When I was a kid, I got an After Burner 'table top' game from somewhere, and I liked it more without the batteries, as an imaginary fighter jet cockpit. The game was horrible.
There were a lot of toys like that in the 70s and 80s... and since you only got a couple of presents each year, you made do with what you had. Which means when some aunt blew a bunch of money on a really shitty present, you pretended they did good... even if they got you something they had seen you playing with in previous years and you had outgrown already, yet they got you another one. :P Or when your parents got you that "programmable" robot dump truck that would have been awesome to have in 2nd grade... as a gift when you were in 5th grade and had been coding for years already, so the "computer" in the dump truck was pathetic and nearly unusable. Therefore you pretended it wasn't a toy you had asked for years earlier... ignoring the requests you had made _this_ calendar year, or even the previous one. Sometimes you just had to pretend you liked what you got, or you were in deep shit. A big imagination goes well with such an unfun scenario to be in.
I like on outrun they decided to just have the stickers display every single warning light possible on a car. Appropriate way to let you know it's a lemon on delivery.
You know what really amazes me is these were sitting around somewhere that didn't degrade the plastic or stickers since the late 80s.... someone actually cared enough to store them properly!
uh no shit! They no doubt were thrown in a junk cabinet somewhere only to be found years and years later untouched. At least I know thats what I'da done lol.
@The Lavian are people too lazy to use the search feature on their own? it's actually the tomy driving thing they usually mod, not the one shown ehre so yeah sorry for misinformation... here's one of the trillion videos about this ua-cam.com/video/_qNDbQitKBk/v-deo.html
"The Q-Mutt 17 is a rip-off of the Dancing Digidog, the most popular Christmas toy of 2002. It looks exactly the same as the real device, it was a quarter of the price, and rather than dancing, it simply emitted a series of loud beeps, and then fell over."
The reason I have been looking at the minimised window was to make a byte for my first post in this blog thread on this video is a joke on a topic I am looking at using this link for my website but not the first to see my comments and comments from this blog comment and how I feel that the song was written to my collection by my friend who is a member and is now in a blue background background on on my website for this year old actually in a few months already on this video is a joke on a music show in in Sydney this weekend for me is a joke that you don't want them in a few weeks off work or just let us pray you know you will not get back from you you will have the opportunity of getting the right to your next business day at home now I will try and find out if I have to pay the fee and pay the deposit and the money I just turned my phone on after waking up and saw this. I'm sorry.
One of my friends in elementary school had After Burner ... he thought it was the greatest thing. Maybe he felt guilty that he convinced his parents to buy it for him, but I tried it once and hated it.
it was the red one, the front of it was shaped like a car..... it was one of the first toys I remember being "too old" for, it was obviously a kids toy, and I was 8 or 9 years old, pretty much a teenager in my mind at the time
To me this always has been the kind of hardware, that only unknowing elderly people (parents) would buy, because they cannot distinguish it from the real thing. When I was a kid, everytime I walked past these in the supermarket, I felt sad for the poor kids whose parents fell for that.. Honestly, I didn't even think the joysticks, steering wheels and buttons on the plastic body had a function.
I guess that depended on the age. For 5 year-olds this isnt too bad (or at least wasnt at the time). But the crowds for these started to thin down in the first days of school, basically. On a sidenote: Did i get the video right, that they had no power plug-in and HAD to be run on batteries, despite being, you know, table-tops? I guess it went well with all the plastic, uh? No matter the kid´s age, if you bought one of those as a parent back then, you didnt do anyone a favor (except the seller).
I actually loved the normal Tiger LCD games when i was younger. Something about how they worked just made me love them. My favorite Tiger LCD game was Sonic 2 and the second was Sonic 3.
There was one of those games that I always wanted. A hunk of plastic shaped somewhat like F-117. I think it had rudimentary motion controls and you were supposed to tilt the whole unit to play. From what I remember it was also quite expensive so my parents never bought it for me, probably for the best.
I remember being around 10 years old and thinking tiger games sucked even back then. It was like they never, ever worked right. Just mashing buttons and seeing what happened.
Afterburner is IMHO actually pretty good. The game is fast and smooth and the joystick and throttle work well. Sn interesting curio. The tiny screen is weird and sucky, though.
@@Relugus it would be interesting if someone got a Small computer, like a raspberry pi and replaced the screen. Then, have it emulate one of the console versions. If it wasn't for controlling the pitch. Then you might be looking at replacing the joystick altogether. Unless you wanted to roll your own version using what controls are available?
I had one that looked a lot similar to our run but it used neon vector graphics and was a suburd. I wish I could just remember the brand. I’d love to see it again
I think it wasn’t a game though I think it was a baby toy, all I remember is it looked similar to our run and used vector graphics I think the colors it used on screen was blue green and red.
