Tiger LCD Handhelds

[Dave Reinquest]

These make a nice collectible. In my opinion. Tiger LCd Games and others. Watches, R-Zone, Sega Pocket arcade, even Mcdonalds.

I am trying to put together a checklist for them, since DP doesn't have one and I can't find one elsewhere. Could I get you guys to list all the ones you have and their part numbers if possible, into a txt file or forum post?

or email lothridge9@hotmail.com

Thanks ^_^x

[Ed Oscuro]

Have you in your possession many handhelds? Why not contribute your information? I am not a fan of taking credit for other people's work - not implying this is your intent, but I feel that having things go back to the community is a good idea.

In any case, there is the Handheld Games Museum (http://users2.ev1.net/~rik1138/), which doesn't have part numbers but catalogues pretty much all the systems out there.

[Dave Reinquest]

My intent was to make a checklist of all the ones shaped like the standard Tiger Handheld series. The Watches, The Keychains, and the Sega Pocket Arcade ones. All submitted information will definately be credited.

But that's just me.

[Lady Jaye]

I used to have a Tiger handheld version of Gauntlet...

http://users2.ev1.net/~rik1138/Tiger/Tiger-Gauntlet.jpg

[Scoots]

Might I also request that you submit the info you have to us at Fatman Games for our fledgling list of lcd/led games. No part numbers, but there is the beginning of a list there, mostly with manufacturer listed, and some with pictures.

Also, www.miniarcade.com (with which I am wholy unaffiliated) is friggin awesome.

[christianscott27]

i did some work on a pre-lcd handheld guides here and there is also a complete game and watch guide here. joe mentioned at some point there was a person who wanted to do a complete tiger type game list. stick with this idea, its totally worth having a list made!

tiger handhelds arent my cup of tea right now, although i'm sure i'll come around in the future, my collection seems to get more broad over time. later on i'll poke around and see if i cant find some starter material. if you do get a list going and want some help feel free to PM me, i love searching for things.

[christianscott27]

source sites -
http://www.retrogames.co.uk/stock/html/guide_to_handhelds.html
http://users2.ev1.net/%7Erik1138/Tiger/index.html
http://www.gameinhand.net/


101 DALMATIONS
2-1 FISHING
A TEAM
AREA 51
BATMAN
BATMAN RETURNS
CONTRA
DEFENDER
DEFENDER KEYCHAIN
DOUBLE DRAGON 2
FOOTBALL
FROGGER KEYCHAIN
GLADIATORS
HALF COURT BASKETBALL
HOCKEY 4-1
INDEPENDENCE DAY
JACK & JOE
JET SKI RACE
KABOOM KEYCHAIN
LUCKY LUKE (DOUBLE)
MARBLE MADNESS
MARS ATTACKS
MILLIPEDE KEYCHAIN
MINER 2049ER (DOUBLE)
MINIATURE GOLF
NIGHT B4 XMAS
NINJA
PANTERA ROSA
PAPERBOY1
PAPERBOY 2
ROCKET PINBALL
R-ZONE TABLETOP
SHIFTY
SIMONS QUEST
SKEET SHOOT
SMURF (DOUBLE)
SMURFS
SMURFS 2 LCD
SOCCER SHOOTOUT
SPACE INVADERS LCD
SUGER RAY BOXING
TAILSPIN
THUNDERING TURBOS
TOP GUN
WRESTLING
ZOMBIES

riks list
2 In 1 Safari & Darts
2 In 1 Space Invader & Gone Fishin'
7 In 1 Sports Stadium

A-Team (Flip-type LCD)
A-Team (Shaped)
Afterburner (Yeno Super Fighter)
Aladdin
Altered Beast (Watch and Handheld)
Area 51

Baseball, Computer
Baseball (LCD)
Baseball, Head to Head Talking
Basketball, All Pro
Basketball, Half Court
Batman
Batman (Watch)
Batman, The Animated Series
BATMAN RETURNS
Beavis & Butthead
Beetlejuice
Bowling, Electronic
Bowling, Fast Lane
Boxing, Talking Sugar Ray

Captain Planet
Car Racing
Cat & Mice
Caveman
Copycat
CONTRA

DEFENDER
Dinosaurs
Dirt Track Go Karting!
Double Dragon (Handheld and Watch)
Double Dragon II
Double Dragon 3
Dragon
Dr. Fad
Duke Nukem 3D

Ed Grimley

Football, Electronic
Football, Head to Head Talking
Football, Play Action
Fun House

Galaxx (3D Game)
Gauntlet
G. I. Joe Star Brigade
GLADIATORS
Go, Sprout!

