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Tiger Electronics

Tiger Electronics is not to be confused with the appliance maker Tiger Corporation
Tiger Corporation

Tiger Corporation is a Japan multinational corporation manufacturing and marketing of vacuum flasks and consumer electronics including electric water boilers and rice cookers....
, the electronics retailer Tiger Direct
Tiger Direct

TigerDirect is a Systemax subsidiary. It is a direct online retailer of computer electronic items. Tiger Direct also operates seven retail stores in the United States and four in Canada....
, or the producer of Gizmondo
Gizmondo

The Gizmondo is a handheld gaming console with General Packet Radio Service and Global Positioning System technology, which was manufactured by Tiger Telematics with industrial design by Rick Dickinson....
, Tiger Telematics
Tiger Telematics

Tiger Telematics is a defunct electronics company best known for the failed Gizmondo handheld game console....
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Tiger Electronics is an American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
toy

Toy

A toy is an object used in Play . Toys are usually associated with children and pets, but it is not unusual for adult humans and some non-Domesticationated animals to play with toys....
manufacturer, best known for its handheld LCD games, the Furby

Furby

Digital pet

A digital pet , is a type of artificial human companion. They are usually kept for companionship or enjoyment. People may keep a digital pet in lieu of a real pet....
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Randy Rissman and Roger Shiffman founded the company in 1978. It started with low-tech items like phonographs, but then began developing handheld electronic game

Handheld electronic game

Handheld electronic games are very small, portable devices for playing interactive electronic games, often miniaturized versions of video games....
s and teaching toys.

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Tiger Electronics is an American

United States

Toy

Furby

Digital pet

Handheld electronic game

Handheld electronic games are very small, portable devices for playing interactive electronic games, often miniaturized versions of video games....
s and teaching toys. It achieved success with many simple handheld electronics games like "Electronic Bowling" and other titles based on licenses, such as "Robocop

RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 in film science fiction film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg, otherwise known as "RoboCop "....
", "Terminator", and "Spider-Man

Spider-Man

Spider-Man is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character First appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 , and was created by scripter-editor Stan Lee and artist-plotter Steve Ditko....
". An early 90's hit was the variable speed portable cassette/microphone combo Talkboy

Talkboy

The Talkboy was a portable variable speed Compact Cassette Cassette deck manufactured by Tiger Electronics in the early 1990s. Much like other Tiger Electronics devices of the era, this device was primarily marketed to children and teens....
(first seen in the 1992 movie Home Alone 2), followed by the Brain Warp. It also licensed the "Lazer Tag

Lazer Tag

Lazer Tag is a brand name for the infrared pursuit game generically known as "laser tag," "lasertag," or "lazertag."The brand name was created by the toy company Worlds of Wonder in 1986, appearing at approximately the same time as the home version of the Photon:_The_Ultimate_Game_on_Planet_Earth brand....
" brand from its inventors, Shoot the Moon Productions, which was born from the remnants of the Worlds of Wonder

Worlds of Wonder (toy company)

Worlds of Wonder or WoW was a 1980s United States toy company, founded by former Atari employees, including Don Kingsborough.Their successful products included:...
company. Tiger also produced a version of Lights Out

Lights Out (game)

Lights Out is an Electronics puzzle game, released by Tiger Toys in 1995. The game consists of a 5 by 5 grid of lights; when the game starts, a set of these lights are switched on....
around 1995. In 1997 it also produced a quaint fishing game called Fishing Championship, in the shape of a reduced fishing rod.

Tiger has made two cartridge based systems. The first and less technically sophisticated was known as the R-Zone

R-Zone

The R-Zone was a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Tiger Electronics, released in 1995. The R-Zone was a largely unsuccessful handheld console and would only be manufactured for a short period of time....
. It employed red LCD cartridges, which were projected via backlight onto a reflective screen that covered one of the player's eyes. All R-Zone games were adapted from existing Tiger handheld LCDs. The second was the game.com

Game.com

The game.com was a handheld game console released by Tiger Electronics in September 1997. It featured many new ideas for handheld consoles and was aimed at an older target audience, sporting Personal Digital Assistant-style features and functions such as a touch screen and Stylus#Modern use....
handheld system, which was meant to compete with Nintendo

Nintendo

is a global company located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
's Game Boy

Game Boy

The is an 8-bit handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on , in North America in August , and in Europe in ....
and boasted such novel features as a touchscreen and limited Internet connectivity. Ultimately, it was a failure, with only 20 games produced.

