“First you have the arcade, then you have the home console versions, then you have the Game Boy version, and then at the very bottom you have the Tiger version. The only thing less than that will be using your imagination. Or playing the board game. But even THAT was better.”

@lilastari3160

Жыл бұрын

AVGN moment

@nikitanik_of

Жыл бұрын

What about The Wrist Tiger Games?

@ozan1234561

Жыл бұрын

Sixty four bits... Thirty two bits... Sixteen bits, Eight bits, Four bits. Two bits. One bit! HALF BIT!! QUARTER BIT!!!! DAAAAAAAAA WRIIISSSTTT GAAAAAMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@or-what

Жыл бұрын

64 Bits...

@bridgetsawamura56

Жыл бұрын

@@ozan1234561 tiger pokemon walkie talkies? yeah!

What’s funny is sonic 3 IS unfinished. You need sonic and knuckles to get the whole thing by slappin em together.

@beardofginge

Жыл бұрын

Was my IMMEDIATE thought, picked one of the only example of early expandable content from the 90s xD

@sdg131

Жыл бұрын

technically sonic and knuckles is more like an addon, its just a regular sonic game if you dont put them together.

@nickrustyson8124

Жыл бұрын

Not only that, back then you didn't own the games, you pretty much have to rent them because they were expensive 70 bucks today for a 3d game that has like 20 hours worth of content get people bitching, Street Fighter ii cost 70 bucks in 1992 money that's 150 bucks today, I could buy a used Xbox 360 and Original Xbox for that price

@ferroth

Жыл бұрын

was about to say this lmao

@SaltyToad00

Жыл бұрын

I think it was for one of these two reasons: Meeting a specific deadline or Not having enough storage to fit the rest of the game.

Tiger Electronics games are revolutionary, not only are they torturous for the player but they're also capable of tormenting anyone in earshot with that shrill beeping

@marccaselle8108

Жыл бұрын

That's why I turned off the music for the sake of my parents.

@BoardGamesBricksHobbies

Жыл бұрын

Tiger Electronics actually did some pretty cool stuff, take their Lazer Tag gear which was developed with help from Shoot the Moon, they were a stroke of genius! These things on the other hand, were pure rubbish.

@marccaselle8108

Жыл бұрын

@@BoardGamesBricksHobbies some things tiger made were good and some were binworthy.

@zyzzy-ko4ww

Жыл бұрын

No wonder Mr. James AVGN Rolfe had a field day with them crazy Tiger Electronics "games"!

@zk0rned

Жыл бұрын

They were a God send for us poor kids who couldn't afford a Gameboy Advance

These were considered bathroom machines in our home - it was the 90s and smartphones didn't exist, and you can only read the shampoo bottle so many times. We had the bowling one (among others including Double Dragon and Mega Man 2) and both my mom and I got to the point where we could consistently bowl a perfect game.

@retroryan838

Жыл бұрын

I don’t thinks it’s a Tiger game, but at my family’s cottage, we also have a bowling LCD game in a cabinet next to the toilet. It’s pretty fun and easy to control. The game is called King Pin I believe.

@sittingduhk

7 ай бұрын

@@retroryan838 the non-tiger ones werent half bad

I remember these as a kid, my parents would buy these for me from thrift shops for like $1 to keep me preoccupied during shopping trips

@criram2968

Жыл бұрын

They overpaid

@taunull

Жыл бұрын

Based profile pic

@rorz999

Жыл бұрын

@@taunull you anime nerds, man 🤦‍♂️

@TheRoyalCheez

Жыл бұрын

@@rorz999 let them be

@DimT670

Жыл бұрын

They sell em these days new for like 10 euros where i live its absurd

It's funny that of all games he uses as an example of a "finished" AAA game, he uses Sonic 3.

@williamhicks7807

Жыл бұрын

didnt occur to me, but thats a good point

@LITTLE1994

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, because Sonic 3 alone isn't the TRUE game...

@user-yg4kj2mf1p

Жыл бұрын

At least Sonic 3 didn't have a litany of bugs followed a barrage of post-release patches trying to fix them. Instead, it just worked, because it had to. Once it was burned in ROM, there was no going back.