HALF COURT BASKETBALL
Hang On
Heavy Barrel
Henry
HOCKEY 4 in 1
Home Alone 2

INDEPENDENCE DAY

JACK & JOE
JET SKI RACE
Jawbreaker (LCD Handheld)
Jawbreaker (LCD Tabletop)
Jordan vs Bird
Judge Dredd

Karate King
Karnov
Keychains: Defender, Frogger, Joust, Kaboom!,
Moon Patrol, Pong, Space Invaders, Tempest
King Kong (LCD)
King Kong (LCD, Color Flip-up)
King Kong (LCD Tabletop)
King Kong (Orlitronic)

Lite 3
Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny
Lucky Luke (Large Screen)
Lucky Luke (Color Flip-type LCD)
Lucky Luke (Flip-type LCD)

Madden '95
Marble Madness
Mars Attacks!
Mega Man 3
Mickey Mouse (Flip-type LCD)
Mickey Mouse (Shaped)
Miner 2049er (Flip-type LCD)
Monster Maze
Monster Maze (Tabletop)
Mouse Maze
Mr. Bullfrog
Ms. Pac-Man (Shaped)
MILLIPEDE KEYCHAIN
MINIATURE GOLF

NBA Jam
Nightmare Before Christmas
Nights Into Dreams
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden II

Onc' Picsou
Outrun
Outrun F1
Owly

Pac Man (Flip-type LCD)
Pac Man (Large Screen)
Pantera Rosa (Pink Panther)
Paperboy
Paperboy 2
Pink Panther (Large Screen)
Pinball, Electronic
Pit Fighter
Playmaker
Playmaker Football
Police Academy
Power Rangers
Puffi (Smurf game)
Punch Your Lights Out
Quarterback, John Elway's

Raceway
Road Race
Robocop
Rocket Pinball
R-Zone system
R-Zone Super Screen

Shaq Attaq Monster Jam
Shifty
Shinobi
Simon's Quest
Simpsons
Simpsons Watch
Skeet Shoot
Skeleton Warriors
Smurf/Schtroumpf (Flip-type LCD)
Smurf/Schtroumpf (Large Screen)
Smurf/Schtroumpf (Shaped)
Smurfs/Schtroumpfs (Handheld)
Smurfs/Schtroumpfs (Tabletop)
Soccer
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Space Fight
Space Harrier
Space Invaders
Space Invaders (Large Screen)
Space Invaders w/ Caculator
Space Jam
Speed Boat
Spell Down
Spiderman
Star Castle (LCD handheld)
Star Castle (LCD Tabletop)
Starship
Star Trek: TNG
Star Wars Imperial Assault
Stone Age Dinosaurs
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II Super
Sub Wars (LED)
Sub Wars (LCD)
Submarine Wars (LCD)
SMURFS 2 LCD
SOCCER SHOOTOUT
SPACE INVADERS LCD
SUGER RAY BOXING
STAR WARS R2-D2 VIRTUAL PET

Tank Attack
Taz Mania
Tennis, Head to Head Talking
Tennis Live!
The Terminator
Think Tank
Thunder Blade
Treasure
TAILSPIN
THUNDERING TURBOS
TOP GUN

Vindicators
VR Troopers- When Worlds Collide

World Games
Wrestling
WWF Superstars
WHEEL OF FORTUNE (cart based)
X-Men

You Don't Know Jack

ZOMBIES

more later!

[digitalpress]

You definitely want to hook up with our member "Antimind", Dave. She is putting together an encyclopedia, of sorts, of Tiger handhelds. You should be able to reach her via PM or EMAIL on this forum.

[Gapporin]

I've seen a Mega Man 2 Tiger Electronics game as well.

[rbudrick]

I remember I actually beat the double dragon and possible the Simon's quest Tiger LCDs. I knew they were shit back then, but there was something so cool about a mini SQ and DD. They are real tough to beat too.

