/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6191904
I had this """"game"""" as a kid. It was always shit. Not even worth it for the laughs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0NGEUS0HpE

These were okay for bus rides, or waiting for the food to arrive when at a restaurant.
They also doubled as a way to gift famous licensed properties without spending $60 (1991 money) on the actual game. I think in retrospect they're kind of junky but given the circumstances they can be pretty rad.

>>6191904
>I remember they were always what grandmas would give grandkids
ok beaner
Most LCD games were utter shit. I know it's all the rage now for zoomers to nostalge over tacky old shit but I just can't fall for the meme. What were actually decent were brick games, which people seem to hate, probably because they were actually good.

The Game and Watch games were fun, from what I played of them in the Gameboy collections. Some of them, anyway. I was particularly fond of Oil Panic.

>>6191904
I had this one
Shitty bleepy music

>>6192015
The music was Marble Zone but with no rhythm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74tPECjQl1Y

>>6191904

>>6192174
>what does the Doug button do

>>6191904
>and kids always hated them
Not really, I received a couple myself and I enjoyed them both, and whenever a kid brought his to school or to a birthday party or whatever, everyone else always wanted to play them.

It's easier to shit on them now from the perspective of a cynical adult, but they were fun for kids of a certain age. I owned real consoles as well as a GameBoy and I still appreciated them as a cool novelty.

>>6192258
>It's easier to shit on them now
Nah. The niggers in your village still play the one your dad traded his goat wife for.

>>6191904
I had a pinball one which was pretty fun

>>6191904
This was legit as fuck. I always hear that Bowling was one of the better ones, too.

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>>6192215
More Doug

>>6191904
The Tiger games have no value besides the graphics. Shame, because they had every license known to man

>>6191904
Some are better than other but none are objectively good, no. As far as the Tiger ones that I personally played go, Megaman and Simon's Quest were okay. Double Dragon and Gauntlet were hot garbage.

Tiger handheld Shinobi was unironically better than NES Shinobi

>>6191904
I had a handful of these around 1991. I also had a few other consoles. I enjoyed them and all the other kids I knew did.

When there was no access to most things we have now, on a school trip out in which you were on a bus for a few hours, which seems years for a kid and with nothing else to do, they were great.

They cost more than $10 too.

>and kids always hated them. But are they really as bad as everyone remembers

As above, not my experience at all. Anyway, there are the game files out there and you can play them on an emulator today.

>>6192347
I concur. Space Fight was cool too. Most of the others were better than you would think even if they weren’t great.

>>6191904

they could be good as long as they were functional and intuitive. had double dragon 2 and I liked it because it was just simply 'move forward, beat enemies, move forward to next bunch of enemies etc etc'

the bad ones were the ones that had convoluted indiscernible gameplay, which was most from what I hear

>>6191953
Sounds like an attempt at the Marble zone music there.
I remember watching someone play through this at school but they had the sound muted.

>>6192690
Likewise, most kids I knew loved any kind of video game they had or found it interesting, at least.
I remember having this kid at school over once and he kept making it a point that he had a Super Nintendo (I'd recently gotten a Sega Master system). I know that he was being an asshole now but back then I was oblivious and was more amazed by any new game I could play.

>>6191904
I remember playing a Ninja Turtles one and a WWF one. I actually like them, but I think some of these LCD games cost more on ebay these days.

>>6192505
Nothing's objectively good

>>6191904
They've been putting these games on archive.org
This game is on there:
https://archive.org/details/handheldhistory

Game & Watches are pretty fun even still to this day, but I can confirm the Tiger ones were generally mediocre to awful, pic related was awful

Best Tiger game coming through

Also let us not forget the time Tiger tried to "go big" with their shitty games

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-Zone

>>6191904
OG Nintendo Game&Watch units were kino, never played a bad one; Had a Thai friend who collected them and they there the best.
Beyond that, the better option would be the older VFD-based handhelds, they were a little bigger, but had good gameplay. I had a Galaxian, Defender, and a couple others; Color Vacuum Fluorescent Displays were expensive, so some thought was put into Gameplay; I also had a TOMY Blip (Mechanical Pong clone) that was pretty fun!

>>6191953
For really poor kids it's all they had. Let's be honest. What were they going to do to kill time? read a book? They needed something to stare at just like we're doing now with this site.

>>6191971
>$60 (1991 money)

And yet we still pay 60 to this day for new software.

