Tiger Handhelds

Tiger Handhelds where a series of small of handhelds that released promontory in the 80's and 1990's, the Tiger Handhelds were made by Tiger Electronics.

History
Founded in 1978 by "Randy Rissman "Gerald Rissman" and "Arnold Rissman", before they made handhelds, they made photographs which where there first product made, then they shifted from electronics, and edutainment games, then they made small simple handhelds that flew off the store shelves, due to them having licenses on them and they where easy to make, Tiger Electronics are also behind the famous Furby.

Licenses
Tiger Handhelds had a bunch of brands and licenses to use, but here are a handful of them.

Companies


 * Sega
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 * Disney


 * Pixar
 * Fox
 * Namco

Video Game IP's/ Other Franchises


 * Sonic The Hedgehog
 * Mega Man
 * Toy Story
 * Duck Tales
 * Batman
 * Full House
 * CastleVania

Other Varieties
During the 90's, Tiger released Wrist Watch versions of games, these were the same as the handhelds but allowed them to be played on your hand, these were also a success.

Tech
Similar to a normal calculator or a "Game & Watch" they had painted backgrounds with solid black objects or characters, then they will be projected behind the screen, if you input a button they will move to another image of that character, before a game you would see the images light up before the images go transparent

Return
As of 2021, Tiger Electronics is trying to get them to come back, sites like "Walmart" and "Amazon" re-selling them with the original price, examples like Sega with there "Sonic 3" handheld, they are even available at "GameStop".

Trivia

 * Other Examples of old handhelds coming back are "Tamagotch's", who got popular in the 90's but got faded in the 2000's, by 2017, companies tried to get it to return.
 * Every handheld has it's own control set-up.
 * They are known to have a "test mode" hidden in all their handhelds, they are activated threw button combination.
 * They used to cost 20$, whilst other game handhelds at the time costed 30$ with a extra 50$ for console.