Tiger Game.com

Released by Tiger Electronics, a company notorious for it's calculator-tier beeping plastic “games”. Unsurprisingly, it's September 12th, 1997 release in the USA was marred with complaints and negative reception, due to it's paltry specifications. Even though it sold for cheap, the Game.com used an 8-bit Sharp SM8521 CPU, paired with a 200×160 monochrome screen and some unknown amount of RAM. For some reason, Tiger had a touchscreen specifically included in this device, which did it absolutely zero favors due to the poor quality of capacitive screens at this time. Even it's inclusion of internet connectivity wasn't enough to give the Game.com any significant sales figures, probably because the net capabilities were fumbled and clunky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game.com

Operating Systems (Sharp SM8521)

Stock OS/PDA functions

a phone directory, a calculator, and a calendar

Very self explanatory simple PDA abilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tIBIny4L6E

Internet

Internet Cart + modem

supported text-only web browsing

More simplistic functions, those being e-mailing and text web browsing up to 9600 baud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sn5Gk4-iDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjRNpVivm1s

Version & Revision Guide

For general information, see the Game Console Revisions Overview.

Versions

There are two versions of this console, arranged chronologically.

Tiger Game.com (1997-1999)

LOWEST PRICE

The original version of the Tiger console. Easily identified by it's stylus holder being located below the screen, it's dual cartridge slots, and internet capabilities. Requires 4 AA batteries. While it's screen is larger and higher resolution than the original Game Boy, the Game.com was about 10 years too late for this to be in any way relevant. Came with a variety of quasi-useful PDA features.

Tiger Game.com Pocket Pro (1999-2000)

A cost-reduced and shrunken-size version of the Game.com released in June 1999, not long before the system's ultimate demise. Easily identified by the stylus not being held below the screen, the sometimes “vivid” case coloring options, and the lack of a 2nd cartridge slot. Major improvements over the original Game.com include a smaller form factor, a requirement of only 2 AA batteries, and a screen frontlight (as the original had no screen light). However, the screen is smaller compared to the original, internet capabilities have been removed, and as stated earlier, there is only one cartridge slot instead of two.

There are no revisions. RECOMMENDED OVERALL and BEST RELIABILITY couldn't be assigned.