>>6191993
>ok beaner

You can suck a dick. I've slayed more white women than you can count on your puny hands.

inb4 nerd cope

>>6191993
>nostalge

did you have a stroke

>>6193531
>Meanwhile, in 2056
>"Man, websites sucked so fucking much back then. I mean, it was only pics, and text and some occasional sound or animation. No character interaction, you had to type EVERYTHING you wanted to say and there were no sexy virtual assistants you could flirt with."

The final Game & Watch game (Mario the Juggler) ironically feels like a Tiger game in a way. A licensed character does some repetitive action in front of a colorful backdrop.

>>6191904
I like Double Dragon, disregard the other anon who said it was bad.

Won't lie, Space Harrier 2, Marble Madness and Zelda were fun, even in their crippled form.

>>6191904
Oldfag here. Donkey Kong Jr LCD alarm clock was my alarm clock as a kid. And the game was pretty quality.

>>6193553
I don't think anyone ever argued against what you're insinuating. You're basically just saying water is wet.

>>6193553
and it looks like the same gameplay as "ball" pretty much

>>6193598
It is, except Lakitu and Hammer Bro can mess up with you by grabbing stuff for a couple of seconds.

I got pic related as a gift a few years ago and it's quite entertaining, in fact I use to carry it around and have sunken more time on it than I'd like to admit. It's funny to play this on a queue instead of drooling over a smartphone like most people do.

Honestly the best LCD games back in the day were the wrist watch games; you could wear them and usually get away with playing them in class if you turned the sound off.

>>6191904
>and kids always hated them
Not true, certainly not in their hey day in the 70's/early 80's.
There was a time when they were practically the only way you could play "video games" outside of arcades.

I think the ones that knew how to work with the limitations of the technology where the best, instead of trying to port Street Fighter II into them.

>>6193950
They also had one with a joystick instead of buttons; This one is pretty rare. There were a lot of game watches, some even made by big watch brands like Casio and Pulsar. Basically any early 80's game could be had in wristwatch form.

>>6194005
GCE (the company behind the Vectrex) even got into the act. They were pretty cool looking, just like the vectrex itself.

>>6191953
What the fuck is even going on here? The ones I got at McDonald's were more fun-looking and coherent than this. Also how exactly was this video recorded??

>>6192258
This. I had a Genesis with Sonic 1 and 2 on it, but when my cousin got one of those McDonalds LCD Sonic games that I didn't have, I played it for damn near an hour when I found out.

>>6193697
>instead of drooling over a smartphone like most people do
Genuinely the most boomer thing I've read on this website, are you like 60 years old?

>>6194040
>making an observation is being a boomer
Your post added nothing to the topic, it's the equivalency of a shit post. Neck yourself retard.

It's been the fashion to categorize any LCD handheld as shit, but it's nice to see people honestly posting that as kids they actually played these and derived enjoyment from them.
If you turned up at school with a Tiger handheld it didn't matter which one it was every kid wanted to have a go. It was preferable to doing nothing.

LCD pinball with the different board overlays was pretty based

>>6191904
no.

the only good one I’ve ever played was hangman, my grandparents had it at their house and it was something to do

>>6193541
>he doesn't understand zoomernese

>>6194154
Your blog post added nothing to the topic either, boomer

I didnt get a console until the genesis when i was 11. These were all i had, no computers either.

Baseball, bowling, mario game and watch, and pinball were fun. They were shitty but fun on car trips and what not.

>>6193531
>What were they going to do to kill time? read a book?
Yes? I was poor and the library was my best friend. I fucking loved going there.

Kys brainlet.

>>6193536
>bragging about indiscriminately killing children in drive bys
beaners. not even once.

>>6194035
>McDonalds LCD Sonic games

Got mine right here still in the sealed bag.

>>6195064
I have a buttload of those things. I bought some other shit from some old lady who collects shit like that and she threw in a bunch of other stuff. I thought maybe I'd hit the jackpot until I checked and found out they're fucking worthless. Hopefully by the time I'm dead they'll be worth something and my kids can sell them for much jew gold.

>>6191953
¿Esto qué es?

I got this one Christmas and played the hell out of it.

>>6192215
it dougs

>>6195064
Sweet. You can resell it on ebay for $.99cents.

Move outta my way

>>6193697
I have the full sized version in my collection.

I have this one which is pretty good, relatively speaking. 1st person space shooter where you kill rebel scum.

did you know that the Soviet Union produced their own Game and Watch clones?

>>6191904
I had this and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers one, but the Spider-Man one was probably my favorite. Frustrating as hell, but enjoyable.

>>6192369
>>6194292
Had these as well. Well, my mom did, but I wound up playing with these too.

