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Post by X-pert74 on May 2, 2017 17:23:44 GMT -5
My favorite Game & Watch game is probably either Donkey Kong Jr., or Vermin. I find both games to be immensely addicting and replayable, and pretty consistently challenging, yet allow the player to get into a nice "flow" once they get the hang of the game's unique design quirks.
Honestly, I usually prefer the "modern" versions of each game that are included in the various Game & Watch Gallery games, but Vermin and Donkey Kong Jr. are two that I think are really great even in their "classic" iterations.
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Post by Weasel on May 3, 2017 10:02:48 GMT -5
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Post by 1983parrothead on May 4, 2017 7:21:41 GMT -5
Here are some commercials for some followers of Gunpei Yokoi's idea. Kingman was localized along with other Tomy products to USA by RadioShack:
But AVGN hates LCD games:
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Post by magic89 on May 4, 2017 14:38:32 GMT -5
Very Common sight in modern Poland Or Poland durning PRL.
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Post by Snake on May 5, 2017 13:18:15 GMT -5
Karnov, from Tiger Electronics. By default, because it was really the only LCD game I had. Unless you count freaken Snake on the Nokia 6190.
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Post by dire51 on May 5, 2017 13:35:44 GMT -5
Here's mine. This should surprise exactly nobody.
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Post by toei on May 5, 2017 14:00:09 GMT -5
I liked the Street Fighter 2 Tiger game, you could pretty much win by pulling hadoukens over and over. For a while I played their Sonic 3 during long car/bus trips, too. But for collection/aesthetic purposes, what I'd really like to have is this: Attachments:
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Post by Dee Liteyears on May 7, 2017 14:26:47 GMT -5
Very Common sight in modern Poland Hah, a real classic I've recently played one what has to be a newer iteration. It had a few games that were unknown to me. Most of the games on it or also pretty nice. It takes some creativity to get so many games out of a Tetris-well. There's one exception though, namely the Breakout clones. This game just doesn't work properly if the ball can only bounce at 45° angles. Really, I had countless of unwinnable games. I also really liked the Tiger games back then, though I only had Paperboy, Sonic 3 and maybe a Power Rangers game iirc. Today I have only Shinobi. I also always drooled over the Konami games (such a nice design) And I really want one of those with a colored display, no matter if G&W or whatever
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Post by Colonel Kurtz on May 10, 2017 14:56:15 GMT -5
One of my favourite was the dual screen version of Donkey Kong Jr which was quite popular. I still have it but I need batteries. Same here, but I don't have it
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Post by 320x240 on May 10, 2017 15:22:05 GMT -5
Donkey Kong no doubt. Me and my brothers never owned it but a friend of a friend did, so we borrowed it. I used to play an 'emulated' version in Windows 95 back in the day and got hooked again.
I had Parachute myself. I remember getting a score of 998 and being very (vocaly) proud of it, talking my mother into playing it and watching her loop it... (it resets to 0 after 999). Only game my mother ever played. We probably should have asked her for help when we got stuck at the last level of the original Boulder Dash for over a year...
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Post by mathuser on May 21, 2017 1:36:59 GMT -5
I remember liking Bad Dudes for lcd alot.
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Post by nerdybat on May 21, 2017 4:47:51 GMT -5
When I was a lad I had a Game & Watch where Mickey Mouse had to collect eggs before they hit the ground. I got ludicrously good at that game. Re-releases and certain places without the Disney license of that game replaced Mickey with a wolf and just called the game "Egg". It's even on Game & Watch Gallery 3 with a version with Yoshi. Funnily enough, aforementioned "Электроника" (which was a government-funded company in USSR, mind you) unofficially made a version of this game based on popular Russian cartoon " Ну, погоди!". It was a pretty popular piece of hardware around USSR in 80s. As for favorite LCD game, then yeah, also aforementioned Brick Game. There were many of these around ex-USSR in 90s, and it's basically Tetris on the go - and really, "Tetris on the go" is as close as you can get to a perfect LCD game (it's definitely miles ahead of simplistic "catch all items" or "push left or right" games in terms of complexity and replayability). Oh, also LCD casino games, like blackjack and video poker. Those were quite fun.
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Post by 1983parrothead on Aug 27, 2017 23:26:47 GMT -5
While Game & Watch and Tiger handhelds are the most well-known, there were also Bandai's Tamagotchi series that even still live today as an anime and a cameo in one of the Mario Kart arcades. The Tamagotchi series was influential enough to cause not only Bandai to create Digimon handhelds, but other companies created their own, including Nintendo's Pikachus and the ones that came with HeartGold/SoulSilver. The same creator of Furby created Giga Pets to compete with Bandai's Tamagotchi. Radica made their own too:
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Post by novicola on Aug 28, 2017 16:17:00 GMT -5
I'll echo the love for DK Jr. in all its G&W iterations, excluding the Gallery 4 version which is just the delightful Gallery 3 version beaten with the ugly stick (prime example for art direction vs. system capabilities!). In addition to the original Widescreen/Panarama/MiniClassic and DK II LCD variants, there was also a tabletop version, which was released Stateside via the Coleco brand.
In terms of game balance and design, my all-time favorite is Green House. Nice amount of twitch and clear, readable action balanced with priority assessment. Really engages you and keeps you on your toes like a good LCD should!
If we extend the scope to include the Gallery series, then it's Chef:
The point system tied to how "well cooked" the food in adds a lot to the risk/value assessment to the game. Sometimes it's prudent to feed Yoshi under-cooked food which yield the smallest points. Sometimes you have to sacrifice "just right" food by burning it beyond a crisp and net no points, or feed it to Yoshi and suffer a half-miss. Really, really engaging for such a simple premise! It's all the more remarkable since the original was one of the more inane offerings, with mechanics not different enough from the earlier Fire to really warrant playing.
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Post by BdR on Oct 1, 2018 17:01:08 GMT -5
One of my favourite was the dual screen version of Donkey Kong Jr which was quite popular. I still have it but I need batteries. I already posted my lcdgame.js library in this thread, but recently I've added 2 new playable games: Donkey Kong II and Tom's Adventure. They're pretty accurate compared to the original device AFAIK, let me know what you think bdrgames.nl/lcdgames/
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