Seems like everybody had at least one Tiger LCD handheld in their childhood back in the '90s. The one I had and got the most use out of was a game called Mouse Maze. Where you play as a mouse traversing through a maze collecting pieces of cheese while avoiding a cat that looked like a knockoff of Lucifer from Cinderella. With each level, the maze got bigger and the cat got faster.
One of the reason why are the games are slow is the lack of sprite capabilities and still having a low clock-frequency to compensate it unlike in many other systems. I would like you to cover the GamePark GP32, however there's a few problems with the emulators. There's one that's pretty close to the real thing, however the creator of it slowed it down and removed the audio capabilities to avoid piracy of game software, and he mainly intended it for being a development tool (what a fucking prick!). MAME is slow thanks to lack of optimization and work on that part as the platform was often viewed as an emulation and homebrew tool despite having a few exclusives that look good but cannot really play them thanks to slow emulation and constant freezing. However showing this platform might be an excellent choice if you ever wish to take a look at Korean gaming. I would say I could help you out with a video, however I still don't have a microphone that doesn't sound complete ass, and I probably have to record my first video in a while with a mobile phone (not to mention my horrible Hungarian accent).
I live in Salisbury! Wow, the top hat gaming man has come to my little city. I didn’t think I would see the day! Pop round for a cup of tea and a play on Atari Jaguar!
I was alarmed when I took a casual stroll through the village of Aimesbury and found a second-hand shop, packed to the brim with over priced super rare games. Even had a boxed copy of Falesei for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, which is a game Id never thought Id see in the wild.
Top Hat Gaming Man Oh yeah, I should have mentioned this as the first port of call more than Salisbury Cathedral! Mind you, being over priced as they are maybe not. You could have visited Sting, he lives in West Amesbury
It is pretty bad when not even an emulator can hide the bad motion blur on these things. The detailed graphics for a handheld from that era look promising but it was fundamentally flawed on a technical level that the bad refresh rate on the screens isn't the biggest problem, it's just that damn sluggish.
Funny enough, my grandfather owned a Game Com when it was new. I only ever played it when I would visit my grandparents and he only had some puzzle games and maybe one other non-puzzle game. They also had a Colecovision, NES, and Atari 2600 lol. Even my grandfather was a bit of a gamer back then.
Another great video! I also had an original Lights Out game and whilst watching this video I ended up buying one of eBay to enjoy once again and to let my son enjoy the fun and sometimes frustration of Lights Out. :)
I actually begged my mum for this cause a few kids in school had it. Then my friend got it and we spent a weekend playing with it....and it was garbage thanks Mom for saving me the headache
I had the smaller version of the Game.com and it was kind of like a Dollar General version of a Game Boy. It was alright. Playing Resident Evil was a fucking nightmare. But hey, to pull off Resident Evil in monochrome was a massive accomplishment. One of my favorite games on it was Wheel Of Fortune and video poker. I was a weird kid
I asked for one for Christmas because I thought my friend somehow prank called my house with it and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Turns out he made it up. I cried.
Turn based RPGs would've been great in this system as many of them rely more on strategy rather than reflexes, It's so sad Tiger never saw the true limitations of Its console and tried at least to turn them into Its strong points.
I can imagine that, I personally only live three hours away. I have drove past it many times, but that was the first time I have made the effort to go up close.
I had both versions of the Game.Com... The revised model lacked a second cartridge slot and had a considerably better (although a bit smaller) screen that was backlit... It also ran the games at really close to twice there original speed making games like Sonic Jam... Almost tolerable... Still that said... Even if I found a unit that had a still usable screen I don't think you could pay me enough to go through that again... I would rather play the GBA port of Sonic 1 ten times a day for the next ten years then play the Game.Com port of Sonic Jam again... Although I have to admit that trying to get each of the available bonus levels completed in Sonic 3's available 2 levels was kinda a nice treat for the time... All things considered... 😂
Well, the Silent Hill from the Brits (Origins from Climax) was more well-received than the American one (Homecoming from Double Helix). That was Hyrule Warriors music in the middle, right? What track was that at the end?
