Tiger's Most Ridiculous LCD Games

Tiger's Most Ridiculous LCD Games | Nostalgia Nerd

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@MikeStavola 4 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, I got an After Burner 'table top' game from somewhere, and I liked it more without the batteries, as an imaginary fighter jet cockpit. The game was horrible.

@mattinwinkymg 3 жыл бұрын

Then you had no imagination because I was Maveric all day and night bro

@mdood9299 3 жыл бұрын

I feel that, I spent many hours with that thing unpowered, generally accompanied with other toys to complete the cockpit.

@chouseification 3 жыл бұрын

There were a lot of toys like that in the 70s and 80s... and since you only got a couple of presents each year, you made do with what you had. Which means when some aunt blew a bunch of money on a really shitty present, you pretended they did good... even if they got you something they had seen you playing with in previous years and you had outgrown already, yet they got you another one. :P Or when your parents got you that "programmable" robot dump truck that would have been awesome to have in 2nd grade... as a gift when you were in 5th grade and had been coding for years already, so the "computer" in the dump truck was pathetic and nearly unusable. Therefore you pretended it wasn't a toy you had asked for years earlier... ignoring the requests you had made _this_ calendar year, or even the previous one. Sometimes you just had to pretend you liked what you got, or you were in deep shit. A big imagination goes well with such an unfun scenario to be in.

@adamweb 4 жыл бұрын

I'm holding out for the full sized Tiger arcade cabinet with the same sized LCD screen.

@suprastevio2264 4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha that's so funny and would be excellent tongue in cheek humor if Tiger did that 😂

@marzuqahmed218 4 жыл бұрын

would be cool.

@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know if a local system could handle graphics like these. Surely, they would have to open a Tiger server farm somewhere to stream the games.

@KabukeeJo 4 жыл бұрын

Lol Someone should build that for real as a joke!

@DavidStudiosproduct 4 жыл бұрын

You’re holding out for a hero then?

@CCHAWC717 4 жыл бұрын

I like on outrun they decided to just have the stickers display every single warning light possible on a car. Appropriate way to let you know it's a lemon on delivery.

@Vesper8088 4 жыл бұрын

"medieval sounds fade away, just as the monarchy" the subtitles are genius.

@Elenrai 4 жыл бұрын

*The Kingdom of Denmark would like to know your location*

@adriantjuuh 3 жыл бұрын

I wanna know the song title of the curch organ

@ralang999 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Even funnier if read in a BBC presenter voice!

@mayw6571 4 жыл бұрын

You know what really amazes me is these were sitting around somewhere that didn't degrade the plastic or stickers since the late 80s.... someone actually cared enough to store them properly!

@HappyBeezerStudios 3 жыл бұрын

There are collectors of everything, even torture devices.

@coolelectronics1759 3 жыл бұрын

uh no shit! They no doubt were thrown in a junk cabinet somewhere only to be found years and years later untouched. At least I know thats what I'da done lol.

@jonathansoko5368 2 жыл бұрын

Y'all know that your interests aren't the only ones? You live in a tiny bubble, get some perspective

@mengo329 8 ай бұрын

No it's just that the elements didn't even want to TOUCH them. Imagine being so bad that dust won't settle on you

@spiderobert 4 жыл бұрын

One of my friends in elementary school had After Burner ... he thought it was the greatest thing. Maybe he felt guilty that he convinced his parents to buy it for him, but I tried it once and hated it.

@Brando56894 4 жыл бұрын

I had it and loved it, I had no idea it was so expensive haha

@kingbiscuit393 4 жыл бұрын

Why dont you mod them with a colour LCD and a rasberry PI running mame and then run real afterburner and outrun. That would be kickass

@user-uf4qr7os4s 4 жыл бұрын

Some people actually did this and it's amazing

@user-uf4qr7os4s 4 жыл бұрын

@The Lavian are people too lazy to use the search feature on their own? it's actually the tomy driving thing they usually mod, not the one shown ehre so yeah sorry for misinformation... here's one of the trillion videos about this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldd-d8WCztqvcp8.html

@coyoteartist 4 жыл бұрын

I just checked Octavius video because that sounded familiar. it was what Guru Larry said he'd love to do.

