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- NaziHatinChimp, on 01/09/2009, -0/+58You could press hard on the screen and make it look like you were winning.
- WafflePirate, on 01/08/2009, -1/+35Ah, yes, I remember these. They were pretty groundbreaking for their time you have to admit though. Its not like they had the technologies back then that they do now.
- Anthrax704, on 01/08/2009, -2/+34"Error establishing a database connection"
Thats a really horrific example! - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -1/+24I had tons of these things as a kid. They were pretty damn cool at the time.
Does anyone remember the even cheaper hand held games with no electronics at all? I remember these driving games that had an actual plastic car that you could maneuver around on this paper track roll that was moved by gears. Useless. Even more useless than those were the ones without a motor, where you had to rotate the paper roll manually and control the car. HAHAHA! Genius. - MrAsparagus, on 01/09/2009, -2/+24Digg destroys yet another puny site.
- Moisgreat, on 01/09/2009, -3/+21I hate those LCD run servers.
- benologist, on 01/09/2009, -0/+17Yeah.... these things predate gameboys, and when they came out they were a *lot* cheaper than gameboys too. Except for the ones still being made today this article's really just a cheap shot at a different era.
- serif69, on 01/09/2009, -1/+18No mention at all of Bo Jackson Football/Baseball. Good, because that game ***** rocked. It was two games in one! Just like Bo!
- rushiku, on 01/09/2009, -0/+13Anyone else remember the LED (note: _not_ LCD) football handheld game?
3 rows, 10 columns, had to run your blinky LED across the 'field' 10 times to score, while avoiding the pathetic non-blinky AI blockers. IIRC, you could only move towards your endzone (well, up and down too), adding to the 'difficulty'. - Elbryan233, on 01/09/2009, -1/+14LCD Gaming Failures of the Past? More like server failures of the present! BOOM! Hey-o!
- Wolfie351, on 01/09/2009, -4/+17It's easy to call older games "crap", but they were fun then. Doom was one of the most fun games around, but try and go play it now...and I certainly wouldn't call it a failure just because there are better games now.
- SmellyGeekBoy, on 01/09/2009, -0/+12Indeed. The Victorians - what a bunch of losers! They only had hoops and sticks. Why weren't they clever enough to invent games consoles?
Pah! - MrAsparagus, on 01/09/2009, -0/+11Dugg for not beating your son shortly after.
- serif69, on 01/09/2009, -0/+11Yes sir. It had two LCD screens and two sets of controls.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+10Doom is still fun
- robopuppy, on 01/09/2009, -0/+9Dugg for crazy memory. That game was the *****!
- aspec, on 01/09/2009, -0/+8Do you remember "Video Driver"?
It was a "game" that you suction cupped to the TV and it had a little car on the top. You'd put a cassette in the VCR and use a little steering wheel to drive the little car in between the white flashing bars which corresponded with the crappy canned 80's driving video playing on the screen. When you hit the flashing bars, you'd get points deducted and at the end of the tape you'd have your final score.
Also, if your TV was bigger than 19 inches, you couldn't play the game. - serif69, on 01/09/2009, -0/+8You needed something like 100 tickets to get one of those from the arcade. That's like 10 spider rings.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+8This website must use a gamecom to run their server.
- punkcat, on 01/09/2009, -0/+7only good one was the LED football, love to get my hands on that one again.
- Scrappy1850, on 01/09/2009, -1/+8didnt you flip it upside down to play the other sport?
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6Dugg for "Liquid Crystal Dismay"
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6Are you talking about these:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/Derby.htm - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -1/+7Buried for insinuating that there aren't already enough rude ***** running around with ***** horrible parents.
- rikwakefield, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6Dugg for thinking the Tiger Handheld is a girl
- Matt2k, on 01/09/2009, -1/+6I had one of those paper roll racecar ones! Bought it for a buck at a hamfest. I was driving hard bargains even at the tender age of seven. I later translated my charismatic skills into a fine career in carpet cleaning if I may say so
- danwallace, on 01/09/2009, -0/+5Are you really expecting high quality when you get your games from a cereal box?