If they had release a Game.com 2 and instead of having 2 cartridge slots, they would had use 1 slot for upgradability it would had been impressive and successful
You didn't show the main reason the Game.Com was so bad: the screen is very blurry when anything moves, which is why the games run at such a low frame rate.
megagrey, Tesco is a supermarket, but they have their own range of cheap products too. Tesco Finest is their so called decent expensive products, and Tesco Value is their super cheap products. E.g. Tesco Value Cola 2 litre is like £0.17p. :)
OMG I recall our family (as a group Xmas gift) had an electronic Master mind handheld circa 1982. But it was neglected, and the batteries exploded inside and made it unplayable. Awwwwwww.
I'm watching your vids some time now, and I have one thing to say: You Sir are really well dressed. My compliments. Do you go out this way allday or is it just for the show?
I had a Game.com. It was bad. I only had 2 games for it William's Arcade Classics and Light's Out (because that was a pack-in title). I always wanted Sonic Jam and other games like that, but I am glad I didn't pick them up. William's Arcade Classics was OK for a handheld port at the time, but I would never pick it up today when there are much better handhelds with much much better screens. Infact, I feel the screen was actually the worst part of the game.com. The ghosting being so bad its no wonder the games had to run so slow.
I always thought Tiger electronics was as Taiwanese company. The port of Duke Nukem 3D on the game com was very bad as the hardware was no where near up to the task.
.. I had no idea how many pieces of junk this company pushed out. Thanks for the video, kind Sir! EDIT: Also, dude, what emulator are you using? I have all the roms but no emu..
Arcade Ted I have one and I have full attentions to make a video on it. There will be much more microcomputer stuff on this channel when I move back into my house and build a micro computer room in December.
I love collecting handhelds i think i own 50+ or so but this hot garbage i won't touch haha great review tho. If you want try an obscure sonic game try the one on the neogeo pocket color.
Man, I had this shit biscuit back in the day. I played it all the time and I thought it was awesome...looking back..I realize just how wrong I was lmao.
Been many times before the launch of the channel, so I am sure I will be back at some point. I live near Harwich Port, so can sail straight to Hoak Van Holland.
I see that you are into hand held machines I have always felt that it is hard focus when playing such a kind of a Machines, it is just not the same thing, but shorter period of time, yes in brief there is something that I can play for shorter periods wirh The AT GAMES ARCADE GAMER PORTABLE with 30 game but with the little screen makes it hard for me , to be true I have seen that you talk about these hand held type of Machines I have some experience of playing such games if i cannot fall asleep, but it is so strange because I cannot explain why I truly never been able to get a fully satisfactory experience as compared to console games in front of the TV, however I have experience of playing some sort of renewed classics of game and Watch titles that looked like game boy Machines that had various types of Colour and in fifth and sixth grade I have played Octupus and on some other minigame from the ice Cream Ice Cream truck provided a keyring size tetris, I do not remeber much more, I remeber so dude that had a adapter to play games like Super Mario land and Donkey Kong Land using television screen, and at some other dude was in my class and one time I sat in his room while he played a Wario game, I can say i find playing many portables to be a bit uncomfortable and maybe it is the lack of focus that tears me apart to make actual progress and to get beyond playing in small squences as Before I fall asleep or when I get up early, as it precieve things really have not played much on portables because it is hard to get into it with a proper overview, it does differ alot from display on a tv screen, it is easy therefore to makeundesirable mistakes beacuse of the fact that concentration is not up to snuff when I play on Machines that are not connected to TV. still yeh it is enjoyable yeh it is, and the battry time on the afrometioned unit with 30 8-bit SEGA Games as a good tendecy to guarantee good battery life in a long term perspective, how In the years I have hand helds, but…. I feel it just is not the same thing.