@zero123alpha6 3 жыл бұрын

@matt You realize that they want the exact video. Sometimes it might not be the thing they're talking about. It's not being lazy, it's being specific.

@cipherthedemonlord8057 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely should

@Akuzastar 4 жыл бұрын

Nerd:" they're just plastic tat" Ashens: "HELLLOOOOO"

@TheFissionchips 4 жыл бұрын

Ashens has drunk a lot of old pop drinks......

@epiendless1128 4 жыл бұрын

"The Q-Mutt 17 is a rip-off of the Dancing Digidog, the most popular Christmas toy of 2002. It looks exactly the same as the real device, it was a quarter of the price, and rather than dancing, it simply emitted a series of loud beeps, and then fell over."

@jezz2k 4 жыл бұрын

@@AfterBurnerTeirusu Just the one, in 2007: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJyia7Fjvq6lo2g.html

@Wombattlr 4 жыл бұрын

The reason I have been looking at the minimised window was to make a byte for my first post in this blog thread on this video is a joke on a topic I am looking at using this link for my website but not the first to see my comments and comments from this blog comment and how I feel that the song was written to my collection by my friend who is a member and is now in a blue background background on on my website for this year old actually in a few months already on this video is a joke on a music show in in Sydney this weekend for me is a joke that you don't want them in a few weeks off work or just let us pray you know you will not get back from you you will have the opportunity of getting the right to your next business day at home now I will try and find out if I have to pay the fee and pay the deposit and the money I just turned my phone on after waking up and saw this. I'm sorry.

@Oliver-l1c 3 жыл бұрын

Octavius: "gubbins 😍”

@billdagrasshawking 4 жыл бұрын

I wanted one so bad and my parents said no...... I remember thanking them when I finally got to try one at my friends place.

@charliemaloney1354 3 жыл бұрын

which one?

@billdagrasshawking 3 жыл бұрын

it was the red one, the front of it was shaped like a car..... it was one of the first toys I remember being "too old" for, it was obviously a kids toy, and I was 8 or 9 years old, pretty much a teenager in my mind at the time

@tgreaux5027 3 жыл бұрын

@@billdagrasshawking Yes, at 8 years old the human brain is far too sophisticated for such a pedestrian toy. lol

@colinmcdonald2499 3 жыл бұрын

6:42 That song is horrific. I am pretty sure it was one of Zamfir's B-sides.

@paulwilson9281 3 жыл бұрын

Ha ! The ads and pics in box were always much better than game

@elmariachi5133 4 жыл бұрын

To me this always has been the kind of hardware, that only unknowing elderly people (parents) would buy, because they cannot distinguish it from the real thing. When I was a kid, everytime I walked past these in the supermarket, I felt sad for the poor kids whose parents fell for that.. Honestly, I didn't even think the joysticks, steering wheels and buttons on the plastic body had a function.

@mrscruffy8045 4 жыл бұрын

I guess that depended on the age. For 5 year-olds this isnt too bad (or at least wasnt at the time). But the crowds for these started to thin down in the first days of school, basically. On a sidenote: Did i get the video right, that they had no power plug-in and HAD to be run on batteries, despite being, you know, table-tops? I guess it went well with all the plastic, uh? No matter the kid´s age, if you bought one of those as a parent back then, you didnt do anyone a favor (except the seller).

@gamingnubs7628 4 жыл бұрын

I actually loved the normal Tiger LCD games when i was younger. Something about how they worked just made me love them. My favorite Tiger LCD game was Sonic 2 and the second was Sonic 3.

@adenowirus 3 жыл бұрын

There was one of those games that I always wanted. A hunk of plastic shaped somewhat like F-117. I think it had rudimentary motion controls and you were supposed to tilt the whole unit to play. From what I remember it was also quite expensive so my parents never bought it for me, probably for the best.

