Tiger GAME.COM (1997) Library | Trying all 20 Games

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  • You're no doubt aware of Tiger's handheld LCD games. What if they made their own game system? Introducing the R-Zone! ...it sucked... now introducing the GAME.COM! IT SPEAKS!
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    0:00 - Introduction
    5:43 - Batman & Robin
    7:54 - Centipede
    8:34 - Duke Nukem 3D
    10:39 - Fighters Megamix
    11:18 - Frogger
    12:01 - Henry
    12:57 - Indy 500
    13:29 - Jeopardy!
    14:09 - Lights Out
    14:43 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
    15:40 - Monopoly
    16:00 - Mortal Kombat Trilogy
    16:38 - Quiz Wiz: Cyber Trivia
    17:05 - Resident Evil 2
    17:59 - Scrabble
    18:23 - Sonic Jam
    20:11 - TIGER Casino
    21:05 - Wheel of Fortune
    21:45 - Wheel of Fortune 2
    21:59 - Williams Arcade Classics
    23:34 - Reflection
    Outro Music: Launch Base Rearranged - Savaged Regime
    Background Music:
    The Butcher's Deejay - Rayman Raving Rabbids OST
    Don't Cry Jennifer - Mayhem of LapFox Trax
    Cheryl - Klippa of LapFox Trax
    Counterfelt Mermaids - Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero OST
    #tigerelectronics #gamecom #retrogames
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  • @FrameRater
    @FrameRater  4 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    If you comment anything with gameDOTcom in it, it'll automatically be sent to spam as TH-cam considers it a link.
    Do what I do and just write "game-com".

    • @randytyson
      @randytyson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      In before someone says that you delete comments

    • @crowmigration8245
      @crowmigration8245 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      that you delete comments

    • @BlueflagAlpha
      @BlueflagAlpha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Even youtube hates that thing

    • @stonexl
      @stonexl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Man this thing sucks so hard TH-cam won't even let you properly name it.

    • @mrbisshie
      @mrbisshie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm very displeased that you didn't let us hear the sound Batman makes when he gets hit!
      th-cam.com/video/6iQnPjWU6pI/w-d-xo.html

  • @JessicaFEREM
    @JessicaFEREM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    If you think about it, the Game Com with the 2 game card slots could hold 1/10th of the entire library in the console.

    • @SpaceyMcSpacer
      @SpaceyMcSpacer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You know I never understood the point of 2 game cards... Why would you ever need it outside maybe brief convenience?

    • @JackOfHarts96
      @JackOfHarts96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@SpaceyMcSpacer If one breaks, you have a backup, maybe?

    • @doomoftheend
      @doomoftheend 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Pokemon trading with yourself

    • @paradoxzee6834
      @paradoxzee6834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Maybe there were planned in the future to have cards that expand the RAM so in one slot you have RAM in another a game

    • @paradoxglitch1108
      @paradoxglitch1108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm the 200th like

  • @Farout656
    @Farout656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    "Even the developers of the damn system don't care"
    Fun fact: Tiger developed ALL of the games for this system. Any third party support for this system is from Tiger getting the licence for the games and then Tiger developing the games themselves.

    • @ChaseMC215
      @ChaseMC215 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      So yeah it makes what frame said about the devs of the system not caring alot more accurate.

  • @jascoolo
    @jascoolo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +348

    I can give you the badge "most forgiving reviewer on youtube"

    • @mjc0961
      @mjc0961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@rastas_4221 No, he's not. If you compare everything in game com scale, Batman & Robin is absolutely not the highest quality game in the library. If you play it on a real system using the real screen, it's tied for worst place because you can't play it due to not being able to see it. The highest quality games on game com are ones that don't scroll, like the pack-in games Lights Out and Solitaire. They're the only ones you can actually play.

    • @luigiman7173
      @luigiman7173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's a gentleman, no one could have ever described the game without swearing

    • @cumulushalo576
      @cumulushalo576 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree and I forgive him for pronouncing potpourri as pot-poory

    • @metalmat3651
      @metalmat3651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He grades games on a curve in all his videos. Just consider anything under Great to be bad

    • @CeeStyleDj
      @CeeStyleDj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Most forgiving? Honestly, I had to stop watching the video because of all the criticism. When this stuff came out, it was pretty cool, and even my friends that had good systems wanted these things. I wonder how old the uploader was when these came out... to put things into perspective, when I played those tiger games, I was 13. I'm 39 now. I think someone just researched on the internet and made a video.. sorry to come off salty but you don't crap on someone's nostalgia. We lived it.

