelings about Tiger games, but as a kid I saw advertised on TV and asked for the Metal Gear electronic game. You know, the talking one? That was actually quite fun and I had that for years. It probaly sucks now.

[Ethaniel]

I share the feelings about Tiger games, but as a kid I saw advertised on TV and asked for the Metal Gear electronic game. You know, the talking one? That was actually quite fun and I had that for years. It probaly sucks now.

i think it's considered rare now...

anyway, since i collect handhelds as well as 2600 stuff, i must admit that i have more tiger games than any other brand. the ones i really like is Pong and Kaboom which are late licenced productions and in keychain size.

http://handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/Keychains.htm

bad thing is that i dont have any other of the keychains

you can clearly see some damn good titles at the above link

[Jess Ragan]

I'm currently trying to find the MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This handheld by Tiger. They actually made an MC Hammer video game! What could possibly have possessed them to do that?

[Video]

Many of the 80's ones were good (or good enough) It's later when they tried pulling off known titles from consoles that people started being dissappointed. Think about it, old no name games like Baseball, pinball, football, etc, they were all good, even fun for some of them. Then you get into games based off games on the SNES and Genesis, and I guess so many kids expectations were just WAY to high, I was rarely disappointed (as long as they didn't sport music through the game, then you just want to gouge your ears out )

[BassGuitari]

I have fond recollections of games like Baseball, Karate King (?), Batman, and Street Fighter II. It's funny you guys mention the console-game adaptations; I just picked up a Tiger Sonic The Hedgehog game this weekend...didn't try it out yet, though. I also saw -and passed on, for some silly reason that escapes me- a Simon's Quest/Castlevania II handheld once. I've no idea what that one's like.

 

Anyway, the Konami handhelds were my favorite. I had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1,2, and 3, and one of my buddies had Top Gun and Bucky O'Hare or something. Aside from a Nintendo, and being without Game Boys at the time, they were pretty much the coolest things around the school yard. I think the sleek spaceship-like design helped.

[jeremysart]

I've always been curious if Tiger Electronics has ever made any good LCD Games. We all know they created literally BILLIONS of those things that have ruined more children birthdays and Christmas's than any other thing ever known to man, but was there one that wasn't half bad, or at least playable to the point of mild amusement?

 

The only one I own is Out Run, and it's pretty crappy. It isn't completely trash, but it pretty much removes every aspect of the original: Forks in the road, music (unless you count the horrid rendition of Magical Sound Shower when you finish the game), and good control (it feels like it's broken half the time).

 

So, anybody know of a decent Tiger LCD Game?

Bombs Away! is a good Tiger LCD game. What makes it good is the fact the screen is a dot matrix LCD and is back lit. I also liked the 99X Games by Tiger. The two I have are Resident Evil 2 and Crash Bandicoot. Again dot matrix LCD's and the games are linkable. Pretty cool for LCD games.

 

I had the Bombs Away game, I actually mentioned it in a recent post for its GameBoy like dot matrix screen, which was backlit too. It was awsome when I got it when I was about 14, staying up at night under the blankets playing it lol. I also thought it was funny that they used graphics from Sim City 2000 for the cover on the game. The game play was great though, and reminded me of the Raiden for PSX.

 

 

Radica produced a game called Tank Assault which was very awesome for me as a kid, and still mildly amusing even now. You hold it up to your eyes like a pair of binoculars, and its screen is lit up green.. although it is LCD and not Dot Matrix. The game play was basically a clone of BattleZone.

Edited April 7, 2010 by jeremysart

[timjordan]

I'm currently trying to find the MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This handheld by Tiger. They actually made an MC Hammer video game! What could possibly have possessed them to do that?

You said you wanted to know when someone was selling one at a reasonable price

 

MC Hammer LCD tiger game

 

Selling one new unopened on eBay item number 190575485877

 

My description

 

Since this game is new in the package unopened we could not touch this, so to speak.

 

However if YOU win the bid for this vintage piece of Video Game history

 

YOU CAN TOUCH THIS OH YA! HAMMER TIME, Break it down!

 

I read several sites online where people wanted to add this quirky vintage game to their collection since it is so rare. I think this game answers the age old question we all have about whether marketing and game designer people ever did recreational drugs.

