The Screen: The screen on the system is kind of difficult to see, but if your sitting under a bright enough light, and you mess with the contrast enough, you can see well enough to play. The Game.com Pocket Pro included a Backlit Screen, but it was useless unless you played in complete darkness. That being said, the screen is not the best thing on the handheld.
The Control Layout: A D-Pad on the left, and four buttons, labeled A, B, C, and D on the right. It's a pretty good layout, but the D Button doesn't seem to do anything on any of the games. There's also a pause button, a menu button, and (obviously) an on/off button on the right. It can also use a touch interface with the included stylus pen. Despite this being easily done and mainstream in this day and age, it was pretty neat at the time. Here are pictures of each version of the handheld:
Original
Pocket Pro
The Games: Unfortunately, the games have a lot of lag, but the system still has some good games, such as Sonic Jam, Mortal Kombat, and Resident Evil 2. Most people might not be able to deal with the lag though. Because of this, all of it's games got bad reviews.
The Marketing: Tiger absolutely FAILS at marketing. I think the following commercial will show you that though. Insulting your potential customers is NOT the way to sell units.
The Final Result: I really like this handheld. I really do, but a lot of people don't, which is a shame. People really should have given this device more credit.
Score: 7.5/10
Both are long gone. As a young kid I didn't appreciate the value of anything and sold all my stuff to buy new stuff. I kick myself to this day about it.