@GaigeGrosskreutzsMissingBicep 3 жыл бұрын

I remember being around 10 years old and thinking tiger games sucked even back then. It was like they never, ever worked right. Just mashing buttons and seeing what happened.

@elmariachi5133 3 жыл бұрын

@@adenowirus The one time where NOT getting a toy was the lesser disappointment xD

@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын

That car game has such amazing sound quality. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- chirp- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- chirp- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..."

@abemudokon9497 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like dial-up

@seamusquain2706 3 жыл бұрын

Truly Hi-Def Sound.

@eins2001 3 жыл бұрын

More like VVVVVVVVUH

@edjecollins4141 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like my tinnitus wrapped in plastic

@jacobleedowney 3 жыл бұрын

#lol

@FatalKitsune 4 жыл бұрын

Super Sound: *plays* All Dogs In The Neighborhood: *howling in unison begins*

@Nostalgianerd 4 жыл бұрын

So many commenters here so fast. The thing is, 8th is the new first.

@Richie016 4 жыл бұрын

Opinions add more eagerly these days! Therefore,8th is the new first.👍

@Alice-May 4 жыл бұрын

Power move, claim first for yourself instead.

@LeoHodges 4 жыл бұрын

Hello nostalgia nerd!! How’s your week been?

@annjrue 4 жыл бұрын

the noises give me a headache. I'm sorry. I cannot watch this :(

@blacksunshine7485 4 жыл бұрын

Put plainly, who gives a shit

@jamiepike6909 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine getting one of these when expecting an actual console.

@NonsensicalSpudz 4 жыл бұрын

over a PS1 with gran turismo or need for speed

@hawks1ish 4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been screwed by something black and 23 inches long 😳

@unnamedchannel1237 4 жыл бұрын

Joshua Lansell-Kenny wtf

@vondamn9943 4 жыл бұрын

@@hawks1ish HAHHAHAAHAH

@laurensa.1803 3 жыл бұрын

The priorities are definitely mixed up then.

@Tenkai917 4 жыл бұрын

My grandma got me one of those Afterburner units for Christmas when I was a kid. Man, I haven't thought about that in a LONG time.

@SimonJ57 4 жыл бұрын

I owned the Afterburner one, and I loved the shit out of it as a kid.

@unnamedchannel1237 4 жыл бұрын

Happy memory :)

@tgreaux5027 3 жыл бұрын

I owned it too, and I remember having way more fun not playing the horrible game and just pretending I was driving a sports car with the controls.

@Relugus 3 жыл бұрын

Afterburner is IMHO actually pretty good. The game is fast and smooth and the joystick and throttle work well. Sn interesting curio. The tiny screen is weird and sucky, though.

@SimonJ57 3 жыл бұрын

@@Relugus it would be interesting if someone got a Small computer, like a raspberry pi and replaced the screen. Then, have it emulate one of the console versions. If it wasn't for controlling the pitch. Then you might be looking at replacing the joystick altogether. Unless you wanted to roll your own version using what controls are available?

@dpw81 4 жыл бұрын

I got the Outrun tabletop for my 10th birthday in August 1991. I can still taste the disappointment now. I remember waking up at around 4 am and sneaking downstairs with my brother to open it up and play it, then trying hard over the next week or so to convince myself it was good. My other present that year was Making Michael Jackson's Thriller on VHS, this is all seared onto my memory.

@Not-Great-at-Gaming 4 жыл бұрын

That Outrun game looks like it was originally supposed to be a Knight Rider game. It looks much more like KITTs dash than a Ferrari.

