/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3582550]

Admit it, there were Tiger games you liked.

[Anonymous No.3582576]

>>3582550
this was my jam

used to have a whole bin of these, and brought them to school a lot, which was probably pretty lame looking back on it, oh well

[Anonymous No.3582593]

>tfw too intelligent to fuck with those things.

Shit was less of a ame and more of the predator's bomb countdown bracelet.

[Anonymous No.3582597]

tfw too intelligent to fuck with those things.

Shit was less of a game and more like the predator's bomb countdown bracelet.

[Anonymous No.3582612]

THis is the only one I own, and it's alright I guess.

[Anonymous No.3582661]

The only one I ever had was a Ninja Turtles one and it was hard as balls.

[Anonymous No.3582727]

This one was pretty dope, it actually plays like a real Genesis game, had full length variant levels, boss fights and special stages, I was not disappoint.

[Anonymous No.3582731]

>>3582550
Of course there was. I really didn't have a problem with most of them, and neither did anyone else, until the e-celebs decided they were shit.

[Anonymous No.3582742]

cant remember what they were called but I had a basketball game, a racing game, and a power rangers game

then mom finally got me a game boy and I never played those again

[Anonymous No.3582797]

>>3582550
I used to go to lawn sales with my mom every summer nd get like 10 of these. Mostly shit but I had the ninja one and it was ok

[Anonymous No.3582803]

Which e-celeb trashed Tiger games?

[Anonymous No.3582806]

theae were basically a 90's version of Game and Watch minus the watch

[Anonymous No.3582808]

>>3582806
Don't act like Game and Watch were either the first or most popular LCD games.

[Anonymous No.3582817]

>>3582803
Guess.

[Anonymous No.3582828]

>>3582808
at least they had a watch

[Anonymous No.3582852]

>>3582550
pinball was badass

[Anonymous No.3582870]

>>3582550
no

[Anonymous No.3582912]

>>3582870
>well, i guess there was one game i really liked, but then my favorite eceleb told me why i shouldn't

I will never understand how a person can have their opinion completely dictated to them by a talking head on YouTube.

[Anonymous No.3582926]

>>3582912
before YouTube, people had their opinions dictated to them by the editors of GamePro and Electronic Gaming Monthly magazines

also Nintendo Power magazine
but Nintendo Power never gave a bad review because they were obviously shilling for Nintendo

[Anonymous No.3582942]

>>3582912
>any opinion that happened to be shared by some other person on the internet who gained a following indirectly makes it theirs and thiers only
holy shit anon

[Anonymous No.3582995]

>>3582727

Oh shit yes. My family was too poor to buy me a game gear so I played the heck outta this thing.

[Anonymous No.3583108]

>>3582926
Hey, I liked GamePro.

>>3582942
That would be valid if you were actually old enough to have an opinion of your own, and not simply parroting whatever nonsense the eceleb of the month is spewing out on their YT channel.

No one particularly gave a shit one way or the other about the Tiger handhelds until Rolfe and whoever else decided they were the next piece of nostalgia they needed to let the kiddos know they were supposed to hate. I know this isn't the intention, but that's how it works out. The kiddos weren't even alive for the majority of the stuff these retro reviewers talk about. I don't understand why you wouldn't just hunt it down and play it for yourself, regardless of your age, and form your own fucking opinion. Why do you need some Internet personality to do it for you?

[Anonymous No.3583110]

>>3583108
yeah I liked GamePro too but in hindsight they tried too hard to be edgy

[Anonymous No.3583114]

>>3582550
Because some of them actually were legit awesome.

pic related is one of my favorite video games ever to this day.

>>3582576
That's one of the better ones.

[Anonymous No.3583116]

>>3582926
>Nintendo Power never gave a bad review because they were obviously shilling for Nintendo

This has zero basis in reality. Nintendo Power used to shit on games all the time. They crapped all over Mega Man 6, which was Nintendo published, and even did a "worst games on Nintendo system" article once.

[Anonymous No.3583121]

The baseball one was god tier

[Anonymous No.3583129]

tfw this was the first video game I owned

[Anonymous No.3583134]

>>3583116
You don't understand, anon. Those were bad reviews caused by Nintendo not paying Nintendo enough money for a good review.

