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, 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...

[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/ht...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.