-Rob

[davidbrit2]

I love these things. Probably more than I should. Heh. I remember actually beating Mega Man 2 a few times. MUCH harder than it sounds. I'd kill for a Tiger Marble Madness. That thing looks sweet. And anybody else have the Castlevania Symphony of the Night that was released just a few years back? I wonder how rare it is...

[den68]

I've got quite a few of these as well. I'll try to get a list together of what I have. a couple I didn't see on the list that I know I have are:

Congo the Movie - this one has a holographic background behind the LCD graphics and a small light that shines on the screen

Bo Jackson Football/Baseball - this is a two in one with separate controls for each game on opposite ends.

[SoulBlazer]

There was also a Metal Gear one that talked to you. I remember the comercials. Fun game, I wish I still had mine.

[ianoid]

tiger handhelds arent my cup of tea right now, although i'm sure i'll come around in the future, my collection seems to get more broad over time.

Likewise. I'm into Genesis (despite hardly ever playing the system), and I told a friend some time ago to shoot me if I ever start collecting that system.So Christian, PM me- you must have storage issues like I do.

I definitely won't get into Tiger hh's. Aren't there at least 400 of them pre-2000? Really, most are similar and not that fun. If I ever start collecting those, shoot me. Of course, I'm into pre-1990 Tiger stuff that wasn't white plastic- the really old stuff. It's just not easy to find.

Several people have proposed being the Tiger handheld flag waver, but as far as I know, noone has ever gone the distance. It would be fun to have a list or a site, but unless you're hardcore and have most of the handhelds and access to some other Tiger psychos, it will just be a starter list. People like to be the 'I started the list' guy, but if you don't get 75% of it done and done accurately, it's just a fun list, not a reliable one.

ian

[christianscott27]

tiger handhelds are like pongs for me, i know the odds of me ever actually playing them are remote but i feel drawn to them. its a result of the poor thrifting scene really, you go into a big thrift spend half an hour looking to come up with nothing! then theres that lone tiger handheld calling to you from the toy bin saying "you can collect me, i'm based on an NES game!". so i go over to the game, examine the condition, consider the price and toss it back. one day i'm gonna breakdown and take the plunge, if say i found one of those plastic bags on the wall with 6 of them for $3 i just might go for it. which would then lead me to seek them out and become a defacto collector of them...same thing happened with game related happy meal toys, what can just one mario hurt? now i've got dozens and i waste valuable flea market time pawing thru piles of disney cast offs looking for my luigi figure.

anyways, lets keep this list going for now! i'm thinking that toy catalogs might be the best place to start, its a lot easier than the bay. heres a great one from riks site that shows off that early 80s cool, dig the poor man's game and watches!

http://users2.ev1.net/~rik1138/Tiger/Cat1.htm

ROARING GOOD FUN!

[Ed Oscuro]

Alright, instead of being a cranky old bastard I'll put up some information about the handhelds I've got, especially since I doubled my collection (more than doubled, for pre-1990) today!

Batman, model 7-799 according to the instruction booklet. 1989. There isn't anything else besides a sticker I assume is an inspector number, and a patent number on the back sticker.

Mortal Kombat. Back panel says 1988 but the front artwork has a 1992 copyright note for the original Midway game design.

Mortal Kombat from the Tiger Barcodzz (two Zs) series. 1992 on the front artwork but 1994 for the back cover. There's one big back cover with odd circular shapes in the moulding that makes me think of a cassette tape; there are spots for three batteries on either side of a box that apparently holds the barcode scanner. Again no serial number, just a QC passed sticker and another sticker similar to the Batman above.

Tiger baseball. This haneheld has all of three buttons, and one is the Off and On/Start (it's one plastic piece that apparently can trigger two buttons underneath) button. 1991, takes a button cell battery.

Double Dragon, 1988. No stickers that I could see.

[Richter]

I once owned a Lion King Tiger handheld

[ManekiNeko]

Whoa, whoa, whoa... back up the truck for a minute. They made an Ed Grimley handheld? You're talking about the dorky Martin Short character from Saturday Night Live with the Alfalfa hair, right? He's in a handheld video game? What combination of recreational drugs inspired that?!

Er, anyway. I used to buy tons of these handheld games. One of my favorites was Tiger Pinball. It didn't have any fancy licenses like most of Tiger's other games... just lots of endlessly fun gameplay. Way before the Tiger handhelds of the late 80's, I remember a portable version of their 2600 dud King Kong. Let me tell you, it wasn't much better as an LCD handheld.