@matthewrease2376 4 жыл бұрын

64 bits, 32 bits 16 bits. 8 bits! 4 BITS, 2 BITS 1 BIT. HALF BIT! QUARTER BIT!!! THEEEE WRIIIIIIST GAAAAAAME

@gayusschwulius8490 4 жыл бұрын

... He's gonna take you back to the past

@gracjanszmyt1442 4 жыл бұрын

@@gayusschwulius8490 To play the shitty games that suck ass

@xwithoutxanyxwarningx5191 3 жыл бұрын

@@gracjanszmyt1442 he'd rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear

@leap123_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@xwithoutxanyxwarningx5191 he angriest gamer you ever heard

@gracjanszmyt1442 3 жыл бұрын

@@leap123_ you skipped a line

@joeshabado1431 4 жыл бұрын

Tomy Turbo steering wheel. Nuff Said. That out run game had nothing on my Tomy Turbo

@eval_is_evil 4 жыл бұрын

Even as a kid I was always disappointed with tiger games. Bought 3. Never again ! XD

@benjamintan2733 4 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness. Well, having this sitting on a shelf will still makes the shelf looks cool.

@airsoftfatty1234 3 жыл бұрын

I had one that looked a lot similar to our run but it used neon vector graphics and was a suburd. I wish I could just remember the brand. I’d love to see it again

@airsoftfatty1234 3 жыл бұрын

I think it wasn’t a game though I think it was a baby toy, all I remember is it looked similar to our run and used vector graphics I think the colors it used on screen was blue green and red.

@chipskylark8869 3 жыл бұрын

I'm in michigan too and I think I had that same one didn't have real tires like this one

@chipskylark8869 3 жыл бұрын

Had a full steering wheel too maybe just the American version

@rush1er 4 жыл бұрын

I think DEATH STRANDING in pure LCD glory would make a good Tiger Handheld

@jonathansoko5368 2 жыл бұрын

Nah death stranding would make the tiger worse tbh

@FerintoshFarmsPhotography 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, so that's why Alberta had a booming oil economy back then; was all the plastic for those.

@nuanil 4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't booming back then. Oil was only like $7/bbl. Though it may have contributed to exiting the bust of 84.

@statinskill 4 жыл бұрын

If you don't like plastic, we can always build it from wood. And also use "non-vegan" glue made from the bones of dead animals, rather than some soulless synthetic polymer.

@CarrotConsumer 3 жыл бұрын

@@statinskill Sensitive much?

@statinskill 3 жыл бұрын

@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte You're bored, go sniff some glue!

@krissymarklewis1793 4 жыл бұрын

At least Outrun seems to have a higher frame rate than the Spectrum version haha!

@markb4328 4 жыл бұрын

Astro Wars! I had that when I was a child, think it's still in my mum's house somewhere.

@suprastevio2264 4 жыл бұрын

Kid: Oh Mom, look! Outrun Arcade! Mom: We have Outrun at home. Outrun at home: 5:22

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, this kid turned to be most sadiest kid on the city for a few months!

@arcadesunday4592 4 жыл бұрын

Lol. I used to have "only 2 games" at a small take away shop "arcade" every week. My dad hated taking me there, but it was "reward" for swimming training (don't ask). One day, he told me that he had got me something special (for my 2600..which, was, as a system, WAAAY better than the showcased LCD machines, but was getting old)... He got me a Quickshot joystick (the type with finger and hat trigger, and 2 base buttons - all 4 buttons did the same thing obviously). I really did love that joystick, as it added a new dimension to (some) 2600 games, but I still longed for the arcade...I eventually built my own arcade (see my channel) and have never looked back since ! Cheers for now 🙂!

@suprastevio2264 4 жыл бұрын

@@arcadesunday4592 I've just subscribed and added a video to "watch later". Thanks for the story!!

@ralang999 3 жыл бұрын

Yikes. This makes c64 outrun look as good as the arcade

@4t0m5k 4 жыл бұрын

This reminds me so much of the Tommy Turbo toy I had, as a toddler in the early nineties. I loved that red, rattling, mysteriously glowing plastic monstrosity :D

@jarnoob 4 жыл бұрын

Tomy turnin' turbo

@Porphyrios1 4 жыл бұрын

I remember growing up seeing these in the stores and begging my dad for one and he always refused. Thanks for protecting me pops.

@WhenTheManComesAround 4 жыл бұрын

The music when showing the Batman game was awesome! Great video as always my friend 👍👍

@stevef6392 4 жыл бұрын

I need to set up an arcade with a bunch of these things. RGB lighting, a jukebox, popcorn machine, and... a bunch of these LCD games all squawking away.

