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spanks_4
03-21-2007, 10:12 AM
why are these games priced so low in the guide? it seems like they should be at least a little higher.
Darth Sensei
03-21-2007, 10:15 AM
Have you ever played a Game.com?
Nebagram
03-21-2007, 10:21 AM
The best game for it was solitaire... which was built-in.
ShenmueFan
03-21-2007, 10:52 AM
The best game for it was solitaire... which was built-in.
Anybody remember The Lost World game? Screeching sound effects and the blurriest visuals you will ever see. :smash:
Plus, you'll laugh your butt off by how bad the touch screen functionality is of the system. You can actually SEE the dots that separate the grid on the screen and magically, the grid squares are the same size as the squares in LightsOut, the system's best game.
But, I will admit, Duke Nukem 3D was pretty neat, as was Fighter Megamix...impressive for the game.com but not so hot compared to Gameboy games...
I want to know if anyone ever owned a Game.com modem & cartidge and did their email through this sucker (14.4k!) LOL LOL LOL
spanks_4
03-21-2007, 11:16 AM
i was just wondering. im going to pick it up because its cheap and easy to complete. i already have like 8 of the games mint(sealed) in the mail for it
8-bitNesMan
03-21-2007, 12:18 PM
i was just wondering. im going to pick it up because its cheap and easy to complete. i already have like 8 of the games mint(sealed) in the mail for it
Please allow me to give you some good advice on this one. Games shouldn't be sought after just because they're cheap and easy. Kinda like women. :D
You get what you pay for...
game.com,
complete:
http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/album345
PSXferrari
03-21-2007, 04:12 PM
I was one of the sad kids who actually asked for one of these for Christmas when it was released. Yes, I was retarded. Sold my set on eBay for $30 when I was younger; wish I still had it for my collection though. There's some weird fetish I seem to have without collecting for shitty systems. When you have more CD-i than SNES games, you know you have a problem.
DefaultGen
03-21-2007, 04:51 PM
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Trebuken
03-21-2007, 06:32 PM
Please allow me to give you some good advice on this one. Games shouldn't be sought after just because they're cheap and easy. Kinda like women. :D
You get what you pay for...
But sometimes it's only important that you get some...
j_factor
03-22-2007, 01:23 AM
Game.com sucks ass. Don't bother.
Game.com sucks ass. Don't bother.
how many game.com games have you played to come to this conclusion?
ShenmueFan
03-22-2007, 03:56 AM
The only Game.com game I played to the end was Duke Nukem and I was so dorky that back in the day, I actually wrote a FAQ for it (mainly because up til that point, no one had written a FAQ for Game.Com game yet...)...
Hahaha...it's so awful...what was I thinkin'???
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gamecom/file/564274/5717
swlovinist
03-22-2007, 09:38 AM
The game.com is not really easy to complete, as any system these days. Wheel of Forturne 2 is a pain to find. The prices are cheap for the common stuff, but the Game.com light and other rare stuff will set you back. I completed mine a year and a half ago, but still paid over $225+ dollars for everything. With that being said, I have everything boxed and complete, including all the accesories released and all differernt versions of the hardware. Good luck
fishsandwich
03-22-2007, 03:09 PM
Game.com sucks ass. Don't bother.
I have to agree that it sucks ass but I disagree that he shouldn't bother... many of us on this board like collecting crap just for the sake of collecting craps and saying "Look how crappy this is!" I've purposely sought out games because they were bad. Game.com is an entire bad SYSTEM which is pretty damned facinating. BTW... I need Pippin games! Anything!
I have about 10 or so games but I haven't touched my Game.com in years. I'm sure that there must be 2-3 games in the library that must have some merit... probably the slow ones like Lights Out and Solitaire. I do remember thinking Sonic, Batman, Fighters Megamix, Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem, Lost World, some racing game, and most everything else I played really, really sucked.
Neil Koch
03-22-2007, 03:55 PM
I like Monopoly on there and the rest of the board/card games aren't bad - but any of the action stuff is near-unplayable because of the horrible blurring that happens when the screen scrolls.