@swidr5626

Ай бұрын

@@user-yg4kj2mf1p Except that games were a buggy mess back then too, and sometimes they were literally unbeatable because of that (Like Impossible Mission on Atari 7800), and even sonic games had tons of glitches themselves. The issue is that people didn't really look into that as much as they do right now. Look at early Pokemon games, especially 1st generation. Those are insanely glitchy and things like Missingno and Glitch Cities are stuff of legend, not something you look at with disgust. There is a ton of tons of examples for games that just were glitchy messes, and never could be fixed back then.

the scary part is, this isn't close to the worst BS that Hasbro is pulling out these days.

@Blacksmith52

Жыл бұрын

Hasbro fell off.

@alexandersotomurillo5795

Жыл бұрын

What’s the worst they’ve done?

@Thesnakerox

Жыл бұрын

@@alexandersotomurillo5795 Look at like 97% of their latest Nerf offerings lol

@rblxfan22

Жыл бұрын

@@alexandersotomurillo5795 Ms. Monopoly

@OtakuUnitedStudio

Жыл бұрын

@@Thesnakerox The dinosaur stuff is cool but the D&D and Roblox is very meh.

This was the electronic version of those “shoot hoops through water with air to get them to land on the pole” toys. They were SO bad, but I felt SO cool for having one as a child! Too bad it never lasted because I’ve lost every single one within days LOOOOL

5:03 I genuinely appreciate your desire to find out what they were trying to hide with the tape 😄 I work for a big box store and any time I see tape over text I'm like "what are they hiding?!"

Reviewing a bottom-end retro handheld just isn't the same without the phrase "naught-to-three sad onions"

@md_vandenberg

Жыл бұрын

"Oh dear, these sad onions look particularly forlorn. Maybe bordering on existential crisis. Enough of that, back to the tat."

@Calvin_Coolage

Жыл бұрын

Dankpods going straight for the One Grit is a good compromise. Him crossing over with Ashens would be amazing.

@JoCaTen

Жыл бұрын

@@Calvin_Coolage The calm laid back Brit and the Wild and mad Aussie. That'd be a cool crossover

@foxorian

Жыл бұрын

@@Calvin_Coolage dank pointed out the sad onions on the box of some nugget he looked at a while back though lol was hoping for a reprise here but I guess these boxes didn't have any hahah

@ApolloVictoria44

Жыл бұрын

@@JoCaTen "calm and laid-back" have you even seen him torching tats

0:45 The funniest part here is that Sonic 3 wasn't even a finished game, you needed to buy Sonic & Knuckles to actually play the whole thing!

@Breadbloxwastaken

10 ай бұрын

I didn’t know that

@dannystavs2003

10 ай бұрын

Oh how ironic.

0:02 RIP in Peace, Fs in the chat.

@CutieSun505

Жыл бұрын

F

@krrish140

Жыл бұрын

F

@T3H_C0SM1C_SP4RT4N

10 ай бұрын

F

AVGN’s rant about these is still iconic. The pure bafflement at the wrist game or the R-zone still stands up as some of the best he’s done.

@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka

Жыл бұрын

Doom on Tiger wristwatch but not on C64

@tylern6420

Жыл бұрын

⅛bit

@horatio2560

Жыл бұрын

the wrist game

@OtakuUnitedStudio

Жыл бұрын

The handheld version of the R Zone was actually alright, mostly.

@peterstepanov8062

Жыл бұрын

"Sixty-four bits." Thirty-two bits. Sixteen bits. Eight bit. Four bit. _Two bit._ *One bit.* *THE. WRIST. GAME!!!*

There's something incredibly fitting about Wade using Sonic 3 as an example of a finished video game, not *only* because the game's developers (in)famously chopped the game in half and sold the second part as Sonic & Knuckles, but *also* because they were forced to do this in order to get the game shipped in time to release alongside promotional McDonald's Happy Meal toys. And I think we can all agree that the vast majority of us who've gotten LCD game nuggets during our childhoods got them from - say it with me now - McDonald's Happy Meals.

@random_n

Жыл бұрын

Yo dawg, I herd you like nuggets...

@Aerowind

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought that was hilarious too. He picked the one game that was infamous for getting a patch that completed the game in the form of that weird dockable cartridge.

