After Burner Tiger LCD Tabletop Game - Octav1us
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- Let's have a quick look at the most-wanted item in the Argos catalogue back in the early 90s.
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Half the fun is the the display can be used to play pretend cockpit when the batteries died
Ikr
It was £34.95 in the Spring/ Summer 1990 Argos catalogue (page 278), and actually went up to £37.95 for Autumn/Winter (bar stewards).
Bit bloody expensive that innit? With inflation that's about the same as a 3 bed semi-detached in Slough.
For reference an Atari 7800 with 2 games and 2 controllers was £58.99 and a NES with 2 controllers and Super Mario was £94.99.
Is your knowlege of the 1990 argos catalogue a gift or a curse?
@@camrunner6633 it's a Page 148 Spring/Summer 1990 - Gift(s) For All haha
Bet that would be awesome to look through now. £120 for some only fools and horses vhs box sets anyone?
£34,damn an its just a lil lcd with bells and whisles,but still i wanted it
This just confirms to me that child me was an idiot who liked terrible things. I liked this and wanted a haircut like He-Man.
Don't worry, I copied the spiked hair trend of the late 90's and early 2000's and loved films like The Cat in The Hat, the live action Scooby Doo and Thunderbirds movies and Sharkboy and Lavagirl. I even enjoyed Dragon Ball Evolution, although I think even then some of my enjoyment of that one was ironic. My gaming choices were typically daily solid, though with the exception being my early PC game library. Micro scooter racing, yaaay.
Lol. I wanted a haircut like B.A. (Mr T).
when you look at it now its a load of tat. but my inner 10 year old said I WAAANT ITT!
another way of saying it's a bit rubbish/trash really
That red light behind the LCD is a nice trick!
When I woke up for work this morning, never did I ever imagine I would later watch a YT vid where a Yorkshire Lass yelled "BUGG'ROFF" at a rat.
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As crap as the playability may be, it still has a better frame rate than it did on the Spectrum.
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try and make the algorithm be nice. Fun and great no matter how many times i have watched them.
Nice finally seeing this in action! Had my eye on one for ages but could never justify the collector’s prices. It’s quite a bit different than the standard Tiger release!
I cannot get enough of your videos! :) you are truly fresh, natural, and extremely professional! I adore your content and you as a person! :)
This is a fun review but the pet rat steals the show. 100/10 will be watching again
Friend of mine had this when we were kids. Gotta be the flashiest most over top 80s excess LCD game ever made. Was the first way I ever played After Burner, which would normally be sad due to being an LCD game but this is legit rad as feck.
I had one of these, and loved it.
Great video Octy! 👍
I remember that this thing was a very sought after thing back in the day. I had a load of the hand help ones like Mario (that bottle catching game) , sonic, double dragon and zelda. SO MUCH NOSTALGIA! Great review
I had one of these as a kid in the 90s. It was pretty fun!
Marvellous stuff! I can see what you mean with wanting to push the joystick and that.
Glorious tat!
Well, this one looks really cool! Thanks for the review!
Holy flashbacks, batman! I completely forgot we had one of these growing up, cheers Sarah!
I think I liked it well enough, as much as any other static LCD type game (id rather play a console). Its hard to be objective with nostalgia in the way and I was very young. I remember it really hyped me up for After Burner and started playing it in the arcade at every opportunity, we didn't have a mega drive and the master system version was hard to get. The acceleration control didn't work on ours either, I think it was a gimmick.
I had one of those for Christmas back in the late 80s when I was a little kid 😱.
Still for me it is so stunning. .. I remember when it was exposed on the shop.. who does not like it, doesn't know the taste of the videogames born with the taste of vintage even when they were just released. . I wish I could find one, and I think it is even more expensive now than when it was released 😍
I love your nail polish :) I remember some kid at my school won one of these for selling magazine subscriptions when I was like 9 years old... he'd won the game and a light up head band, then acted like a total dick about it on the school bus... one of the older kids broke it, and he kept saying he was going to tell his dad, between sniffles... I'm getting ever so close to 40 now, and I can still remember that little boy shouting "I'm gonna tell my daddy on you!" while snot ran down his nose like it was yesterday... this helpful comment has slightly gone off the rails now... I enjoy all of your content Octav1us! Keep up the good work!
Wow. Take that Ace Combat series!
Neat device. I'd never heard of it before. I remember as a kid when the Tiger LCD games were all around.
You have a really cool channel.
Tiger was big into the LCD game craze over here.
Holy shit, I had this and completely forgot about it. Thank you for the nostalgia hit!
I really liked LCD games as a kid, I had a few - Double Dragon, TMNT, Simons Quest. I never saw this one as a kid but I would have loved it, it is like a deluxe LCD game compared to all the rest.
Great Video! You have nice hands btw.
Imagine how cool you would look, playing this one on the bus around 1990! 🤔
Love your nail polish. Love your vids. Love your rat. Adore you, Octy!