I don't think a stylus or touch screen is necessarily that great for gaming. There are many ds games i have avoided because playing with a stylus seems like it would be annoying. and while touchscreens are not as much of a turn off for me, i would rather just use a dpad/analog stick and buttons. kinda funny that sony stuck a touchscreen and touchpad onto the vita and many games don't even use them now.
Agreed, I tried a demo unit my local EB games had setup to try, and clear out some stock they had, but after trying Fighters Mega Mix, and RE 2 on it, which where both hard to see even under the bright lights of the store, and hearing the piss poor audio I knew it was a total flop.
"Worth Playing Today?" It wasn't bloody worth playing the thing back in the day, goddamnit!
This thing deserves an emulator... so the games actually run optimally!
Seems like everybody had at least one Tiger LCD handheld in their childhood back in the '90s. The one I had and got the most use out of was a game called Mouse Maze. Where you play as a mouse traversing through a maze collecting pieces of cheese while avoiding a cat that looked like a knockoff of Lucifer from Cinderella. With each level, the maze got bigger and the cat got faster.
I'll spare you 18 minutes: Yes, absolutely!
Well hot damn! You know where i can get one good sir!
One of the reason why are the games are slow is the lack of sprite capabilities and still having a low clock-frequency to compensate it unlike in many other systems.
I would like you to cover the GamePark GP32, however there's a few problems with the emulators. There's one that's pretty close to the real thing, however the creator of it slowed it down and removed the audio capabilities to avoid piracy of game software, and he mainly intended it for being a development tool (what a fucking prick!). MAME is slow thanks to lack of optimization and work on that part as the platform was often viewed as an emulation and homebrew tool despite having a few exclusives that look good but cannot really play them thanks to slow emulation and constant freezing. However showing this platform might be an excellent choice if you ever wish to take a look at Korean gaming. I would say I could help you out with a video, however I still don't have a microphone that doesn't sound complete ass, and I probably have to record my first video in a while with a mobile phone (not to mention my horrible Hungarian accent).
See also, the OpenPandora if he could actually get his hands on one.
One answer before watching this: HELL NO
SAVAGE ARMY no it's FUCK NO!!
SAVAGE ARMY agreed
I live in Salisbury! Wow, the top hat gaming man has come to my little city. I didn’t think I would see the day! Pop round for a cup of tea and a play on Atari Jaguar!
I was alarmed when I took a casual stroll through the village of Aimesbury and found a second-hand shop, packed to the brim with over priced super rare games. Even had a boxed copy of Falesei for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, which is a game Id never thought Id see in the wild.
Top Hat Gaming Man
Oh yeah, I should have mentioned this as the first port of call more than Salisbury Cathedral! Mind you, being over priced as they are maybe not.
You could have visited Sting, he lives in West Amesbury
Just madness that I walked in there off the street with no research, such a bizarre place to find rare games.
Top Hat Gaming Man
Very true! But Amesbury is on its own merit a strange place!!!
It is pretty bad when not even an emulator can hide the bad motion blur on these things. The detailed graphics for a handheld from that era look promising but it was fundamentally flawed on a technical level that the bad refresh rate on the screens isn't the biggest problem, it's just that damn sluggish.
Funny enough, my grandfather owned a Game Com when it was new. I only ever played it when I would visit my grandparents and he only had some puzzle games and maybe one other non-puzzle game. They also had a Colecovision, NES, and Atari 2600 lol. Even my grandfather was a bit of a gamer back then.
Another great video! I also had an original Lights Out game and whilst watching this video I ended up buying one of eBay to enjoy once again and to let my son enjoy the fun and sometimes frustration of Lights Out. :)
What about the Super Duck? Ironically a rop off of the SuperVision :D
you mean the mega duck larry?
ImpaledGryphon also know as the cougar boy
Larry Bundy Jr mega duck?
