Tiger Electronics Fighting Games

These are one step removed from imitating a fighting game using shadow puppets.

This is not normal kusoge This is Advanced kusoge

can't wait to see Tiger Electronics Street Fighter II at EVO 2023

These were my first lesson in buyer's remorse. I remember acquiring enough cash in 1980s dollars as a child to buy a crappy Ghosts n' Goblins handheld Tiger cart...$20 may have well been $1,000,000 in both the way my brain processed money and because of inflation now...but then I had to learn about something called "tax" and still needed to save a little bit more for a little bit longer to cover it. After months of setting aside the equivalent of my life savings, I got my parents to take me back to the toy store where I had seen one to buy it. And it was the worst piece of shit ever. I every bit of money thrown away on something with the graphics of a calculator. It looked nothing like the game I played on my buddy's Nintendo down the street. The idea I could hold something like that in my hands eventually, the disappointment felt upon having it, and just how long it took to earn & save...there was a lesson in there. And even worse: it took batteries.

The best tiger handheld game I bought as a kid was Full House

The way they combined multiple characters into one with swappable cosmetics is pretty clever considering the hardware!

"I just can't fit an arcade cabinet in my pocket." Skill issue

Hearing about technically there being an official Mortal Kombat fighting game without Scorpion and Sub-Zero makes me double take on being in the correct universe.

Today's kids will never know how lit it was to be driving at night with your mom in the 90s and see how lit up block buster and Hollywood video was man seeing all those bright lights at night just hit different back then 😢

Fighters Megamix definitely needs more love. Awesome video as always GWQ!!

Coincidently, many subjects you covered in your channel remind me of my late mother. Anyway, around 2003 when I visit a CD/DVD store in the middle of my town, I saw a bunch of Gameboy cartridge display in glass in that store. I instantly had attention at the Megaman Zero 1 cartridge due to the cover on it with Zero hold saber, I know instantly it's Megaman stuff and Megaman was the things I ended up growing playing the most back then. My town was small, and it was at the end of my country, so accessibility to hardware, software were always limited to some very specific stores around the town. That being said, it's a miracle to see something like that in such a small and lesser known place like my town. Of course, I couldn't afford to get a Gameboy, so every time I visit the store, I look at the cartridge again and again, and Zero was there to look at me in his badass pose as well. Of course, as a kid I tend to tell my mom what I like, but I keep very little details to the story. My mom remembered the term "Gameboy" however, my mom was a victim of war in the past, aging and living in a time when she disconnected from advancement of the world as technology keep getting better every day. She only approached internet by some of the last years of her life. That didn't stop her from hearing me though, on a trip with her friends, she visited a remote marketplace which is some of the biggest market where there are plenty of goods from overseas being imported through the borders illegally and legally. What I assume is that she asked someone about a gameboy despite not knowing how it looks and what on earth does it do, she assumed it's a toy. Eventually, she brought home what she thought was the thing that I wanted. The moment I saw it, I know it's not a gameboy and despite my age at the point, I know my mom has been bamboozled, and that thing right there is a knock-off device from China. That being said, I was well raised by my parents. I learned to appreciate before complain. I accept the gift from her, saying thanks and then went in the back of my house, started to open the bootleg device. She bought 4 cartridges along with the device, I was huge, almost like a PS Vita and at that time the packaging and the device itself is impressive for the size and the quality of packaging. It was a KO of Tiger Electronics stuff. There was one of the cartridge I remembered having a Fallout 2 cover on it, I didn't know it was fallout at that time. I turned on the device with some spare batteries around the house, putting in a cartridge, and oh boy, having blessed by Playstation at that point, I knew terrible graphic when I saw one. The screen despite being big, was terrible with only black and gray on background, no sound, and the static image on the screen was terrible as well with how limited the movement is, I had been spoiled with PS1 so this is without a doubt, a straight downgrade. Anyway, I tried all of the cartridges, and you guessed it, there's a bloody fighting game in one of those 4 cartridge. It was crappy, I tell you, I can't remember how specifically bad it was, but I recalled not to have anything nice to say about it either. It was pretty much you control one character on the left side, fight the other character using 2 buttons on the right of the device. The fight doesn't end, and the score will increase infinitely. I tried it for a couple of hours before giving up, leaving it on the side. The device I believe is still in the storage of my mom's house. I have nothing nice to say about the device, but I can say that my mom deeply cared about me, and she paid attention to what I adore, and she did try her best to provide what I wanted within her grasp. Again, she didn't have much to begin with. All I can say is that I was well-raised enough to appreciate her for her efforts on the day she bought me that "gameboy" instead of yelling and screaming like some spoiled brats. It was fun memory, I recalled it today when watching this video and honestly it was some of the best memory I've ever had with my mom.

If there aren't limbs being torn off and thrown at each other, I'm going to riot.

There was also the Tiger LCD system with removable 'cartridges' called the R-ZONE which has 2 Virtua Fighter games, 2 Mortal Kombat games, Primal Rage, and more importantly Toshinden. Might be worth a future Part 2 episode. Edit: On second thought capturing footage for it would probably be like pulling teeth lmao

I don't know what clip I like the most, the image of playing the SF2 Tiger handheld in the shower or GWQ playing an arcade cab on the toilet.

Can we mention that Tiger Virtua Fighter has more buttons than real VF?

i to this day still have a tiger electronics handheld street fighter 2 game. its not working because it doesn't have batteries but it's still there

I gave a thumbs up because you actually dragged your arcade cabinet into the bathroom for a single shot. Respect.

I played both the SF II and MK II Tiger Electronics game lol. I never thought I would see footage of those old games again lol. I remember excited to play a portable version of those games. Since I didn't have money to own a Game Boy back then. I'm glad you made a video of those games here. Crazy nostalgia trip.

This channel deserves to get to 100k subscribers yesterday.

The thing you have to take into account is that technology was mainly for games where you move left and right to Dodge or catch things, and that goes on until you lose. They managed to cram 6 different characters + 2 bosses AND fatality in there.