Topic: Tiger Electronics Handhelds Return

I’m sure NL will soon makes a news posts on this since it involves Sonic, but it looks like Tiger Electronic handhelds are going to return:
https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/19/hasbro-relaunching-tiger-...
4 games will launch by next fall: The Little Mermaid, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Transformers: Generation 2 and X-Men Project X. Each one will cost $14.99 .

Makes me kinda wish that Nintendo would do a new Game and Watch Gallery or even release dedicated replicas of the best Game and Watch games similar what they did with Ball for Club Nintendo.

I remember having a few of these as a kid before getting a Gameboy. Had Double Dragon, Paperboy a couple others too. They were great little devices at the time.

I would always get these from my grandparents for birthday and Christmas gifts because they knew I liked video games and it was a "video game.". I probably played them once and then threw them in my top draw of my dresser till years later when I donated them all to Goodwill.

SONIC 3?!?! Did they finally sort out the rights with the Jackson estate? Does this mean that we have a chance for Sega Ages Sonic 3 and Knuckles? Will I finally be able to listen to ice cap zone on a handheld that isn't the DS? I am officially hyped!

I remember having quite a few of these, but can't recall the ones I had other than street fighter 2. Everybody had these on the block and at school so I played my fair share of them. It was always the poor man's gameboy 😂, but got the job done.

@mordecai And what does that video have to do with this thread???

Oh man i remember those! I begged and begged my mom for a gameboy and she couldn't really afford one so i got those tiger handhelds instead. I even remember which ones. I had Karate king and Double dragon 2. It wasn't the gameboy i wanted but it was nice to have something sorta like it. They were really primitive but honestly they could get addicting.

Eventually when i turned 12 i finally got my gameboy with super mario land 2 six golden coins and a new walkman. The kind that reverses the tape without actually having to take it out and flipping it over.
Best birthday ever!

I had Pagemaster, 101 Dalmations (live action), and Sonic pinball handheld games by Tiger back in the day.

I can't say I harbour any particular nostalgia for them. Lord knows if I had a Game Boy that I wouldn't have looked twice at any of that Tiger rubbish.

I did have a little Game Boy-shaped Super Mario key ring game that I wouldn't mind revisiting, but again, if I had a Game Boy with Super Mario Land, I doubt I would have had any nostalgia for the key ring. EDIT: Turns out that it was a remake of the Super Mario Game & Watch game! Neat!

I had some of these but also a Gameboy. While my brother was playing the Gameboy I would play around on a Tiger Handheld.

Imagine giving a kid one of these now. Haha. They even make those Atari 2600 games seem really hi-tech.

I remember being blown away by the Game Boy Color back in the day. I couldn't believe that a portable device with a colour screen could run on a few AAs. How times have changed!

We really do take our tech for granted.

Footage from the NY Toy Fair:

Who asked for this? No really, WHO? Because these "games" were terrible! They were the bargain bin junk that ended up in every drug store clearance basket around the country/world. These were the junk you gave the nieces and nephews you did not know or like.

I know of literally no one who liked these and have never seen anyone say anything positive about them - aside from a handful of people saying things like "at least the art on the sticker is nice" once or twice.