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I was recently digging into some old gaming trivia and just found out "Resident Evil 2" had a tech demo developed for the Game Boy Advance. We all know the GBA was pretty limited hardware-wise, but the demo is... something. I know is kinda old news but I only saw now 

In a alternative reality, could the GBA have a full-fledged Resident Evil 2 port?



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I find it funny GBA only gets a tech demo but the full game came to Game.com

For those unaware. Game.com (pronounced Game Com not dot com) was a late 90s handheld from Tiger Electronics, the same Tiger that made those shitty cheap LCD games and R Zone. It tried to be both a gaming handheld and a PDA with a touch screen. Making it the first touchscreen handheld gaming device. With internet access in 1997. However, it sucked. The screen was worse than the Game Boy. The sound was bad. The touch screen barely registered. The marketing outright insulted anyone wanting to know basic information like price.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

Leynos said:

I find it funny GBA only gets a tech demo but the full game came to Game.com

For those unaware. Game.com (pronounced Game Com not dot com) was a late 90s handheld from Tiger Electronics, the same Tiger that made those shitty cheap LCD games and R Zone. It tried to be both a gaming handheld and a PDA with a touch screen. Making it the first touchscreen handheld gaming device. With internet access in 1997. However, it sucked. The screen was worse than the Game Boy. The sound was bad. The touch screen barely registered. The marketing outright insulted anyone wanting to know basic information like price.

why this looks better than GBA version? lol This is the first time I heard about this handheld



EricFabian said:
Leynos said:

I find it funny GBA only gets a tech demo but the full game came to Game.com

For those unaware. Game.com (pronounced Game Com not dot com) was a late 90s handheld from Tiger Electronics, the same Tiger that made those shitty cheap LCD games and R Zone. It tried to be both a gaming handheld and a PDA with a touch screen. Making it the first touchscreen handheld gaming device. With internet access in 1997. However, it sucked. The screen was worse than the Game Boy. The sound was bad. The touch screen barely registered. The marketing outright insulted anyone wanting to know basic information like price.

why this looks better than GBA version? lol This is the first time I heard about this handheld

That video is emulated. You could barely see anything on the actual device and had bad ghosting. My friend had one and I played a couple of games on it when I could come over. Here is the commercial for the launch.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

EricFabian said:
Leynos said:

I find it funny GBA only gets a tech demo but the full game came to Game.com

For those unaware. Game.com (pronounced Game Com not dot com) was a late 90s handheld from Tiger Electronics, the same Tiger that made those shitty cheap LCD games and R Zone. It tried to be both a gaming handheld and a PDA with a touch screen. Making it the first touchscreen handheld gaming device. With internet access in 1997. However, it sucked. The screen was worse than the Game Boy. The sound was bad. The touch screen barely registered. The marketing outright insulted anyone wanting to know basic information like price.

why this looks better than GBA version? lol This is the first time I heard about this handheld

It doesn't. I used poorly animated 2D sprite. The GBA demo was 3D models over 2D rendered background the like PS1 game. Leynos already mention the atrocious screen. I didn't think anything could be as bad as the original Gameboy. I was wrong SO wrong. I could of snagged a Game.com when it went on clearance back in the day but didn't. It was nothing worth playing on that thing.



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Darc Requiem said:
EricFabian said:

why this looks better than GBA version? lol This is the first time I heard about this handheld

It doesn't. I used poorly animated 2D sprite. The GBA demo was 3D models over 2D rendered background the like PS1 game. Leynos already mention the atrocious screen. I didn't think anything could be as bad as the original Gameboy. I was wrong SO wrong. I could of snagged a Game.com when it went on clearance back in the day but didn't. It was nothing worth playing on that thing.

It doesn't look that bad on emulation



EricFabian said:
Darc Requiem said:

It doesn't. I used poorly animated 2D sprite. The GBA demo was 3D models over 2D rendered background the like PS1 game. Leynos already mention the atrocious screen. I didn't think anything could be as bad as the original Gameboy. I was wrong SO wrong. I could of snagged a Game.com when it went on clearance back in the day but didn't. It was nothing worth playing on that thing.

It doesn't look that bad on emulation

2D ages better than 3D. When PS1/Saturn/N64 released we all thought the 3D titles looked so cool. They were cutting edge. Now those old 16 Bit games still look good. Early 3D titles....not so much. 



Leynos said:

I find it funny GBA only gets a tech demo but the full game came to Game.com

For those unaware. Game.com (pronounced Game Com not dot com) was a late 90s handheld from Tiger Electronics, the same Tiger that made those shitty cheap LCD games and R Zone. It tried to be both a gaming handheld and a PDA with a touch screen. Making it the first touchscreen handheld gaming device. With internet access in 1997. However, it sucked. The screen was worse than the Game Boy. The sound was bad. The touch screen barely registered. The marketing outright insulted anyone wanting to know basic information like price.

Since it sold less than 300K units it bombed harder than the Virtual Boy that's quite a feat.



Chris Hu said:
Leynos said:

I find it funny GBA only gets a tech demo but the full game came to Game.com

For those unaware. Game.com (pronounced Game Com not dot com) was a late 90s handheld from Tiger Electronics, the same Tiger that made those shitty cheap LCD games and R Zone. It tried to be both a gaming handheld and a PDA with a touch screen. Making it the first touchscreen handheld gaming device. With internet access in 1997. However, it sucked. The screen was worse than the Game Boy. The sound was bad. The touch screen barely registered. The marketing outright insulted anyone wanting to know basic information like price.

Since it sold less than 300K units it bombed harder than the Virtual Boy that's quite a feat.

It could be worse. It could have been a Gizmondo made by a former flooring company. Tiger Telematics. (not the same company as Tiger Electronics) 25k sold

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Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

Darc Requiem said:
EricFabian said:

It doesn't look that bad on emulation

2D ages better than 3D. When PS1/Saturn/N64 released we all thought the 3D titles looked so cool. They were cutting edge. Now those old 16 Bit games still look good. Early 3D titles....not so much. 

well, I always thought the early 3D graphics were ugly, even back then