So, it powers up, and I can hear all the sounds but the screen displays nothing, hopefully something I can fix, but we'll see
Also, who's bright idea was it to have the marketing line of "It plays more games than you idiots have brain cells" ?
So, it powers up, and I can hear all the sounds but the screen displays nothing, hopefully something I can fix, but we'll see
Also, who's bright idea was it to have the marketing line of "It plays more games than you idiots have brain cells" ?
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I bought one from eBay and my screen also doesn’t work lol. Maybe it’s a common defect.
I have the cartridge for Sonic Jam for this thing, I got it as part of my quest to find the worst officially released Sonic games. Never got a chance to play it though due to the bad screen. … Maybe I’ll get another one from eBay one of these days and hope for the best.
Oh sweet, now you can play Resident Evil 2!
> Also, who’s bright idea was it to have the marketing line of “It plays more games than you idiots have brain cells”
That’s a *very* late 90s video game ad tagline.
Looks like it’s supposed to be the Game.com. Which is worse.
You can probably run Doom on it
Gamescom at home:
Game Com, Cybiko, lynx handheld, Sega Nomad.
When I was a kid, I was king of the “handheld systems that went nowhere” genre.
Game.Com Active
Young me tried everything in his power to get this piece of shit connected to the internet. Never got it to work.
I heard it’ll have Duke Nuken 3D as a launch title!
Pretty sure i had duke nukem on this
Game cum
That’s Game<dot>Com …. Get it right! 🙂
And yeah the screens on these sucked and by now many of them have leaky or faulty capacitors that lead to the screen either barely or unable to display anything.
I have genuinely fond feelings for the one I had.
Perfect input method for Lights Out and it held all my phone numbers. Only 20 quid from the bargain bin it rapidly fell into.
But I already had a Gameboy and wages of my own. I can only feel for the kid who got this instead and couldn’t do a thing about it.
I had one, I enjoyed it a lot, I recognize in retrospect that it was shitty but I was poor and hand held gaming was generally out of my grasp.
Gamecom Active
Ah yes the time Tiger Electronics decided FOR REAL to compete with the Game Boy.
What a mess of a handheld. The screen and graphics were so poorly designed. Every time I see one of these in action I can barely tell what’s happening on the screen. [AVGN](https://youtu.be/_u5dtBtG9yU?si=0xMrMvUgVAY1Q1jU) actually did a great piece on all of Tiger’s products (NSFW btw). My thinking is the novelty of their cheap handhelds had completely ran their course, so Tiger developed the Game Com as a last ditch effort to compete with Game Boy. If only it’s design wasn’t also based on their cheap handhelds. Yeesh.
I had it with Lights Out and Batman. Lights out was fun but Batman was awful, the screen had so much blurring that it’s was very hard to tell what was happening, much like the Quickshot Superboy.
Are you ready to [N-GAGE!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENbnqMUxzdQ)
this thing was so bad that I never even seen one in real life. i definitely remember comic books ads about it
I had this, it had a touch screen, which blew my mind as a kid living in Eastern Europe early 2000. Only had 2 games Lights Out and Batman, since you couldn’t find or afford other ones.
Russias new gaming console be like:
what is this? Is this like the soulja boy handheld?
I can still hear this…. (AT&T sounding chime.. sliding sound… metal clank) “Game com active.” I used to have all the games for this thing. I remember it came with Lights Out. Resident Evil 2 was my favorite game on it.
Wow, this is maybe the only gaming fad that hasn’t actually crossed my mind since it went DOA. I remember commercials amped us all up until my buddy got one. I kid you not, in the time between him calling to say “you gotta come check this shit out!” and me asking mom if i could, then riding my bicycle two blocks down, his excitement was soured already.
Gamecom was just chilling on his family couch while he was watching Dragon Balll Z for the millionth time. When I snatched it up and asked if I could take a turn he just listless waved his hand and said “go for it, it’s just whatever tho”. I played a couple games and it just made me wanna play the PSX versions again instead. I remember all the consoles and games slashed down to nothing at K-Mart close to the neighborhood not too long after and having a chuckle.
A few years earlier, with the same buddy and Atari Jaguar, we went through the same basic thing. Except the Jaguar did have a handful of badass games we liked playing…til they’d crash at least.
You are obviously unfamiliar with the Nintendo Power Glove.
Can it run Fortnite ?
Saw one of those at a retro games store in York today (or it could’ve been a Barcode Battler).
UUUHHHMM AKSHUALLLY ITS THE GAME DOT COM
I forgot I even had one of these….
Man, such a bad system. My parents probably bought them for myself and my brother off clearance.
I have two of them and almost the complete set of games. XD
I got one of these for free believe it or not.
Way back in the day when this thing came out Tiger had a contest where daily you could do a scratch off ticket on their website and have the chance of winning one of these, one of a handful of other shitty tiger handhelds, and I just happened to luck out.
To be fair? Had a few ideas ahead of it’s time. It did have the touch screen that was slightly better then an Apple Newton but it was still a touch screen in the 1990’s. And it *could* connect to the Internet… Barely… If it worked. And it was text only so enjoy just reading your email from a buddy sending you something.
The thing is… It was a black and white system where even the Game Boy looked better and sharper then this thing. It was sorta slow and just ugly to look at. Most of the games pretty much sucked I mean I ended up using it just to play Solitaire. And if I recall holding it got a little tiresome, the Game Boy really did feel better holding.
Really it wasn’t a bad try from a company that normally did really cheap and bad handhelds of what we had. But it was going head to head witth the Game Boy that just owned the market.
I had that to play duke nukem. I remember it could go online too but I was too young to figure out that non sense
Is this the touch screen one? I had one of these the only game I had was duke nukem and I remember my grandma was so amazed when she saw me touch the screen and it worked.