- seventhc, on 01/09/2009, -1/+6I've never actually heard of these but here is the list.
#5: Tombstone Shaped Hockey
#4: Interchangeable Carts
#3: Barcodzz Swipe Mid Fight
#2: Front Lit Holographic
#1: Soundless Guitar Hero - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+5Digital Derby was a lot more high tech than the things I'm talking about. These things had no way to keep any kind of score, and had absolutely no point.
- level32, on 01/09/2009, -0/+5Bo knows...
- mrseptic, on 01/09/2009, -1/+5The only failure is their ***** server.
- seventhc, on 01/09/2009, -1/+5Oh wow, thank you for that link. I had completely forgotten about that game. I had tons of fun with that back in the day.
Digital Derby FTW - rikwakefield, on 01/09/2009, -2/+6get a life
- punkcat, on 01/09/2009, -0/+4i had the race car one, let me imitate it for you.
"RRRRRR RRRRRR RRRRRR RRRRRRR RRRRRRR RRRRRR RRRRRR RRRRR"
the the thing was not quiet. - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -2/+6*after page fails miserably* Ah, I see. Very nice.
- Virtualtaco, on 01/09/2009, -0/+4Not including the R-Zone headgear makes this article about as cool as the R-Zone headgear.
- danwallace, on 01/09/2009, -0/+4Holy *****. I had one of those. I remember cars would be in both lanes and you'd have to drive around them, but they'd appear in a pattern (obviously), with one lane having cars at a slightly faster rate than the other, meaning eventually you'd hit a spot with a car in both lanes and no way to get around them and then you'd just crash.
- Smokeydabear, on 01/09/2009, -1/+4Bo knows both.
- mrwynd, on 01/09/2009, -1/+4I bought and enjoyed several of these old LCD games. Look at the full video game systems they competed against at the time.....Atari, colecovision, they didn't have deep storylines or impressive graphics. I take my hat off to these companies that created the LCD games. We wouldn't have our modern handheld systems like the DS or PSP without companies finding the market for them with the LCD games.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+3I had one of those. Got it at a garage sale.
- ScottyF311, on 01/09/2009, -3/+6It’s like if George Lucas started the first Star Wars movie with “The main bad guy is really the protagonist’s father and his potential love interest is really his sister and there’s a dance party on a midget bear planet at the end when some space ***** blows up.”
- themastersb, on 01/09/2009, -1/+4I have an old LCD game that has probably been on constantly without ever being off for the past 10 years on a single AA battery.
- TrevorBelmont, on 01/09/2009, -4/+7What you both neglect to point out is that these games were never fun. It's not like they ceased being fun once we saw what the Gameboy was capable of. I remember getting home with my brand new Tiger Electronics version of Double Dragon. I didn't expect it to capture the arcade experience perfectly or even the crappy console knock-off. I did expect it to be a game, though. It sucked so much. SO much. I returned it to the store the next day.
- solmakou, on 01/09/2009, -0/+3my sources tell me you are wrong, just ran a google search for
"site:the-minusworld.com liquid crystal dismay" - Deevo55, on 01/11/2009, -0/+3I would rather play Doom than half the ***** that comes out now.
- YoungBeur, on 01/10/2009, -0/+3I think we can all agree that this is the biggest LCD fail of all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrrvkPo7TZ4 - aspec, on 01/10/2009, -0/+2@CMiYC
That's it... Oh no... the flashbacks - s4g4n, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2Dugg for ,that weird analog nipple nub thing on the PSP
- MelekTawus, on 01/10/2009, -0/+2The Battlestar Galactica one was incredibly popular when I was in elementary school in the early 1980s. I remember daydreaming about how awesome it would be to have one that had more than three columns of LEDs and was several feet long so you could see them coming from farther.
- podobuzz, on 01/10/2009, -0/+2Perhaps the right level of sarcastic anger, but severely lacking in the humor department. Just another Top X list with the same old tired feigned outrage. Meh.
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