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The Q*bert system, one of the five units.

Status: Partially Lost

After Game.com came out in 1997, three years later in 2000 Tiger Electronics experimented with a new generation of LCD games called Tabletop Arcade Games. The games came in a small tabletop design with a small LCD screen and would fold out to show the small screen.

The screen was designed like a Nintendo Game Boy. The pixels on the screen were packed next to each other and would light up to simulate movement. These were more advanced compare to their earlier handhelds, which could only display static momochrome images that would light up.

The games however are ports of Dreamcast games. The five games are Q*bert, NFL Blitz 2000, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, Hydro Thunder, and Sonic Adventure, which all of them have a Dreamcast equivelent.

So far, not a single unit is readably acsessable, dispite all of them being known to exist. Sometimes one of them will appear on eBay but often are purchased shrtly afterwards. 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.

In this game, you play as Sonic as you run through 3D levels similar to the Dreamcast version of the game. Just like his other games, Sonic can jump, spindash,run fast, and can perform a homing attack. There are also boss levels, such as the one seen in the videos titled "Chaos 0". While it has all of the levels from the Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure, and their bosses, though they are almost entirely different besides their names and set pieces.

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, but none other codes have been confirmed.

Findings

One YouTuber by the name of "Tales From IDeath" has found a copy of Sonic Adventure and in 2014 uploaded a gameplay video of it on YouTube. , 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 of it to YouTube.

Videos

The video of the Sonic Adventure tabletop game.

The video of NFL Blitz 2000.

Another video of the Sonic Adventure tabletop game.

Gallery

Q*bert
Sonic Adventure
Ready 2 Ruble Boxing
Hydro Thunder
NFL Blitz 2000

External Links

The Atariage page on the tabletop arcade games released by Tiger Electronics. Retrieved 22 Aug '16
The Handheld Museum page on the tabletop games. Retrieved 22 Aug '16
A Sonic Stadium board topic on the Sonic Adventure LCD game. Retrieved 22 Feb '17

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-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
+After Game.com came out in 1997, three years later in 2000 Tiger Electronics experimented with a new generation of LCD games called '''Tabletop Arcade Games'''. The games came in a small tabletop design with a small LCD screen and would fold out to show the small 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 screen was designed like a Nintendo Game Boy. The pixels on the screen were packed next to each other and would light up to simulate movement. These were more advanced compare to their earlier handhelds, which could only display static momochrome images that would light up.
-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.
+The games however are ports of Dreamcast games. The five games are  ''Q*bert'', ''NFL Blitz 2000'', ''Ready 2 Rumble Boxing'', ''Hydro Thunder'', and ''Sonic Adventure'', which all of them have a Dreamcast equivelent.
-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.
+So far, not a single unit is readably acsessable, dispite all of them being known to exist. Sometimes  one of them will appear on eBay but often are purchased shrtly afterwards. Pictures exist of each of the games themselves but only two have gameplay footage online.
 ==Sonic Adventure==
 [[File:SonicAdventureLCDGameTiger.jpg|thumb|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".
+In this game, you play as Sonic as you run through 3D levels similar to the Dreamcast version of the game. Just like his other games, Sonic can jump, spindash,run fast, and can perform a homing attack. There are also boss levels, such as the one seen in the videos titled "Chaos 0".
+While it has all of the levels from the Dreamcast version of ''Sonic Adventure'', and their bosses, though they are almost entirely different besides their names and set pieces.
-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, but none other codes have been confirmed.
-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.
+One YouTuber by the name of "Tales From IDeath" has found a copy of ''Sonic Adventure'' and in 2014 uploaded a gameplay video of it on YouTube. , 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 of it to YouTube.
 ==Videos==
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