Tiger - Computer Baseball

Game:  Computer Baseball
Company:  Tiger
Model:  7-480
Year: 1979
Power:  4 AA batteries

Notes:  Although Tiger is much more widely known for their handheld LCD games, this LED edition was their earliest entry into the electronic baseball game market.  Along with the typical features of these types of games, Tiger's baseball game also adds the exciting ability for the batter "to step out of the box" and "take warm-up swings!"

This one was $29.99 at Cooks or about $96.43 in today's dollars.

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Instructions

These guys on the flap of the box are apparently more interested in playing Computer Baseball from their picnic table high above the right field stands than watching the actual game below.

Tiger - Major League Home Run Blast

Game:  Major League Home Run Blast
Company:  Tiger
Model No.:  08-007
Year:  1999
Power:  3 C batteries

Notes:  Issued on the heels of the great home run race of 1998, this game features articulated figures of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Cal Ripken, Jr., Nomar Garciaparra, Frank Thomas and Chipper Jones in a home run hitting contest.  This is a unique game in that it is truly a miniature home run derby.

The game I have is sealed so I am reluctant to open it.  Accordingly, I am not terribly sure how the game works other than what is pictured on the box.  I assume that a ball that hits either of the large orange grids or the scoreboard triggers a sensor to count it as a home run on the score board.

The figures that accompany the game are not necessarily the best likenesses of the respective players.  Frank Thomas is easily the best represented.  The Cal Ripken figure honestly looks like it was supposed to be Jeff Bagwell.  Chipper Jones looks uncharacteristically tentative.  Sammy Sosa is wearing a dorky bulbous helmet.  The Nomar Garciaparra impostor looks stone cold serious.  And Mark McGwire looks kind of like Genghis Khan.

Why no Ken Griffey, Jr. you may ask?  Looks like this game was geared towards right-handed sluggers only.  Sorry Junior.

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Player figure detail from box

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Tiger - Head to Head Talking Baseball

Game:  Head to Head Talking Baseball
Company: Tiger
Model:  7-761
Year: 1988
Power: 4 AA batteries

Notes:  Not to be confused with Coleco's Head to Head game series.

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Instructions

Tiger - Electronic Baseball

Game:  Electronic Baseball
Company: Tiger
Model No.:  7-741
Year:  1988
Power:  2 AA batteries

Notes:  Tiger's first baseball game since the LED Computer Baseball game released in 1979, this LCD handheld was small enough to fit in a large pocket.  Presumably, the success of this game, spawned the LCD game empire that Tiger built in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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