@designersheets

Жыл бұрын

You gotta get your nugget to go with your nuggets!

@KoopaMedia64

Жыл бұрын

Except for Sonic 3, they found a cool way to sell you the other half of the game. Knuckles in Sonic 2 is badass. Heck, S&K by itself is a great Sonic game to breeze through. Modern games don't do anything cool about unfinished games.

@mgthestrange9098

Жыл бұрын

I got one by collecting tokens from boxes of Kellogg’s start. It was a racing car game , I liked it but it was the 80s.

10:08 that moment you realise the 1 grit is the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs

To answer your "What's this music?!" question at about 3:39 , I think it's trying to play the music for Angel Island Zone Act 2. ...Maybe "trying" isn't the word for it.

After yet another crappy week at work, this is exactly the kind of video I need. Your content never fails to put a smile on my face.

@estherwastakentwice

Жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Picture ok I wont

@JoCaTen

Жыл бұрын

Crappy days + crappy tech, should cancel the crap out

@JDMFANBOY-ww7sh

Жыл бұрын

Speaking facts

@AyrisX86

Жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Picture can these channels just like stop existing kthx

@mattprojekt5255

Жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Picture No one cares.

"This TIGER sure rose up to the challenge of its rivals! Had the guts, got the glory, went the distance, now it's not gonna stop! It's literally a survivor!" - AVGN

@umbrellacorp.

Жыл бұрын

You watch Angry Video Game Nerd too.😎👍

@growlie2676

Жыл бұрын

I watch him too.

@wildannandawicaksana5004

Жыл бұрын

I love the episode 😂

@ALEXGIBSONCMG

Жыл бұрын

F yea AVGN! He's the angriest gamer you ever heard!

"From the vault. You mean from the bin.". Favorite line so far. I love Danks work choices, goes straight for the funny bone.

Fun fact: when I was working in retail in North America as a young adult during the 1990s, "bin" simply referred to container, not just trash receptacle. So we often would have such games in the "sales bin" or "clearance bin" or "the customer's bin". British English has led to a more widespread use of it as the negative "trash bin", such as "binned processors" where some of the cores are turned off (often because of manufacturing errors).

@jamescelliers3195

Жыл бұрын

That's not what binned means in relation to processors. Binning is just marking the chips by quality. Generally chips that are binned are done so for their high quality silicon, for example a Ryzen 3800x is just a binned ryzen 3700x. It doesn't only apply to processors but all silicon chips and the "binned" parts are the higher quality parts as yields are lower for the higher quality silicon. Core locking is a form of binning, but that's not what people mean generally when people call a processor "binned", they mean its binned as high quality silicon.

@MichaelSidneyTimpson

Жыл бұрын

@@jamescelliers3195 Yes, I understood that too.

@jamescelliers3195

Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelSidneyTimpson Sorry, got a bit carried away. My point was that binned in that context actually is the "container" meaning and not the "trash" meaning.

@OtakuUnitedStudio

Жыл бұрын

"Rubbish" for "garbage" is becoming more common in the US too.

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE

Жыл бұрын

Even our NA meaning for Bin, in the sales context, holds a negative connotation, really! If it's in the "Returns Bin", "On Sale Bin", or "Clearance Bin"... in every car that boils down to: _"No one wanted this stuff and now we're marking it down in hopes of making _*_some_*_ money, as their next stop, is the _*_Trash_*_ Bin!"_ 🤣

2:36 "Oh there's the good button, Off!" Made me laugh a lot harder than I expected.

In Poland, there was a very popular handheld game called "Brick Game", and it was essentially the same deal of a set monochrome display, however it did have multiple games in it, like clones of Tetris, Frogger, Breakout, Pong, Arkanoid, and so on and so forth. And for a cheap little Chinese knockoff it was a load of fun back in the day, definitely better than whatever Tiger was doing.

@pvshka

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, those handheld craps are super common at fairs and dollar stores. But the Tetris, basic as it is, is completely playable and will provide countless hours of entertainment. It's also considered the default version of Tetris.