That panzer dragoon saga camping music put a smile on me face.
I worked at Best Buy in the US and we had the same Game.com on the shelf the entire time I worked there... literally years...
I remember seeing this in the Argos catalogue thinking it looked like a pretty neat electronic organiser.
Rich enough to travel the world, but too cheap to buy a registered version of Bandicam ;)
I actually begged my mum for this cause a few kids in school had it. Then my friend got it and we spent a weekend playing with it....and it was garbage thanks Mom for saving me the headache
It's possible that you're the only person to have taken a Game.com to Stonehenge. Well done.
Informative and entertaining as always. Just watched your Switch one too; I can't decide which platform you'd prefer
I had the smaller version of the Game.com and it was kind of like a Dollar General version of a Game Boy. It was alright. Playing Resident Evil was a fucking nightmare. But hey, to pull off Resident Evil in monochrome was a massive accomplishment. One of my favorite games on it was Wheel Of Fortune and video poker. I was a weird kid
great vid. Have you covered the great Gizmondo yet?
OMG music from Terranigma!!! One of my all time favorites!!
Love it. Great channel, hope you get bigger.
Ok I was wrong.
CDi isn't the worst machine ever made.
stufaman pioneer laserdisk gizmondo commodore cdtv virtual boy are all worse then the CDI
@@MrLordpistoia The Pioneer Laserdisc had its moments.
I asked for one for Christmas because I thought my friend somehow prank called my house with it and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Turns out he made it up. I cried.
Was it ever worth playing in the first place?
Turn based RPGs would've been great in this system as many of them rely more on strategy rather than reflexes, It's so sad Tiger never saw the true limitations of Its console and tried at least to turn them into Its strong points.
Stone Heng is nice but I just take it for granted because I live so near it
I can imagine that, I personally only live three hours away. I have drove past it many times, but that was the first time I have made the effort to go up close.
Top Hat Gaming Man I live in Portsmouth so about hour for me personally I rather go to the dockyard then Stonehenge
I had both versions of the Game.Com...
The revised model lacked a second cartridge slot and had a considerably better (although a bit smaller) screen that was backlit...
It also ran the games at really close to twice there original speed making games like Sonic Jam... Almost tolerable...
Still that said... Even if I found a unit that had a still usable screen I don't think you could pay me enough to go through that again...
I would rather play the GBA port of Sonic 1 ten times a day for the next ten years then play the Game.Com port of Sonic Jam again...
Although I have to admit that trying to get each of the available bonus levels completed in Sonic 3's available 2 levels was kinda a nice treat for the time... All things considered... 😂
you should have had spinal tap playing in the back ground when you were at Stone Hedge
sorry meant Stonehenge...
lol yes seen that stupid error LOL I ment henge
Nice bit of PDS music at the end :D
Don't forget about Battletoads Top Hat Gaming Man! That was also a Tiger LCD Game believe it or not!
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
When ever I hear about the r zone it makes me think about mark from classic game room
Good God... how the hell can one man have so much class?!
Robocop from the 128k speccy....ahhh sweet melodies
You need to visit Salisbury Cathedral. Beautiful Cathedral and you get to see the Magna Carta.
I saw it at ToysRUs back in the day. Kept on walking.
Well, the Silent Hill from the Brits (Origins from Climax) was more well-received than the American one (Homecoming from Double Helix).
That was Hyrule Warriors music in the middle, right? What track was that at the end?
cheers mate ur documentary videos are lovely. ,,,plz keep up ,,
You know Stonehenge was rebuilt and set in concrete less than 100 years ago?
If they had release a Game.com 2 and instead of having 2 cartridge slots, they would had use 1 slot for upgradability it would had been impressive and successful
Had the choice out of this or the neo geo pocket, so glad I picked right. Just something about the games line up felt to good to be true.