  • @ekahnoman7331
    @ekahnoman7331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    As a kid, I bought this from the clearance bin at KB Toys. Always confused by it. Because as a kid you want to believe it's cool, you want to justify what you blew your birthday money on as being totally worth it.

    • @soknightsam
      @soknightsam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      And that's the story of how I got a jaguar.....

    • @LoganHunter82
      @LoganHunter82 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@soknightsam Car or console?

    • @caeserromero3013
      @caeserromero3013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      My brother had an Atari Lynx. It sucked balls in a big way. I managed to convince a kid in my class to take it off his hands for about half what my parents had paid and we felt lucky...

    • @Nautiluss
      @Nautiluss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@caeserromero3013 you hustler

    • @SumeaBizarro
      @SumeaBizarro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think it is entirely normal part of human psychology that is just stronger in childhood and one can hope almost but never quite defeated in adulthood.
      I mean console fanboyism exists...
      That said, "PC masterrace" is very good at the opposite. Not being fanboys but not spending the money on what they play.

  • @ThatguycalledJoe
    @ThatguycalledJoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    "I'm pretty sure a guy like this wouldn't be unlocked immediately?"
    You'd think that. You'd be wrong, but you'd think that.

  • @GeneralVanRyberg
    @GeneralVanRyberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Refreshing, somebody not shouting fake insults to consoles like the game com, but really putting time into each game. Thank you for posting this! I immediately subscribed to your channel.

    • @Jaffersin
      @Jaffersin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, these felt like real insults.

    • @lifeislife7070
      @lifeislife7070 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Jaffersin 😂😂

  • @RoweReviews
    @RoweReviews 4 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    Classic Game Room fans aught to know that the Game-com makes for a great weapon

    • @duffman18
      @duffman18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@SECONDQUEST well he'd been doing it for nearly 2 decades. I don't blame him for wanting to retire

    • @onometre
      @onometre 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I dont blame him but it still makes me sad

    • @Laynel8
      @Laynel8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      CGR is the gaming equivalent to WatchMojo

    • @RoweReviews
      @RoweReviews 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ve never started a comment thread before woah 😮

    • @bubbythebear6891
      @bubbythebear6891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Laynel8 I wouldn't go that far. Mark put in soul. WatchMojo is about as bland as it gets.

  • @BinaryHedgehog1
    @BinaryHedgehog1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Fighter’s Megamix is kind of like a SEGA King of Fighters. It combines characters and mechanics from Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers, plus a few extra characters from other AM2 games like Bean and Bark from Sonic the Fighters and the goddamn Hornet car from Daytona

    • @LotherLotheris
      @LotherLotheris 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The japanese version even had friggin' Pepsiman !

    • @warehousedave7937
      @warehousedave7937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pepsiman was in fighters megamix jp?

    • @FIXTREME
      @FIXTREME 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I consider Megamix more or Sega's Smash Bros., which is why it's a shame there hasn't been any sequel

    • @LotherLotheris
      @LotherLotheris 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@warehousedave7937 That's a rumor, but apparently this was just a false rumor. Pepsiman isn't present in any version of the game.

    • @veemonjosh
      @veemonjosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Pepsiman is in Fighting Vipers, not Fighters Megamix.

  • @ericjohnson5531
    @ericjohnson5531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Potpourri is a category on Jeopardy that means a collection of questions that don't fit in a category, so they mush them all together and make potpourri.

    • @zyzzy-ko4ww
      @zyzzy-ko4ww 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At least that one category is Potpourri and not Great Moments in LA Clippers History :)

  • @poble
    @poble 4 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    "the ultimate portable gay" lmao

    • @marco_evertus
      @marco_evertus 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂 😂 😂

    • @kodiiayyeee256
      @kodiiayyeee256 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh.. Ha

    • @captaincrumb
      @captaincrumb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      the ultimate portable ga-

    • @rolingthunder8612
      @rolingthunder8612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think it was slightly cut off by whoever recorded it off whatever random VHS he decided to rescue from the vault. It's meant to say "the ultimate portable gaming system!", which is also the outro speech in the hardcore gamecom commercial (the one with the slackers getting chewed out by a dwarf).

