Relive Your LCD Dreams with RetroFab
When you think of portable gaming, you probably think of Nintendo. On top of that, depending on when you started gaming, it is either a variation of the Game Boy or DS line. What if I told you, Nintendo was in portable gaming LONG before they released their immensely popular Game Boy in 1988? Some of these lesser known Nintendo hand held units were released alongside the Nintendo Game Boy as well.
Reliving the LCD Days of Gaming
Before portable gaming joined the “bit race” there were LCD games that made use of fixed graphics against, often, a static color background. You couldn’t deviate from what was programmed in so your reaction to onscreen situations was limited.
It was just how things had to be to get the price down to something affordable. You are not going to see 150+ frames per second gaming here. If there is such a thing as binary gaming, these are it.
The Games Run the Gamut of Hmm to Really Good
All these games are super simple. Limited movement, even more limited interaction, and stiff difficulty are all on the table here.
Donkey Kong by Coleco is, for me, almost unplayable it is so difficult to dial in but Mario the Juggler and Snoopy, both by Nintendo, are entertaining ways to kill a few minutes. Think of these as the TikTok of gaming – you can get in with literally no information than a quick glance at the screen, a few clicks here and there to figure out controls, and off you go. When done, just walk away, either satisfied or frustrated. Just like TikTok.
Nintendo holds the most real estate in the RetroFab collection, seemingly their complete library is represented here. I am sure there is some unknown title somewhere that will pop up as soon as I say this is a complete Game & Wach collection.
Head over to RetroFab on itch.io to play the wide selection of LCD games. Just don’t expect to find Simon’s Quest, it is not available at this time. There are currently only three Tiger Electronics LCD games available.
This article was originally posted in Hive Gaming