I got the Outrun tabletop for my 10th birthday in August 1991. I can still taste the disappointment now. I remember waking up at around 4 am and sneaking downstairs with my brother to open it up and play it, then trying hard over the next week or so to convince myself it was good. My other present that year was Making Michael Jackson's Thriller on VHS, this is all seared onto my memory.
Lol. I used to have "only 2 games" at a small take away shop "arcade" every week. My dad hated taking me there, but it was "reward" for swimming training (don't ask). One day, he told me that he had got me something special (for my 2600..which, was, as a system, WAAAY better than the showcased LCD machines, but was getting old)... He got me a Quickshot joystick (the type with finger and hat trigger, and 2 base buttons - all 4 buttons did the same thing obviously). I really did love that joystick, as it added a new dimension to (some) 2600 games, but I still longed for the arcade...I eventually built my own arcade (see my channel) and have never looked back since ! Cheers for now 🙂!
I wanted that Outrun one soooo bad when I was about 8. Fortunately for me, I was in a Walgreens (because of course it was... for unfamiliar folks, that's a pharmacy that is also like a mini-Walmart... so, half full of garbage) and they had one operational as a "Try Me". What a complete disappointment. Never meet your heroes.
This reminds me so much of the Tommy Turbo toy I had, as a toddler in the early nineties. I loved that red, rattling, mysteriously glowing plastic monstrosity :D
If you don't like plastic, we can always build it from wood. And also use "non-vegan" glue made from the bones of dead animals, rather than some soulless synthetic polymer.
You unlocked a memory in my mind. I remember seeing these in KB toys once as a kid, I wanted one so badly. But my dad wouldnt get me one cause it wasnt worth it. Later that year I got my Gameboy Pocket for christmas. My dad isn't smart with new tech, but he knew that the Gameboy was worth more than whatever Tiger shilled out.
Remember when the kids with gameboys would have a gaming circle and inevitably some poor kid with a Tiger electronic game would try to join and get ridiculed out of the circle?
@LKCV have you ever played a Gameboy and Tiger handheld????? One is a full pixellated screen with graphics... The other is a single backscreen sticker with allot of small stickers on top of it that are highlighted once in a while.... Tiger is ultimated crap Just like you comment LKCV..... Your talking poooooooop
I need to set up an arcade with a bunch of these things. RGB lighting, a jukebox, popcorn machine, and... a bunch of these LCD games all squawking away.
Honestly, these things look pretty awesome. I would’ve love these as an 8-year-old. Granted, I feel like I would have enjoyed imagining myself as a jet fighter pilot more than I would have actually played the video game, but fun is still fun.
I remember I wanted that Out Run game (I had tried it at my local toy shop) and I got a way cheaper one that had a rund disk displaying the road and a clicking sound, also mechanic, when I went offroad. I took it apart after I found out that I didn't have to turn the wheel if I was on a specific spot after about a month of playing. I would have loved the real deal
My cousins had outrun when we were young. It was really cool because it was just so different from how gaming was evolving at the time since Nintendo and Sega were changing the arcade market into handheld controllers. This style of play somehow made me feel like I was playing a game more in the classic era when arcades were popular-before I was born
9 year old me spent ages drooling over the After Burner game in the Argos catalogue. A friend ended up bringing one into school on the last day of term and I've never been as disappointed by anything since.
I've always wanted to know what was on the chip of these things. I'm going to guess a feeble little 4-bit processor of the same kind used in a calculator --- in fact, it could well be a reprogrammed calculator chip: I bet these screens have about the same number of LCD elements as a 10-digit seven segment display. I wonder if anyone's decapped one...
I remember this. My friend had it but never had batteries in it. We just played around with the controls, I had to be around 5 or so around then. I remember thinking how cool the red car on the front was and played well with my imagination in pretending to drive it. I’m almost 30 now and totally forgot about that memory until watching this. Thank you for giving me the memory back lol
I owned the outrun tabletop and loved it. Granted I was at an age when I didn't even know to put passwords in on Mega Man... But it really brings me back.
When i was 8 and learning basic DC electrical circuits, i built a bigger wooden case for a tennis handheld game. I wired two pushbuttons. With better controls i could achieve better scores. Also attached a speaker where the piezo was and got louder sounds. This kind of mods made me happy and proud back in the days.
When I was 4 or 5 one of my friends had the Afterburner game. He never had any batteries for it but there was still plenty of play value in just the joystick, throttle and panel of stickers even without the electronics.
(9:30) I once bought the handle end of a _Flying Fighters_ toy at a Goodwill store, and had more fun with that. For those unfamiliar, it was essentially a plastic fighter jet, with a handle on the rear: the handle, designed to look like a flight stick, contained the batteries, a speaker that would produce a engine sound that changed depending upon how you moved the unit, and button that rocked left or right for gun or missile sounds.
In the US during the 90's there was a magazine called "Penny Power" later renamed "Zillions" that reviewed toys the same way the parent company Consumer Reports reviewed home appliances and cars. The After Burner game was highlighted for being a stellar example of packaging over functionality, noting the discrepancy between the size of the device itself and the tiny LCD screen. I assume there were significant cost factors involved due to economies of scale, but for the tabletop sized games Tiger should have at least had a bigger screen than on the handheld version.
