Tiger Electronics "Tabletop Arcade Games" (lost pixel LCD game series; 2000)

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The Q*bert system

Status: Partially Lost

After Game.com came out in 2000, Tiger experimented with a new generation of LCD games called Tabletop Arcade Games. The games came in a small pocket-sized console with a detachable joystick and LCD screen

The screen was created in a similar manner to the Game Boy, Tamagotchi, and Radica cube world. Small LCD pixels were placed next to each other and would light up in succession to simulate animation and movement. This was a step up from Tiger's earlier LCD games, which could only display static images that lit up one at a time.

The games themselves were not ports of arcade games (like the name implies), but Dreamcast games. There were five games in the series, Q*bert, NFL Blitz 2000, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, Hydro Thunder, and Sonic Adventure. Each of these has a Dreamcast counterpart of the same name.

None of the games are easily available at present, as they were taken out of circulation at around the time Tiger Electronics was bought by Hasbro. Occasionally, one of the games will appear on eBay but will quickly be purchased. Pictures exist of each of the games themselves but only two have gameplay footage online.

Sonic Adventure

Another picture of the Sonic Adventure tabletop game.

The gameplay is surprisingly more complex than in most Tiger electronics' other LCD games. You play as Sonic as you beat bosses, and run through 3D levels similar to the Dreamcast version of the game. There are all of Sonic's usual abilities. Jump, Spindash, running fast, and the homing attack. There are also boss levels, such as the one seen in the videos titled "Chaos 0".

It (surprisingly) has all of the levels from the Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure, as well as their bosses, though they are almost entirely different apart from the names, set pieces, and small segments.

If you type in "Rings" you get infinite lives, if you type in "Boss", you get a "boss rush" mode. The game is rumored to have numerous other codes.

Findings

One YouTuber by the name of "Tales From IDeath" has found a copy of Sonic Adventure and in 2014 uploaded a let's play video of it on YouTube, however, he has no intentions of releasing it anytime soon. This footage was regarded as the only footage of the Sonic Adventure game. The user SSBPeridot has also found an NFL Blitz 2000 tabletop game and has uploaded a video to YouTube.

Videos

The footage of the Sonic Adventure tabletop game.

The footage of NFL Blitz 2000.

Another video of the Sonic Adventure tabletop game.

Gallery

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  Q*bert

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  Sonic Adventure

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  Ready 2 Ruble Boxing

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  Hydro Thunder

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  NFL Blitz 2000

External Links

• The Atariage page. Retrieved 22 Aug '16
• The Handheld Museum page. Retrieved 22 Aug '16
• [1] Retrieved 22 Feb '17
• [2] Retrieved 23 Feb '17
• [3] Retrieved 23 Feb '17