[Anonymous No.3583159]

>>3582731
>Of course there was. I really didn't have a problem with most of them, and neither did anyone else, until the e-celebs decided they were shit.

I'm getting real sick of this meme
>e celeb doesn't like something
>I ALWAYS LIKED IT

Shut the fuck up, these were always awful unless you were too poor to afford a fucking gameboy and NOBODY enjoyed them if they didn't have to

[Anonymous No.3583163]

>>3583159
I'm getting real sick of this meme
>i'm too young to have even heard of these until an e celeb did an episode about them and called them crap
>THEY WERE ALWAYS SHIT

[Anonymous No.3583170]

>>3582550
are you kidding? I fucking loved my Ninja Turtles LCD games

This and Turtles 2

We were too poor to buy me a Gameboy so a lot of laundry nights when I had to go with my parents to the laundromat were spent playing this game.

Also long roadtrips, though I had a lot of trouble when it was dark outside

Good times

[Anonymous No.3583171]

>>3583159
>these were always awful unless you were too poor to afford a fucking gameboy and NOBODY enjoyed them if they didn't have to

Literally from the AVGN Tiger Games episode.

[Anonymous No.3583176]

>>3583170
I also traded my lunch to this one kid for a Super Mario World watch back in 1992

I had it for a year played it every day, but then I let a kid borrow it and he never gave it back

We were dumb kids and it never took that much to impress us, specially in an era before smartphones and the internet. These little games were more than enough.

[Anonymous No.3583179]

>>3583176
Nah, all these old LCD games are fucking trash. Youtube told me so.

[Anonymous No.3583195]

>>3583171
Because it's fucking true, and unlike you contrarians who are probably 18 year olds in Nintendo track jackets who romanticize everything retro I actually grew up with these pieces of shit

Nobody enjoyed these, there is a reason McDonalds gives them away for free in Happy Meals....they're fucking cheap crap

[Anonymous No.3583201]

>>3583179
You damn kids nowadays, with your fancy fucking iFones and androids and your internet and shit


You don't know the simple pleasures of sitting down with your LCD games, they weren't much and we had to walk 15 miles in the snow to play them

And we were glad to have them

Anyway what was I talking about?

Oh yeah. The year was 1993, Nirvana was the biggest fucking band in the world. They wore flannel, so it was the fashion at the time to wear flannel. Some kinds liked Saved By The Bell, so they dressed kind of like Zack Morris and AC Slater, and some girls like Kelly Kapowski. I wore the flannel shirts and moped because that was the style at the time.

And we were damn glad to have them.

[Anonymous No.3583202]

>>3583195
I'm 38, and still have a fair amount of the Tiger and G&W titles I had as a kid. I enjoyed them all immensely, and I also owned a GameBoy. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

On an equally important note, where might one acquire a Nintendo track jacket. Asking for a friend.

[Anonymous No.3583203]

>>3583201
Also froot loops only came in 3 colors

Cherry, Lemon, and Orange

This was before you fancy kids got the lemon green and purple and all those fancy colors

and we were damn glad to have 'em, let me tell ya

[Anonymous No.3583205]

>>3583116
ok fine but they were nowhere near as harsh on bad games as GamePro and EGM were
especially 1st party Nintendo games

[Anonymous No.3583206]

>>3582852

Memories just flooded back into my mind. Thank you, anon.

[Anonymous No.3583212]

>>3583171
>gutsman's ass
patrician meme

[Anonymous No.3583216]

you are now aware that when you were told by your parents they couldn't afford to buy you a game boy so they got you an LCD game instead they were lying and they just didn't want to buy you a game boy

[Anonymous No.3583217]

>>3583216
Except that the LCD games cost - at the most - one tenth what a game boy cost, before you even consider the cost of the game boy games.

[Anonymous No.3583236]

>>3583216
I've wondered about this

There was one black Friday sale, when black Friday was starting, that Gameboys dropped to $50

I always assumed that maybe it was inflation and $50 was a lot of money back then, I guess I'll never know

I also figure that we were poor, but as a dumb kid I guess I'll never know that either because I don't want to ask them.