I'd love to convert the Outrun one to use a proper full colour screen, give it analogue steering and then customise a Raspberry Pi or something to run a port of the arcade version of the game. Would be cool in that case. :)
I'd love to see one of these modded into something functional, with, like a Raspberry Pi, LED screen, gaming steering controller, and the fake sticker instruments replaced by some real arduino-controlled ones. So it would basically be exactly what a 9-year old me imagined it would be like, as I drooled over the catalogues.
I'd totally pay good money for something like that. Even more money to sit by and watch someone go about assembling it, learning myself a thing or two about arduino & raspb-pi!
Are you fukkin' kidding me - this is nostalgia gold! I would kill for a couple of these! They nailed the 80's aesthetic of stratospheric expectations (the box art, the adverts, the plastic housings!) v the below-ground-level reality of the actual product. Love it!
Just goes to show exactly how far a flashy exterior and some slick presentation could get you in sales, before widespread user reviews came about and securing a refund meant physically mailing the product back to the company that sold it to you. Congratulations on finding some truly "quality" tat there, sir. I'm glad you could get the video out before Octavius tore them out of your arms (hands and all)! xD
I've been searching for the outun one for ages! Found it in a 1096 toysrus catalog image on Ebay last night ! And now this video.... COINCIDENCE? I Think SIR!
Tiger Electronics must had money to burn to come up with some of the stuff they made.I wonder if Hudson Soft approach Tiger Electronics to see if they wanted to make a video game system.We could of had Tiger Electronics on every PC Engine and TurboGrafx 16 system.
I have enough memories of playing those kinds of games as a kid that I think I can say they basically run on the power of self-suggestion and a lot of plastic. As a six-year-old you just go: "There's no way all of this does nothing, right? And it looks so cool!", and by the time you've double, triple and quintuple-checked that it, in fact, does nothing, and the coolness of the plastic has exhausted your interest, there's probably a different cheap (and hopefully better) toy to catch your attention.
these were kind of awesome! the physical devices were exciting to look at and engage with... but the tech wasn't there, the lcd screen was a huge let down. but if you did this now with current tech, it'd probably be pretty cool.
It's amazing how easily we were sold on hunks of plastic covered in stickers in those days. The draw really was all in the strength of the licensed name and the advertising.
A guy on the sega master system cafe Facebook group converted the afterburner unit by inserting a Sega gamegear loaded with afterburner into the shell and connecting the joystick... It's a work of art.
You have to admit, Tiger were goo at reusing their factory tooling, I'm sure half of those games were the same just with different backgrounds. While the tech was crude, they were a lifesaver on long car journeys. I had a space game that projected the graphics on to a larger display. It was like the top of an arcade cabinet. Plus it had colour graphite (coloured film in strategic places). Quite good fun, but it ate D size batteries.
I had one that was like Pacman, but with pigs. Used LEDs in it, but it was like looking into an arcade cabinet-it would actually unfold into that shape, with a lens and all. Looked cool as hell really, but like yours, ate Ds.
The "music" of the first one of those lil games made me pysically reel my head back as if someone was mad at me for no reason- XD and i was like "so ya know that feeling of hearing a noise so horrid it makes you back up in pain?" ;w;
I had two of the other games on that Argos catalogue page. The red and black F1 racing game, and the yellow and black vampire game. Both branded Systema. I have really fond early memories of the F1 LCD game, including it stopping working in primary school and being really upset. Another kid in the class managed to get it working again but without sound. Lol. I recently found it during lockdown and it's in my drawer of electronics to tinker with, so I'll be finding some little cell batteries for it and reliving the memories. I'm sure I'd have had this pre-92 when I got my master system, so I'd have only been maybe 5 when I got it. I had an Acorn Electron, so being able to have any sort of game portable to take to school was amazing to me. I also had the green Turtles Tiger game (one of the 'long' portrait ones) and a Super Mario watch. Oh and, flooding back into my memory, a helicopter Tiger LCD game too. Thunder Blade (also a Sega licence I believe). I'll be honest - I fully accept that these were hunks of plastic being sold at high profit margins based on good marketing. But I loved them for what they were at the time and would have spent hours with them and their simplicity. I remember getting sore thumbs. I can't hate them, as much as they deserve being belittled. As a child with an imagination they were all I really needed. And as a child obsessed with cars, one of those machines in this vid would have made me very happy indeed. Awful hunks of plastic, but they deserve their place in history. Gaming history. Childhood history. Thanks for reminding me about the good side of these things!
I used to have like two LCD games that I completely forgot what company made them or what they even looked like all I know is that one of them was a Disney Pixar cars version of Daytona tiger electronics edition but with mater instead. As well as a Spider-Man one where you had to save people from a crumbling building while avoiding doc ock
Oh god your videos are so much better with closed captions on! [Medieval Style Music, filling the air wirh sounds of wind instruments and fear of piety]
When I was a kid, I got an After Burner 'table top' game from somewhere, and I liked it more without the batteries, as an imaginary fighter jet cockpit. The game was horrible.
