User:WarioBarker/Official Hasbro Game Manual Links
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Hasbro has a sizable number of game manuals from its extensive back catalog (including subsidiaries like Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, and Tiger) on its website, and can be searched through here.
This page will focus on the PDFs of video games, LCD games, the OMNI, the R-Zone, and the Game.com - the Hasbro output that has the most relevance to TCRF (and/or Misc Data Digs) and could potentially have prerelease stuff within.
Contents
Third-Party Stuff
Games developed and/or published by Hasbro and its subsidiaries for other companies' systems.
- Amidar (bottom part of last page missing; this scan has a complete last page, but all the images are sideways)
Atari Computers (currently not sure whether it's just the 8-bit line or if the ST is involved)
- Astro Chase (400/800/1200XL; all pages except first and last are sideways)
- Frogger
- Gyruss
- James Bond 007
- Popeye
- Q*bert (@!#?@!)
- Abadox (all pages are sideways, with the first two images upside-down on top of that)
- Abadox hint sheet (dated 4/1/91{!})
- Digger T. Rock: The Legend of the Lost City
- Jordan vs. Bird: One-on-One
- Marble Madness
- Time Lord
First-Party Stuff
Games developed and/or published by Hasbro and its subsidiaries for their own benefit.
OMNI
R-Zone
It's like Tiger said "Hey, let's copy the Virtual Boy but make it even more stupid.", though at least they released a tabletop model so you didn't have to have red and black stuff right in front of your retinas.
- Batman Forever
- Batman & Robin
- Battle Arena Toshinden
- Daytona USA
- Indy 500
- Mortal Kombat 3
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- Primal Rage
- Virtua Cop
- Virtua Fighter
Game.com
...On the other hand, the only real issue with Tiger's next system was the severe blurring whenever games were in motion. Eesh.
- Centipede
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Fighters Megamix
- Frogger
- Henry
- Jeopardy!
- Lights Out
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- Monopoly
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy
- Resident Evil 2
- Scrabble
- Sonic Jam
- Tiger Casino
LCD Games
Those beepy-boopy things Tiger put out between the late 1980s and early 2000s, predominantly (though not always!) with a license attached to it. Handhelds, wrist games (not a watch nor a Game & Watch), and other forms.
Uncertain
- 101 Dalmatians (1992?; back cover missing, document link lists 1992; not the same as the '96 model below)
- Alien Blaster (1990, 1993, or 1998; copyright info is a bit blocky)
- All Pro Basketball
- Baseball Super Stars
- Batman Returns (Wrist Game; 1992? {LCD handheld game released that year})
- Family Feud (1999?; I know this was plugged on some episodes taped that year, but it could just as well be a re-release)
- MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This (1990?; nothing quite says "90s!" like a Tiger LCD game based on a music video, though at least they didn't try for Hammerman {...I hope})
- MVP Baseball
- NBA Jam (1993?; bits of back page torn off)
- Paperboy 2 (1991?; bottom part of last page torn or cut off)
- The Price Is Right (1998?; front and back covers missing)
- Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (1990?; last page or so missing)
- Tecmo Bowl (1990?; last page or so missing)
1989
- After Burner (the unit actually looks a bit complex, an extreme rarity for these things)
- Batman (based on Tim Burton's film)
- Marble Madness
1990
1991
1992
- Aladdin
- Batman Returns
- Land of the Lost (has a red-on-white color scheme that is not nice on the eyes)
- Road Runner (bottom corner of last page torn off, but copyright date is intact)
1993
1994
- The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Barcodzz {presumably pronounced "barcodes", given the gimmick of this line's units})
- Coach Kermit (My First Tiger)
- Transformers: Generation 2 (Japanese!)
1995
1996
- 101 Dalmatians (based on Disney's live-action film)
1997
- Anastasia
- Name That Tune: Country & Western Hits (Sandy Fraaaaank, Sandy Fraaaaank, here we go again~)
- Rugrats
1998
- Asteroid Blaster (High Performance Games)
- Attack from Mars (High Performance Games)
- Babe and Friends
- A Bug's Life
- Crash Bandicoot (99x Games)
- Doug
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Giga Fighters)
- Monopoly
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy (Giga Fighters)
- Sports Feel Baseball (wherein the physical bat is used for swinging the in-game bat)
1999
2000
- The Powerpuff Girls (Fun Time Games)
- Sonic Underground (Fun Time Games)
2001
2002
Other Fun Stuff
Things that don't fit into the scope of TCRF or MDD, but notable anyway. Could still have version differences (regional/revisional) or prerelease/development material.
Video Game-based Games and Toys
Games and toys based on video games.
- Super Mario Bros. (1988 board game)
- Super Mario Bros. (1989; an odd ladder-descending game)
VCR Games
The predecessor to DVD games, and contemporary to FMV games.
VCR games tended to be done on a low budget, and in some (though not all) cases it shows. Still, they sometimes manage to be so-bad-it's-good thanks to cheesy acting.
- America's Funniest Home Videos Game, Book 1 and Book 2 (notable for having the show's then-current announcer {and longtime ABC staff announcer} Ernie Anderson involved)
- Candy Land
- Chutes and Ladders
- Clue
- Clue II: Murder in Disguise
- Rich Little's Charades Game (guy who's well-known for celebrity impressions does a game with no talking involved; yes, really)