    • @aeonthemagus7841
      @aeonthemagus7841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Childish

  • @benhmedia
    @benhmedia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My mom bought this for road trips when I was little, even though we had a Gameboy. We had Henry, Wheel of Fortune, Batman, and Mortal Kombat. Never knew of any other games for it. Thank you for filling me in on everything else that we “missed out on”. 😆

  • @gurgy3
    @gurgy3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I was unfortunate enough to own one of these. In order to “check your email”, you had to buy a modem, and an internet cartridge (sold separately). Then you had to connect the modem to a phone line. Then you had to sign up for gamecom internet service, $6.99 a month I think. Then you could check your gamecom email. Woohoo! Honestly I doubt anybody actually signed up for this, and I have yet to see a video of it working.

    • @MessiahProphylaxis
      @MessiahProphylaxis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Hey stranger, what're ya buyin'?" "Uh..you got any.... internet cartridges? " "....Get the fuck out. Now."

    • @ChaseMC215
      @ChaseMC215 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't believe it myself. Imagine reading your emails on that thing, and you'd have to hook it up to a modem, so you couldn't leave your house anyway!
      WHY NOT JUST USE A COMPUTER?!

    • @jmap
      @jmap ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ChaseMC215 it was released in 1997 when many, many households didn’t have a computer

    • @wolfetteplays8894
      @wolfetteplays8894 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ChaseMC215 as a kid, your parents were likely to be hogging it for work

    • @jamesfrankiewicz5768
      @jamesfrankiewicz5768 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jmap By 1997, even my grandma had a computer. Maybe if we were talking 1992, it would be a true statement, but we're not.

  • @otaking3582
    @otaking3582 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The original Fighters Megamix was released on the Sega Saturn, and was a weird crossover fighting game featuring the entire rosters of Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers, Bean the Dynamite and Bark the Polar Bear from Sonic the Fighters, a chibi version of Sarah Bryant, and most infamously, *the **_car_** from Daytona USA.*

    • @LeeONardo
      @LeeONardo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The car where once you break it's "armour" it increased it's moveset to Bahn's from Fighting Vipers :P
      The funniest fighter to me though is the fact you can play as the AM2 logo's PALM TREE.

    • @REPVILE
      @REPVILE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That was one of the best fighters on the Saturn

    • @connorbeith3232
      @connorbeith3232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Chibi Sarah was from Virtua Fighter Kids. Yes, even Sega was doing the "popular characters but kids" trend.

    • @Dynaman21
      @Dynaman21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s also a joy to control. Despite its weird-ass characters, it’s classic AM2 fighting.

    • @JoeyJ0J0
      @JoeyJ0J0 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I like the bear with no animation

  • @edgelord8337
    @edgelord8337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    This was one of those don't attempt moments.
    Nintendo ruled that market and trying to compete with them was just like wasting your time.

    • @shiftfire4511
      @shiftfire4511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It's absolutely hilarious. At this point, both Sega and Atari had challenged and failed to make a significant impact. And Tiger thought they could challenge that, to any degree, when the only thing they had under their lineup were LCD games.

    • @Zontar82
      @Zontar82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      so it means that you shouldn't didn't even try?
      oh wait, your username checks out

    • @Zontar82
      @Zontar82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @DejaVoodooDoll Neo geo pocket was like 2000 times more powerful tnat nintendo's ghost-y and blurry device

    • @BlueflagAlpha
      @BlueflagAlpha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Even Nintendo failed with one of their console

    • @MGAnimatorX1
      @MGAnimatorX1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      edge lord well, Sega didn’t dominate Nintendo till like 91’ and SNK was pretty successful in selling Neo Geo systems. Shortly after that though, Nintendo rose to fame again

  • @jamesburchill7522
    @jamesburchill7522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I owned one of these..picked it up for 20 bucks at a toy store. I owned Fighter's Megamix and Resident Evil 2. It was trash by today's standard, but versus a Gameboy, it looked pretty good. If more time had been given devs to make use of the hardware, it might have been alright.

  • @sentientricecake3125
    @sentientricecake3125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Some interesting Fighters Megamix trivia: it was initially a crossover between Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers. The latter game is infamous for having Pepsiman as an unlockable character in the Japanese Sega Saturn version, as well as being the basis for Sonic the Fighters.

    • @Dynaman21
      @Dynaman21 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And 1, 2, 3...
      PEPSIMAAAAAAAAAAN!

