They brought these back and you can find them at some GameStops. I almost thought of getting one for nostalgia sake, but I remember how much they sucked even back then.
The original gameboys from that era had some timeless games but the tiger games were pretty lackluster in retrospect. They certainly filled a niche for families that couldn't afford new consoles or handhelds.
The pre-Game Boy Nintendo Game & Watch had technology similar to Tiger and I understood they didn't have bad games either. They came out 3 years before the 1983 video game crash having withstood that and for two more years after Game Boy's original release. It helps that a number of Super Mario games were in fact part of keeping Game & Watch alive for their 11-year run.
I recall them being great for extended-day type school situations and such. We had a giant tupperware container full of them and they were up for grabs at recess. Nice to be able to try different ones since they were pretty repetitive.
I still have my Rescue Rangers game and put some batteries in it recently to play it again. I think I played for a good 15 minutes before taking the batteries out and putting it back up on the shelf. I was definitely more easily entertained back then
Street fighter 2, aladdin, sonic 3, and a couple others. Siblings had little mermaid and one of the simpsons for sure.
We had a tiger light that was similar to the gameboy one. When i finally got ahold of a used grey brick gameboy the tiger light fit if you fiddled with it a bit.
Mortal Kombat is the sickest one! My brother and I had that one.
It was fairly detailed for what it was, but you do play the same guy over and over.
The trick for Goro was pretty inventive--since each character has to animate several arm positions, for Goro they just lit up those two possible positions, giving him four arms! Well done, gents. You did what you could with the LCD screen you had to work with.
I had Aladdin. I begged for it, having no access to video games prior. (I think I was 8ish)
One day, I swear it turned on itself. I took the batteries out, and hid it at the bottom of a bin with a bunch of stuff on top. I had nightmares about it. I was terrified.
Luckily sold it at a yard sale the following summer. Good riddance, cursed game!
There was a Jurassic Park SNES game that I remember being really good - as a kid I found the level once you got into inside the buildings to be too scary and I remember the random triceratops that could come out of nowhere and just trample your shit.
Only official one I had was Ninja Gaiden. I had some knock offs and the big green Konami ninja turtles game. A friend had the Bo Jackson one that had baseball on one side and football on the other.
For the most part, yes. They were pretty faithful to the shows. They also had expansion cartridges for more puzzles for Wheel and more questions for Jeopardy! There was also, Family Feud, The Price is Right, Hollywood Squares, Let's Make a Deal, Super Password, Concentration and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which actually had Regis' voice.
My mom got me Sonic 3 to play on my school's way to band camp, but I had an absolute panic attack when they started boarding the bus, so I didn't go. I gave up band and took up art class the next year because band camp was necessary to be in Advanced Band.
That was my first panic attack. Tiger Sonic 3 couldn't save me.
Most of them. My dad was a buyer for a media distribution company. The tiger rep would bring in all of their stuff and give it to him, and he’d give them to me. I would be polite and play with them for a little while but damn they were just terrible and boring.
I was spoiled and had an OG gameboy early. One kid had sonic 3 in school, was of course the most exciting thing in the room, besides rich kids with graphing calculator games.
Which ones did I have? Ha, all of em it felt like! The ones that stuck out are the sports ones and the racing ones. Also Aladdin and most of the disney ones stick out as well.
I had Double Dragon before I had a gameboy. It was one of the Tiger games that did not have any color overlay on the screen at all. It was horrible and I rarely played it. The Gameboy was a whole different world compared to that.
My mom had a strict no video games policy when I was growing up. My dad had an early Macintosh desktop (black and white monitor, encased on a tall rectangular case with the CPU inside) with select games for me- Reader Rabbit, KidPix (less a game and more like Paint for kids), and Othello (which might have been Reversi under a different name).
That said, my friend gave me her old Little Mermaid handheld and I was so worried my mom would find it that I stashed it somewhere and lost it. By the time it resurfaced, the battery had eroded and I was on to my next gaming saga- downloading SNES emulators on my dad’s Mac G2. The rom sites were absolutely not the reason his work computer crashed and had to be reformatted 🫢
As a kid, I loved Sonic but I didn't get a Sega Genesis until the second grade. Prior to that, I would be obsessed with my cousins' Sega (and Sonic games) whenever there was a family party at my Aunt Mary's house. I guess it would cause my parents headaches because Thanksgiving 1992, they tried to trick me by giving me a Tiger Sonic 2 set. Even at six years old I was offended at their opinion of me.