@myes344 4 жыл бұрын

Can i come? Also u have food? Need beer also

@tawdryhepburn4686 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, these things look pretty awesome. I would’ve love these as an 8-year-old. Granted, I feel like I would have enjoyed imagining myself as a jet fighter pilot more than I would have actually played the video game, but fun is still fun.

@Skyisnotalimit 4 жыл бұрын

That "boost" gauge is looking exactly like on Saab 900 Turbo. It's boost on top, water temp on the left, and fuel on the right.

@MINKIN2 4 жыл бұрын

Corners in an LCD racing game?!?!?!!! Wow. I'm honestly impressed.

@MPbmfm 3 жыл бұрын

I remember I wanted that Out Run game (I had tried it at my local toy shop) and I got a way cheaper one that had a rund disk displaying the road and a clicking sound, also mechanic, when I went offroad. I took it apart after I found out that I didn't have to turn the wheel if I was on a specific spot after about a month of playing. I would have loved the real deal

@doesntstand4anything 4 жыл бұрын

♫ He's the angry, Nostalgia, NERRRRD ♫

@astrospacenot1607 4 жыл бұрын

The graphics remind me of Halo Infinite gameplay reveal yesterday.

@A_Man_In_His_Van 4 жыл бұрын

Ouch.lol

@jackmcslay 4 жыл бұрын

4:02 with the way they made the mold I can't help think they expected to make an F1 game at some point

@arnold20139 3 жыл бұрын

You unlocked a memory in my mind. I remember seeing these in KB toys once as a kid, I wanted one so badly. But my dad wouldnt get me one cause it wasnt worth it. Later that year I got my Gameboy Pocket for christmas. My dad isn't smart with new tech, but he knew that the Gameboy was worth more than whatever Tiger shilled out.

@mydasmurray 4 жыл бұрын

AHH！sh*t！1:21 I had vampire attack, Just saw it and had a wave of feelings hit. Completely forgot about that GEM

@jamesgriffyn 4 жыл бұрын

"The exact same length as an Amstrad cpc" Ahh hell yeah totally relatable.

@eins2001 3 жыл бұрын

I want to convert that Outrun 'cabinet' into a switch controller for playing, well, Outrun

@natecw4164 Жыл бұрын

5:08 "My cousin had one of these and I thought it was..." What? The cat's pajamas? The bee's knees? "The dog's bullocks." *Oh*

@Anthony-pz3hg 4 жыл бұрын

"Using half the worlds plastic in the process" lololololololololololol

@CR0NO-NL 4 жыл бұрын

I always hated Tiger games back in the Day, IT never feeled like real gameplay. Gameboy was the shit

@MrRedFoxorMrelzorrorojo 3 жыл бұрын

Remember when the kids with gameboys would have a gaming circle and inevitably some poor kid with a Tiger electronic game would try to join and get ridiculed out of the circle?

@seamusquain2706 3 жыл бұрын

But Did Gameboy Have Sonic?

@CR0NO-NL 3 жыл бұрын

@LKCV have you ever played a Gameboy and Tiger handheld????? One is a full pixellated screen with graphics... The other is a single backscreen sticker with allot of small stickers on top of it that are highlighted once in a while.... Tiger is ultimated crap Just like you comment LKCV..... Your talking poooooooop

@seamusquain2706 3 жыл бұрын

@LKCV AAAAAnnd Blocked.

@roberttorquati5186 2 жыл бұрын

You truly don't understand how liquid crystal displays work do you?

@ill_bred_demon9059 3 жыл бұрын

In the US during the 90's there was a magazine called "Penny Power" later renamed "Zillions" that reviewed toys the same way the parent company Consumer Reports reviewed home appliances and cars. The After Burner game was highlighted for being a stellar example of packaging over functionality, noting the discrepancy between the size of the device itself and the tiny LCD screen. I assume there were significant cost factors involved due to economies of scale, but for the tabletop sized games Tiger should have at least had a bigger screen than on the handheld version.

