Virtua Fighter LCD game, purchased this weekend at the City-Wide Garage Sale. The Odyssey 2 I also picked up, by the way, works just fine, and I totally played some, uh, Crypto-Logic.

These Tiger handhelds are kind of fascinating to me. They aren’t fun at all, unlike, say, Game and Watches, and, unlike Game and Watches, most of these came out post-Game Boy, so they had something good to compare to. Saying that this Virtua Fighter even remotely approximates the “real” game is pretty generous. And yet plenty of us had these things. Were we all just suckers?

I tried to shoot video of this thing in action, to demonstrate the amusingly similar character designs, but my videos kept displaying sideways. Here’s someone else’s footage:

tags / tiger / virtua fighter / jc