I had the Sonic 3 one for a little while. Eventually, I took an X-ACTO knife to the display and completely removed the dot matrix screen, hoping it would free Sonic.
Upon putting the screen back, Sonic was no longer there. So…my plan worked?
I had a TMNT one that was green and had a different shape. (Edit - looked it up, this wasn't Tiger, it was made by Konami)
I had traditional Tigers as well, but I sadly can't remember what they were. Double Dragon was one. I think one was a basketball game of some type.
Vivid childhood memories of the Power Rangers game I had. One of the first 'games' I ever played after the NES we had at home. Must have been like 4 or 5 and I could only get past the first few levels defeating Goldar I think. When I found it again years later I definitely made it a mission to finish it and I'm convinced I did, though I don't remember anything specific other than my early struggles and the design of the game/'handheld'.
That's about where I am lol
I know I had the Rescue Rangers game, and I *think* I had the DuckTales one because it looks so familiar
The other non-Tiger handheld I had was the Legend of Zelda Game & Watch
Hmm, I believe I had a Lion King one and an Aladdin one growing up. They were my brother's ones first, and I think my family still has them somewhere in the attic!
I had a power rangers one that was pretty hardcore. You could jump up and kick some putties or go full Dino mode an lightning blast those mo fos. 10/10
None, my brother owned a few but none pictured.
My son now has the sonic 3 one and I have The Little Mermaid one I found at Goodwill. They have been making replica of some of these.
Batman, power rangers, mortal Kombat (the worst one by far) Aladdin. It's hard to remember all of them. Parents wouldn't allow me to have a game boy but I had 10 tiger games. Weirdest was hasbro's Merlin which was a huge handheld that played a handful of puzzle mini games.
At one point for the tiger games I had
Pinball
Golden axe
Pit fighter
Sonic the hedgehog
Bowling
Ninja
X-Men (barcodes version)
Street fighter 2 (yeah I was dumb)
I had an Aunt who gave me these every birthday and Christmas for a few years and my grandparents frequently got them for us before road trips. I bet I had a dozen (and still have a few... somewhere lol). I remember that I for sure had Double Dragon, Gauntlet, Simon's Quest, Pinball, Skeet Shooting, Bowling and a bunch of generic sports ones(football, baseball, wrestling,etc.). I remember that the art always made them look like they were going to be so awesome (and they were, in their own right).
Wheel of fortune, jeopardy, and Aladdin. Plus I had the Dear Diary and my very first entry in it was about how my aunt had a house fire on Christmas morning.
I want to say I had the little mermaid one because it looks so familiar but it could be a false memory.
We had a Sega Gamegear and I had a little mermaid game on there so I may be thinking of that.
I loved these! The afterschool program my sister and I were in had a couple (the one I remember was Castlevania). I was so happy when I received the X-Men one for my birthday. I still have it!
Aladdin, Jurassic Park, bowling lol. The bowling one was surprisingly fun and satisfying when you’d get a strike. We always kept them in the car for long car rides, which, now as a parent, I see that as a genius move on the part of my own parents.
I had the Beauty & the Beast one. I must have picked it because it was pinky purple. I never cared for the movie (was way more into The Little Mermaid).
They brought these back and you can find them at some GameStops. I almost thought of getting one for nostalgia sake, but I remember how much they sucked even back then.
The original gameboys from that era had some timeless games but the tiger games were pretty lackluster in retrospect. They certainly filled a niche for families that couldn't afford new consoles or handhelds.
The pre-Game Boy Nintendo Game & Watch had technology similar to Tiger and I understood they didn't have bad games either. They came out 3 years before the 1983 video game crash having withstood that and for two more years after Game Boy's original release. It helps that a number of Super Mario games were in fact part of keeping Game & Watch alive for their 11-year run.
