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In the year 2000 after the Game.com came and went Tiger experimented with making a new generation of Handheld LCD games called "Tabletop Arcade games". The games themselves came in a console that was shaped like an arcade machine, had a detachable joystick (detached it would just be a d-pad), easily fit in your pocket, and had a pixel LCD screen.  
After the 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 only could display static images that lit up one at a time.
 
The games themselves were not ports of arcade games (like the name implies), but instead of 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 bought by someone else. Each of the games has pictures of themselves but only two have gameplay footage online.
 
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 is regarded as the only footage of the sonic adventure game.
The user SSBPeridot has also found an NFL Blitz 2000 one and has uploaded a video to youtube.
 
The Youtuber "Tales from IDeath" has uploaded footage of Sonic Adventure, and the user SSBPeridot has uploaded footage of NFL Blitz 2000.
 
 
== Videos ==
 
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| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKYWUfAgX98|320x240|center|The footage of Sonic Adveture}}
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0nMlrKVrE&feature=youtu.be|320x240|center|The footage of NFL Blitz 2000}}
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The Pixel LCD effect was done by having a bunch of LCD pixels put together and as a result had way less graphical limitation and was capable of displaying a full game rather than a traditional LCD game which was extremely limited and primitive. This was used for the Game Boy, Tamagotchi series the Radica cube world series, and many more toys and systems.


The games themselves weren't arcade games per say but were mainly ports of various Dreamcast games (Like Sonic Adventure). The series had 5 games Q-Bert, NFL Blitz 2000, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, Hydro Thunder and Sonic Adventure. All of them were ports of Dreamcast games of the same name. None of the games are easily available to the public anymore as they were taken out of circulation possibly around the time Tiger Electronics joined Hasbro and thus have not resurfaced since then. Most of the games have no gameplay footage or screenshots available leaving their gameplay a mystery But all the games (except NFL Blitz 2000) do have some images of the console it comes in with the game turned off. Sometimes still in the box.
== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=190px heights=140px>
File:Qbert tabletop arcade game.jpg|Q*bert
File:Sonic adventure tabletop arcade.jpg|Sonic Adventure
File:Ready 2 rumble tabletop arcade.jpg|Ready 2 Ruble Boxing
File:Hydro tabletop arcade.jpg|Hydro Thunder
File:NFL Blitz tabletop arcade.png|NFL Blitz 2000
</gallery>


Occasionally one of the games will briefly turn up on E-bay but usually will quickly be bought out by someone.
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 is regarded as the only footage of the sonic adventure game, or any of the "Tiger Tabletop Arcade" series on the internet.


{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKYWUfAgX98|320x240|center|The only footage of Sonic Adventure on Youtube.|frame}}
== References ==


[http://atariage.com/forums/topic/250748-the-obscure-tiger-tabletop-arcade-games/ The Atariage page.]
1. [http://atariage.com/forums/topic/250748-the-obscure-tiger-tabletop-arcade-games/ The Atariage page.]


[http://www.handheldmuseum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2193&highlight=&sid=6a7835b137d8c85a7303d53f6eba36c3 The Handheld Museum page.]
2. [http://www.handheldmuseum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2193&highlight=&sid=6a7835b137d8c85a7303d53f6eba36c3 The Handheld Museum page.]


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Revision as of 03:41, 6 February 2017

Qbert tabletop arcade game.jpg

The Q*bert system

Status: Partially Lost


After the 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 only could display static images that lit up one at a time.

The games themselves were not ports of arcade games (like the name implies), but instead of 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 bought by someone else. Each of the games has pictures of themselves but only two have gameplay footage online.

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 is regarded as the only footage of the sonic adventure game. The user SSBPeridot has also found an NFL Blitz 2000 one and has uploaded a video to youtube.

The Youtuber "Tales from IDeath" has uploaded footage of Sonic Adventure, and the user SSBPeridot has uploaded footage of NFL Blitz 2000.


Videos

The footage of Sonic Adveture
The footage of NFL Blitz 2000


Gallery

  • Q*bert

    Q*bert

  • Sonic Adventure

    Sonic Adventure

  • Ready 2 Ruble Boxing

    Ready 2 Ruble Boxing

  • Hydro Thunder

    Hydro Thunder

  • NFL Blitz 2000

    NFL Blitz 2000


References

1. The Atariage page.

2. The Handheld Museum page.

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