@Psychlist1972 3 жыл бұрын

As a kid, it used to really bug me that toys like this had stickers for things instead of actual light-up controls.

@nekroneko 4 жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid playing on that absurd Afterburner LCD game at a party I went to.

@berczigabor 4 жыл бұрын

Grandstand's logo is absolutely not reminiscent that of Nintendo's. At all.

@MultiLimpet 3 жыл бұрын

Tricking parents into buying crap for their children.

@jimidennis22 3 жыл бұрын

Can’t imagine a kid playing the Outrun game on a long car ride with the sound effects lol

@GUARDIANA01 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome vid 👍😊 That CPC464 keyboard though !! Damn that keyboard was the shiz back in the day , tonnes of memories . Wish they still made em like that 🤘

@K11... 4 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the 80’s and remember I loved these things. I feel like an ancient relic myself after watching this.

@euvo_sound 4 жыл бұрын

Me: **Punches lcd screen and converts it into usb controller for gta v**

@ryke_masters 4 жыл бұрын

I have enough memories of playing those kinds of games as a kid that I think I can say they basically run on the power of self-suggestion and a lot of plastic. As a six-year-old you just go: "There's no way all of this does nothing, right? And it looks so cool!", and by the time you've double, triple and quintuple-checked that it, in fact, does nothing, and the coolness of the plastic has exhausted your interest, there's probably a different cheap (and hopefully better) toy to catch your attention.

@adamberndt4190 5 ай бұрын

The batmobile and the afterburner game would look awesome sitting on a shelf in a man cave though.

@dreammfyre 4 жыл бұрын

“Slab of tat” *browses dictionary*

@emmabentley7945 4 жыл бұрын

I had Tigers Paperboy. one of the better ones but still awful lol.

@ideegeniali 3 жыл бұрын

When i was 8 and learning basic DC electrical circuits, i built a bigger wooden case for a tennis handheld game. I wired two pushbuttons. With better controls i could achieve better scores. Also attached a speaker where the piezo was and got louder sounds. This kind of mods made me happy and proud back in the days.

@darkfalzx 3 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see one of these modded into something functional, with, like a Raspberry Pi, LED screen, gaming steering controller, and the fake sticker instruments replaced by some real arduino-controlled ones. So it would basically be exactly what a 9-year old me imagined it would be like, as I drooled over the catalogues.

@birdy369 2 жыл бұрын

I'd totally pay good money for something like that. Even more money to sit by and watch someone go about assembling it, learning myself a thing or two about arduino & raspb-pi!

@FEEDMEKITTENS 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite hobbies is looking for photos of nearly nude old men dressed up as Santa Claus on stock photo sites

@areyousureyouenteredyourna85 4 жыл бұрын

That's sexy as hell, but only when there's a chained up nun pooping on Santa's face.

@MrJCellini 4 жыл бұрын

Outstanding video. What a nostalgia trip!

@martinmcneal2778 3 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of an old starwars computer game that had this awesome player attachment that you put on the keyboard

@jeffmasson1979 4 жыл бұрын

I remember drooling over after burner in the electronic catologs 🤣

@bladeriders 3 жыл бұрын

My cousins had outrun when we were young. It was really cool because it was just so different from how gaming was evolving at the time since Nintendo and Sega were changing the arcade market into handheld controllers. This style of play somehow made me feel like I was playing a game more in the classic era when arcades were popular-before I was born

@wybuchowyukomendant 3 жыл бұрын

I had the batman one back in the day. Honestly, I played it couple hours at best, but the jealousy of childhood friends was real..

@Christopher-N 4 жыл бұрын

(9:30) I once bought the handle end of a _Flying Fighters_ toy at a Goodwill store, and had more fun with that. For those unfamiliar, it was essentially a plastic fighter jet, with a handle on the rear: the handle, designed to look like a flight stick, contained the batteries, a speaker that would produce a engine sound that changed depending upon how you moved the unit, and button that rocked left or right for gun or missile sounds.