 

This one is rare because its not star wars, no this is you pushing buttons, and making M.C. Hammer dance. Yes, that’s the game, the whole idea for the game. It’s nothing more than that. No laser beams, no death star, no rescue the princess. Do you see why it might be kinda rare? Those of you who have known the love of a “actual” women probably do know why.

 

Jedi mind tricks were not necessary to dissuade you from buying this when you saw this game in the year 19 blah blah on the shelf.

 

“this is not the game your looking for, you can go about your business, move along” – not necessary…

 

The sheer social horror of even someone thinking you owned or endorsed it in even the slightest way would repel you from even gazing at the package where someone might see you.

 

Yes, it’s that kind of rare.

 

We are talking “Richard Simmons (Google it) signed limited pant suit collection” kind of rare.

 

Were talking the complete unabridged “how to raise children” course by Micheal Jackson kind of rare or possibly the “how to live the abstinence lifestyle journal” by Madonna kind of rare. Very, very rare. Bigfoot has been sighted more than this game. -a scientific fact!

 

Just having this “hammer” game unseen in your back pack in middle school could inexplicably draw out more bullies to beat you up than a shredded live cow dumped in the Caribbean could draw hungry sharks.

 

Just thinking about owning this game in it’s heyday could force you out of the mating population for years -no joke.

 

It was social kryptonite.

 

This game now however is so kitschy, so outrageous that to own it would make you vibrate with coolness because you own something so utterly uncool.

 

Its not the kind of cool you can measure with a “Geiger counter” or a “straw poll” but trust me its there and just as real as your pinky toe.

 

Like your pinky toe this pride of ownership will go with you wherever you go. The unseen waves would rush out of your inner being.

It could make you a better person. Face it -It couldn’t hurt.

 

I am anxious to get this auction on so I added pictures I found on the web to this auction. My hopes is that some of the fan boy bloggers will see the pictures grabbed from their website through some sort of web nerd magic and see that I have a real game for sale.

 

I read where one of these was listed for $150.00 but all I am asking is to start mine out for $20.00 That should pay for the time and trouble I took in finding this game at a obscure garage sale way out in the country. My “garage sailing” (pun intended) ginormous truck gets 9 miles to the gallon so somebody should pay me a little something for finding this hall of shame game and bringing it to the light of day.

 

This game is new in the package. It has the instruction book if there is one in there – (I dare not open its clear plastic sarcophagus to check) and looks like it was pulled from the store shelf this very day.

 

It has never been opened so I can’t say it works but I would be very surprised if it didn’t since it has been sealed since Mr Hammers glory days. If it still retains even a slight amount of the energy that hammer demonstrated back “in the day” it alone could very well end the energy crisis and our dependance on foreign oil.

 

It currently has a crossed out $18.86 Walmart price sticker on it and two other yellow mark down stickers with the last being $7.00.

 

I think the 7$ mark down sticker was their “desperation” move to move this game out of the store. They were hoping some blind parachute pants wearing rapper would have at least $7 bucks down in those pants somewhere. I guess he never showed. His loss could be your gain to own this piece of video game shame history!

 

When you receive this unopened game and you decide you don’t like it in any way please just return it unopened and I will give you back your purchase price and your reasonable shipping costs. Having the game unopened is part of it’s value as a collectable. If you want make sure it keeps it’s value then follow Mc hammers advice and tell yourself “you can’t touch this”. If you do open the package and “touch this” then its yours for keeps. That’s the deal.

 

Here are some of the quotes about this game I found on various websites.

 

“I’m currently trying to find the MC Hammer: U Can’t Touch This handheld by Tiger. They actually made an MC Hammer video game! What could possibly have possessed them to do that”

 

Here is another ( http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9023776

 

)

 

“You know, I really should be more attentive with my eBay auctions. I missed out on an MC Hammer LCD game by Tiger Electronics, a gadget so obscure that not even Handheld Museum has any knowledge of its existence. How would a game based on the briefly popular and currently bankrupt rapper play? Hell if I know, and this image taken from the auction raises more questions than it answers.

 

Note the eight buttons, with four assigned to Hammer’s arms and another four controlling his legs. Individual buttons are labeled with such fanciful commands as “splits” and “footwork.” This is the first and likely the last video game that will ever have “footwork” buttons. (On a semi-related note, I’d imagine that a P.M. Dawn game would have “Spandau Ballet sample,” “existentialist pondering,” and “rejoinder to gangsta rappers” buttons.)