Even Acclaim and Konami got into the act briefly with their own dedicated handhelds. I'd love to get my hands on Acclaim's conversions of Wizards and Warriors and 1943. Konami's portables seemed kind of cheap, though... the only one I really was interested in was Star Trek.

JR

[Ed Oscuro]

Yeah, the Konami TNMT handheld looks about ten years older (aside from the LCD) than it is. Funky Grandstand-esque cases and the moulded text on the back adds to the feeling of age. As for the game itself, well, I could do many things but the challenge level was far too high. I kept getting knocked off a combination of a flying critter and this wierd six-pointed star thing on the floor.

I'm also wondering what that woman in a tire (well, a well, I guess, heh)was doing on the right hand side of the screen and I wonder why I couldn't hit her.

Then there's the original Tiger Mortal Kombat handheld. WOW, that was actually sort of cool with the different details added to the faces. However everybody on the right side of the screen had boobies; and yet Sonia STILL looked like a man. Even in the character portrait up above! However this game is still good fun. Just scroll through to somebody on the left side, like Kano ;) They've even got some sort of projectile attacks in there.

Double Dragon, as I mentioned before, looks really pretty good.

[Nz17]

My mom used to buy these for me as we were too poor to have one of the "real" handheld game systems. They were never that great, but in your mind, you felt like you were kinda playing the real thing. I had a few of them, and one of the Mega Man ones was a dedicated Tiger LCD game which I had.

[wizardofwor1975]

My mom used to buy these for me as we were too poor to have one of the "real" handheld game systems. They were never that great, but in your mind, you felt like you were kinda playing the real thing. I had a few of them, and one of the Mega Man ones was a dedicated Tiger LCD game which I had.

I had a couple of these Tiger hand held games as well back in the early 90s. Decent way to pass the time on the cheap. :)

Are these the ones your talking about?

http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Mega_Man_Tiger_games

[Tanooki]

Kind of surprised I never responded to this, but it has been hiding for awhile.

I had some of them as a kid. I remember owning Baseball, Castlevania II, Mega Man II, and I think I had Gauntlet. Beyond that we played them at the boys n girls club in a little group so I got to experience (if it wasn't mine) Gauntlet, but also Batman, Ninja Gaiden, Karnov, and I'm sure a few others I forget not looking up all them over at that handheld museum website listing.

Around a year ago I got struck with cheap luck. I ended up finding 4 of them, all with their original manuals for $1/ea on 3 and I was given a 4th free. I ended up getting Castlevania II, Karnov, Baseball, and Football(free one.) A couple years before I had also found a mega man 2 but the screen was almost out and it shorted, but also got a Ninja Gaiden off a friend which was cool.

I'd like to get back Mega Man II again, keep forgetting to spring on one when it is cheap. Sure they're not super accurate to the original content, but some have some fairly good playability (like Mega Man II does.) I also have this other super sound one(they only made like 2 with better audio before getting into talking units like street fighter 2 and metal gear.) That super sound one I think is the most fun of the lot, it's Sub Wars. You have your sub, it has some shielding for damage and if each piece of the sub is busted you sink. You can send out a ping but it allows them to see you too, or you spin about and try and find stuff blind on a spherical grid, and you can also commence repairs on those damages too. It's fun but hard, yet a fair challenge too not a cheap limited due to the LCD type annoyance.

While not Tiger I actually a couple days ago at the flea lucked into a radio shack/tandy classic that's a total game & watch knock off called Highway for a dollar. It's nice, avoid dogs logs and signs, pick up women, drop off at right road side signs, and screwy enough if you get three a slot machine pops up which I have no idea how it pays out as I never hit it.

[wizardofwor1975]

Around a year ago I got struck with cheap luck. I ended up finding 4 of them, all with their original manuals for $1/ea on 3 and I was given a 4th free.

Great find! I had Gauntlet as well. It was my favorite of all the Tiger handhelds with Mega Man a close second.

[Nz17]

Yeah, the Mega Man 2 one.

[Tanooki]

One of these days I think what I'll end up doing is just poke around ebay and find a lucky lot people ignored because they didn't want some game in it being all picky babies about it. I see them on occasion and the prices end up cheap as no one wants what they think is filler. Sure they're cheapo basic LCD games, but there's a challenge to them. They're the evolution of the Game & Watch from point racking to their back end (Mario, Zelda, Climber) style stuff into the Tiger. Tiger was really it because Gameboy put an end to people caring about stuff like that.

