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From the release of the DMG-01 in 1989 until the final Micro variant hit store shelves in 2005, the Nintendo Game Boy line represented the epitome of handheld gaming for …read more Continue reading Tiger Boy Advance Is a 90s Kid Dream Come True
To save these games, the Internet Archive had to destroy them. Continue reading Relive the Golden Age of Tiger Electronics Handhelds Thanks to the Internet Archive
There’s a certain class of hardware only millennials will cherish. Those cheap ‘LCD Video Games’ from Tiger Electronics were sold in the toy aisle of your old department store. There was an MC Hammer video game. There was a Stargate video game. There was a Back To The Future video game. All of these used the same plastic enclosure, all of them had Up, Down, Left, Right, and two extra buttons, and all of them used a custom liquid crystal display. All of them were just slightly disappointing.
Now, there’s an effort to digitize and preserve these video games on …read more
Tiger Electronics’ LCD-based games shouldn’t have been as successful as they were against the Game Boy. But the company was anything but a failure. Why? Continue reading Tiger Electronics Took on the Game Boy with Devices as Powerful as Calculators