 

The average gamer in this post-Dance Dance Revolution world would naturally assume that this would be a rhythm game, with the player forced to tap buttons in time with the music. However, keep in mind that this was released in 1991, in the twilight of Hammer’s career and six years before the Bemani series made its debut. Tiger handhelds were typically limited to simple one-channel sound and rarely innovative enough to pioneer a genre of video games, so I’m just going to assume that there wasn’t much more to this game than mashing buttons to make the onscreen Hammer jump, shimmy, and occasionally run from the tax collector.

 

If anyone ever finds one of these in the wild and would be willing to sell it for a reasonable price, let me know! I’d love the chance to ravage review it in a future installment of Micro-Retro.”

 

I am selling it for a reasonable price! Wake the kids tell your neighbors etc, You are not likely to find another like it for sale anytime soon. There is likely not a high enough volume of drugs streaming in from all other countries to influence any executives at any authority level to authorize any thing remotely like this to ever see the light of day again.

[Chuplayer]

The Football one by Tiger wasn't too terrible. They released it with two different sticker overlays, so my mom thought she was getting me a completely different game the second time. It wasn't different at all.

 

The Sonic 2 game was ambitious, if nothing else. I played it a lot before I got my real Sonic games.

 

Pinball was a lot of fun. It probably still is, too.

 

On the Konami end of things, my dad got one with a sticker overlay based on some sort of hot sauce. I imagine the game is exactly the same as whatever the regular edition was, but whatever. Anyway, it was a western first person shooter (or was it third person?) where bad guys would come at you, and you would have to aim your gun and shoot them before they shot you. I actually played it quite a bit.

[kroogur]

I had Rampage (still do I think) and it was playable. If I find it i'll try to do a short video on youtube.

[raskar42]

my friend owned a few pinball and i think gauntlet. they weren't terrible

[BrianC]

I used to play the Bowling and Pinball games quite a bit. Both were pretty fun.

[Rex Dart]

Oh yeah. Before my sister got what quickly became the family's gameboy, I used to pick these up. Took Megaman 2 and 3 to school every day in my backpack. Stupid buttons kept getting bumped & the things would turn on & start beeping in class or on the bus. Then when Gameboys got more popular & stores were trying to clear out the LCD games, we'd pick up these odd little ones for $2-5 a pop from KB Toys.

Ninja Fighter in particular, I remember as being pretty decent. Megaman games weren't bad either.

[bomberpunk]

this is my field. i'm a self-proclaimed professor of Tiger handhelds. been collecting them since i had income. i have boxes of loose, complete, and sealed copies.

 

anyway...

 

Ninja Fighter is a GREAT non-licensed game, but my absolute favorite is Double Dragon II with Mega Man 3 in a close second. the Resident Evil 2 dot-matrix game is quite impressive. think of it as a low budget GB game.

 

FYI, Battletoads & Simon's Quest are horrible and overpriced on eBay.

 

The most expensive ones are Nights Into Dreams and Castlevania SotN.

 

yeah this thread is awesome.

[DJT]

Oh yeah. Before my sister got what quickly became the family's gameboy, I used to pick these up. Took Megaman 2 and 3 to school every day in my backpack. Stupid buttons kept getting bumped & the things would turn on & start beeping in class or on the bus. Then when Gameboys got more popular & stores were trying to clear out the LCD games, we'd pick up these odd little ones for $2-5 a pop from KB Toys.

Ninja Fighter in particular, I remember as being pretty decent. Megaman games weren't bad either.

 

 

 

When a KB store was going out of business by me in the late 90's, I picked up a top loader NES system for 40 bucks. CRAZY!!!

[+asponge]

I remember playing Sub Wars as a kid. It was pretty cool back then. Especially compared to a Double Dragon handheld I had that was so easy it wasn't worth playing more than a few times.

[bomberpunk]

fun fact about Sub Wars: the fire button was highly sensitive no matter which production run it was part of.

 

fun fact about Double Dragon 1: you fought the same ONE guy over and over. the 'boss' just had a scar on his face. kicking looked like you were trying to bust a move.

 

Tiger made a device similar to the GameBoy's Light Boy, also overpriced on eBay here's an unopened example: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 300489335301 (not mine btw)

Edited September 16, 2011 by bomberpunk