This is all my pre-Gameboy type handhelds and tabletops, excluding Highway as I forgot to add it.

Nintendo Game & Watch/Watches

- Ball (Club Nintendo - CIB)
- Super Mario Bros.
- Zelda
- Zelda (Nelsonic LCD Wrist Watch Game)


Hand Held Games

- Attack From Mars Pinball (LCD-Tiger Electronics)
- Baseball (w/Manual-LCD-Tiger Electronics)
- Battleship Handheld Game (LCD-Milton Bradley)
- Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (w/Manual-LCD-Tiger Electronics)
- Dungeons & Dragons (CIB-LCD-Mattel Electronics)
- Frogger (Handheld Arcade-Excalibur Electronics)
- Gradius (LCD-Konami)
- Hangman (LCD-Milton Bradley)
- Karnov (w/Manual-LCD-Tiger Electronics)
- Mattel Electronics Baseball (LED-Mattel Electronics)
- Pin*Bot Pinball (LCD-Tiger Electronics)
- Pocket Simon (CIB-1980 Handheld)
- Space Invaders (w/Manual-Handheld Arcade-Excalibur Electronics)
- Spelling B in sleeve w/booklet (Educational Handheld-Texas Instruments)
- Sub Wars (LCD-Tiger Electronics)
- Wildfire Pinball (CIB-LED-Parker Bros)


Tabletop Games

- Frogger (CIB-Tabletop Arcade-Excalibur Electronics)
- Donkey Kong w/Manual (Tabletop Arcade-Coleco)
- Pac-Man w/Perma Power Pack (Tabletop Arcade-Coleco)
- Q-Bert (Tabletop Arcade-Parker Bros.)


I've had other things but that's current. I don't use much of it very often at all but it's a nice escape to randomly throw some batteries into and I've got them in my desk for ease of use.

[JSoup]

I only ever had two. Sonic 2 and Marble Madness, although I'm not sure if the Marble Madness one was by Tiger or not.

[wizardofwor1975]

I only ever had two. Sonic 2 and Marble Madness, although I'm not sure if the Marble Madness one was by Tiger or not.

Your right, Tiger did have a Marble Madness handheld game.

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/MarbleMadness.htm

[FrankSerpico]

There are people on ebay charging an arm and a leg for some of these titles, I'm not sure if they actually get any bites, though. I saw a listing about a year ago where someone was asking well above $100 for Tiger's MC Hammer handheld.

[JSoup]

Your right, Tiger did have a Marble Madness handheld game.

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/MarbleMadness.htm

Yep, that's the one I have. Things a beast to play, but still fun.


There are people on ebay charging an arm and a leg for some of these titles, I'm not sure if they actually get any bites, though. I saw a listing about a year ago where someone was asking well above $100 for Tiger's MC Hammer handheld.

The problem isn't finding the handhelds, that's easy, even today. It's finding a working one or one that hasn't been warped by the flea market sun that's the issue driving up prices.

[bb_hood]

I currently own the Simon's Quest and Mega Man 3 tiger handhelds.
A few years ago I was collecting these and I had like 30 of them. Ended up selling most of them. Some of them are really hard to find.

Simon's Quest Tiger handheld was the first video game anything that I ever owned. I used to play it on the schoolbus to and from school in the 1st or 2nd grade. I was able to beat the game occasionally, it all depends on how often the crystal shows up (if you whip the crystal you recover all your life).

[Steve W]

I've got a Marble Madness also. I've never played it, though. Actually, I have several Tiger handhelds and have never played a single one of them. I've picked a bunch up over the years, since I've moved into collecting old-school electronic handhelds, but since I know the games won't be very fun I just haven't bothered popping batteries into them and giving them a whirl.

I never had any of those Tiger games when they were on the market, since I was already a teenager when those hit and there were many other ways for me to play games. I don't go out of my way to collect them, I much prefer those handhelds from the late '70s and early '80s when I was a kid, but if I come across a baggie in a thrift store with some oddball portables and calculators in it for a few bucks, I'm at least happy I'm finding something there, since console games have all dried up in thrift stores lately.