  • @plaztik767
    @plaztik767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The music for Sonic on gamecom sounds like “Human Music” from Rick and Morty..

  • @TackyRackyComixNEO
    @TackyRackyComixNEO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'll be honest, this is the first time I've ever watched one of your full console library reviews, and I very much appreciate how you're holding the games mostly just to the standard of the hardware that they were made for rather than rating them on an arbitrary scale of quality that ignores looking at them with some perspective.

  • @VenusHeadTrap2
    @VenusHeadTrap2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    7:50 that picture on the left makes me hungry. And I know why. It was the picture on the box of the Batman and Robin fruit snacks at the time. You triggered a memory over 20 years old I didn't know was there!

  • @JDyes-vk4zn
    @JDyes-vk4zn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I remember my mom buying me it when it was brand new from toys r us, strictly for duke nukem and the lost world. I justified it to my mom by saying it will help with homework and can be my "computer."
    Besides solitaire it was terrible. But so worth it for the nostalgia looking back. Taught me a valuable lesson, try before buy.

  • @rodrigoalves-cg6xv
    @rodrigoalves-cg6xv ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Nuke Nukem game is actually impressive, at least a bit. There's a lot of exclusive assets in here and I really like how they made some all-new centered versions of the weapons.

  • @Kr0nicDragon
    @Kr0nicDragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The wheel of fortune handheld had interchangeable carts that would add more puzzles, was a fun time killer on road trips

  • @MrVolksbeetle
    @MrVolksbeetle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember the first commercial I saw of this thing. The hype was utterly fantastic (even for game commercial standards). I thought it was odd they waited so long to show the screen. The moment I saw the grid on the display, I dismissed it completely. "Ultimate game machine"?? Well, maybe if all you ever knew of gaming was Tiger's other "game machines".

  • @luissaravia-cerritos9444
    @luissaravia-cerritos9444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    18:21
    Mortal Kombat Trilogy is an upgraded port of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. Every character in mortal kombat up to that point was playable, including bosses. It was released on playstation, saturn, n64, ms-dos, windows and for some reason, the game com and r-zone. it is called mk trilogy because it uses assets from mk1 and mk2.

    • @luissaravia-cerritos9444
      @luissaravia-cerritos9444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Fat Albert The Keyblade Master trilogy is usually ignored due to how fucking unbalanced the game is tho

    • @DragonMasterSubo
      @DragonMasterSubo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Fat Albert The Keyblade Master The N64 version is used for competition, not the PS1. The PS1 version is literally just a mod of UMK3 with all of its issues (jab blocking) and more (load times, lack of 3v3, unbalanced 'classic' versions).
      Tne N64 version modified the game engine a bunch and plays like its own thing and not a UMK3 mod. Also 3v3 mode and no load times. I've never seen people use the ps1 version (that also freezes randomly or gets stuck in the finish him screen for over a minute) for anything competitive.

    • @DragonMasterSubo
      @DragonMasterSubo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Fat Albert The Keyblade Master I was just responding to "the Playstation One is considered the best by the competitive scene" which is wrong. I love both versions, but only the N64 version ever had a competitive scene, and it's really cool to watch matches. It plays much faster than the ps1 ver.

    • @SpeccyHorace
      @SpeccyHorace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Top research here.

  • @PlotlinePlus
    @PlotlinePlus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Really digging this series. Can't imagine it's easy pumping out as many videos as you do, you have an increadible work ethic. Doing great work my man. ^.^

  • @sentientricecake3125
    @sentientricecake3125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for making another one of these videos, especially on such an obscure console! This might be the most interesting one yet!

  • @17R3W
    @17R3W 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Who looked at the gameboy and said "keep the monochrome screen, I love it. My only concerns are that I can't check my email on it, and it's not touch sensitive " ?

  • @JoypadDivison
    @JoypadDivison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Those Sonic screens were just mockups I imagine. I find it refreshing that you are not out to just intentionally bash every game or the system and look at it through the lens of 1997. That you go through every game is also very good since for a lot of these systems I wouldn't do it myself.

  • @Erebus494
    @Erebus494 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're one of the most underrated channels I've ever seen. The content quality and output is better than most channels I frequent!

  • @CrudeDude
    @CrudeDude 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You have done a great job, your channel is amazing, congratulations!