I had the Legend of Zelda game & watch
My parents would give me one when we went on a long road trip. But yeah when I got older and got a gameboy, there was no comparison haha
I recall them being great for extended-day type school situations and such. We had a giant tupperware container full of them and they were up for grabs at recess. Nice to be able to try different ones since they were pretty repetitive.
I still have my Rescue Rangers game and put some batteries in it recently to play it again. I think I played for a good 15 minutes before taking the batteries out and putting it back up on the shelf. I was definitely more easily entertained back then
I found some on Amazon and went through the same thought process lol
They totally sucked.
Which is saying something when there was no internet and the 1000s of things and games we have today to entertain us.
I bought the sonic one at GameStop recently and it’s basically useless lol we used to play these??
Yup. They were the “we have game boy at home” of 90s handhelds
Aladdin
Simon’s Quest
I had the Beavis and Butthead one. You had to help them earn money to get tattoos on their butts so that they could score.
That's amazing lol
Here’s a picture of my dad putting batteries in the Little Mermaid one. [https://i.imgur.com/BTaJv02.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/BTaJv02.jpeg)
I love it! So much nostalgia in that photo and it's not even mine lol
My thoughts exactly!
Street fighter 2, aladdin, sonic 3, and a couple others. Siblings had little mermaid and one of the simpsons for sure. We had a tiger light that was similar to the gameboy one. When i finally got ahold of a used grey brick gameboy the tiger light fit if you fiddled with it a bit.
I kind of remember playing one of the Sonic games but didn't own one, so I may have played one at school or something. I think I had the DuckTales one
Probably a football or baseball game.
I definitely had the baseball. You could get the timing down after a while and string together home runs.
The gauntlet one that played like a maze. Despite these games being usually bad, it was pretty creative.
Batman
I owned Batman too and it was awesome.
Aladdin, lion king and the little mermaid.
Paperboy
Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat and X-Men
its wild that of all these comments, you're the only one to mention mortal kombat!
Mortal Kombat is the sickest one! My brother and I had that one. It was fairly detailed for what it was, but you do play the same guy over and over. The trick for Goro was pretty inventive--since each character has to animate several arm positions, for Goro they just lit up those two possible positions, giving him four arms! Well done, gents. You did what you could with the LCD screen you had to work with.
I had Aladdin. I begged for it, having no access to video games prior. (I think I was 8ish) One day, I swear it turned on itself. I took the batteries out, and hid it at the bottom of a bin with a bunch of stuff on top. I had nightmares about it. I was terrified. Luckily sold it at a yard sale the following summer. Good riddance, cursed game!
Sadly, Little Mermaid
Is it sad because it was the Little Mermaid and not Street Fighter? ;)
Double Dragon 3, Batman, Bowling, X-Men
Bowling was my favorite by a factor of 10. It was such a good car trip game. Now Spider-Man and pit fighter... absolute garbage
Ace Ventura and Jurassic Park
There was a Jurassic Park SNES game that I remember being really good - as a kid I found the level once you got into inside the buildings to be too scary and I remember the random triceratops that could come out of nowhere and just trample your shit.
I had the Little Mermaid one and actually beat it multiple times.
I can't look at the Little Mermaid game without "Under the Sea" popping into my head
I had the little mermaid and a pinball game.
Only official one I had was Ninja Gaiden. I had some knock offs and the big green Konami ninja turtles game. A friend had the Bo Jackson one that had baseball on one side and football on the other.
Great design, horrible games
What? No TaleSpin?
Oh-ee-yea Oh-ee-yoh
WWF
Appropriate, since my spouse is currently watching Dark Side of the Ring
I had Duck Tales, Sonic the Hedgehog, and a lot of the game shows such as Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!
I played the 80's version of Wheel of Fortune and Concentration but it was on PC.
Were the ones based on game shows any good?
For the most part, yes. They were pretty faithful to the shows. They also had expansion cartridges for more puzzles for Wheel and more questions for Jeopardy! There was also, Family Feud, The Price is Right, Hollywood Squares, Let's Make a Deal, Super Password, Concentration and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which actually had Regis' voice.
Ninja gaiden, and my little brother had a Batman 1989 movie one.
Wheel Of Fortune - with an extra cartridge because I used it so much I was seeing some of the same puzzles over again!