I have one with about 10 games that I haven't touched for a couple of years.
PSXferrari
03-22-2007, 10:56 PM
I have about 10 or so games but I haven't touched my Game.com in years. I'm sure that there must be 2-3 games in the library that must have some merit... probably the slow ones like Lights Out and Solitaire. I do remember thinking Sonic, Batman, Fighters Megamix, Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem, Lost World, some racing game, and most everything else I played really, really sucked.
Yeah, Lights Out was a good rendition of the Tiger handheld toy. But I most remember having a good time playing Quiz Wiz back then. I mean, it's tough to screw up a trivia game. The host kid is ridiculously annoying, but for a Game.com game it ain't bad. Then again, I thought Troy Aikman Football for the SNES was a good game too when I was a kid, so what do I know?
PSXferrari
03-22-2007, 11:02 PM
I have to agree that it sucks ass but I disagree that he shouldn't bother... many of us on this board like collecting crap just for the sake of collecting craps and saying "Look how crappy this is!" I've purposely sought out games because they were bad.
Right. See, if you were a kid in 1998 saving up birthday money for a new handheld, you would have to kill yourself afterwards if you chose a Game.com over Gameboy. There's something about spending $60 on a new game, only to find out it's complete crap, that makes you want to stab things into yourself. But when you pay $3 for it 10 years later, it has a certain charm that makes it cool. Plus, you know what you're getting into and your expectations are low. Now if someone today asked me if I wanted an old Game Boy or a Game.com, I'd definitely take the Game.com.
Frogger and Centipede got decent ports.
j_factor
03-23-2007, 04:06 AM
how many game.com games have you played to come to this conclusion?
I currently own 6 games for it, but I've played most of the others. Lights Out is great, Henry is fun in really small doses, Monopoly and Scrabble are passable, Tiger Casino is okay I guess, and Williams Arcade Classics managed to leave Joust intact (the rest don't play right). And that's about it. Two games based on Tiger handhelds, two board games, a casino game, and part of an arcade compilation are all the system has to offer. The rest of the games are either downright boring (two Wheel of Fortune games, yawn) or obviously too much for the system to handle (Duke 3D, Fighters Megamix, and so on are horrid messes). Even Quiz Wiz wasn't done right, with questions that are way too easy, and not randomized.
Game.com is a definite curiosity, and there's a lot of interesting things about it, but in terms of actually playing it, it sucks.
And its internet service was atrocious. :p
As far as I know, Tiger never provided internet service for it's modem/internet cartridge. In the UK the ISP was provided by 'Direct Connection', but of course I do not know which ISP was used in the USA.
The internet service was text based only, and it worked fine (full screen, easy to read, even the typing worked). Used it many times, with the ORIGINAL Tiger game.com modem. Nintendo and Sony managed to copy it later years, and improved on it due to advancements of handhelds.
The Tiger Web link is a different story, that was for uploading high scores via game.com through the PC onto the web.
rbudrick
03-23-2007, 02:28 PM
Please allow me to give you some good advice on this one. Games shouldn't be sought after just because they're cheap and easy. Kinda like women. :D
You get what you pay for...
I'm of the opinion cheap and easy women are to be highly sought after. The expensive difficult ones are as common as SMB/Duck Hunt, the Maddens, and E.T. And who the hell wants to play them at any great length? Ewww.
-Rob
Richter Belmount
03-23-2007, 02:35 PM
I remember being 8 or 9 and bugging my parents for one for christmas , thank god i never got one.
you got lucky. i was actually waiting 'in the queue' (well, it was just me alone) to get one on day of release, for a staggering GBP 79.99
scooterb23
03-23-2007, 05:52 PM
I have the complete collection, although not everything is boxed. I'd say nearly half the library is worth a play. You may not pull it out every day, but I think it's alright. I think I paid just over $130 for my entire setup. And I'd still like to find one of the revised systems.