They did buy me a nintendo in 1990, back then the Nintendo had dropped to about $130

They rarely bought me a game at retail price though, usually we'd go to flea markets and pawn shops and that's where I got most of my collection.

The only brand new games I got were Super Mario Bros. 3, Ninja Turtles 3, and Megaman 2.

I filled in the gaps by renting games on Wednesday, they had a special for 99 cent 2 day rentals and that's how I played most games..


Part of it is also that I don't think they saw the point to buying another gaming system and then having to get games again.

Part of it was also that they had a real concern that I was spending too much time playing games anyway

[Anonymous No.3583240]

>>3583217
I'm aware of the cost

I'm saying your parents cared more about spending on themselves than spending on you

[Anonymous No.3583247]

>>3583240
Not him but I'm not a selfish prick so I don't care

Maybe they were more interested in, oh, I don't know, paying the rent and keeping food on the table than going out and buying the latest Nintendo product.

I don't blame them and I don't think they were spending it on themselves

[Anonymous No.3583252]

>>3583247
Like I honestly don't know if we were poor or not, but sometimes I figure we were.

We had central air, but we only used window units but Mom reasoned that we'd save on A/C by only cooling the rooms we were in, instead of the whole fucking house.

We never had sodas, we only had Kool-aid, but this might be because she figured it was healthier, since you control how much sugar you put in it.

We didn't have the fancy more expensive cereals, she always got Malt-O-Meal, you know the stuff that comes in a bag though honestly it tasted the same to me.

Sometimes if I begged I'd get a box of the fancy stuff like Cookie Crisp or Cinnamon Toast Crunch, or my favorite Cocoa Puffs, shit was delicious, though later Malt-O-Meal made a cocoa puffs cereal.

They bought me a new nintendo but most of the games I played were rented on 99 cent Wednesdays at the local Broadway Video, and the few games bought came from flea markets and pawn shops.

We drove around in a 1984 mercury cougar, which was about 7 years old at the time.

So taking all that into account ok maybe we weren't like piss poor, but they just had to be careful with their money, that's all.

[Anonymous No.3583253]

>>3583247
>keeping the food on the table
the age old excuse

[Anonymous No.3583260]

>>3583253
We don't know. Maybe adjusted for inflation, I dunno maybe it's because I'm older or maybe food has gotten cheaper, or maybe it's because I don't have to spend on keeping kids but now things seem more accessible. Maybe when I have kids I'll have more trouble making ends meet.

I can't judge, I don't know.

[Anonymous No.3583262]

>>3583252
malt o meal is the shit though? good stuff

[Anonymous No.3583264]

>>3583262
That's what I'm saying.

I'll admit now that I didn't really taste the difference, it was just the placebo effect of getting the cereal with the fancy commercials and the cartoon character in the box, but honestly it tasted the same.

[Anonymous No.3583265]

>>3583260
well I don't know about inflation but it seems the new cool things for kids to have these days, especially videya games, is more expensive.
especially with all the microtransactions.

can you believe it? now instead of begging mom and dad for a new game, kids beg mom and dad for a virtual hat or gun skin or character costume or etc

brave new world? more like stupid new world

I was told the future would be cool
not expensive

[Anonymous No.3583270]

>>3583264
Oh also the boxed cereals had the cheap stupid toy that you really fucking wanted even though it was some cheap 10 cent crappy thing that wasn't worth the effort

[Anonymous No.3583276]

>>3583265
It's genius, I tell you!

Back in the day begging my mom and dad for $150 for a Sega Genesis, then $200 for a Sega CD, then $40-$50 a piece for games,

EXTREMELY had sell.

All I got was a Genesis in 1993 for Christmas with a packed in Sonic 2 (thankfully) and a couple of games the birthdays after

Nowadays the kids ask their parents for some dirt-cheap $50 bottom of the line Android, maybe a last-gen iPhone on contract or in payments, and then nag them for 99 cent microtransactions and end up spending much more than my parents ever did on my failed Genesis CD begging

It's genius I tell ya

[Anonymous No.3583278]

>>3583270
cereals these days dont even have toys
now they have a stupid crossword puzzle or maze on the back of the box

or a "collect 100 UPCs and pay shipping and handling to get a toy that used to be in the box" scheme

I hate to wax nostalgic but goddamn the future sucks. I was lied to.