  • @HydlideS
    @HydlideS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I was so excited for this. Chalk it up to the high expectations of a 12 year old. It has an internet connection? Duke Nukem? Resident Evil? Wow, so many options! The second I got it home I had to charge it and the thing was soooo slow. Duke Nukem was a joke (as you can tell in the video) and I wasn't able to use the crappy web browser for too long because other people had to use the internet and you had to plug it in directly to the modem.
    I got it as an early birthday gift on sale and we took it back the next day.

    • @fischergriess6321
      @fischergriess6321 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It came with Duke3D? What other games it came with?

    • @McPoogle
      @McPoogle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ...charge it?

    • @McPoogle
      @McPoogle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@luka9967 But it used AAs, it didn't have a lithium battery

  • @Chelaxim
    @Chelaxim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    5:36 My 4'11 boyfriend objects!

  • @PSPMan
    @PSPMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God i was so excited for this video. I'm glad this dropped while taking a break in the middle of the editing dungeon.
    Was honestly surprised any of these games got above average. I didn't know the game-com was capable of doing anything above 5 FPs

  • @richanddarksbane1439
    @richanddarksbane1439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like how you organize your playlists, very nice

    • @FrameRater
      @FrameRater  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Underrated channel fact

  • @theflyingninja1
    @theflyingninja1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for making this video.
    I was always kinda curious about the game-com but never enough to do any actual research.

  • @RaymondotronWarlordofWinter
    @RaymondotronWarlordofWinter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is the only channel I’ve ever really wanted to be able to afford to support on patreon the content on this channel is some of the best on TH-cam as a whole!!

  • @JonThysell
    @JonThysell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can't believe there were only 20 games. To think I had like a third of the entire game library.

  • @jamesm6083
    @jamesm6083 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To answer FR’s question about mortal kombat, it was called trilogy because the main versions featured all the characters from the original trilogy of games, and tiger just callled it that because it was the most recent game at the time

  • @charlesanthony6368
    @charlesanthony6368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you really took one for the team on this episode, thanks FR

  • @danielferguson5971
    @danielferguson5971 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    11:12 i thank you for showing us what you were saying was wrong. Most youtubers dont do that

  • @cartmann94
    @cartmann94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Imagine in the Christmas of 1997 getting this over a Tamagotchi.

  • @clegginator1828
    @clegginator1828 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Okay, that Sonic Jam music comparison cracked me up. I LOVE the Flying Battery theme, and even I didn't recognise it!

  • @NekoValtz
    @NekoValtz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    19:49
    "Invent-tory"?

    • @MargoLargo307
      @MargoLargo307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also, "Pot-pory" lmao.

  • @DanielAyy
    @DanielAyy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I find it way too bizarre to find ports of Duke Nukem 3D, Fighters Megamix and Resident Evil 2 on a black & white plastic brick with framerates lower than a calculator.

  • @Outside998
    @Outside998 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:49 this one second of music cracked me up. Well done.

  • @Aeduo
    @Aeduo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @9:20 Someone had a bit too much fun with that tank.

  • @HybridAngelZero
    @HybridAngelZero 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually had (well, still have) a Game Com as a kid, I got it for dirt cheap on clearance, and I actually kinda liked it. I didn't spend anywhere near as much time with it as say, any of my other game systems, but I had Lights Out and Henry and had good fun with those, and having a quick way to look up my friends' phone numbers and addresses before modern cell phones were a thing was pretty neat

  • @crowsinthenose
    @crowsinthenose 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 17:07, I would think Potpourri means 'mixed questions', not literally questions about dried flowers. But I've been wrong before.

  • @cameronward9443
    @cameronward9443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tiger games always struck me as the sort of thing that was appealing for people who were just bad with their money. The games were not dirt cheap. I remember some of them being upwards of 20$. I remember going to this friends house who was not (to put it politely) not very well off. This was early-mid 90s. He didn't have any game consoles or anything because he parents said they were too expensive, but instead in his play room he had literally a graveyard of Tiger or similar handhelds. Like easily 30 of them. Of course they had all run out of their batteries, and back then batteries were freaking expensive. I remember us taking all the batteries out trying to get just one game work by pooling all the batteries and testing which ones had a little juice left in them. To this day I remember commenting on the fact that he could have easily bought a Super Nintendo or Genesis with the cost of the 30 handhelds and even with 1 game he would have had a much better time.

