Were any oldschool wrist-watch games worth playing, or did the tiny screen and limited control capabilities cripple them?
>>12113489They're to me like how some people see Atari games. Fun in very short bursts. I want one though because I'm the king of autist that wears the Atari my play watch.
>>12113489They were every bit as "worth playing" as any LCD game. The "control capabilities" were no more limited than most LCD games of the time. The "tiny screen" was great because it meant you always had the thing on you ready to play.
>>12113489even as a young kid who was easily amused these types of games could hold my attention maybe a grand total of 10 minutes
>>12113489The Pac-Man one was alright.
>>12114537Games with a simple tile like layout lend themselves better to LCD/VFD/LED conversion. Things like pacman, frogger, space invaders, tetris, all look much less worse than something like sonic.
>>12113489Not a watch specifically, but man, I've been trying to find this one space shooter LCD handheld forever. My mom bought it for me at CVS in like 2000, the console looked exactly like this but it was a light blue and it wasn't Space Invaders, but something similar. It was actually a lot of fun. I also had the green and blue McDonald's Sonic handheld from the early 2000s (I think it was McDonald's, right?), that wasn't too bad either.
>>12115785got you senpai
>>12115802DUDE, you're a fucking champ. I've posted about this like 5 times and never got an answer, too. Unreal. Thank you man.
>>12113489Casio game watches were trash. Nelsonic actually had some decent ones. The ones I particularly know are Froger, Qbert, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario, Pac-man, SMB, and Space Invaders.
>>12115808was able to find it in no time by photoshopping the color to be light blue and then using the google lens photo search thing taking a pic of the screenThere's some on ebay for cheap rn
>>12115830That is pretty high IQ man. God speed.
SIXTY FOUR BITS
My scout troop had rented some tents and my dad found this in one and hid it in his pocket to give to me later away from the other boys. Was pretty fun and an actual game.
>>12115895based dad.
These LCD games were massive scams. They had packaging with lots of cool art and they'd put fake screenshots laid over the screen to make you think it was some great experience just like the video games kids played at home. We'd beg our parents for one and be super hyped because we were getting a whole new video game for only $19.99. What a deal.Then we tear the package open and the dread would set in the moment the device starts up with a "Boop." Then things start moving on their own with a "Boop. Boop. BOOP BOOOP BOOP." Game over without us even pressing a button.You'd get 3 frames of animation, maybe 5 if you they were really going all out. You'd desperately force yourself to play it and think "well, it must be fun. I just need to play it a little bit more." But after 30 seconds, you're beyond tired of it. You wasted your parents' money. Money that you could've spent on a game that didn't suck ass. You might pick it up once a few days later, but it was just sad to even look at it.
A blessed thread. I remember seeing the Zelda watches on sale for $20 when I was a kid but never got one. I had other hand held lcd games but the watches eluded me.
>>12115920AI slop
As an LCD game appreciator, i wish i had more in my collection. I have this one, a Power Rangers one and 4 of the Nelsonic Nintendo liscene ones (Tetris still in the box, StarFox, Zelda and Mario World which still says Super Mario Bros 4 on it)I always wanted to get the Nintendo ones that I think were available for purchase at McDonalds, in particular the Princess Toadstool running game since its technically her first solo appearance game.
>>12113489why would you even entertain the idea of playing that as an adult ?
>>12115920>We were retardedWhat you mean "we" brown man?>You wasted your parentsThat's not how (You) being retarded works>>12115941>as an adultAre the adults on /vr/ in the room with us now?
Apparently Casio started making these things in 1980, and they were considered more of a novelty item than a gaming experience. A three-row version of Space Invaders. The prices seem kind of high for the time, though. A company called Nelsonic made their own game watches to compete with the Casio GM series, and their Space Attackers watch sold in the Sears 1981 Christmas catalog for $59.99, which would be $213.81 today.
Yeah they sucked
>>12116007>Are the adults on /vr/ in the room with us now?Yes, I am! You damn kids these days with your phones and your tablets and your vaping accessories don't know how good you have it! You and your Kerbal Space Rocket games! I had Project Space Station on my C64, where I puttered around in EVA scooping up space trash like a goddamn space janitor and that's how I liked it! I thought these LCD things were a little bit lame even back then, though it didn't stop me from playing one if a friend at school offered
>>12115926Take your meds. AI nooticer schizos are more annoying than actual AI. Some people are so retarded they think every post containing more than 15 words must be made by a machine
>>12116007you need to go back
>>12117817go do your dishes
>>12117816These, and schizos who call you a zoomer mobilenigger literally just because you capitalize and punctuate your sentences.
>>12113489They were bad.