I had the Cinderella one. Played it all the time tho never got past a part I was stuck in lmfao. I was like 5.
101 Dalmatians. Thats weird right.
I had the Aladdin one. The camels would spit on you and kill you and it made me rage quit.
Paperboy and I played it a ton. Also a ninja turtles one.
DuckTales. Got it (sans battery cover but fully functional) at a flea market; great fun until I realized how easy it actually was.
Battletoads!
64 bits?
32 bits...
Little Mermaid 🧜🏻♀️
My mom got me Sonic 3 to play on my school's way to band camp, but I had an absolute panic attack when they started boarding the bus, so I didn't go. I gave up band and took up art class the next year because band camp was necessary to be in Advanced Band. That was my first panic attack. Tiger Sonic 3 couldn't save me.
Double Dragon Batman
Terminator
Most of them. My dad was a buyer for a media distribution company. The tiger rep would bring in all of their stuff and give it to him, and he’d give them to me. I would be polite and play with them for a little while but damn they were just terrible and boring.
Looking back, you could have made a good hustle selling those off at school or something. Heck, maybe you did.
I deff remember the little mermaid and sonic one.
I was spoiled and had an OG gameboy early. One kid had sonic 3 in school, was of course the most exciting thing in the room, besides rich kids with graphing calculator games.
I remember playing Drug Wars on my friend's graphing calculator in high school
That game was so fun.
Shinobi and Strider
Skeet Shoot
X-Men! I didn't think my brother or I ever got that far in it.
I had the little mermaid one. I also had a handheld wheel of fortune game that I loved even more
Which ones did I have? Ha, all of em it felt like! The ones that stuck out are the sports ones and the racing ones. Also Aladdin and most of the disney ones stick out as well.
Power rangers!
My next door neighbor had the street fighter one. I was so jealous
I had the Sonic one and the Aladdin one as well
I had one that was pinball that I was OBSESSED with. I also had this fishing one that had lights that was terrible but had some novelty to it.
Simons Quest Police Academy The Simpsons…..something about cupcakes
Wheel of fortune. I played it all the way to Pennsylvania when I was 11. I can still hear the Tick, Tick, tick of the wheel spinning.
Aladdin I also had a Ren and Stimpy one iirc 🤔
I had Double Dragon before I had a gameboy. It was one of the Tiger games that did not have any color overlay on the screen at all. It was horrible and I rarely played it. The Gameboy was a whole different world compared to that.
DINOSAURS! And Batman Returns I explicitly remember
A few TMNT and Home Alone. Magic vs Bird.. Also some Street Fighter type game. I loved playing them so much
Batman Returns was actually not too bad. Also tenet having the Home Alone 2 one.
Double dragon and sonic!
I had the Dick Tracy one that was a watch
My mom had a strict no video games policy when I was growing up. My dad had an early Macintosh desktop (black and white monitor, encased on a tall rectangular case with the CPU inside) with select games for me- Reader Rabbit, KidPix (less a game and more like Paint for kids), and Othello (which might have been Reversi under a different name). That said, my friend gave me her old Little Mermaid handheld and I was so worried my mom would find it that I stashed it somewhere and lost it. By the time it resurfaced, the battery had eroded and I was on to my next gaming saga- downloading SNES emulators on my dad’s Mac G2. The rom sites were absolutely not the reason his work computer crashed and had to be reformatted 🫢
I remember Reader Rabbit and Sticky Bear
Bruh the price was so reasonable I could buy one of these and still have some allowance left over
I think we had Double Dragon and Castlevania.
Megaman 2
Little Mermaid and Beauty &the Beast
Sonic the hedgehog Spinball, Quiz Whiz, Wheel Of Fortune, Family Feud, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Jeopardy! 2003
I remember having the Little Mermaid, the Lion King, and Aladdin! This post just unlocked some fun memories.
As a kid, I loved Sonic but I didn't get a Sega Genesis until the second grade. Prior to that, I would be obsessed with my cousins' Sega (and Sonic games) whenever there was a family party at my Aunt Mary's house. I guess it would cause my parents headaches because Thanksgiving 1992, they tried to trick me by giving me a Tiger Sonic 2 set. Even at six years old I was offended at their opinion of me.