  • @pauldeddens5349
    @pauldeddens5349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I could have sworn at some point I had a silver, vaguely Gameboy advance shaped handheld that was incredibly basic. All I remember being able to do on it was a calculator, and snake. And youtube recommends me my own thoughts in the form of an incredibly detailed video, huh.

  • @Boinkity1
    @Boinkity1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the dancing Shantae at the end.

  • @jasonrustmann9876
    @jasonrustmann9876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Wheel of fortune, "some times I'd get two bad turns in a row" someone needs to show his Dan's luck with wheel of fortune on game grumps lol

    • @FrameRater
      @FrameRater  4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lol I've seen that before. Fun stuff.

    • @arcadianwind
      @arcadianwind 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      IS THIS WHEEL WEIGHTED?!?

  • @sesa1076
    @sesa1076 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “Potpourri” is an official Jeopardy category meaning “miscellaneous.”

  • @Mito383
    @Mito383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow, when I owned a Game com with 4 games, I had no idea I owned 20% of the console’s library.

  • @uranium5694
    @uranium5694 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    19:34 Resident Evil 2!

  • @sonicman2500
    @sonicman2500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fighters Megamix is from SEGA. A Fighting Game featuring the fighters from Virtura Fighter and Fighting Vipers

  • @brandonlewisgaming6982
    @brandonlewisgaming6982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:41 Jesus Christ I remember seeing that on TV it caught me off guard lmao

  • @rashidisw
    @rashidisw 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    14:03 Slice of cake with wolf howl.... thankfully i have already gulped down the drink.

  • @lemonfraid8136
    @lemonfraid8136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I still have the one I bought when they were still at retail. Only ever had two games for it, Lights Out, which is fine, and The Lost World, which was utterly unplayable due to the ghosting on the screen. There's so much on screen and it's all a blur. The ghosting on the screen really ruined what was a pointless game system to begin with.

    • @TheObserver85
      @TheObserver85 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I had one too. Two games as well, Lights Out and Batman and Robin.
      I saved up and bought a Gameboy Color.

  • @koopagaming5648
    @koopagaming5648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Where’s is the source of the one walking teeth animation from your older intros from i think season 3 or 4? Please answer this thank you

    • @FrameRater
      @FrameRater  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mickey Mouth by Harold Harris

    • @koopagaming5648
      @koopagaming5648 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      THANK YOU SO SO SOOOOOOO MUCH

  • @SEGACD32XMODEL1
    @SEGACD32XMODEL1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Instead of coming back later to this video when you get the feature, you could put the timestamps in the description with “Intro 0:00” at the top

  • @RockRedGenesis
    @RockRedGenesis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now who wants an Ngage video?!
    Great video. Was always interested just how bad the Game Com was, but never enough to actually get one!

    • @ChaseMC215
      @ChaseMC215 ปีที่แล้ว

      58 released games in the US, including a pretty impressive port of THPS, a bad port of the first Call Of Duty, one of the worst WWE games ever made, amd a port of Red Faction done by a studio ran by John Romero, Tom Hall, Stevie Case, and Brian Moon. And yes, I said John Romero, as in one of the most important video game developers of all time! He had another studio after Ion Storm called Monkeystone Games, who was responsible for that N-Gage port of Red Faction.

  • @daddyjankie
    @daddyjankie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    *So Bad I bought it twice thinking the first one was broken*

  • @mgtedesco1986
    @mgtedesco1986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I owned one of these as a kid. I had lights out, which came with the hand held as a bundle, duke nukem 3d, and arcade classics. Lol. I enjoyed it.....until gameboy color came out.

  • @no64256
    @no64256 ปีที่แล้ว

    In case you haven't been made aware by now, Mortal Kombat Trilogy was essentially an update to Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. It had new mechanics, a faster speed, playable bosses, a new secret boss, a 2v2 mode, and versions of a few characters based on older games. It also brought back characters from MK1 & 2 who didn't appear in UMK3
    The N64 version also has some concessions (smaller sprites, worse music, cutting the classic characters and two bosses, etc.) It also had a different secret boss, and plays a lot differently on a competitive level than the "main" versions on PS1, Saturn, and PC (which were closer to UMK3)
    Most people prefer UMK3 for competitive games, but Trilogy has it's own small scene and is generally loved by casual players
    Oh yeah an Motaro (the dude you picked) is a boss character. All 4 bosses other than Chameleon (the secret boss) are playable by default in the PS1/Saturn/PC versions
    God I wrote a lot here