You didn't show the main reason the Game.Com was so bad: the screen is very blurry when anything moves, which is why the games run at such a low frame rate.
Love your videos bro.
I've never seen someone play the tiger Game.com at the Stone Hedge before
Tesco Value Virtual Boy! 😂 That is literally the best description of the R Zone I’ve heard! 👂😛
I assume Tesco is the UK equivalent of Family Dollar?
megagrey, Tesco is a supermarket, but they have their own range of cheap products too. Tesco Finest is their so called decent expensive products, and Tesco Value is their super cheap products. E.g. Tesco Value Cola 2 litre is like £0.17p. :)
@@anonymousgamecritic9832 Ahhhh, now I get it. The more you know.
Blur's frontman Damon Albarn has let himself go.
Do you remember kwik save saver range, made tesco value look like harrods
how do you get to travel so much?
Ill let you in on a little secret. I use planes....
Top Hat Gaming Man cheeky little git
Dave Murrells Saved up
He was a wrestler lol.
Richard Parliament... Was a uh... Well at one point he... No, no, it's all pretty gay. Let's just go with uses planes comment.
"Does it PLAAAAAAY!?"
"Sonic's arms are not grey!"
Before watching this, I'm expecting another handheld to be thrown into the water
OMG I recall our family (as a group Xmas gift) had an electronic Master mind handheld circa 1982. But it was neglected, and the batteries exploded inside and made it unplayable. Awwwwwww.
Quiz Whiz too!! It was the shit in the time.
Still got mine. Pretty underrated with some good games (bad ones too lol) but the screen doesn't hold up well though
Just bought 2 for 30 quid with 5 games. Only up in price, now on your video.
This video should have started with Top'll Fix It simply saying *NO!* followed by a fake Facebook advertisement, as if the video just ended...
What emulator did you use?
what about the internet on the machine lol
I'm watching your vids some time now, and I have one thing to say: You Sir are really well dressed. My compliments. Do you go out this way allday or is it just for the show?
Anne Devour Thank you :) With my Monday to Friday job, I dress like this most of the time. Minus the Top Hat obviously.
Are you a Starfox or Sonic furry?
Teddy Ruxpin
Those are the best
Six people are game.com owners. Triggered.
...Since Spacies I unfortunately have 2 of em
Wait... How did you find a gamecom emulator?
Humm... Solitaire looking at the Game.com screen or Solitaire for windows 10 that thinks that paying a charge or ads on it... witch is worse now?
I had a Game.com. It was bad. I only had 2 games for it William's Arcade Classics and Light's Out (because that was a pack-in title). I always wanted Sonic Jam and other games like that, but I am glad I didn't pick them up. William's Arcade Classics was OK for a handheld port at the time, but I would never pick it up today when there are much better handhelds with much much better screens. Infact, I feel the screen was actually the worst part of the game.com. The ghosting being so bad its no wonder the games had to run so slow.
I always thought Tiger electronics was as Taiwanese company.
The port of Duke Nukem 3D on the game com was very bad as the hardware was no where near up to the task.
I owned a tiger datazone with Daytona USA which was an abysmal game
I had one of these. Lol. It sucked
I just subbed :)
still my favorite handheld
.. I had no idea how many pieces of junk this company pushed out. Thanks for the video, kind Sir!
EDIT: Also, dude, what emulator are you using? I have all the roms but no emu..
Is the zx81 worth playing today ?
Arcade Ted I have one and I have full attentions to make a video on it. There will be much more microcomputer stuff on this channel when I move back into my house and build a micro computer room in December.
Top Hat Gaming Man fantastic. The zx81 was my first gaming device. No fangled consoles for me back in the 80s.
I think we all knew what your answer was going to be.
Sonic Jam was on this hunk of junk lol not even close to sonic jam with Sonic 1 2 and 3
6:23 what's that game? :O
I, living in America, can hear the triggered keyboards from the first two minutes of this video. I love America too
Only game I kind of enjoy on the Tiger Game.Com is Batman & Robin. 🦇
I love collecting handhelds i think i own 50+ or so but this hot garbage i won't touch haha great review tho.