[Anonymous No.3583280]

>>3583278
At least Mcdonald's happy meals still come with a toy

r-right?

RIGHT?!

[Anonymous No.3583282]

>tfw no Tiger Electronics emulator

[Anonymous No.3583283]

It figures that the only Mighty Max game that's worth a damn is a Tiger handheld.

[Anonymous No.3583284]

>>3583280
kek
that I don't know, haven't been to Mickey D's in a while
I think they still give out toys
probably shitty ones though

[Anonymous No.3583286]

>>3583282

Don't say /vr/ never gave you anything.

http://pica-pic.com/

[Anonymous No.3583287]

>>3583282
That's actually a pretty damn good idea

Nintendo pretty much emulated all their game 'n watch games on the gameboy

It seems easy, but the roadblock would be all the licensing deals to get out of the way.

[Anonymous No.3583290]

>>3583282
dude theres gotta be one out there
I believe in the power of nostalgic autism

[Anonymous No.3583293]

>>3583286
Thanks anon, that's pretty neat. Shame it's browser based though. But I feel better that there's at least one.

[Anonymous No.3583296]

>>3583116

>Club Nintendo, the mexican Nintendo Power became shit in the DS-Wii era when they were the most based thing ever in the 90s
>The last years of the magazine they had to carry advertisements for telenovelas like half of the magazine
>Less pages and worse Quality paper for more money
>Wii literrally had no games so they had to rate every shitty movie shovelware games +7.5 because Nintendo ordered them to shill everything not only 1st party
> they used to bash shovelware in the SNES N64 and GCN era

Feels bad

The Internet killed the magazine, the last issue was about Sm4sh, if they didn't have an autistic fanbase that collected every number it would have died around the time Wii was released

[Anonymous No.3583297]

>>3583296
Yeah I remember when EGM died, that hit me the hardest

Right before, every time I went to GameStop they would try to sell me a subscription

[Anonymous No.3583349]

>>3583129
this for me

[Anonymous No.3583380]

>>3583283
>>3583349

Mah nigs. The cartoon was pretty great from what I remember, too.

[Anonymous No.3585032]

>>3582550
holy fuck, I actually had that one in your pic OP. My older brother and I played it all the time outside of the house.

[Anonymous No.3585035]

>>3582550
>>3582612
>>3582727
>>3582852
>>3583114
Actually had those. Man, my older brother and I played these a lot when we went on road trips.

[Anonymous No.3585085]

What the fuck? This was a thing?

[Anonymous No.3585089]

>>3585085
Oh yeah every good classic game had an lcd counterpart

[Anonymous No.3585228]

Shinobi and Castlevania were both pretty fun.

Fuck Gauntlet. The invisible wall level was bullshit.

[Anonymous No.3585273]

>>3582727
Used to have that along with pic related, good times

[Anonymous No.3585276]

Are there any rare tiger electronic lcd games? How much do these usually go for now?

[Anonymous No.3585280]

>>3585085
Where can you even get this? How much would it go for?

[Anonymous No.3585289]

>>3582612
Wait, did it come with a vader on top? I don't remember that at all.

[Anonymous No.3585347]

I had the MMPR one that was red with green buttons and the Dick Tracy wrist watch that was loud and obnoxious as fuck (not that the rest weren't)

But while we're on the subject. They're selling these on ebay for like $60-80

It bothers me because Michael Keaton looks like one of my fuckin' retarded cross eyed cats. I'd gleefully waste the money on this if it weren't for that. I don't know what my real issue is, but it irks me.

[Anonymous No.3585604]

>>3582550
I had a NES back then, and I will admit I did feel more than my share of smugness knowing I didn't have any Tiger games when I can play something nice at home. However a classmate did lend me the Double Dragon Tiger game, and it was enjoyable, but I could still play that on my NES, even though it was not even close to the great feeling of playing the arcade release. The Tiger games seemed like stopgap pseudo games to me back then. So you have gotten me to confess, padre.

[Anonymous No.3585742]

>>3582550
My great-uncle got this game for me. Played the fuck out of it. nostalgia.png

[Anonymous No.3585789]

>>3585085
A lot of the games seem to have cool outsides/covers but are ruined by really contrasting/bright buttons.