[bb_hood]

Fun Factoid: In the MST3k episode 'Danger! Death Ray' TV's Frank is seen playing a Tiger Handheld in the beginning of the episode. Can't tell which game it is though.

[Tanooki]

Actually a good few of those Tiger games are actually pretty fun if you keep them in the context of the format just like the earlier game & watch and radio shack knockoff LCD games. They're hardly what you'd call deep but they do work and present a challenge, a few are even close to being addictive like that Sub Wars game I brought up. I've avoided buying them on ebay up to this point as I'd rather bump into them at a flea market for a few bucks, but I'm not against it.

I actually did forget to mention I do have a cool sealed one that is the Star Wars Imperial Assault which is all in black and has an optional pop on Vader joystick that fit into a round notch on the d-pad. I had a loose one a couple years ago that's why I know it's good. It's a solid game where you fly rebel craft and pop off various ties and corvettes among other things and it is not a push over for challenge.

I also had this one that somehow got broken I hate I don't have now which was Virtua Cop. It folded out with a stand and had a little LED gun with it, and it had 4 LEDs around the screen and would detect hits in a crude way like the Wii works with its IR bar. It was sadly about 80% accurate due to lighting I think, but it worked pretty well and was one of the most fun of them since it's a light gun game so it's not much of a stretch away from the legit game like most were. The gun even had this cool little speaker in it and made gun sounds when you would fire it (and there were also a star wars, area 51, and I think a duke nukem version too.)

[davidbrit2]

Odd choice of an 11-year-old thread to bump, but okay.

Anyway, Mega Man 2, Gauntlet, and Ninja Gaiden are all quite good. I've beaten the first two, but not Ninja Gaiden.

How is Karnov? Worth tracking down?

[bb_hood]

Odd choice of an 11-year-old thread to bump, but okay.

Anyway, Mega Man 2, Gauntlet, and Ninja Gaiden are all quite good. I've beaten the first two, but not Ninja Gaiden.

How is Karnov? Worth tracking down?

I had Karnov back in the day. Its a good one. I wouldnt mind having it myself.
My brother had Gauntlet and that ones good also. The invisible walls are annoying though.

[Rickstilwell1]

You know what would be even better? An online website that shows pictures of the fronts of the units. The community could just steal good ebay auction pictures to put most of it together if necessary.

Sonic the Hedgehog

didn't seem to be on the lists above. Just 2 and 3 were listed. The first one had a Tiger adaptation as well.

[Tanooki]

Odd choice of an 11-year-old thread to bump, but okay.

Anyway, Mega Man 2, Gauntlet, and Ninja Gaiden are all quite good. I've beaten the first two, but not Ninja Gaiden.

How is Karnov? Worth tracking down?

For as good as an LCD can be to the original content Karnov is a damn good Tiger LCD game. They don't take my liberties with stuff getting creative so it tries to stick fairly well with the true games content which to me is a good thing. Yes you're limited on what can be displayed with monsters/bosses, but it plays well and isn't a snore. It's not like the excellent Castlevania II that plays almost nothing like the NES game while still being great or Gauntlet which is well different than its original arcade/console source material. I'm sure someone got bored and did a youtube video of it you can find on Karnov.

[Tanooki]

Resurrecting this again, that list I posted before isn't accurate anymore, switched out a few things, but not the Tiger games.

The reason for the revival is that I found and paid $5 for Tiger - Street Fighter II today. It works, cleaned up really nicely too. Problem is I can't seem to find instructions for it so far online and I can't figure out how to properly win a match in it. I won a round, at best, but that's it so far. It's weird, definitely can't play it like street fighter, more like move and strike kind of panels to it which is different.

Anyone here have it and know what to do as far as special attacks and if it blocks at all? I get that left kick is only during jumps, and there is a forward punch or kick in air and on ground too (using right kick.)

I still have yet to remember to find Mega Man 2 again, usually when I do it's up, and when I don't it's down which figures.

[Steve W]

As far as listings of Tiger games goes, you can always depend on the Handheld Museum.

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/index.html

[Tanooki]

Oh I know that, I went there first to just find a picture of the LCD by itself with question marks (I could email him to clear up) and that it wasn't owned. I just was curious about the controls. I found one partial copy of the manual through an ebay auction which had the folded over paper flipped so I could read a few things but nothing of value other than blocking is in there and obviously that up and down are jump and crouch.