@cactuscoe9096

Жыл бұрын

We had "Brick Game" in Italy too, that thing was almost closer to a Gameboy than this, it had real games like Tetris and Snake in it, it was fun

@DrsDapperTopper

Жыл бұрын

I traded some cool magnets I found for a RadioShack version in 5th grade.

@krzysztofczarnecki8238

Жыл бұрын

I had several, they all claimed to have 9999 games (the number of nines may vary), but they only had about 16, all in like ten by twenty pixels plus a score and level counter resolution. All had most of the same games, with maybe one or two different ones present or missing.There was Tetris, tanks, Pong, Frogger, Arkanoid, Breakout, a kind of football ( similar to Pong, but the enemy has a narrow "goal" behind, and is one pixel instead of several, racing cars game where you have three lanes and have to dodge the slower-moving cars, Space Invaders, and sometimes Snake, helicopter (a side scroller where you fly a something that has to pass between obstacles sticking out of the floor and ceiling, but you move up and down normally, unlike Flappy Bird), and some others. The rest were just the same games again but faster and starting at a higher level or being in some way damaged. Yes, it was a lot of fun, played it more than I care to admit. Wasted at least one through mechanical wear. Gameboy and games for it were seemingly stupidly expensive, and I didn't know anyone with a Gameboy that would show me how much better it is (was like 7-8 years old). Brick game cost about as much as 5-15 individual popsicles or bags of snacks. So everyone seems to have had them at one point. We'd also tend to get a second one only to realize the games are the same as in the other one. I also had one that looked like a little PC with a mouse and a sliding out keyboard. It also had a calculator (that's what the keyboard was for), and an alarm clock. The game controls were buttons on the mouse. There were also single game LCD games like the Tigers, but more like Nintendo Game&Watch. Some of them were really old and Russian (Nu, Pogodi!), and some were later available as promotionals for Sonic or Spyro games at mcDonalds, as a Happy Meal toy.

@countesscrows

Жыл бұрын

we had the Brick Game in Chile too! It had 9999 games in 1 and it was super fun

Holy shit my mum got the Wheel of Fortune one for herself ages ago, like really early 2000s. I remember taking it to the toilet on ocassion and playing, it was actually pretty fun and shockingly functional.

1:06 Does that make it a PooStation? 😂

We had a weird schoolmate back in the 90's named Eric. This kid only had these old handheld games and played them all the time. His parents were so controlling and probably paranoid that he would find out there were actual 3d games out there at the time. I guess they were afraid he would get manipulated by them. Anyway! He got invited to a birthday party at our friends house one day. The birthday boy handed him a controller for a Playstation, booted up Gran Turismo and blew Eric's mind away. He was hooked! His parents did eventually budge and bought him his own console. Can you guess why he hadn't been given one before? Digital "bewbs"....

@md_vandenberg

Жыл бұрын

But were they Lora Croft's digital _pointy_ bewbs?

@toddoverholt4556

Жыл бұрын

this honestly doesn't surprise me in the slightest

@gabrielmalta1962

Жыл бұрын

Ah, yes, Gran Turismo for the PS1, well-known for having the highest amount of boobs out of any game ever released until then lmao. But yeah, same for me. My parents only ever allowed racing games until I was like 12, just about everything else was too violent

@polocatfan

Жыл бұрын

please call cps if this happens. that's straight up abuse.

@RedneckSwede

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielmalta1962 I think they were more afraid of the more well known fighting games and Tomb Raider (Lara Croft) to be honest. They just limited his range of games after that.

Im 22, born in 2000, and even I got to play these when i was about 8 and they were still brand new at the time! Thats how long they stuck around over here

@georgemariatos-metaxas7780

Жыл бұрын

Same thing here, never understood how they "worked"

My grandparents absolutely loved these. They had a whole crate of them for at home and traveling. The gameboy was too difficult. But these were easy, and had been around before the gameboy.

@NBSV1

9 ай бұрын

I think parents and grandparents were the main buyers of these. They didn’t expect a “proper” gaming experience and were so cheap and easy to find they seem like a good deal. I know I ended up with a few of these as presents back in the day.

7:47 The way you just SLAMMED the 1-Grit into the unit was _so_ satisfying to see. If you ask me, these Tiger games weren't meant to be played. They were meant to be DESTROYED.