Oh the nostalgia! I had that!
Wow, I sooo wanted one of these back in the day. The only thing I wanted more was a 'Domino Rally - Action Alley'!
Rat 'N' Tat ! Puuurrrrfect video.
I found this in my nans attic as a kid and loved it, but never played with it with the actual batteries in it.
Sadly like all things that are considered rare and expensive today, I probably chucked it when I was a teen :(
Damn i wanted this bk in the day,and yup argos,but always seemed to notice it when it wasnt birthdays or xmas
Awesome! I remember a kid in my school being determined to get hold of one of these. He insisted it would be better than the Megadrive version because it had a joystick.
I had the Megadrive version. But out of respect for his fragile psyche, I never let on.
It would have been like kicking a puppy, though. I'd never have lived with myself!
My brother had this and would never let me play it, from the looks of it I didn't miss much.
The thing was it's all the fake buttons and extra bits of unnecessary plastic that made it look exciting and extra special. Sure they could chuck all that, but being a kid seeing a big plastic joystick with lots of bells and whistles it made it almost real. All that extra real estate made a huge difference and not many parents could say no once a kid saw that in the Argos catalogue. It screams buy me and you won't be disappointed. I certainly wouldn't of been lol.
Wow I got one of these for Christmas back in the day. Must have been very easily pleased as a kid because I'm sure it kept me occupied for ages. I also feel bad now I know how much it cost my parents!! :(
Gobbins. Nice review! And even nicer Oric!
Just found this channel. I'm usually into oldies like that, even if it's crap, but here I was honestly more interested in Oric.
What a cute little thing!
But anyway if we go back to the subject matter, as far as Tiger Electronics go, it wasn't that bad.
Kids are truly missing out on amazing tat like this...i weep for the current generation!
Instead they get tat like fidget spinners
The Gameplay reminds me of a 1943 LCD Handheld I had back in the day. Traded a friend something for it in middle school.
Thanks for that video needed it today 😊 your finding some really cool things made by tiger lol 😎
I had this as a kid, got it new for Christmas in 1993.
Pretty nice little game for an LCD thing.
All those stickers make it so much cooler.
My cousin Dave had one, and I was so envious of him for it. To my 10 year old brain, that game was like electronic ambrosia.
Come for the video game tat, stay for the bonus, cute rat content!
Oh, I remember that thing - ah, the memories ... the fun I had with this before I actually got my first real console when I was 8. Once that Atari 2600 was under my Christmas tree, I never even looked at all my Tiger crap again.
This thing looks really cool. I guess if you take a crappy LCD game, add a bunch of non-functional buttons and dials, then it somehow transforms into awesomeness in my mind.
Dude. You take a big cardboard, add (or just paint) a bunch of non-functional buttons and dials, then it transforms into the whole universe of awesome. :D
Those were the times...
@@Tallefer The original Star Trek relied on cardboard and non-functional buttons.
Look out, Beatrice, Auric's here to steal your limelight. :)
The most glorious of all Argos catalogue tat. Pure style over substance.
I always wanted one of those as a kid, never got one though - I did get something much better in the form of a radio controlled Batmobile
Always wanted this as a child. Remember it being very expensive in the Argos catalogue :)
Now i need a rat in my life.
This was in Argos for ever
Another fabulously fun retrogaming video featuring one of those games that looked amazing on TV adverts but wasn't half as decent in reality lol.
Nice review and how cute is Oric ? I miss keeping rats had 4 at same time at one point and NEVER been bitten by one. Thanks for uploading Sarah 🕹
So, it is just a glorified "game & watch" in a big fancy plastic frame. I know I would love it as a kid, because I was in love with big joysticks in general (please do not Freud-analyse me!), they gave me the feeling of controlling a real machine, like a helicopter or a viper from Galactica... Joysticks are way cooler than keyboards and mice (but not as good to play games, unfortunately).
Thank you for the video.
I wanted this so bad back in the day I used to stare at it in the catalogue wishing that it would be mine 🤣😂🤣😂
I finally got a boxed complete one a couple of years back to add to my Sega wall it’s treasured in the collection but yeah it’s naff
I’ve just got to track down the Outrun and Batmobile ones... great vid as usual
I do like looking at the older toys when i see them reviewed. Its the old git in me that finds them interesting. I used to have a solarpowered lcd game called jack and the beanstalk when i was a younglin. I think that was grandstand and they did a range of solar powered games. From a parents perspective they would have been a great idea as then they didnt need to constantly keep paying out through the nose for batteries. Only lcd game i have now is that large yellow 80s puck monster jobby. I still want to get that tomy atomic pinball as well (real bumper action ohhhhh) i can use my kids as an excuse lol.
I’d love to see a review of the Tomy games like this. I had the blue one
The 3d ones? .....thundering turbos/shark attack. I never had one of those. I recently saw on a facebook page that the yanks had a similar toy as well. But the casing on theirs looked a lot better. More like a military piece of hardware
SteamMachine My one was called Space Turbo, had a joystick and a yoke.