Then you had no imagination because I was Maveric all day and night bro
I feel that, I spent many hours with that thing unpowered, generally accompanied with other toys to complete the cockpit.
There were a lot of toys like that in the 70s and 80s... and since you only got a couple of presents each year, you made do with what you had. Which means when some aunt blew a bunch of money on a really shitty present, you pretended they did good... even if they got you something they had seen you playing with in previous years and you had outgrown already, yet they got you another one. :P
Or when your parents got you that "programmable" robot dump truck that would have been awesome to have in 2nd grade... as a gift when you were in 5th grade and had been coding for years already, so the "computer" in the dump truck was pathetic and nearly unusable. Therefore you pretended it wasn't a toy you had asked for years earlier... ignoring the requests you had made _this_ calendar year, or even the previous one.
Sometimes you just had to pretend you liked what you got, or you were in deep shit. A big imagination goes well with such an unfun scenario to be in.
I'm holding out for the full sized Tiger arcade cabinet with the same sized LCD screen.
Hahahaha that's so funny and would be excellent tongue in cheek humor if Tiger did that 😂
would be cool.
I don't know if a local system could handle graphics like these. Surely, they would have to open a Tiger server farm somewhere to stream the games.
Lol Someone should build that for real as a joke!
You’re holding out for a hero then?
I like on outrun they decided to just have the stickers display every single warning light possible on a car. Appropriate way to let you know it's a lemon on delivery.
"medieval sounds fade away, just as the monarchy"
the subtitles are genius.
*The Kingdom of Denmark would like to know your location*
I wanna know the song title of the curch organ
Brilliant. Even funnier if read in a BBC presenter voice!
You know what really amazes me is these were sitting around somewhere that didn't degrade the plastic or stickers since the late 80s.... someone actually cared enough to store them properly!
There are collectors of everything, even torture devices.
uh no shit!
They no doubt were thrown in a junk cabinet somewhere only to be found years and years later untouched. At least I know thats what I'da done lol.
Y'all know that your interests aren't the only ones? You live in a tiny bubble, get some perspective
No it's just that the elements didn't even want to TOUCH them. Imagine being so bad that dust won't settle on you
Why dont you mod them with a colour LCD and a rasberry PI running mame and then run real afterburner and outrun. That would be kickass
Some people actually did this and it's amazing
@The Lavian are people too lazy to use the search feature on their own? it's actually the tomy driving thing they usually mod, not the one shown ehre so yeah sorry for misinformation... here's one of the trillion videos about this ua-cam.com/video/_qNDbQitKBk/v-deo.html
I just checked Octavius video because that sounded familiar. it was what Guru Larry said he'd love to do.
@matt You realize that they want the exact video. Sometimes it might not be the thing they're talking about. It's not being lazy, it's being specific.
Definitely should
So many commenters here so fast. The thing is, 8th is the new first.
Opinions add more eagerly these days!
Therefore,8th is the new first.👍
Power move, claim first for yourself instead.
Hello nostalgia nerd!! How’s your week been?
the noises give me a headache. I'm sorry. I cannot watch this :(
Put plainly, who gives a shit
That car game has such amazing sound quality. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- chirp- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- chirp- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..."
Sounds like dial-up
Truly Hi-Def Sound.
More like VVVVVVVVUH
Sounds like my tinnitus wrapped in plastic
#lol
Nerd:" they're just plastic tat"
Ashens: "HELLLOOOOO"
Ashens has drunk a lot of old pop drinks......
"The Q-Mutt 17 is a rip-off of the Dancing Digidog, the most popular Christmas toy of 2002.
It looks exactly the same as the real device, it was a quarter of the price, and rather than dancing, it simply emitted a series of loud beeps, and then fell over."
@@AfterBurnerTeirusu Just the one, in 2007:
ua-cam.com/video/V6r8N2YHAs4/v-deo.html
The reason I have been looking at the minimised window was to make a byte for my first post in this blog thread on this video is a joke on a topic I am looking at using this link for my website but not the first to see my comments and comments from this blog comment and how I feel that the song was written to my collection by my friend who is a member and is now in a blue background background on on my website for this year old actually in a few months already on this video is a joke on a music show in in Sydney this weekend for me is a joke that you don't want them in a few weeks off work or just let us pray you know you will not get back from you you will have the opportunity of getting the right to your next business day at home now I will try and find out if I have to pay the fee and pay the deposit and the money
I just turned my phone on after waking up and saw this. I'm sorry.
Octavius: "gubbins 😍”
One of my friends in elementary school had After Burner ... he thought it was the greatest thing. Maybe he felt guilty that he convinced his parents to buy it for him, but I tried it once and hated it.