  • @musicalbacon2
    @musicalbacon2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually had a gamecom growing up. I think it was a model 2 and it was essentially discontinued the day I was given it on Christmas. I don’t know if the ghosting was less of a problem on that model, but I don’t remember it being so bad. I actually really liked Williams arcade, I had never played any of those games and I was so young I didn’t really know the difference if they were good or not. I remember playing a ton of robotron actually. I also had lights out because it was a pack in game. And it was fine but I never really understood it either.
    The reason why so many got sold was probably for the same reason my mom bought mine. It was on sale and cheaper at toys r us than a game boy, and they didn’t know the difference. I remember enjoying it, but still playing my brother’s game boy a whole lot more because even though I had next to no games, super Mario land was way better than anything else on the system. Also. As a kid I thought the pda features were really neat. It made me feel like I had my own computer and I definitely kept numbers in it and stuff. I remember wanting the internet cartridge but my parents wouldn’t buy it because they knew it wasn’t going to be very good. I’m glad they didn’t because I didn’t realize you could only read text at that time

  • @zsewqthewolf1194
    @zsewqthewolf1194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    person from 2099 after ww3 playing his game com he found in a basement and playing all the games with it

  • @LyingSecret
    @LyingSecret 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did have to laugh at how you managed to pronounce poT-poor-ee. Great video :D

  • @tommyhatcher3399
    @tommyhatcher3399 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved the handhelds back in the day. They reminded me of Choose Your Own Adventure books. It's like, here's Street Fighter. Page 1 got pictures of Ryu and Ken next to each other. Then under that it says "turn to page 2 to jump, turn to page 3 to move back" and so on. You turn to page 2. With the picture you're in the air. Under that it says "turn to page 30 to punch in air, 31 to block, 32 to kick," etc. Then you can determine success and opponent movements using a dice. You don't even need the pictures. Just describe what's going on. That way you can save space in the book and have character select. The books can come with colored cards for visuals. Or hey, how about the turn the page part can just say "turn to page 2 to press A, turn to page 3 to press B." So it's like you're playing with a mental controller. Imagine you follow the page guide like this, you turn to the page to press down, then the page to press forward, then the page to press A, then it says "turn to page 100 to throw a fireball." I'm just making this up here. Crazy idea, I know. Anyway, those handhelds were great. You heard of Electro-mechanical games. Tiger handhelds felt like they were electro-paper games. You're right to use the word calculator, and that's what made them special.

  • @PrinceAkkanatan
    @PrinceAkkanatan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:43 - I had to go back and hear that music sting haha

  • @crowmigration8245
    @crowmigration8245 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I noticed that you placed an ad right after "ga-" in game com. Well done

  • @smonkjo
    @smonkjo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was that car safety commercial that you used at 4:27?

  • @TDMicrodork
    @TDMicrodork 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For a cheap handheld the backgrounds look excellent. The pixel artists should be proud of whoever made these random game com games.

  • @RustyBallz
    @RustyBallz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Potpourri is a fairly common category in trivia games.

  • @nickmalcom6360
    @nickmalcom6360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    now that hazbro is reviving tiger, maybe they should make a game-com classic edition mini console. of cource they won't be able to include all the games for licencing reasons, it could probably include the 4 tiger owned properties (tiger caseno, lights out, henry, the built in soliter game, quiz wiz), the hazbro owned ones (monopoli and scrabble) and the ones for which they have merchindizing rights (the 2 game show based ones).

    • @ChaseMC215
      @ChaseMC215 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, I wished Hasbro didn't.

  • @m1h8r
    @m1h8r 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have the most professional review of the game-com on TH-cam

  • @Thebossstage1
    @Thebossstage1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The GameCom released nearly a decade after the Gameboy did, yet somehow it has even worse graphics.

  • @helloSanders
    @helloSanders 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Me and all my friends in middle school bought these up from the local mall when they went on mad clearance (2004ish?). I loved the thing. We were PDA nerds, so it was a really fun device.
    The static LCD handhelds and rzones were w/e, but technically pretty bad.