To be honest. I personally appreciate the way they work around the limitations adding differnt sprites insnd fitting them in a single screen then working around that for all the actions is a dificult task. The Spiderman one actually was kinda ambitious with it going 2D to end the stage. Game and Watch are a good exception to this kind of games. Fun little rumps that you get to try and get the high score. The bad ones are just badly designed and usually went too ambitious for their own good. I still appreciate the effort in trying to bring big games into such a limited fashion its like working a de-make of the games.

@Light-Rock97

Жыл бұрын

Same. These are really, really ingenious.

@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka

Жыл бұрын

I had fighting and soccer one , somehow I rember them being much faster ! The fighting one had multiple characters and each had special movies that's one of best I have ever seen unfortunately I don't rember name of manufactor or game name , everyone at my school wanted to play it ! It also had great sounds and music + design was great I left it in hot sun in a car and it was killed

@Light-Rock97

Жыл бұрын

@@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka Mortal Kombat on Tiger is kind of amazing. It has multiple characters too. There's a video of it on KZread, I think it's called "every port of mortal kombat".

Fun fact, that Sonic 3 box artwork was made with the mindset that it would be called "Sonic 3 Part 1" so Sonic holds 3 fingers up and one to the side, but they dropped the name to call Part 2 "Sonic and Knuckles" instead while making it so that you could just put the cartridges together to get the full extended experience.

I am SO happy to see you doing the TIGER line, especially the first one being Sonic 3, and it being the exact day S3 came out worldwide lol, keep up the good content man!

We had a solitaire LCD game that was surprisingly good. Solitaire is a simple, time-tested game that doesn’t require a whole lot of graphics, so it was a perfect fit for these things, and it was genuinely a good time killer.

@brentfisher902

Жыл бұрын

@Lurch They need to come out with a movie based on Pong 1976 A.D. edition...

Oh man, we had a similar one, but it was Tetris. It was actually *amazing* . It was always next to the toilet and everyone in the house played it. We played that thing into the ground, we retired it because some of the buttons stopped working.

@the2323guy

Жыл бұрын

One of those 9999 in 1 brick games that tried to resemble a gameboy?

@kekchanbiggestfan

Жыл бұрын

ew

@michaelmechex

Жыл бұрын

@@the2323guy yes, that was exactly it. I don't remember it having any other games than Tetris though

@Stego27

Жыл бұрын

Tetris is one of the few games that could actually work fine as one of these.

@wolfetteplays8894

Жыл бұрын

@@Stego27 not with super rotation. That’s a bit more sophisticated

The Jurassic Park game on the Genesis/Mega Drive was also one of my favourites, that intro where the t-rex eats the jeep in a thunderstorm still gives me chills to this day. (And the dinosaur saying "Segaaaaaa" at the beginning was hilarious)

My guess is that some company acquired a shed load of shells, and just had to make the items in the game, the overlay, and program the controls. It reminds me of the early Magnavox Oddysey games, with an overlay you put over your TV.

I absolutely loved the Tiger game show handhelds. I had Wheel, Family Feud & The Price is Right. All brilliant.

Fun fact, sonic 3 wasn't finished, that's why sonic and knuckles was released so you could play the "full" game

YAAAY, THE FUNNY AUSTRALIAN UPLOADED A NEW NUGGET VIDEO

The dude hadn't made an ipod video in 3 months and still makes insanely entertaining content, this channel is a killer honestly

My cousin had a Duke Nukem one of these that was shaped like a gun. It was sick, probably by far the most coherent LCD game ever. it had an ammo system, 3D pseudo-navigation with randomly generated levels, and multiple enemy and weapon types. i played the hell out of that thing lol [e] I misremembered it as a DOOM game, it was apparently a line of units called Grip Games and there was a Twisted Metal one too, never seen it though

I remember when Classic Game Room would ream these things awhile ago. Hopefully one day we get a DankPods Tiger R-Zone Episode

@peppers515

Жыл бұрын

Another man of culture! I haven't heard anyone mention CGR in years!