I liked Power Rangers. In europe there were lots of other LCD games other than Tiger, Bart vs the Space Mutants was good as well. The only reason they got such a bad rap is because of AVGN's nonsense since it suited him to have something he could go all out nuts on for his character. They could definitely be a lot better than many NES games.

[Anonymous No.3585818]

>>3585289
It comes off and attaches to the d-pad. Or you can stick it in your ass, if your feeling frisky. I wish more d-pads had this feature.

[Anonymous No.3585998]

>>3583114
>shoot player
What did it mean by this?

[Anonymous No.3586023]

>>3582550
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/3DTankAttack.htm
This one was the fucking shit. The tank turret actually moved as you aimed at enemies. You had to juggle shooting other tanks, planes and supply drops.

[Anonymous No.3586026]

>>3585818
That was a great gamepad.

[Anonymous No.3586096]

Who TOMY here?

And other

[Anonymous No.3586174]

>>3585818
>that 2 inch nipple jutting out the D-pad

I don't know whether to play with it or suck on it.

[Anonymous No.3586180]

>>3582912
Bitch, even as a kid I thought these things were lame. Take the rose-colored glasses off, I wasn't alone back then either.

[Anonymous No.3586380]

>>3583195
26 here. Grew up with computers and on arcades. I still have the Dinosaurs handheld though it doesn't work anymore. It's the only one I've actually owned, but most of my friends had a Tiger and I loved playing them.

[Anonymous No.3586401]

you guys know about this right?

http://www.pica-pic.com/#

[Anonymous No.3586443]

>>3586401
Yes. It was already linked in this very same thread.

[Anonymous No.3586449]

>>3586443
oh my bad, didn't see that. Using joy2key it's quite fun playing these with a gamepad.

[Anonymous No.3586472]

I kind of want to buy a LCD game now...

[Anonymous No.3586501]

>>3583265

Have you read Brave New World? Because it kind of seems like you missed the point.

[Anonymous No.3586513]

>>3586180
These things were in antique shops and landfills by the time you were a kid, kid.

[Anonymous No.3586584]

That AVGN episode was great, fite me /vr/

[Anonymous No.3586586]

>>3586513
>no actual rebuttal, just assumes I'm a millennial babby because he doesn't agree

I rest my case.

[Anonymous No.3587181]

>>3585998
>He didn't play ranked deathmatch

[Anonymous No.3587225]

>>3583195
Fuck off, they were fun in bursts. I had a gameboy and my aunt would still buy me tiger games whenever she watched us

[Anonymous No.3587387]

>>3586586
>makes a non-argument
>receives response in kind
>"I rest my case"
Spoken like a true underage who thinks getting the last word means victory. You must be a wonder in the classroom.

[Anonymous No.3588605]

I had this one as a kid and played the fuck out of it. Man that was good shit..

[Anonymous No.3588610]

>>3585085

[Anonymous No.3588672]

>>3587387
>non-argument

My argument was that my younger self didn't like them, which was not a sentiment I was alone in at the time.

>response in kind
>in kind
>"These things were in antique shops and landfills by the time you were a kid, kid."

It's not about the last word, it's about the best word.

[Anonymous No.3588901]

>>3588672
>My argument was that my younger self didn't like them
But your younger self didn't exist when these things were new or relevant.

[Anonymous No.3588959]

Loving all the people in this thread assuming everyone who doesn't like tiger games HAS to be a hipster kid.

I'm 30, kids had these back in school. I never understood the appeal of these things. It felt like playing on a calculator. And I remember a kid playing one of these with a crowd of other kids around him. And I didn't even own a game boy yet, so I wasn't comparing them with other handhelds. I had already played some games on my dad's pc, though. What I was really crazy about back then were arcades. I mean, come on, there's no comparison.

[Anonymous No.3588962]

https://youtu.be/6DwrQcwwicc

Let the battle begin!

[Anonymous No.3589017]

>>3582926
>people had their opinions dictated to them by the editors of GamePro and Electronic Gaming Monthly magazines
I remember EGM always gave at least three contradictory opinions about every game

Including one from a man in a ninja mask who believed literally every RPG ever made was garbage and every fighting game ever made was great