IF TIGER LCD GAMES GOT OUT OF HAND

IF TIGER LCD GAMES GOT OUT OF HANd

8/5/2019

Though responsible for giving the world the Furby, Giga Pets, and the 2-XL robot toy thing, Tiger is perhaps best known for its line of handheld, electronic, LCD games.

Fact is, Tiger produced more handheld games than even Nintendo, banking on the potential marketability of its licenses, rather than the quality of its games. As well as handheld versions of popular game franchises, including Sonic, Street Fighter II and Duke Nukem 3D, it also based games on more unlikely properties, including MC Hammer, Ed Grimley (no idea) and Dr Fad (even less idea).

If you follow me on Twitter, you'll have noticed that I've been having fun imagining what Tiger's output would've been like if the quality control of its licensing ran rampant.

Here's a gallery.

9 Comments

Mark

8/5/2019 10:10:51 am

I would love to play Chase OJ looks great someone really should make that in fact I think you should pitch these ideas to a dev, they would make great iPhone games

Robobob

8/5/2019 10:31:51 am

I still think Threads is my favourite.

I do remember playing the Sonic one to death. It wasn't bad, in that limited way those handhelds were.

Clippy the Big Stinkypoo

8/5/2019 11:57:43 am

Clippy didn't exist in the Windows 95 era, so you f**ked that one up, you great big shandy! It arrived with Office 97. Honestly, if you carry on like this I'll have to go elsewhere for my retro silliness.

Spiney O'Sullivan

8/5/2019 01:36:15 pm

I could never manage to avoid the car in the final level of the One Foot in the Grave one.

Knigel Neale

8/5/2019 01:37:06 pm

I re-watched Ghostwatch the other day and scoffed at hokey it was and how foolish I had been to let it absolutely terrify me when I was a kid.

But later that night while sitting alone on the toilet I did get what can only be described as 'the willies'. It's still got it!

The BV Reviewer

8/5/2019 03:39:28 pm

This comment was posted on Windows 95 for the Tiger Handheld

I wish 😢

Birch Vand

8/5/2019 06:54:34 pm

The first one of these I saw was the One Foot In The Grave one, and for more than a fleeting moment, I thought it was real, if a little weird. In my defence, someone made a real game of Eastenders on the speccy, so it's not that far fetched!

Jim

16/5/2019 06:17:47 pm

This kind of thing cracks me up, really funny, way prefer it to the videos personally, I wish you were just into making this kind of thing and couldn't be arsed with videos! I also wish you could make good money from stuff like this too. So many wishes, and no blue Will Smith around to make them come true.

PS love the massive action button for old people on the One Foot in the Grave game.

Chris Dyson

18/5/2019 08:40:31 pm

The Jeremy Kyle one looks prescient

IF TIGER LCD GAMES GOT OUT OF HANd

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