Tiger Electronics is bringing back their monochrome handheld games later this year

ciaomao · Feb 21, 2020

Extrasklep said:
There already was one but only the first ball game one

C R Y S T A L series PLEASE!

chartube12 · Feb 21, 2020

LiveLatios said:
you're scoffing at a 10 year battery life just because you can't recharge it? these things are ridiculously low powered that a rechargeable battery is a nonissue at it's best

$15 is far too much for something so primitive that nobody wants

these things eat through AA or AAA. There is no way batteries are gonna last 10 years. Unless you know something we don’t?

Fusion · Feb 21, 2020

TheZander said:
These things were my forte into game modding. But if you buy the european sonic 3 edition or I believe the DBZ frieza game it's possible to load the back ups of the other cartridges. Also you do have to do a little hardware modding to allow you to change out the overlay image (which constitutes most of the backup) and then continue playing.

Tell us more, this is interesting.

For those that wanted it, here is the meme lol

On a side note, they should of re-released them like this for those versions that was once "hand-held", it will sell better as kids want random watches...

Deleted User · Feb 21, 2020

So basically, Nes-mini was a Pandora box....Wow

"YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!"

Bladexdsl · Feb 21, 2020

i can just see kids today playing these and complaining as they play "why isn't sonic moving? why are the jump animations so slow it looks like his floating! this is Laaaaaaaaaaame" mum can i have a switch instead?

Deleted User · Feb 21, 2020

They're still in business? Guess we'll see LJN next.

Pipistrele · Feb 21, 2020

I doubt they're hard to produce, and I wouldn't underestimate the raw power of nostalgia and ironic purchases - more people will buy it than you folks probably realize

Lumstar · Feb 21, 2020

MikaDubbz said:
Did these come first or Nintendo's Game & Watch devices? I know at the end of the day, they're basically the same format, I'm just curious who was there first. Seems like Tiger probably produced a larger variety of them, and as a kid I wasn't aware Nintendo even made these kinds of things until the first Game and Watch Gallery for the Game Boy was released.

Game & Watch was older. A few other companies (Bandai, Mattel, Casio...) had similar stuff too.
Fun to see all the 1980s anime licenses, lol.

xdarkx · Feb 21, 2020

As the saying goes, "Is this an out of season April Fools joke?"

Minox · Feb 21, 2020

Nobody, literally nobody wants this.

Nobody_Important4u · Feb 21, 2020

No just no.

Deleted User · Feb 21, 2020

chartube12 said:
these things eat through AA or AAA. There is no way batteries are gonna last 10 years. Unless you know something we don’t?

i have no personal experience with these things in particular, i thought they were like game & watches or literally every other chinese lcd garbage where it lasts a ridculously long time on a single CR2032 battery

CactusMan · Feb 21, 2020

Nobody ever wanted those things ever. Back in the 80´s it kinda made sense to buy the junk. Noe you can spend your $15 and buy enjoyable games in Eshop sale or buy a crapy boodleg handheld for $15 from Amazone. If you are a sonic fan and want merchendice you can get much better. Just burry the devices in the hole they dug to get the E.T. Atari games out.

Xzi · Feb 21, 2020

FINALLY we can experience true high fidelity gameplay in 1 FPS again!

Next they need to bring back this bad boy for the added benefit of cutting off all bloodflow to your brain as it struggles to process the wonders of a single eye display:

Purple_Shyguy · Feb 21, 2020

Isn't there enough plastic in the world?

Veho · Feb 21, 2020

Xzi said:
Next they need to bring back this bad boy for the added benefit of cutting off all bloodflow to your brain as it struggles to process the wonders of a single eye display:

Who needs widescreen when you've got tunnel vision?

shadow1w2 · Feb 21, 2020

Oh nice, and modest enough of a price.
I'd prefer cheaper if the battery life per battery isnt improved.
A small rechargable battery would be neat or atleast take less batteries and better battery saving.

The licensed titles seem a good selection but I really hope they pull out some of their originals too.

MaxiBash · Feb 21, 2020

[Insert “SEGA is finally rereleasing Sonic 3” joke from Twitter here]

T-hug · Feb 21, 2020

I had this one when I was 7 years old:

Was awesome at the time lol
I doubt my kids would play it for more than 5 minutes.

codezer0 · Feb 21, 2020

Why? No, seriously. WHY?
These weren't even any good when they were a new thing. The only reason they were successful, was because even a DMG game boy was a high barrier of entry at the time for a lot of kids from broke families. So it was either this, or no games at all. This was also before smart phones were a thing.

Other than hipsters searching for ultimate irony, there is zero point to getting one of these. Ever.

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