I had this shit when I was a kid, only game I had. I took it with me on a trip to visit some relatives and they had absolutely nothing to do in their house so I ended up playing this til I hated it.

>>6196640
Yes, including one that was modified to fit a local cartoon (Nu Podugi/Just You Wait.)

>>6195064
SONIC SKETBORD
SHADOOOOO BASKEETBOLL

>>6191904
>I dumped all of them in a self destructive fit of rage as I was getting evicted from my childhood home

I'm still kinda upset. They were such a waste of money, eating batteries, having horrible sound. I wish I still had the power rangers card reader one though.

>>6195401
yeah pretty much all "collectable" things are worthless. It's just a marketing plot to sell them. There are a tiny percent of actual things worth something but like beanie babies, mcdonalds, star wars or whatever they are mass protruded and worth nothing.

Perhaps in 100 years like all things. Even again 100+ year old antiques are rarely worth more than a few dollars. I used to collect shit but it's just hoarding junk. Even games in future, why hold 1000 physical copies when years from now you could likely get them all on a tiny usb stick downloaded in 5 seconds.

>>6196416
Lol, to you my friend, 85 cents? I am very aware this and most other stuff holds little value. I don't even know why that is in the bag, I have a few more I opened and played. I never really tried to collect them anyway, I just got a few when lowering myself to go to McDonalds and my girlfriend of the time ate happy meals because we wouldn't want her overweight, would we?

>>6194026
>Sonic 1 Tiger LCD gameplay! It now runs on MAME so you can see it raw, as it should be, no camera on LCD machine.

>>6194026
>The ones I got at McDonald's were more fun-looking and coherent than this

You must remember the tiger sonic is from around 1991 while the mcdonalds one is around 2007 or 2008 if i recall.

I had one when I was a kid, I think it was called "Odd Man". You played as some little alarm clock looking robot thing going through a maze with trees or something.
I can't find any information about it. Maybe I dreamt it.

>>6191993
>"beaner"
>his own post is ESL as fuck

>>6191904
>But are they really as bad as everyone remembers?
Yes. There might have been some LCD screen puzzle games which were passable, but shit like Tiger was just AIDS.

>>6197745
>Even again 100+ year old antiques are rarely worth more than a few dollars.
What kind of antiques did you collect, random old cheap kitchenware?

Plenty of things which aren't 100 years old are valuable collectibles, a Colt Python revolver can in good condition fetch $6000, really, any kind of weapon which isn't really cheap to begin with or in terrible condition is easily worth a couple hundred dollars.

>>6191904
I liked anything Sonic, so I probably liked this one. Other than that, I remember the puzzle games being alright, and I had a pinball one that was sick

Y’all forgetting the goat: Tomogatchi

These were the absolute best games

>>6199408
Can these be emulated? I know there's a pretty good Digimon clone but I think the pixelated digimon don't look as good.

>>6198815
>beaner
>thinks he knows english
wew lad

>>6199418
I don’t think they can. I know there are apps that are pretty true to the original. They were amazing back in the day.

>>6199408
Theres an emulator for it on MAME. You can play it directly from archive.org

https://archive.org/details/hh_tama

>>6199676
oops meant reply to
>>6199418

>>6199408
These are almost a decade older, zoomer.

>>6200197
He never claimed that the Tamagotchi came first, moron

>>6191953
MAME truly is preserving cultural treasures.

>>6200206
Never said he did, there is just no logic to bringing up things that came out near the millennium when we are talking about items from 1991 and before. Tamagotchi are on the border of even being retro to this board.

>>6200260
OP didn't specify a year, dipshit

>>6200296
How fragile are you? Lol. Who hurt you, incel? The whole theme has been about tiger lcd games from around 1991.

>>6193535
It's funny because due to inflation, $60 in 2020 is only $30.93 in 1991
So not really

>>6200298
I'm no expert in stocks,
but when your IQ hits 50, you should sell

>>6200312
Seething incel. I am a girl honey so take your misogyny some other place. Smh.

>>6200327
>I am a girl
trannies dont count. LOL

>>6191904
the only ones i remember playing enough to get good at them were the Sonic one you posted, and the Terminator one.
I don't think they were actually that good though.
Was there a Contra one? I feel like I played one of those quite a bit too.

>>6192215
teaches you how to dougie

>>6200561
>Was there a Contra one?
Yeah, Konami used to make their own LCD games, all of them shaped like this. I had two of the Ninja Turtles ones, the second of which had VERY LOUD voice clips.

I swear to fuck if I ever figure out where the hell I put this thing in storage.

>>6192516
Based shit bait.