@TheGuyWhoIsSitting

Жыл бұрын

@@peppers515 CGR decided he wanted to make comic books and just basically killed his channel as a result. He barely gets any views now. I remember he was annoyed with KZread and was doing everything on his own site then he came back to KZread and then now he’s doing comics.

@peppers515

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting He's always loved makimg comics, he did comics before KZread and released a couple while CGR was still a thing. Sad reality, KZread kind of completely killed his channel years ago, as well as the other channels under the banner. He did a series on amazon for a little bit, he's now doing what makes him happy which is being creative. Happy for him

@Sean-Ax

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting I remember hearing that he was putting the brakes on CGR, but I didn't know he was making comics; that's really cool! I always loves his videos and his positive attitude about basically anything he reviewed. lol I always felt awful when he posted a bad review of something (Ridge Racer lol) because it's just so unusual to hear him tear something apart!

@snesguy9176

Жыл бұрын

I got into collecting consoles for a while. At one time I had collected 3 r-zones. Had two of them displayed on foam mannequin heads. I just loved their aesthetic growing up, lke I had a dbz scouter lol

7:33 - It's all in the mind!

I got a sudden burst of nostalgia watching this. Couldn’t afford a console and we picked this up at a yard sale and I spent SO much time playing this wow. This unlocked some awesome memories for me the moment the music started.

Those old Tiger handhelds were crap, but I had so many of them and always had fun playing them back in the late 80's and early 90's. There was one where you had to get a mouse through a maze, collecting wedges of cheese while avoiding cats that were trying to eat you. I could spend hours playing that. Edit: AHH I just looked online and saw Tiger handheld Skeet Shooting! I forgot all about that one! It had a little dial that you'd use to "aim" the gun and then a big button you press to shoot.

@Soitisisit

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for making me feel ancient, lol.

@psychorabbitt

Жыл бұрын

@Soitisisit My guy, if you remember them as much as I do - we're both ancient.

Might just be me but i genuinely enjoyed these as a kid. They kept me entertained for car rides and during the summers I’d just sit outside and play them

@pickledkool-aid

Жыл бұрын

There are a few of this style of game that I remember legitimately enjoying as a kid. I liked the Mattel electronic sports line, especially the baseball one, but these were more of a late 70s/80s thing than a 90s one I think. They have also been rereleased somewhat recently, and that’s how I (born in the ‘00s) got to enjoy them

The fact that they started at around the 80s as a way to rival the Sega Game Gear and the Nintendo Gameboy with no chance at beating them and they kept going till the 90s And now the stuff's back? Jesus Christ, they don't quit! This never worked!

I gotta laugh at the "triple-A games were finished" line. The Sonic 3 manual talks about "Robotnik's evil traps that take advantage of Sonic's speed" that force you to restart the console. They were referring to an unfixed glitch that randomly made you clip into walls and softlock the game.

I had these as a kid. I can not believe they're making a come back. I saw them at Gamestop the other day.

When I saw this upload, I just audibly exclaimed "YES!". I was hoping you would cover these sometime, and then gushing over Sonic 3 on top of that (hunting for a copy myself at the moment)! Mate, you made my day!

The sound of this device reminds me of those annoying birthday cards which play a melody when they are opened

@iskrassupercoolchannel

Жыл бұрын

Same

1:21 The Kimi waking up inside you “BOAH”

"'From the vault'? More like 'from the bin'"! you didn't have to murder them like that bro

The Tiger Jurassic Park was my jam as a kid, I still remember when my dad bought them for us , would spend hours playing it.

I have tried one of these once, and I couldn't make any sense of it. Nintendo also made games using similar technology (the “Game & Watch” series), but they knew exactly how to make the most out of the limitations, and those games were actually enjoyable.

I remember having one of those Game & Watch Donkey Kong handhelds when I was a kid, played it to the point the display went off to the kingdom in the sky. No regrets. Loved every second of it.

I had a long Contra themed one that was actually fun and challenging (to an 8 year old) and this video is giving big nostalgia right now

Ah yes the Tiger handhelds, the physical embodiment of "What the frick is going on?! What do I do??". I never got the appeal even as a kid. It took all of 5 minutes of fumbling around with one of these things, having no idea how to play it, before it went into the depths of my closet and I started saving up for a GameBoy.