[shadowman]

Resurrecting this again, that list I posted before isn't accurate anymore, switched out a few things, but not the Tiger games.

The reason for the revival is that I found and paid $5 for Tiger - Street Fighter II today. It works, cleaned up really nicely too. Problem is I can't seem to find instructions for it so far online and I can't figure out how to properly win a match in it. I won a round, at best, but that's it so far. It's weird, definitely can't play it like street fighter, more like move and strike kind of panels to it which is different.

Anyone here have it and know what to do as far as special attacks and if it blocks at all? I get that left kick is only during jumps, and there is a forward punch or kick in air and on ground too (using right kick.)

I still have yet to remember to find Mega Man 2 again, usually when I do it's up, and when I don't it's down which figures.

Its been years since I've played this, but I think this might work - on the d pad press left, then right + attack. I believe this should unleash a special move for most/all characters. I believe that should do stuff like Ryu's Hadoken or Zangiefs dancing kicks attack. Not sure if there are more than one attack per character, I only remember each having one attack back in the day.

These days the only tiger handhelds I have are the Mega Man games. They aren't really that good (MM2 gives you limited ammo for your main weapon for some evil reason). I mainly just grabbed them for my Mega Man collection.

[Tanooki]

MM2 is the one I still lack I had as a kid, and the pricing on it yo-yos horribly from good to laughable depending on the week/seasons? Everytime I don't look it's like $10-15, anytime I do some tool pays like $25-35 on it which is dumb. I do agree it was stupid to have limited ammo, especially with the standard pea shooter as it was a bad call. It was/is? a fun game though and I could finish it, never had the sequel.

Some Tiger games I find hold up well either copying an original (Afterburner, Karnov, and Ninja Gaiden are fairly faithful) or going on its own to do it still right in the spirit of things (like Castlevania II). I like to get them cheap as they're cheap ass minimal game quality but they make for stupid fun distractions.

I think that may by the way have been what I was doing on accident as I could get Ryu to sometimes use the fireball, couldn't figure out if it worked for Guile but he wasn't doing squat when I played so I have no idea if he does the flash kick or the sonic boom. If you take it at face value with SF2 it's awful compared, but as a stand alone dinky LCD game with limited panels it's not awful by any means, yet not fantastic. I've played worse, like the Sonic game is just reprehensibly rotten.

[shadowman]

I put loads of time into the Sonic 2 handheld. I don't recall it being terrible, but that's nostalgia speaking!

I actually ended up with a couple of copies of the Mega Man handhelds over the years because of my Mega Man collection:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/gouki16/TigerHandhelds.jpg (http://s6.photobucket.com/user/gouki16/media/TigerHandhelds.jpg.html)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/gouki16/Misc-1.jpg (http://s6.photobucket.com/user/gouki16/media/Misc-1.jpg.html)

The carded games are actually open at the top. So I can keep them carded and play the games when I want. For some reason the Italian? editions of the games come in boxes as opposed to plastic cards. I prefer this, they are easier to store (and preserve the packaging). I've got a MM2 boxed Tiger handheld as well, but no picture of it for some reason...

I'd love to grab a few more handhelds one day. I've been slowly grabbing Game and Watch handhelds first, but I'd love to get more Tiger handhelds of classic retro games for the heck of it. Some of them are still strangely addictive even if the gameplay is rather simplistic these days.


*edit* Forgot about the first Teenage Mutant Hero (bah) Turtles LCD handheld. I adored that game, played it so much! The second one was good but not as memorable as the first one. Darn, now I need to track that down again!

[Tanooki]

Hey nice I like that. That's the truth though they're overly simplistic but in that they're fun. They're just a step/half-step over what 95% of the Game & Watch games did as they tried to make them more than basic point racking stuff attempting to ape actual NES/Arcade games or going off the rails on some weird movie license. You want nuts? Look up what Sega/Tiger did as they converted 2 LCD pocket games into oddball beasts. The common one of the two is a full frontal cockpit with stickers, lights, sounds and a giant stick for Afterburner which I think would be cool to have, and then there was this partial red front of the ferrari from Outrun.

I have an out of date picture too from over a year ago for the LCDs I had at the time. I sold off Football for $5 fairly recently below, acquired Sub War before that shot but didn't include it as it wasn't in that find day. And I don't have a good picture of Street Fighter II but it's easy enough to find. The only issue with it is a teeny chip out of the left front corner/side of the OFF button. I don't buy these things without battery covers.

