Did Tiger Electronic handhelds age well? Watching the AVGN video and him mentioning everybody had one made me think if these are ever looked back on fondly now that we're in the age of much better handheld consoles.
>>12390392It would be cool if they came out with a digital collection of them similar to Game & Watch Gallery.
I'd say they're an example of something which actually aged rather well, to the point that they're probably appreciated more now than they were when they were current, for a number of reasons. At the time, they weren't considered as much more than crappy little games with hokey designs, things that screamed videogames but for poor kids, stocking stuffers, gifts from relatives who you see once every five years, or "mommy forgot to buy a birthday gift for her son's friend's birthday, time to buy something cheap at the drugstore on the way to the party" gifts. Most kids would be lucky to milk an hour of lifetime enjoyment out of one, and would probably see it as a cheap, shitty substitute for the real videogame that they actually wanted.Nowadays, though, these handhelds aren't something you got simply because somebody didn't want to fork over the money to buy you a real videogame, so they aren't linked to the same feelings of resentment. We're also in an era where handheld electronics have bland, soulless designs, so even the garish kiddytoy looks of these handhelds has become appealing, both for those with nostalgia for them, and for those who wish they didn't grow up in a time where 95%+ of handheld electronics are solid colored rectangles. The feeling of playing one isn't as easily emulatable as console games (or even handheld consoles with swappable games), since the unique look of the screen display + backing art, the button layouts/designs, and even the plastic shells themselves were part of the experience, and some of said aspects were unique to the particular handheld.Personally I still have very little interest in them beyond hanging on to the few that I still have, but I could absolutely see where a modern gamer/collector could find them appealing.
never owned one but remember them well from seeing them around
>>12390529For the most part they weren't big in my country since i'm european but I saw one recently at a retro store I go to, kind of took me by surprise since I hadn't seen any of these outside of all the people saying how terrible they were. I can definitely believe they were just cheap disposable gifts or a substitute for people less fortunate, and if thats all they intended to be then its practically harmless. My main thought was how the gameboy didn't make these things immediately obsolete, tiger consoles feel so horrible by comparison.
>>12390392These sucked ass even back then
>Did Tiger Electronic handhelds age well?There so outdated they were never in-dated!!!
>>12390392as games, nope. they were no deeper than your average flash game you would find on the web. yet, as those flash games, a few of them were surprinsingly fun, enough to be no worse than a lot of GB shovelware. there's no point however to collect them for more of nostalgia or some kind of charm toward their colourful hardware.
>>12390392Aged as in ¨damn, the cheap plastic buttons stopped working¨, or ¨why the fuck did we even play these¨?
>>12390392I’d use them as bookends for my video game shelf if I still had mine(well the Batman ones because that’s what I had as a kid). And yea these things sucked. Def for poorfags like me while I was growing up.
>>12390392The bad thing is that you can see everything the game has to show you in less than 15 seconds. After that is doing the same thing over and over again but faster.
I don't want to sound like "it's okay when nintendo does it" but is it just me or most of the G&W games are actuallt fun to play even if they are LCD calculator games?I never felt the same level of good feel/fun on Tiger ones, maybe I just played bad ones, is there any good one?I also guess there's more good japanese LCD games other than G&W?
>>12390841yeah, they're fun. they're actually well designed games. I was surprised when I played the ones I missed on GBC Game & Watch Gallery.
>>12390392>Did Tiger Electronic handhelds age well?Anon, even when they first came out, they were cheap crap and everyone knew it. They were barely more complex than Game & Watch, despite being ~15 years newer.
>>12390392Tiger Stix and the early 80s stuff before they started shilling for every license under the sun were good. I do think the Snake's Revenge one was also interesting.
>>12390401I actually feel like this would just draw more attention to how janky the games were. Half the appeal to these things was the package rather than what was inside it. The arcade cabinet-style layouts and surprisingly sturdy plastic helped you pretend there was more to the game than there really was. As individual physical objects they had some soul. As a collection or roms they would just be bad games
>>12390841G&W were generally good because they didn't try and over complicate stuff(though later games did try to go bigger). Tiger tried to cram a console or arcade game into a vague lcd adaption and generally it didn't work. Tiger Stix were more or less them going real basic like early G&W and i would say they are more enjoyable for that reason.That's not to say G&W was always the gold standard. They also released Pinball and Black Jack which are a super low bar and i can only imagine exist because they had extra parts to use. Squish though is one of the greatest lcd games of all time(and even something i rather play over some of their console games)
>>12390959There are sites where you can play digital recreations and you can still have some fun with them.
>>12390972>you can still have some fun with them
>>12390392They were novelties you messed around with once in a while when you got bored. We didn't have smart phones to waste time on.
This type of handheld format only worked for certain games, and Tiger were by far the worst. Poker and board games were more suited to fixed LCD, not action games. Pic related, had this as a kid, worked surprisingly well for what it was.
>>12390392Yes, everyone had them. Some of them you hated some of them you really liked. I had a game and watch donkey kong and it wasn't highly replayable, in my opinion. As a kid I could play card games, race games and sports games for quite some time. Don't forget Wheel of Fortune, some reason Tiger sold tons of those. I enjoyed it but I kinda wonder why. It is just a fancy version of hangman.
>>12390392I had them as a kid. They were always limited time wasters. Mostly messed with them before I owned a Game Boy, but even after I'd play with them sometimes.Very simple games, rarely very exciting. But it helped with boredom.
>>12391591Oh, I guess the main one I was remembering wasn't Tiger at all, but made for Radio Shack. Pretty sure I had the Lion King Tiger game and some others though.
>>12390529Nobody resented getting these. What a load of crap. They are just vastly inferior and limited compared to real systems, like all handhelds frankly. And many of these came out before Game Boy was even released, much less owned by many people. If you were the kid who smuggled Simon's Quest to recess everyone would want to borrow it.