  • @gsilver0
    @gsilver0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I nearly bought one of these things back in the day. I was a big Sonic fan when I was a kid, and when they released Sonic Jam for this, I thought that it was the real Genesis trilogy, and not the trimmed down games like the Game Gear got. When I saw the Gamecom in a clearance bin, I came so close to picking it up... but decided to keep saving for a Nomad, instead. Now that one had problems of its own, but it worked pretty well at places you might be stuck in for long periods of time, but had access to an outlet (like the car or the doctor’s office... I was sick a lot). Thanks, Sega.

  • @rwiseart2269
    @rwiseart2269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have no idea why the Henry review was so funny.
    Nothing gets me dying more than a howling cheesecake and a meowing piece of candy.

  • @willman85
    @willman85 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fighters Megamix was a big game for the Saturn. 'Megamix' refers to featuring fighters from a mix of Sega IPs including Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Cop and Daytona USA.

  • @ekahnoman7331
    @ekahnoman7331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In Fighters Megamix, did you get to the part where you fight a walking, punching sports car?

  • @RichardCraig
    @RichardCraig 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Bravo on the Jaguar update... I was one of the people griping about the last video, and I'm totally appeased. 😂👌

  • @gateofdivine582
    @gateofdivine582 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    New favorite channel.

  • @psychonauts0
    @psychonauts0 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So years back when I was in middle school I bought a gamecom at a flee market for 20 bucks. It had a broken touchscreen, but it did come with 2 games. Jurassic Park, and Mortal Kombat. Although I basically havn't touched it since the day I bought it, I do remember finding a consistant way to dodge the dinos in the driving sections of Jurassic Park. Select the motorcycle (at least I remember a motorcycle existing, although maybe it doesn't), wait till you hear dino sound effect, then push a direction. The sound effect represents when a dino is about to come, I remember that much, and I personally have a memory of it being very easy for me to dodge them all once I figured that out.

  • @TheOnyxSpy
    @TheOnyxSpy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My grandparents had one, and I actually kind of enjoyed it as a kid 😅 The trivia game and Lights Out were stand-outs to me lmao

  • @jeremysart
    @jeremysart 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got the slimmed down "pocket pro" edition from a kmart clearance bin for $25 back in the day. Don't know what ever happened to it, but I really only used it to store phone numbers and the occasional game of solitaire. I was intrigued by Duke Nukem 3D, but never had a chance to play it.

  • @user-hf3gf8hc5p
    @user-hf3gf8hc5p ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome review

  • @IronspiderPL
    @IronspiderPL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually got a gamecom at my old house with Sonic, Batman and that arcade game :D

  • @waffle5422
    @waffle5422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You know your console is sad when the *Virtual Boy* has more games than you.

  • @rars0n
    @rars0n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This handheld was legitimately somewhat innovative. Much like the ill-fated Gizmondo, the Bandai Wonderswan, the Neo Geo Pocket (and Color), etc. I think the problem really was just the hardware didn't come together in a compelling way, and it didn't have enough third-party support... also, handhelds were like the toughest market to make a dent into since Nintendo had basically had that stranglehold since forever. But for the most part, I don't think it was a bad system (although it hasn't aged well). It just was too confused and too ill-supported to make any headway.

  • @ZacharyBittner
    @ZacharyBittner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Potpourri means like social studies. I. E. Flowery fun topics
    I've seen as a topic in a lot of puzzle games as a kid.

  • @ElasticGiraffe
    @ElasticGiraffe ปีที่แล้ว

    3:40
    You had to say that while I was sipping coffee. :'D

  • @ejacquin01
    @ejacquin01 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I actually had one of these when I was a kid. I thought it was so cool and thought the graphics were amazing for a handheld at the time. The problem was I was never able to find any of their games for sale. Looks like I wasn't missing out.

  • @bengmo64
    @bengmo64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember seeing this in a toy store and the idea of portable Duke 3d excited me. I'm glad I didn't get it lol

  • @RaposaCadela
    @RaposaCadela 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Most of these games actually have pretty good pixel-art, surprisingly

  • @edfreak9001
    @edfreak9001 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lights Out just seems to flip the setting of the tile you touch and all diagonals it touches, if that's what you were referring to with the pattern.

  • @W3Rn1ckz
    @W3Rn1ckz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:31
    hOLY cRAP that keyboard is so small, I thought that the QWERTY keys were the number line.

  • @vebxenon
    @vebxenon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mortal Kombat Trilogy was actually a game released first on PlayStation featuring characters from first three MK games 😉