Person 1: "Man, Resident Evil 2 was awesome!" Person 2: "Yeah, I loved it back in the day" Person 1: "It's too bad that it was sometimes kind of hard to see clearly with the black and white screen" Person 2: "Yeah...wait....what?"
Man your reviews are always so professional yet filled with so much soul, fantastic review video as always. Thanks for making these excellent videos man
From what I've read elsewhere, the purpose of the Internet connection on the Game.com was you could download your email. Of course, it required you to be tethered, so why use the Game.com when you can just use a computer?
The handheld could connect to the Internet on the go, but it wasn't easy. Some pay phones at train stations, gas stations, hotels and other venues allowed a dial-up Internet connection. They are rare today. All charge a fee per call (even one hotel room phone I used, advertised as free local calls), and most dial-up ISPs also charge a fee. The handheld not only needed its Internet kit, but also an external modem, about the size of the handheld itself. It was costly and bulky, all for a text (BBS, mail, etc.) terminal. Geeky stuff, but compared to browsers on future consoles (PSP, Dreamcast or even DS), it was not worth it.
Wow, I totally forgot this thing existed. I remember seeing ads for it on the back of my comic books from that time - the only Tiger video games I ever had were the little handheld games with the static lcd screen that ran on two AAs.
In order to connect to the internet, you had to buy the special internet cartridge, then buy their proprietary 14kbps modem (sold separately) then hook it to a phone line (pots), then pay a monthly subscription charge (i think it was 14/mo). After all that, you could experience the glory of viewing text only websites (basically telnet) and receiving text email. I got as far as buying the modem, was pissed off when i discovered you had to buy a cartridge tooand gave up . Honestly i doubt they even bothered setting up the internet services, this system was doomed from launch.
The only good thing the Internet on the gamecom did was function as how I learned to spell. My dad taught 1 year old me to spell by making me type the words in the search browser!
There is a version of the Game.com with a slightly less crappy screen. It's called the Pocket Pro, and it may be worth picking up if you guys are going to review any more Game.com games.
Reminds me of the LCD screen for the Westminster game "Munch Time". I think it was designed this way to preserve battery life, but regarding such designs, you should try the line somewhere. :-)
I've got one of these!! Came with 2 cartridges and I also have 3 boxed games. Doesn't get played much these days! I would love to find the Pro model, though!!
Definitely an obscure piece of gaming history. The graphics are sort of impressive though. Not overly so, but the car model was huge and sort of detailed. Shame about that screen, because otherwise it was actually kind of neat and had some good ideas for the time. Hopefully, CGR can get a Turbo Express to review. It's basically like a Nomad, but for the TurboGrafx-16, if I remember it correctly.
Leon sounds like he's screaming under water. I played a demo console at Toys R Us. I remember being fascinated by the touch screen. But I already had a Game Boy and I never heard much about the Game.Com afterwards. It just faded into obscurity with its horrible failure. Maybe they should have went with puzzle games and marketed it as a puzzle gaming device. At least then the games would have looked passable.
Hey, you never know. And yeah, that thing packed every single thing we take for granted in a smart device these days. If only it had a decent screen. If only.
lol, i was just joking, but it could sound gay in the way i was admiring so much, and lol marcos, sorry for the late reply , youtube was being stupid and not showing me the notifications
actually i do like the features of this handheld,and i am also amezed by how good those games looking,the graphics tried to emulate to be 16bit,this is mind blowing,also those soundeffects in those games are actually good,but only the speed and the refresh rate of the lcd screen is horrible,however static screen games such as lights out and solitair will actually be playble on it, eventrough those ports of popular games such as sonic jam,virtua fighter and resident evil etc,, are just unplayeble,but due their amezing graphics,i got greedy to want them all.(!)
I was a Minecraft fanboy when I started my channel, but i'm not a fanboy anymore. I usually make mods for redstone so I can make sure that the stuff I make in real life works, for example a game controller. It's actually useful.
I know, Mark should be doing all the sub-reviews as well, the only other guy I like is that big guy with glasses that's he shows on camera with him sometimes
I do remember seeing this at Best Buy when it was released, or shortly after. It was on s small shelf in the back of the game section, kind of like the size of a clearance shelf lol.
My dad had this. He taught 1 year old me how to spell by making me type the words into the Internet search browser. "Game com... active." Sounds like "Grid... online."
You ever played Super Mario 64 DS? Anyway, the DS is fairly close to the N64. You can see the games have more varied/larger textures. They look a bit "rougher" because the N64 uses a more smooth type of filtering than the DS.
Today, there's this other cutting- edge handheld. What's it called again? The Vida, Vita? Doesn't it have some decent PS3 ports like Mortal Kombat 9, Need For Speed Most Wanted exc.?
Tiger could re-release this as Game.com 2 or something, add a color screen, a A9 processor, give it Wifi and/or 3G...keep the touch screen....even though this is starting to sound like the Vita.,..I think the Game.Com was just under-specced....if you watch video of Mortal Kombat Trilogy played on here, graphic-wise its not bad...the voice is slow and the graphics are slow...if they re-made the system, re-released the games originally made for it in color and the A9 CPU, it'd probably be great!
Tiger electronics never delivered anything, it was always a let down. Nintendo ruled the handheld market with an iron fist, no kid I grew up with ever had a tiger electronic.
i had one of these as a kid. i liked it, lol my mom got it for me randomly one day, guessing cause it was so cheap, i had duke nukem on it re2 and lights out, i ended up circuit bending it and made it into a music player haha, it was one of my first circuit board mishaps
Oh your a modern gamer of course the cpu of systems back then weren't very fast especially for portable devices and it has an STN screen which is why it has the ghosting issues
You happened to have said 19th Century as in the 1800's which we didn't have touch screens or LCD or even LED's and the 20th Century is 1900's we are in the 21st Century because you have to count the 0-999 AD Eras of time