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee167/tanooki-suit/Tanookis%20Finds/tigerlcds-cv2-krnv-bball-ftball_zpsf6cb108a.jpg

I'd just like to snap that Mega Man 2 up sooner or later as it was fun for what it was. I used to have a 1942 Acclaim handheld, it was fairly nice, but I'd rather replace it with afterburner though I'm not sure which version though that big one would be a pain in the ass to ship or find a spot for. I'd like to find Gauntlet as well as I remember liking it even if it is weird.

I did have that TMNT one (there are 3) and it wasn't bad, didn't grab me much. I do have 2 other Konami Handhelds though in that tall body LCD they did. I've got Gradius (which had a pulled wire I had to resolder on, and then I bought a very busted barely sealed clamshell Star Trek 25th Anniversary, so I removed the rotted plastic and kept the insert and that one is tricky but fun.

I posted what I had in the past and pasted it in here, but this is easier and accurate now: http://tanooki.byethost16.com/tabletop.html

[shadowman]

Awesome stuff. I'm getting the urge to track down a few more now! I've googled the Afterburner and Outrun "cab" handhelds and those look pretty cool. Thankfully I don't have any space for those so I won't be tempted to try and purchase them! I'm going through a big Capcom collecting phase at the moment, I'm definitely interested in trying to track down a few more Capcom LCD handheld games. A quick search shows Strider also got a tiger handheld. I wonder what that plays like?

Also, here's an updated picture with my boxed Tiger LCD versions of both Mega Man 2 and 3:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/gouki16/MM%20Collection/176e6eb3-ac2f-4a72-8cc7-4a76baf6ca6d_zps6fb599fd.jpg (http://s6.photobucket.com/user/gouki16/media/MM%20Collection/176e6eb3-ac2f-4a72-8cc7-4a76baf6ca6d_zps6fb599fd.jpg.html)

[Tanooki]

Looks solid, that boxed up one is up on ebay now too as well from overseas.

I've heard about Strider and seen it, never got it. There's quite a few NES conversions and arcade of course.

Outside of Tiger though and in Japan there are other Mega Man (Rock Man) handheld LCD games that are a pain in the ass to find but if you can I heard they're decent for LCD games. I know it's not a lot to go on but I haven't seen or bothered to look for a picture of them in years.

[shadowman]

Looks solid, that boxed up one is up on ebay now too as well from overseas.

I've heard about Strider and seen it, never got it. There's quite a few NES conversions and arcade of course.

Outside of Tiger though and in Japan there are other Mega Man (Rock Man) handheld LCD games that are a pain in the ass to find but if you can I heard they're decent for LCD games. I know it's not a lot to go on but I haven't seen or bothered to look for a picture of them in years.


I've managed to track down all the Rockman handhelds I'm aware of - there was a calculator/LCD game based on X2 that is kinda interesting, plus a virtual pet style LCD game based on X4. Plus some kind of weird LCD game/pocket organiser hybrid based on X3. I love all the weird stuff like this that came out of Japan for the series.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I have so much of this type stuff I still need to sort out,some on ebay-same user ID name as here..

Those lil fast food store LCD games I have a bunch of too...

[Tanooki]

I saw a big bag of those fast food Sonic McD's 1" LCD screen games over the weekend for a dollar or two in a bag. I didn't think it was worth it. :) I have to keep an eye out for that mega man 2 a bit more proactively, same with also an older mattel electronics hockey I'd like to replace.

[SuperCool]

I had several of those. Mega Man 2, X-men, and a few others I can't remember now. Also had the Konami TNMT one.

[Tanooki]

Since you brought it up, it reminded me I should add the fact I am +1 Tiger and +1 Acclaim LCD games this weekend. I got the oddball Marble Madness with the 8 way rocker control circle pad thing on it which is pretty nice, and then 1943 from Acclaim which liked to make screwball versions of some NES games or licensed properties around 1990ish. 1943 is in a way kind of faithful to the arcade, but gets weird as added levels have water spouts and strafing runs on ships as part of the stage, not the boss itself. The other Marble Madness is weird, it is but isn't that game, it's equally as much the old wooden labyrinth game with the little metal ball in it where you navigate a maze to the hole in the end -- any walls or other obstacles are death.