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

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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 compared to their earlier handhelds, which could only display static monochrome 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 equivalent.

So far, not a single unit is readably accessible, despite all of them being known to exist. Sometimes one of them will appear on eBay but often are purchased shortly 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, the player plays as Sonic as they 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 the player types in "Rings" they would get infinite lives and if the player types in "Boss", they would 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. However, he has no intention 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.