I think I had that one too. Played it for hours, even though I had a perfectly good genesis in the house. Figure I musta killed thousands of batteries on that POS.
Think about lcd watches. They used similar concepts to construct the graphics for anything that moved and put a static background in place for everything else.
They weren't unplayable, but it was probably the most basic version of whatever game they might be trying to rip off.
But you could buy one for Five bucks at the grocery store, and the commercials were amazing, so everybody had them.
Whoever bought tiger electronics should have fired their entire company except for that damn marketing division. They could sell a kid just about any piece of shit...
Honestly, cross fire wasn't that bad. Simple, but still kinda fun. Ended up having a lot of stalemates if you didn't add have at least 3 spinners on the board.
The skeet shooting one was a favorite of mine at the time. We all knew they were no match for the home consoles or arcade, but they were the best thing going for gaming on the go at their point in time. Then the Game Boy came along and changed the game.
It’s been a fun ride growing up with gaming from the late 70’s to today.
Bro, I remember seeing Ashen review a POPStation nearly a decade and a half ago. Guess what. THEY'RE STILL MAKING THESE FUCKING THINGS.
doesn't surprise me. They're cheap as hell to make and kids will buy them with the right marketing...
I had the power rangers one I think. A fucking TI-86 had more entertainment value.
I think I had that one too. Played it for hours, even though I had a perfectly good genesis in the house. Figure I musta killed thousands of batteries on that POS.
I forgot all about these! Saved me on many a long car ride. Thanks for the memories
Yea, I had some knock-off with some sort of ninja fighting game. It was decent fun on road trips.
anytime.
I think I still have my Fox's Peter Pan handheld buried in a drawer somewhere.
Good memories.
Never had any of these, but I could figure the issue with them was that many of these games were too complex for non pixel based lcd games.
They were very primitive, yes.
Think about lcd watches. They used similar concepts to construct the graphics for anything that moved and put a static background in place for everything else.
They weren't unplayable, but it was probably the most basic version of whatever game they might be trying to rip off.
But you could buy one for Five bucks at the grocery store, and the commercials were amazing, so everybody had them.
ahh, the rzone.
Whoever bought tiger electronics should have fired their entire company except for that damn marketing division. They could sell a kid just about any piece of shit...
Oh god, the fucking R-zone.
They made that piece of shit sound so cool...
You can criticize "Extreme" advertising all you want, but it fucking worked...
This thing is proof of it, because I wanted a damn r-zone.
Honestly, the only ad better than the r-zone was probably crossfire...😂
Honestly, cross fire wasn't that bad. Simple, but still kinda fun. Ended up having a lot of stalemates if you didn't add have at least 3 spinners on the board.
true, but the ad was probably the most amazing commercial ever made, lol.
The skeet shooting one was a favorite of mine at the time. We all knew they were no match for the home consoles or arcade, but they were the best thing going for gaming on the go at their point in time. Then the Game Boy came along and changed the game.
It’s been a fun ride growing up with gaming from the late 70’s to today.
yeah, but even the gameboy couldn't kill the tiger, that's how amazing their marketing was...