I had it and loved it, I had no idea it was so expensive haha
I wanted one so bad and my parents said no...... I remember thanking them when I finally got to try one at my friends place.
which one?
it was the red one, the front of it was shaped like a car..... it was one of the first toys I remember being "too old" for, it was obviously a kids toy, and I was 8 or 9 years old, pretty much a teenager in my mind at the time
@@billdagrasshawking Yes, at 8 years old the human brain is far too sophisticated for such a pedestrian toy. lol
6:42 That song is horrific. I am pretty sure it was one of Zamfir's B-sides.
Ha ! The ads and pics in box were always much better than game
Super Sound: *plays*
All Dogs In The Neighborhood: *howling in unison begins*
To me this always has been the kind of hardware, that only unknowing elderly people (parents) would buy, because they cannot distinguish it from the real thing. When I was a kid, everytime I walked past these in the supermarket, I felt sad for the poor kids whose parents fell for that.. Honestly, I didn't even think the joysticks, steering wheels and buttons on the plastic body had a function.
I guess that depended on the age. For 5 year-olds this isnt too bad (or at least wasnt at the time). But the crowds for these started to thin down in the first days of school, basically.
On a sidenote: Did i get the video right, that they had no power plug-in and HAD to be run on batteries, despite being, you know, table-tops? I guess it went well with all the plastic, uh? No matter the kid´s age, if you bought one of those as a parent back then, you didnt do anyone a favor (except the seller).
I actually loved the normal Tiger LCD games when i was younger. Something about how they worked just made me love them. My favorite Tiger LCD game was Sonic 2 and the second was Sonic 3.
There was one of those games that I always wanted. A hunk of plastic shaped somewhat like F-117. I think it had rudimentary motion controls and you were supposed to tilt the whole unit to play. From what I remember it was also quite expensive so my parents never bought it for me, probably for the best.
I remember being around 10 years old and thinking tiger games sucked even back then. It was like they never, ever worked right. Just mashing buttons and seeing what happened.
@@adenowirus The one time where NOT getting a toy was the lesser disappointment xD
My grandma got me one of those Afterburner units for Christmas when I was a kid. Man, I haven't thought about that in a LONG time.
I owned the Afterburner one, and I loved the shit out of it as a kid.
Happy memory :)
I owned it too, and I remember having way more fun not playing the horrible game and just pretending I was driving a sports car with the controls.
Afterburner is IMHO actually pretty good. The game is fast and smooth and the joystick and throttle work well. Sn interesting curio.
The tiny screen is weird and sucky, though.
@@Relugus it would be interesting if someone got a Small computer, like a raspberry pi and replaced the screen. Then, have it emulate one of the console versions. If it wasn't for controlling the pitch. Then you might be looking at replacing the joystick altogether.
Unless you wanted to roll your own version using what controls are available?
Imagine getting one of these when expecting an actual console.
over a PS1 with gran turismo or need for speed
Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been screwed by something black and 23 inches long 😳
Joshua Lansell-Kenny wtf
@@hawks1ish HAHHAHAAHAH
The priorities are definitely mixed up then.
I had one that looked a lot similar to our run but it used neon vector graphics and was a suburd. I wish I could just remember the brand. I’d love to see it again
I think it wasn’t a game though I think it was a baby toy, all I remember is it looked similar to our run and used vector graphics I think the colors it used on screen was blue green and red.
I'm in michigan too and I think I had that same one didn't have real tires like this one
Had a full steering wheel too maybe just the American version
64 bits,
32 bits
16 bits.
8 bits!
4 BITS,
2 BITS
1 BIT.
HALF BIT!
QUARTER BIT!!!
THEEEE WRIIIIIIST GAAAAAAME
... He's gonna take you back to the past
@@gayusschwulius8490 To play the shitty games that suck ass
@@gracjanszmyt1442 he'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear
@@xwithoutxanyxwarningx5191 he angriest gamer you ever heard
@@leap123_ you skipped a line
I got the Outrun tabletop for my 10th birthday in August 1991. I can still taste the disappointment now. I remember waking up at around 4 am and sneaking downstairs with my brother to open it up and play it, then trying hard over the next week or so to convince myself it was good. My other present that year was Making Michael Jackson's Thriller on VHS, this is all seared onto my memory.
Tomy Turbo steering wheel. Nuff Said. That out run game had nothing on my Tomy Turbo
That Outrun game looks like it was originally supposed to be a Knight Rider game. It looks much more like KITTs dash than a Ferrari.
Oh my goodness. Well, having this sitting on a shelf will still makes the shelf looks cool.
Kid: Oh Mom, look! Outrun Arcade!
Mom: We have Outrun at home.
Outrun at home: 5:22
Oh, this kid turned to be most sadiest kid on the city for a few months!