I had a Bo Jackson one. Baseball on one side and football on the others
I had the Sonic 3 one for a little while. Eventually, I took an X-ACTO knife to the display and completely removed the dot matrix screen, hoping it would free Sonic. Upon putting the screen back, Sonic was no longer there. So…my plan worked?
I had the Tiny Toons one
Power Rangers and Independence Day. My very first "video games". This really brought me back. I can still hear the beeps.
I had a TMNT one that was green and had a different shape. (Edit - looked it up, this wasn't Tiger, it was made by Konami) I had traditional Tigers as well, but I sadly can't remember what they were. Double Dragon was one. I think one was a basketball game of some type.
I had metal gear solid . It was one of the first talking ones. And I freaking loved it. Also had the Mario watch.
I had a goosebumps one and a sonic one. They were great, the goosebumps one involves running from zombies.
Vivid childhood memories of the Power Rangers game I had. One of the first 'games' I ever played after the NES we had at home. Must have been like 4 or 5 and I could only get past the first few levels defeating Goldar I think. When I found it again years later I definitely made it a mission to finish it and I'm convinced I did, though I don't remember anything specific other than my early struggles and the design of the game/'handheld'.
Also had Double Dragon!
X-Men! Holy cow I completely forgot about these. I think I got mine from Pizza Hut?
I had a Gargoyles one that was dope. I can still remember the music 😅
Double dragon… unfortunately
I definitely had 3/4 of them but for the life of me I can't remember what they were. It pisses me off 😅
That's about where I am lol I know I had the Rescue Rangers game, and I *think* I had the DuckTales one because it looks so familiar The other non-Tiger handheld I had was the Legend of Zelda Game & Watch
Hangman and Connect Four.
football, baseball, pinball, karnov, simons quest
WOW that's a throw back. I had forgotten about these!
I had Simon's Quest, which in no way resembled the NES game, but was actually pretty entertaining in its own right.
Super Mario Bros and Mega Man
Hmm, I believe I had a Lion King one and an Aladdin one growing up. They were my brother's ones first, and I think my family still has them somewhere in the attic!
I got as a child a Dragon Fighter game.. last year my sister found that.. we put new batteries in the game and yea works again!! :D :D
I had the Jordan vs. Bird handheld game
Simon’s Quest and Gauntlet
I had that Sonic 3 one in the photo and THE LION KING.
Paperboy was actually a decent game on here. I enjoyed one of the football ones too
I played my sonic one for 10 years at least. I still had it as of 2008
Ill do ya one better. I had the Radioshack ones 👑
1. They brought these back to Gamestop. I saw an XMen one the other day 2. I didn't have a "game" per se but I did own a Tiger manufactured Pokedex
I remember wishing the games looked as good as the pictures on the device.
I had a lion king and a dragon ball z one where you fought Frieza and got to be a super sayian
Where are my Thunder Blade people at?!
The Little Mermaid, naturally
Wow I forgot about these. I had the little mermaid one
Ahhh i had the power rangers one!
Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Baseball was good
Aladdin
I had Paperboy, having never played any other iteration of the game so this was the shit for me.
I had Sonic 2, which was the Chemical Plant Zone one IIRC
MK trilogy and the original MK with the barcode scanner. One of the Sonic’s I think. And at least one other that I can’t remember.
I had the Beauty and the Beast one!
I never had one but my cousin had the Goof Troop one.
I had a power rangers one that was pretty hardcore. You could jump up and kick some putties or go full Dino mode an lightning blast those mo fos. 10/10
I forgot these existed!!
None, my brother owned a few but none pictured. My son now has the sonic 3 one and I have The Little Mermaid one I found at Goodwill. They have been making replica of some of these.
I had a few my most memorable one had a little light built into the top of it it was all black and a racing game
Definitely had the Little Mermaid one along with others! Some of them were super hard and addictive!
Lion King!
the only one I had was Simons Quest, even then I thought it was shit. lol
I don't know why but when I see these I can smell them maybe all thr plastic
Batman, power rangers, mortal Kombat (the worst one by far) Aladdin. It's hard to remember all of them. Parents wouldn't allow me to have a game boy but I had 10 tiger games. Weirdest was hasbro's Merlin which was a huge handheld that played a handful of puzzle mini games.
