https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngyoT06F7A this would be one of my fave ones but what i really wanted to know was how many of these thing did they make and are they cheap or is there any other games like these that are cheap??
I mean, are you trying to get specific ones? Or just any Tiger handheld in a certain genre? If it's a specific one, I can't imagine they're too expensive (someone has that one on ebay for $2.99, and an idiot has it for $175 sealed, going into the eBay hall of shame in a minute). If you're not picky, garage sales, flea markets, and crappy thrift shops probably have them, but I haven't had a desire to pick one of those up since I got a Game Boy. So yes, Tiger Electronics handheld games are cheap, given how many they produced (somehow Tiger got the rights to pretty much any property in the 80s and 90s and made handhelds out of those), maybe they made a few thousand of each, on average? That's a guess, some like Sonic or X-Men probably had millions made, and I don't know of any database of them.
I always thought those were kinda cool. Definitely good for short car rides or busting a small amount of boredom. IIRC, they gave them out w/ happy meals/ kids meals in the states at one point. Not really sure how healthy that is, but hey haha.
The watch sized game systems seems to be the only thing worth money as the wrist strap often broke, limited playability due to tiny LCD, and people didn't want to carry a tiny 2" game system in the pocket. Not to mention my school confiscated quite a few that were never reclaimed. I used to have Ninja Gaiden watch, stupidly easy after getting used to tiny game system. I don't know what happened to it, probably got thrown out I saw a completed one for over $80. My brother had a Batman watch which he traded away for a Gameboy game. EDIT: I still have Tiger Pinball game, one of the first in the handheld games. One of the few that were worth playing more than a few minutes.
I only had one Tiger branded LCD game and it was Castlevania 2. It sorta sucked, but I figured out how to play it competently. However, I also had a couple of Namco branded LCD games and they were very good when directly compared to the Tiger ones. The controls were a lot tighter and required less memorization. They seemed more arcade-like control-wise to me than the Tiger ones. I had Dragon Spirit and Splatterhouse (kept the boxes too, I thought they were cool looking for the era). I think my mom gave them away, they have appear to have some resale value unlike the Tiger ones. http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Namco/Dragon.htm http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Namco/Splatterhouse.htm I also had a Japanese language Barcode Battler made by Epoch, but I never figured out how to play it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode_Battler The other thing I had was one of those big Nintendo Game & Watch lcd games, Boxing, with the two wired controllers. It controlled fine, but got boring pretty quick. http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Boxing_(Game_&_Watch) Today I still have one of those re-issue Zelda mini Game & watch key chains. Its not too bad http://www.the-magicbox.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20533
LCD games can be fun to collect. I used too and still have a collection of the Coleco VFD Tabletop Arcade games, the ones that look like mini arcade cabinets. They are still fun to play. I also have some of the Japan only games listed on Handheld Museum like a Dig Dug tabletop. Collecting these games are like eating potato chips, once you get one you have to get more. They can be addicting to collect. I think I stopped at the Metal Gear Tiger game as it was amusing but mostly bad. The Zelda Game and Watch is fantastic and one of my favorites. The bottom screen is like Zelda 2 where you fight enemies using your sword in a 2D view and the top screen is for an actual boss battle against a dragon. Each time you beat the dragon you get a part of the Triforce until you rescue Zelda herself. Then the game starts over but harder. Its like a Coin Op version of Legend of Zelda.