Lol. I used to have "only 2 games" at a small take away shop "arcade" every week. My dad hated taking me there, but it was "reward" for swimming training (don't ask). One day, he told me that he had got me something special (for my 2600..which, was, as a system, WAAAY better than the showcased LCD machines, but was getting old)... He got me a Quickshot joystick (the type with finger and hat trigger, and 2 base buttons - all 4 buttons did the same thing obviously). I really did love that joystick, as it added a new dimension to (some) 2600 games, but I still longed for the arcade...I eventually built my own arcade (see my channel) and have never looked back since ! Cheers for now 🙂!
@@arcadesunday4592 I've just subscribed and added a video to "watch later". Thanks for the story!!
Yikes. This makes c64 outrun look as good as the arcade
Even as a kid I was always disappointed with tiger games. Bought 3. Never again ! XD
At least Outrun seems to have a higher frame rate than the Spectrum version haha!
I wanted that Outrun one soooo bad when I was about 8. Fortunately for me, I was in a Walgreens (because of course it was... for unfamiliar folks, that's a pharmacy that is also like a mini-Walmart... so, half full of garbage) and they had one operational as a "Try Me". What a complete disappointment.
Never meet your heroes.
Astro Wars! I had that when I was a child, think it's still in my mum's house somewhere.
5:08 "My cousin had one of these and I thought it was..."
What? The cat's pajamas? The bee's knees?
"The dog's bullocks."
*Oh*
This reminds me so much of the Tommy Turbo toy I had, as a toddler in the early nineties. I loved that red, rattling, mysteriously glowing plastic monstrosity :D
Tomy turnin' turbo
The music when showing the Batman game was awesome! Great video as always my friend 👍👍
That "boost" gauge is looking exactly like on Saab 900 Turbo. It's boost on top, water temp on the left, and fuel on the right.
Oh, so that's why Alberta had a booming oil economy back then; was all the plastic for those.
It wasn't booming back then. Oil was only like $7/bbl. Though it may have contributed to exiting the bust of 84.
If you don't like plastic, we can always build it from wood. And also use "non-vegan" glue made from the bones of dead animals, rather than some soulless synthetic polymer.
@@statinskill Sensitive much?
@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte You're bored, go sniff some glue!
I think DEATH STRANDING in pure LCD glory would make a good Tiger Handheld
Nah death stranding would make the tiger worse tbh
You unlocked a memory in my mind. I remember seeing these in KB toys once as a kid, I wanted one so badly. But my dad wouldnt get me one cause it wasnt worth it.
Later that year I got my Gameboy Pocket for christmas. My dad isn't smart with new tech, but he knew that the Gameboy was worth more than whatever Tiger shilled out.
I always hated Tiger games back in the Day, IT never feeled like real gameplay. Gameboy was the shit
Remember when the kids with gameboys would have a gaming circle and inevitably some poor kid with a Tiger electronic game would try to join and get ridiculed out of the circle?
But Did Gameboy Have Sonic?
@LKCV have you ever played a Gameboy and Tiger handheld????? One is a full pixellated screen with graphics... The other is a single backscreen sticker with allot of small stickers on top of it that are highlighted once in a while.... Tiger is ultimated crap Just like you comment LKCV..... Your talking poooooooop
@LKCV AAAAAnnd Blocked.
You truly don't understand how liquid crystal displays work do you?
I need to set up an arcade with a bunch of these things. RGB lighting, a jukebox, popcorn machine, and... a bunch of these LCD games all squawking away.
Can i come? Also u have food? Need beer also
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Honestly, these things look pretty awesome. I would’ve love these as an 8-year-old. Granted, I feel like I would have enjoyed imagining myself as a jet fighter pilot more than I would have actually played the video game, but fun is still fun.
AHH！sh*t！1:21 I had vampire attack,
Just saw it and had a wave of feelings hit. Completely forgot about that GEM
Corners in an LCD racing game?!?!?!!! Wow. I'm honestly impressed.
"The exact same length as an Amstrad cpc"
Ahh hell yeah totally relatable.
I remember I wanted that Out Run game (I had tried it at my local toy shop) and I got a way cheaper one that had a rund disk displaying the road and a clicking sound, also mechanic, when I went offroad. I took it apart after I found out that I didn't have to turn the wheel if I was on a specific spot after about a month of playing. I would have loved the real deal
Can’t imagine a kid playing the Outrun game on a long car ride with the sound effects lol
"Using half the worlds plastic in the process" lololololololololololol
4:02 with the way they made the mold I can't help think they expected to make an F1 game at some point
I grew up in the 80’s and remember I loved these things. I feel like an ancient relic myself after watching this.
This reminds me of an old starwars computer game that had this awesome player attachment that you put on the keyboard
The graphics remind me of Halo Infinite gameplay reveal yesterday.
Ouch.lol
I want to convert that Outrun 'cabinet' into a switch controller for playing, well, Outrun
“Slab of tat”
*browses dictionary*
My cousins had outrun when we were young. It was really cool because it was just so different from how gaming was evolving at the time since Nintendo and Sega were changing the arcade market into handheld controllers. This style of play somehow made me feel like I was playing a game more in the classic era when arcades were popular-before I was born
Grandstand's logo is absolutely not reminiscent that of Nintendo's. At all.