First thought: this a thing that existed and i did not know strange when i pride myself to know all things gaming
Love the Grandstand games, I've got Caveman by Grandstand.
my mate wanted this as kid we seen one on the carboot and he changed his mind when he seen up close
Ive got After Burner on the SMS & 32X , After Burner 2 on MD, After Burner 3 on Mega Cd but i have to say this tops them all!
I wanted this so badly. I used to play it in the local supermarket every day, and my dad said he would get me it some day. He never did.
I had one of these!
Nice carpet ☺
I had one of these way back. It was bloody impossible to play play hahah
ahaha, pet rat nammed after 8-bit computer. Very good way of using your retro knowlidge.
Cheers - the Octav1us catchup kept me up too late - well worth it though :)
I fell asleep in the living room(with the heating 'on') and just woke up at 07:00 in a desert...going to bed now for an hour(s) with all the windows open to blow away the sand.
And that joystick only going left and right.....must be hard not to give it a hench wrench in the wrong direction. Does it creak or make any cracking sounds with accidental up/down?
Had I seen a review just like this back in the day, I would've pestered my parents to buy me a pet rat :-D
Auric is definitely my favourite of your pets.
Awwwww Oric. Agreed there is something about that grimy noise is sexy, ok you've converted me...congrats. Love that word gubbins. Long live the 90s.
That is a BIIIIG LCD Game Octav1us
I remember *really* wanting this as a kid, as I was obsessed with After Burner and its sequel G-LOC. This actually looks like I would have genuinely enjoyed it rather than ending up disappointed.
It's a shame the artificial horizon thing in the middle doesn't move via a mechanical connection to the joystick or something, that would have been cool. Still, I love all the plastic tat regardless!
Loving the ratties
that little moment when Beatrice is being taken out of frame looks like she's objecting because she hasn't had a chance to play. So cute.
Now I want to get a broken one of these and a Raspberry Pi and an OLED screen and convert it to run the arcade Afterburner. That would be gloriously pointless.
I had exactly the same thought ... and decided to do it :)
@@NeilsNonsense Let us know how it goes.
@@hjalfi Thanks for your interest. You can check my channel and follow updates on Instagram (neilsnonsense). Once it's completed I'll post a video on my channel, but there will be a lot more incremenatal buld progress updates on instagram since photos are easier to deal with! Up to you what level you're interested at I guess :)
I think the only fun I ever got out of a Tiger Electronic was the Star Fox wrist watch I had in school. As weaksauce as it was, it was a watch so it wasn't something they'd take from you like any other gadget.
Seriously, even as late as highschool they didn't even permit any portable music device.
Your great
Ah I sooo wanted this as a kid, but they were a bit on the pricey side according to my mum.
I used to think I had no attention span as a kid because I had a few tiger games and demo discs and the sort, but then I got starcraft... and then I got counterstrike...
Hi, Oric!
Oric! Smol hairy felowe!! :'3 How many critters do you have in total?
I appreciate that Pancakes' name explains how he got that shape. I've mostly kept dwarf hamsters, which are like hyperactive, constantly terrified little poof balls.
My first was named Megafucker Supreme. Then Ratlas, Hamdrew Ryan and Nomtaine. Most recently, George and Scott (I ran out of name ideas). My other channel, "I Chose Hampture" has loads of videos of them frolicking underwater: czcams.com/video/XMEkmdUHI_c/video.html
the throttle - could down be faster and up slower? the numbers go up when its in the down-position
i remember wanting that, damn glad i didnt get it too haha. They made it look amazing but...... not so much. Great vid OK, keep it up!
holy shit i had one of these!
I don't remember mine having lights. Or perhaps I never put any c batteries in it? I remember playing it for hours
world's luckiest mouse
So it's a game & watch (without the watch) in a shit tacky case? I wants! :)
Can you look at game called Firefox-F7?
I had it as a kid and actually spent hours with it.
I wanted this thing SOOOO bad when I was young. I’m a yank. So in America this thing was more of a slate gray. Think Tom Baker era daleks.
Yay Oric
@@octaviusking LAD
Also not pictured: Octav1us having intimate fun with a Wii remote XD
@@octaviusking in his defense, the DC is a sexy beast.
Today's magic word is 'Gubbins'!
I hope they re-release this for Top Gun 2.
All that bulk and as about as powerful as a digital watch.
Lots of bobbins, but I'm dismayed at the lack of gubbins :(
Honest question. What are "gubbins"? I've hear you and Ashens say it and I think it just means stuff, but more like crappy stuff. Is that accurate.
It's a load of tat
Rubbish
Gubbins doesn't necessarily mean bad, just lots of somewhat pointless things, or something which has lots of small things you can't be bothered to explain due to sheer numbers regardless of importance, for example in a machine (example: I was messing around with the gubbins trying to get it working).
Similar to bells and whistles but less usefull lol