@PippetWhippet

Жыл бұрын

It’s because they predate the game boy - and still kept selling them after to kids who would never be able to own anything better. There were some good ones, game and watch was the rolls Royce as a prime example - but you’ve got to remember some kids would be saving for decades to buy a game boy - my pocket money for the week was about 10 us cents a week- legitimately would have taken me 4 years of constant saving - no doing anything with my friends for that long all for a western video game with Tetris and maybe a game a year - so these things were as good as it got. Fun as it is to watch rich people rag on them, I have loads of fond memories of these as a kid, it’s a shame you got a bad one, the good ones are special, but not as entertaining to smash up!

Bro you’re killing me with this level of nostalgia. I had that thing from a garage sale before I got a GameCube and was able to get the Mega Collection for it and finally play a good emulation of the OG game.

I have a soft spot for these little games. I remember having a few of them as a kid. My favourite was a Simpsons one where you had to "catch" food that Marge was throwing (I think) And another one where you were a guy with an axe or something walking forwards through obstacles and had to fight monsters. This was nostalgic as fuck 🙂

@DrMcMoist

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Golden Axe.

I totally relate to that "wow ive gotten better" feeling. The goldeneye remaster really made me feel like i have come a long way since i was a kid. Never beat it, when the remaster came out it took me one day to beat it on 00 agent, such a good feeling.

Wade 1-gritting a Tiger Game brings levels of catharsis that can't be seen in most places.

I don't think I ever got to use the "proper" Tiger Electronics handhelds, but I did play the hell out of those Sonic ones they gave away with Happy Meals once upon a time. I also had this really neat one that was a NASCAR game where they used a model of Jeff Gordon's 24 car from that time period to house a game of scuffed Outrun.

"The day when a AAA released game was finished" while holding Sonic 3 is so ironic given that it was released unfinished and had Sonic and Knuckles as pretty much cartridge based DLC 😂

6:13 ah yes the first half-second of Metal Crusher

8:18 If you got a Sega Nomad you can play the mega drive version on the toilet too :)

2 secs in and we already got a perfectly cut scream from Dank

(2:43) CHEWBACA SCREEEEAM

At 5:55 when you say "99 floors" in your accent the subtitle reads "99 flaws" which is about as Freudian as it gets.

wade reviewing a pop station is yet another sign of a potential ashens collab in the works and i absolutely can't wait

Oh hell yeah. Been sick the past two days, and the only cure for my upper respiratory infection is more -cowbell- dankpods! 🎉

@tylern6420

Жыл бұрын

Thats a bad infection 💀

@DeltaChairlines

Жыл бұрын

@@tylern6420 yeah tell me about it

@tylern6420

Жыл бұрын

@@DeltaChairlines well idk but on new years i had sickness and that apparently messed with my tonsils and it hurt and the pain only went away with a wierd yellow pill

Tiger games were absolutely my childhood before my mom bought me a SNES. I used to play them day in and day out, we all must have had more patience as kids back then. Thanks for this nostalgia!

@Blacksmith52

Жыл бұрын

Nah you just were idiots as children and didn't understand that you were losing the game

I wanted one of these so bad as a kid. I couldn't afford a gameboy or any other real handheld, so the idea of ANY portable gaming was so exciting. I couldn't really afford these either, but I eventually got a Ninja Turtles one second hand and loved it. It wasn't Tiger, but it had the same LCD screen with static background.

@Cogic

10 ай бұрын

Bruh this is what you badly wanted as a kid you couldn't have been that poor because these were not all that expensive

That painful scream while putting up the gloves, that got me :D

Seeing wheel of fortune brought me back to my youth. There was cartridges you could buy so you had more puzzles to solve

7:53 bro the screen exploded

This gave me SO much nostalgia for the 2003/2004 sonic games that came in McDonalds happy meals. I also had a handheld deal or no deal game that I LOVED.