Tricking parents into buying crap for their children.
9 year old me spent ages drooling over the After Burner game in the Argos catalogue. A friend ended up bringing one into school on the last day of term and I've never been as disappointed by anything since.
Me: **Punches lcd screen and converts it into usb controller for gta v**
I remember drooling over after burner in the electronic catologs 🤣
I had Tigers Paperboy. one of the better ones but still awful lol.
I've always wanted to know what was on the chip of these things. I'm going to guess a feeble little 4-bit processor of the same kind used in a calculator --- in fact, it could well be a reprogrammed calculator chip: I bet these screens have about the same number of LCD elements as a 10-digit seven segment display. I wonder if anyone's decapped one...
My best mate had the outrun game when he was a kid - I only have vague memories of it but love how it looks as a thing
I remember this. My friend had it but never had batteries in it. We just played around with the controls, I had to be around 5 or so around then. I remember thinking how cool the red car on the front was and played well with my imagination in pretending to drive it. I’m almost 30 now and totally forgot about that memory until watching this. Thank you for giving me the memory back lol
I owned the outrun tabletop and loved it. Granted I was at an age when I didn't even know to put passwords in on Mega Man... But it really brings me back.
As a kid, it used to really bug me that toys like this had stickers for things instead of actual light-up controls.
When i was 8 and learning basic DC electrical circuits, i built a bigger wooden case for a tennis handheld game. I wired two pushbuttons. With better controls i could achieve better scores. Also attached a speaker where the piezo was and got louder sounds. This kind of mods made me happy and proud back in the days.
I had the batman one back in the day. Honestly, I played it couple hours at best, but the jealousy of childhood friends was real..
When I was 4 or 5 one of my friends had the Afterburner game. He never had any batteries for it but there was still plenty of play value in just the joystick, throttle and panel of stickers even without the electronics.
Might be a big christmas gift from poor parents who couldnt buy batteries.Still a Nice toy for a child,even if not working
(9:30) I once bought the handle end of a _Flying Fighters_ toy at a Goodwill store, and had more fun with that. For those unfamiliar, it was essentially a plastic fighter jet, with a handle on the rear: the handle, designed to look like a flight stick, contained the batteries, a speaker that would produce a engine sound that changed depending upon how you moved the unit, and button that rocked left or right for gun or missile sounds.
In the US during the 90's there was a magazine called "Penny Power" later renamed "Zillions" that reviewed toys the same way the parent company Consumer Reports reviewed home appliances and cars.
The After Burner game was highlighted for being a stellar example of packaging over functionality, noting the discrepancy between the size of the device itself and the tiny LCD screen.
I assume there were significant cost factors involved due to economies of scale, but for the tabletop sized games Tiger should have at least had a bigger screen than on the handheld version.
The batmobile and the afterburner game would look awesome sitting on a shelf in a man cave though.
I'd love to convert the Outrun one to use a proper full colour screen, give it analogue steering and then customise a Raspberry Pi or something to run a port of the arcade version of the game. Would be cool in that case. :)
I'd love to see one of these modded into something functional, with, like a Raspberry Pi, LED screen, gaming steering controller, and the fake sticker instruments replaced by some real arduino-controlled ones. So it would basically be exactly what a 9-year old me imagined it would be like, as I drooled over the catalogues.
I'd totally pay good money for something like that.
Even more money to sit by and watch someone go about assembling it, learning myself a thing or two about arduino & raspb-pi!
tbh the outrun would be sick to dismantle, add a raspberry pi and turn it into a mini home arcade cabinet to play emulated racing games.
"Filling the air with sounds of wind instruments, and fear of piety" That was beautiful and poetic. Also kinda sounds like an album by The Pogues.
Are you fukkin' kidding me - this is nostalgia gold!
I would kill for a couple of these!
They nailed the 80's aesthetic of stratospheric expectations (the box art, the adverts, the plastic housings!) v the below-ground-level reality of the actual product.
Love it!
Just goes to show exactly how far a flashy exterior and some slick presentation could get you in sales, before widespread user reviews came about and securing a refund meant physically mailing the product back to the company that sold it to you.
Congratulations on finding some truly "quality" tat there, sir. I'm glad you could get the video out before Octavius tore them out of your arms (hands and all)! xD
I had the 2 smaller handhelds from that 1990 argos book (red/black, yellow/black) then upgraded the following year to a tiger sonic lcd handheld
I've been searching for the outun one for ages! Found it in a 1096 toysrus catalog image on Ebay last night ! And now this video.... COINCIDENCE? I Think SIR!
I actually LOLed at "slab of tat"
Back in my day 👴 Tiger AfterBurner was *our* Steel Battalion
Tiger Electronics must had money to burn to come up with some of the stuff they made.I wonder if Hudson Soft approach Tiger Electronics to see if they wanted to make a video game system.We could of had Tiger Electronics on every PC Engine and TurboGrafx 16 system.