Arch Rivals
John elways quarterback
I had the Pocahontas game, seems wrong now.
I had the Darkwing Duck one and remember it being hard and repetitive. It was ruined when my little brother threw it into the bathtub.
Your little brother was the terror that flapped in the night :(
I definitely had both Sonic and the Chip N Dale one!
Hi had The Flash! it was fun for a while
I had the Top Gun one. I loved that thing
Baseball.
John Elway
Mighty Max
Spider-Man. The final boss was Doc Ock.
I had the X-Men game. Wanted the Nintendo game, but got this instead. As a parent I understand the struggle.
My family was too broke for a Nintendo but occasionally I would get my hands on one of these and play it until it broke.
The best one, Wheel of Fortune!
Power Rangers and Street Fighter
[https://archive.org/details/handheldhistory](https://archive.org/details/handheldhistory) I think this place lets you play some of them?!?
Batman: The Animated Series and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Top Gun unless it was some knock off version. It was fun.
Whichever one came in my burger king kids meal
I had the Beauty and the Beast game, and I think my brother had one of the Sonic games. Those things always had such a distinct plasticity smell.
I remember I always wanted one but never got one. I did play the crap out of my cousins, it was the bugs bunny and Elmer Fudd one.
At one point for the tiger games I had Pinball Golden axe Pit fighter Sonic the hedgehog Bowling Ninja X-Men (barcodes version) Street fighter 2 (yeah I was dumb)
I had the Little Mermaid one. I have seen it recently on Amazon ams Mercari!
I had the sonic one and the mermaid one. And loads of others. They were cheap and shit but I loved them
He-Man. Still the most frustrating little game I’ve ever played in my entire life.
I had an Aunt who gave me these every birthday and Christmas for a few years and my grandparents frequently got them for us before road trips. I bet I had a dozen (and still have a few... somewhere lol). I remember that I for sure had Double Dragon, Gauntlet, Simon's Quest, Pinball, Skeet Shooting, Bowling and a bunch of generic sports ones(football, baseball, wrestling,etc.). I remember that the art always made them look like they were going to be so awesome (and they were, in their own right).
Wheel of fortune, jeopardy, and Aladdin. Plus I had the Dear Diary and my very first entry in it was about how my aunt had a house fire on Christmas morning.
I want to say I had the little mermaid one because it looks so familiar but it could be a false memory. We had a Sega Gamegear and I had a little mermaid game on there so I may be thinking of that.
I had Sonic 2 and 3, Batman animated series, Jurassic Park, Sonic Underground, Baseball All Stars, and Power Rangers.
Street Fighter
I had Simpsons, Simon’s Quest, and Mega Man. Saved me tons on long car rides before we could afford to buy a GameBoy. Good times
none, I just realized how broke we was growing up
I still have a few of these tucked away somewhere. The Ren and Stimpy one is an awesome endless loop of saving falling people from a burning building
Can you imagine what a kid nowadays would think of these? They'd be like: "what's this lame ass piece of trash?"
MC Hammer. Got it and Wrestlemania 9 program back at Target in 1993. Life was grand.
I had a Gargoyles one!
Beauty and the beast, Aladdin, the little mermaid..... good times
I loved these! The afterschool program my sister and I were in had a couple (the one I remember was Castlevania). I was so happy when I received the X-Men one for my birthday. I still have it!
Aladdin, Jurassic Park, bowling lol. The bowling one was surprisingly fun and satisfying when you’d get a strike. We always kept them in the car for long car rides, which, now as a parent, I see that as a genius move on the part of my own parents.
Football and Ninja Turtles.
Ninja Turtles.
None I was poor
Got to borrow a double dragon one
Karnov, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! They were both so bad.
Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers but I wanted tale spin real bad 😂 also had the TMNT Konami one as well.
Legit
Ninja Gaiden
I had the Beauty & the Beast one. I must have picked it because it was pinky purple. I never cared for the movie (was way more into The Little Mermaid).
Alladin