@tollermccallum 4 жыл бұрын

9 year old me spent ages drooling over the After Burner game in the Argos catalogue. A friend ended up bringing one into school on the last day of term and I've never been as disappointed by anything since.

@zeitgeist909 4 жыл бұрын

Are you fukkin' kidding me - this is nostalgia gold! I would kill for a couple of these! They nailed the 80's aesthetic of stratospheric expectations (the box art, the adverts, the plastic housings!) v the below-ground-level reality of the actual product. Love it!

@JoshuaMiller-ny5uf 4 жыл бұрын

A lovely video as always. The subtitles had several typos and some strange re-wordings or missed ad libs.

@Hairy_Lee 4 жыл бұрын

My best mate had the outrun game when he was a kid - I only have vague memories of it but love how it looks as a thing

@antonnym214 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid! FUN and well-presented. I enjoy your humor. By the way: is "The dog's bollocks" a good thing?

@mRibbons 3 жыл бұрын

I owned the outrun tabletop and loved it. Granted I was at an age when I didn't even know to put passwords in on Mega Man... But it really brings me back.

@MrMortull 4 жыл бұрын

Just goes to show exactly how far a flashy exterior and some slick presentation could get you in sales, before widespread user reviews came about and securing a refund meant physically mailing the product back to the company that sold it to you. Congratulations on finding some truly "quality" tat there, sir. I'm glad you could get the video out before Octavius tore them out of your arms (hands and all)! xD

@krmr 4 жыл бұрын

The KZfaq subtitles for this are hilarious, really the best bit 😂

@hiddenking8087 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the Amstrad CPC. The perfect unit to measure length! "Has your cat grown?" "Yeah, he's the size of an Amstrad CPC now!"

@garethevans9789 4 жыл бұрын

You have to admit, Tiger were goo at reusing their factory tooling, I'm sure half of those games were the same just with different backgrounds. While the tech was crude, they were a lifesaver on long car journeys. I had a space game that projected the graphics on to a larger display. It was like the top of an arcade cabinet. Plus it had colour graphite (coloured film in strategic places). Quite good fun, but it ate D size batteries.

@VulpesFidelis 3 жыл бұрын

I had one that was like Pacman, but with pigs. Used LEDs in it, but it was like looking into an arcade cabinet-it would actually unfold into that shape, with a lens and all. Looked cool as hell really, but like yours, ate Ds.

@jaketheps2punk 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@TanjoGalbi 4 жыл бұрын

I'd love to convert the Outrun one to use a proper full colour screen, give it analogue steering and then customise a Raspberry Pi or something to run a port of the arcade version of the game. Would be cool in that case. :)

@robintst 4 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how easily we were sold on hunks of plastic covered in stickers in those days. The draw really was all in the strength of the licensed name and the advertising.

@crazyeye1 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this. My friend had it but never had batteries in it. We just played around with the controls, I had to be around 5 or so around then. I remember thinking how cool the red car on the front was and played well with my imagination in pretending to drive it. I’m almost 30 now and totally forgot about that memory until watching this. Thank you for giving me the memory back lol

@ThePoxun 4 жыл бұрын

When I was 4 or 5 one of my friends had the Afterburner game. He never had any batteries for it but there was still plenty of play value in just the joystick, throttle and panel of stickers even without the electronics.

@Junior-eq7gb 4 жыл бұрын

Might be a big christmas gift from poor parents who couldnt buy batteries.Still a Nice toy for a child,even if not working

@jklo4377 3 жыл бұрын

Omg...I cant belive this i just found ur page bro....awesome but what has me shocked is that outrun lcd machine....I HAD IT AS A KID....never could figure out what it was as a kid I remember it well. So damn simple left and right with the ugliest typical lcd screens. I still have it but completely forgot it. Thank u so much for not only showing me which it was because I didn't know where to look lol man such a bad "game" lol fun as a kid

@TalenGryphon 4 жыл бұрын

Oh god your videos are so much better with closed captions on! [Medieval Style Music, filling the air wirh sounds of wind instruments and fear of piety]

@deaneireann4769 4 жыл бұрын

A guy on the sega master system cafe Facebook group converted the afterburner unit by inserting a Sega gamegear loaded with afterburner into the shell and connecting the joystick... It's a work of art.