Nice to hear dank is a sonic fan. My first game ever was actually Sonic 2, when i was just a wee 5 years old. And that got me started on my decades of gaming with Sonic still being one of me favorite franchises. Just wish they would do more with Blaze. *sigh*

I had a Tiger football game that was literally just you running 500 yards while dodging the opposing team... of like 100 players. It wasn't sensational gameplay, but every once in a while I'd pick it up and just play it. Also had a pinball game. Again, it wasn't top tier in any way, but since it wasn't a licensed property and just a pinball table, it wasn't terrible to play. I also had a Gameboy, so it wasn't like I was hard up for the latest game systems :P

I have been subscribed since "Building a 1000GB iPod" and you never fail to make my day. I always look fowards to watching your videos and I enjoy them very much. Thank you for being a great youtuber!

My grandfather had the wheel of fortune game and I loved playing it as a kid. Thanks for the memories!

I thankfully never had these, went from the Gameboy straight to a TurboExpress (Portable TurboGrafx-16) which was the same games at home and on the go. Ate batteries like they were snacks, but I loved it just the same.

64 bits! 32 bits! 16 bits. 8 bits. 4 bits. 2 BITS 1 BIT HALF A BIT QUARTER BIT THEEEE WRIIIIIIIST GAAAAAAAME!

@user-vd9vx6ne3v

Жыл бұрын

I knew I'll find this comment here )

I had one of these games as a kid. It was a Godzilla themed one where you had three different positions to attack blimps, fight jets, missiles, and a UFO. I could never figure out if I was doing well or not. The best bit though was I found it like, over a decade later AND IT STILL WORKED! The batteries had never been changed, they thankfully hadn't burst, and just kept on chugging. And I STILL had no idea what the heck I was doing.

I had one of these things that was like a racing wheel and you turned it to change lanes. I absolutely loved the thing

Keep up all your hard work can’t wait to see what the year holds

mate, cheers for all the content, been watching since late 2019/ early 2020, just wanna say, we as a community will never stop liking your content

Yeah! A new video! Sweet!!! I was just thinking how great it would be to watch a new video of yours right now. 😄

Those Tiger handhelds were the first "video games" I ever owned and played. My parents got me several, and kid me (not really experiencing any other video games) loved them. Well, right until I got my Super Nintendo. Then my Tiger handhelds were dead to me, lol. The only one I remember owning, for sure, was a Sonic one.

I had no idea they re-released the Tiger handhelds until I saw this. I remember my aunt having a Yahtzee one. Also oh my goodness Frank with her tail as a chin cozy.

The Droid Fighter game from Star Wars Episode 1 was kinda awesome because it was TINY. The keyring in it was kind of fun if you pretended it was an extended arm as a child, clipping onto other fighter toys like some madlad horror during playtime dogfights. Seriously, having the stuff be super tiny makes sense for how simple it is. Anything larger was a waste. Ffs during the very early 00's there were toy calculators THAT HAD SNAKE BUILT IN AND LOOKED LIKE BRICK CELLPHONES

The Space Harrier one is actualy semi playable. I has the SFII one as a kid, dug it out a few years ago and got a tenner for it on eBay. That's the most joy it's ever given me.

I still have my Tiger-esque handheld battleship game. It's one of the rare instances where you actually can get all of the gameplay of the real game into that handheld unit. I played it a lot as a kid and it still works on the original CR2032 that came pre-installed

0:40 "When a triple A game was finished" Just wait till he finds out that Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles were originally one game and were split to be in time for a maccas promotion 😂 ...You have a good taste in games though...

I was electronics nerd back in the day of these things. I thought these were somewhat cool as they were a super complex logic state machine you could interact with that fit in your hands.

i'm so glad dankpods is finally doing let's plays on his channel

This really hits me in the nostalgia feels. My brother got my nephews and niece the sonic gem collection for xmas which has all of the old sonic games on one disk. Me and my siblings loved playing those old games back in the day.

@tylern6420

Жыл бұрын

Those sure were some 2 bit games there

0:43 using Sonic 3 as an example of a Triple-A game that comes out as "finished" is pretty ironic given that they had to release the second half through "& Knuckles" later

OMG. I saw the Sonic one rereleased in a toy shop last week, it was very puzzling.

Awesome videos Dankpods you honestly deserve more subscribers!!

I had this thing and i loved it, that screeching tune brings back memories

@ALEXGIBSONCMG

Жыл бұрын

Specifically the sonic 3 one, now i need to get one.