I have enough memories of playing those kinds of games as a kid that I think I can say they basically run on the power of self-suggestion and a lot of plastic. As a six-year-old you just go: "There's no way all of this does nothing, right? And it looks so cool!", and by the time you've double, triple and quintuple-checked that it, in fact, does nothing, and the coolness of the plastic has exhausted your interest, there's probably a different cheap (and hopefully better) toy to catch your attention.
these were kind of awesome! the physical devices were exciting to look at and engage with... but the tech wasn't there, the lcd screen was a huge let down. but if you did this now with current tech, it'd probably be pretty cool.
4:16 that "turbo/apc" sticker is ripped off from an 1980:s SAAB :)
It's amazing how easily we were sold on hunks of plastic covered in stickers in those days. The draw really was all in the strength of the licensed name and the advertising.
one of my favorite games was the tomy "binocular" games... I had the red one which IIRC was a tron based game.
Oh jeez I forgot about those! There was a shark one as well ISTR
A guy on the sega master system cafe Facebook group converted the afterburner unit by inserting a Sega gamegear loaded with afterburner into the shell and connecting the joystick... It's a work of art.
You have to admit, Tiger were goo at reusing their factory tooling, I'm sure half of those games were the same just with different backgrounds. While the tech was crude, they were a lifesaver on long car journeys.
I had a space game that projected the graphics on to a larger display. It was like the top of an arcade cabinet. Plus it had colour graphite (coloured film in strategic places). Quite good fun, but it ate D size batteries.
I had one that was like Pacman, but with pigs. Used LEDs in it, but it was like looking into an arcade cabinet-it would actually unfold into that shape, with a lens and all. Looked cool as hell really, but like yours, ate Ds.
6:39 that is the worst redition of Magical Sound Shower
To quote Stuart Ashen from the end of his review on that piece of shit....
"Will you SHUT UP?!?!"
Seeing those stickers of SAAB dials (turbo/APC was what SAAB called their turbo management system) on the OutRun version made me laugh :D
My brother got After Burner for Christmas one year and we loved that thing.
As someone who still has a die cast batmobile toy back from when the movie came out, I'd honestly love to have that Tiger game.
The AfterBurner one didn't seem that bad TBH.
The "music" of the first one of those lil games made me pysically reel my head back as if someone was mad at me for no reason- XD and i was like "so ya know that feeling of hearing a noise so horrid it makes you back up in pain?" ;w;
Ah yes, the Amstrad CPC. The perfect unit to measure length!
"Has your cat grown?"
"Yeah, he's the size of an Amstrad CPC now!"
My dad brought one of those racing games home from a garage sale when I was a kid. :)
I had two of the other games on that Argos catalogue page. The red and black F1 racing game, and the yellow and black vampire game. Both branded Systema. I have really fond early memories of the F1 LCD game, including it stopping working in primary school and being really upset. Another kid in the class managed to get it working again but without sound. Lol. I recently found it during lockdown and it's in my drawer of electronics to tinker with, so I'll be finding some little cell batteries for it and reliving the memories. I'm sure I'd have had this pre-92 when I got my master system, so I'd have only been maybe 5 when I got it. I had an Acorn Electron, so being able to have any sort of game portable to take to school was amazing to me.
I also had the green Turtles Tiger game (one of the 'long' portrait ones) and a Super Mario watch. Oh and, flooding back into my memory, a helicopter Tiger LCD game too. Thunder Blade (also a Sega licence I believe).
I'll be honest - I fully accept that these were hunks of plastic being sold at high profit margins based on good marketing. But I loved them for what they were at the time and would have spent hours with them and their simplicity. I remember getting sore thumbs. I can't hate them, as much as they deserve being belittled. As a child with an imagination they were all I really needed. And as a child obsessed with cars, one of those machines in this vid would have made me very happy indeed.
Awful hunks of plastic, but they deserve their place in history. Gaming history. Childhood history. Thanks for reminding me about the good side of these things!
This brings back good memories... I had the After Burner one for my birthday when I was 5, God I loved that... Thanks for the nostalgia!
This reminds me of the Tomy Turbo (similar to this but all analog). I had the Tomy Turbo back in the 80s and loved it
I used to have like two LCD games that I completely forgot what company made them or what they even looked like all I know is that one of them was a Disney Pixar cars version of Daytona tiger electronics edition but with mater instead. As well as a Spider-Man one where you had to save people from a crumbling building while avoiding doc ock
Oh god your videos are so much better with closed captions on! [Medieval Style Music, filling the air wirh sounds of wind instruments and fear of piety]
The UA-cam subtitles for this are hilarious, really the best bit 😂
I had the After Burner one as a kid. I had loads of fun with it and can remeber playing with it very clearly :) Loved it! :p
That one actually looks like it was pretty well done.