Mark's Epic Blog of Randomness

By Mark Rodriguez One of the inspirations to put Video Game Masters online instead of the concept being lost to old home movies on damaged VHS tapes was the Angry Video Game Nerd. One episode had him review Tiger games, which were everywhere in the late 80's/early 90's and it reminded me of those days. Before we would get an actual NES (once the price went down), Tiger games were the only way to play video games when you couldn't be at the arcade. Thes games were the slightly more advanced versions of those old school Game and Watch games, simple games on a LCD screen with pre-drawn digital characters on them not unlike a watch or a calculator. The main difference is that Tiger and its eventual competitors is that rather than simple games like pong or whatever, they were trying to copy actual games like Double Dragon, Castlevania, Street Fighter and Strider or make games based on existing properties like Batman or the Ninja Turtles. The sound was simple, just a s...