If you want try an obscure sonic game try the one on the neogeo pocket color.
corsegerspwnd Completed and covered it in my Neo Geo Pocket Color video. I want to try the Sonic Game on the Ngage.
Top Hat Gaming Man skip that one xD it's a butchered gba sonic advance version.
id love to have one
Spy: The Man is an awesome game
10:57 Ugh, that background distortion makes me sick to my stomach, and I don't even get motion sickness from gaming.
amazingly porduced video,. im alredy a fan
Man, I had this shit biscuit back in the day. I played it all the time and I thought it was awesome...looking back..I realize just how wrong I was lmao.
Dear God no. It was bad when my I got it for Xmas in the 90s and it's bad now.
0:53 Shawn Michaels
What's the crap-o-meter rating on that R-Zone? It's over nine thousaaaand!!!
You should come to the Netherlands
Been many times before the launch of the channel, so I am sure I will be back at some point. I live near Harwich Port, so can sail straight to Hoak Van Holland.
Terranigma!!!!
It wasn't even worth playing back when it was still new 😂😂😂
I would b nice to c top hat gaming man here and NO its not good enough that is all lol .
i guess
I see that you are into hand held machines I have always felt that it is hard focus when playing such a kind of a Machines, it is just not the same thing, but shorter period of time, yes in brief there is something that I can play for shorter periods wirh The AT GAMES ARCADE GAMER PORTABLE with 30 game but with the little screen makes it hard for me , to be true I have seen that you talk about these hand held type of Machines I have some experience of playing such games if i cannot fall asleep, but it is so strange because I cannot explain why I truly never been able to get a fully satisfactory experience as compared to console games in front of the TV, however I have experience of playing some sort of renewed classics of game and Watch titles that looked like game boy Machines that had various types of Colour and in fifth and sixth grade I have played Octupus and on some other minigame from the ice Cream Ice Cream truck provided a keyring size tetris, I do not remeber much more, I remeber so dude that had a adapter to play games like Super Mario land and Donkey Kong Land using television screen, and at some other dude was in my class and one time I sat in his room while he played a Wario game, I can say i find playing many portables to be a bit uncomfortable and maybe it is the lack of focus that tears me apart to make actual progress and to get beyond playing in small squences as Before I fall asleep or when I get up early, as it precieve things really have not played much on portables because it is hard to get into it with a proper overview, it does differ alot from display on a tv screen, it is easy therefore to makeundesirable mistakes beacuse of the fact that concentration is not up to snuff when I play on Machines that are not connected to TV. still yeh it is enjoyable yeh it is, and the battry time on the afrometioned unit with 30 8-bit SEGA Games as a good tendecy to guarantee good battery life in a long term perspective, how In the years I have hand helds, but…. I feel it just is not the same thing.
I don't think a stylus or touch screen is necessarily that great for gaming. There are many ds games i have avoided because playing with a stylus seems like it would be annoying. and while touchscreens are not as much of a turn off for me, i would rather just use a dpad/analog stick and buttons. kinda funny that sony stuck a touchscreen and touchpad onto the vita and many games don't even use them now.
I doubt it was worth playing then.
do the r zone
We Americans didn’t even want this
Wasn't worth it when it was out .
Agreed, I tried a demo unit my local EB games had setup to try, and clear out some stock they had, but after trying Fighters Mega Mix, and RE 2 on it, which where both hard to see even under the bright lights of the store, and hearing the piss poor audio I knew it was a total flop.
What a piece of junk lol. Was that Wesley Willis in the commercial??
bandicam? in 2017? haha
ShiftyMoses I struggled with emulating the Gamecom. One of my twitter followers, graciously sent me the footage to use.
LOL Britain best country…
America best