@tinkersans 3 жыл бұрын

The "music" of the first one of those lil games made me pysically reel my head back as if someone was mad at me for no reason- XD and i was like "so ya know that feeling of hearing a noise so horrid it makes you back up in pain?" ;w;

@andydepressivum8808 3 жыл бұрын

@nostalgia nerd what is that music track on 7:06? thank you very much

@Bakanineinstein 3 жыл бұрын

This brings back good memories... I had the After Burner one for my birthday when I was 5, God I loved that... Thanks for the nostalgia!

@pettersvard5990 4 жыл бұрын

4:16 that "turbo/apc" sticker is ripped off from an 1980:s SAAB :)

@nicwilson89 3 жыл бұрын

Using the batman one, ripping out the electronics and screen, and replacing it with an HDMI IPS panel and a Raspberry Pi would make a sick emulation machine, especially converting the wheel to an analog wheel input and stuff. Would make playing old games that could use a wheel setup fucking amazing

@imark7777777 3 жыл бұрын

Out of curiosity what was it amazing music at the very beginning played on the Oregon well discussing torture techniques?

@delastdorito4497 4 жыл бұрын

I love your channel!

@chupachupins 4 жыл бұрын

Had the batman game for Christmas when I was a kid, loved it to be fair, the bonnet gathered dust under my bed from boxing day though!

@ACplanet 3 жыл бұрын

I had the 2 smaller handhelds from that 1990 argos book (red/black, yellow/black) then upgraded the following year to a tiger sonic lcd handheld

@the.internet 4 жыл бұрын

I had two of the other games on that Argos catalogue page. The red and black F1 racing game, and the yellow and black vampire game. Both branded Systema. I have really fond early memories of the F1 LCD game, including it stopping working in primary school and being really upset. Another kid in the class managed to get it working again but without sound. Lol. I recently found it during lockdown and it's in my drawer of electronics to tinker with, so I'll be finding some little cell batteries for it and reliving the memories. I'm sure I'd have had this pre-92 when I got my master system, so I'd have only been maybe 5 when I got it. I had an Acorn Electron, so being able to have any sort of game portable to take to school was amazing to me. I also had the green Turtles Tiger game (one of the 'long' portrait ones) and a Super Mario watch. Oh and, flooding back into my memory, a helicopter Tiger LCD game too. Thunder Blade (also a Sega licence I believe). I'll be honest - I fully accept that these were hunks of plastic being sold at high profit margins based on good marketing. But I loved them for what they were at the time and would have spent hours with them and their simplicity. I remember getting sore thumbs. I can't hate them, as much as they deserve being belittled. As a child with an imagination they were all I really needed. And as a child obsessed with cars, one of those machines in this vid would have made me very happy indeed. Awful hunks of plastic, but they deserve their place in history. Gaming history. Childhood history. Thanks for reminding me about the good side of these things!

@Richie016 4 жыл бұрын

Watching the Toys of thee past bring back memories! thanks a lot it's wonderful.

@dark14life 3 жыл бұрын

I had Outrun as a kid. My parents picked it up at an auction they were helping at for dirt cheap. I had an Atari 2600, Magnavox, Colecovision, and a mini Pac-Man cabinet. I was not impressed with that piece of junk. It was a fun distraction for a few hours and then it went down into the basement to be forgotten until my parents sold it at a garage sale a year or so later. The NES hit the shelves not long after and everything else went to the wayside lol

@Zycyzyx Жыл бұрын

As someone who still has a die cast batmobile toy back from when the movie came out, I'd honestly love to have that Tiger game.

@namelessentity5851 3 жыл бұрын

"Filling the air with sounds of wind instruments, and fear of piety" That was beautiful and poetic. Also kinda sounds like an album by The Pogues.

@soyburglar1878 3 жыл бұрын

Man, I hated those little handheld single game units that somehow ended up in our Christmas stockings every year and went totally unplayed until we got a new one the next year.