Tiger Electronics has been part of the Hasbro

Hasbro

Hasbro is an United States toy company. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world, second only to the toy giant Mattel. Hasbro is also the publisher of the world's most popular board game, Monopoly ....
toy company since 1998. Hasbro, previously shy of high-tech toys, was very interested in the development of the cuddly "Furby

Furby

File:Furby.JPGA Furby is an electronic toy, more specifically, a robot, made by Tiger Electronics which went through a period of being a "must-have" toy following its launch in the Christmas/winter holiday season of 1998, with continual sales until 2000....
". With Hasbro's support, Tiger was able to rush through the development process and get the Furby on the shelves for the 1998 holiday season, during which it was a runaway hit -- the "it" toy of the 1998 and 1999 seasons.

Tiger also created the Giga Pets line of handheld electronic "pets" to compete with the popular Japanese Tamagotchi

Tamagotchi

The is a handheld digital pet created in 1996 by Aki Maita and sold by Bandai. Over 70 million Tamagotchis have been sold as of 2008. The Tamagotchi is housed in a small and simple egg-shaped computer....
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The company has since become one of the most prominent producers of electronic toys, chosen to produce toys based on a wide variety of licenses, including Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
, Star Wars

Star Wars

Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
, Barney

Barney & Friends

Barney & Friends is a 1992 Children's television series show produced in the United States aimed at preschool children. The series features the title character Barney, a purple Anthropomorphism Tyrannosaurus who conveys learning through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, optimistic attitude....
, Arthur

Arthur (TV series)

Arthur is a long-running American and Canadian edutainment television series for children's programming, that airs on PBS in the United States; T?l?vision de Radio-Canada, Knowledge and TVOKids in Canada; ABC1 in Australia and BBC One/ CBBC in the UK....
, Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh is a Walt Disney Company Media franchise, based on animated fictional characters who have been featured as part of the List of Disney characters....
, Franklin the Turtle, Neopets

Neopets

Neopets is a digital pet website launched by Adam Powell and Donna Williams on 15 November 1999. Six months after the web site was launched, Adam Powell and Donna Williams successfully sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring....
, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!

Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is a game show featuring trivia in topics such as history, literature, pop culture and science. The show has a decades-long Jeopardy! broadcast history in the United States since its creation by Merv Griffin in the early 1960s....
, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers very large cash prizes for correctly answering 15 consecutive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty....
and many more.

In 2000, Tiger was licensed to provide a variety of electronics with the Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....
brand name, including digital camera

Digital camera

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording digital image via an electronics .Many compact digital still cameras can record sound and moving video as well as still photographs....
s, webcam

Webcam

File:Logitech E2500 webcam.jpgWebcams are video capture connected to computer or computer network, often using Universal Serial Bus or, if they connect to networks, ethernet or Wi-Fi....
s, and a "Hits Downloader" that made music from the Internet (mp3

MP3

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a digital audio Encoder format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard encoding for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players....
s, etc.) accessible through Tiger's assorted "Hit Clips" players. Tiger also produces the VideoNow

VideoNow

The VideoNow is a personal video player distributed by Hasbro through its Tiger Electronics subsidiary. It is designed for children and operates using unusually sized 4" PVD Discs....
personal video player, the VCamNow

VCamNow

The Hasbro/Tiger Electronics VCamNow is a tapeless camcorder camcorder targeted to children. It is designed as a complement to the VideoNow series of personal video players, and comes with editing software allowing users to create VideoNow videos on Microsoft Windows systems....
digital camcorder

Camcorder

A camcorder is a portable consumer electronics device for recording video and Sound recording using a built-in recorder unit. The camcorder contains both a video camera and a video recorder in one unit, hence its compound name....
, and the ChatNow

ChatNow

ChatNow is a mobile phone-like walkie-talkie developed by Hasbro's Tiger Electronics division for the preteen market. It includes simple digital photography and text message functionality and transmits using the Family Radio Service UHF radio band....
line of kid-oriented two-way radio

Two-way radio

A two-way radio is a radio that can both transmit and receive , unlike a broadcasting receiver which only receives content.Two-way radios are available in mobile radio, stationary base station and hand-held portable configurations....
s.

The continuing development of Furby-type technology has led to the release of the "FurReal" line of toys in 2003.

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