In 1998, Tiger Electronics released 99X Games, a series of handhelds fitted with a dot-matrix screen, allowing a wide variety of backgrounds and different gameplay for a single game. Each featured the contemporary statistics for players in a specific sport, the ability to record new sports statistics, a built-in electronic game for the sport, and typical electronic organizer features such as an address book and calculator. In 1995, Tiger introduced Super Data Blasters, a line of sports-themed handhelds. These combined a digital watch with a scaled-down version of a Tiger handheld game. Later, Tiger introduced what they called "wrist games". In addition to putting out some of its own games, Tiger was able to secure licenses from many of the day's top selling companies to sell their own versions of games such as Street Fighter II, Sonic 3D Blast, and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. Static images then light up individually in front of the background that represent characters and objects, similar to numbers on a digital clock. Each unit contains a fixed image printed onto the handheld that can be seen through the screen. Tiger is most well known for their low-end handheld gaming systems with LCD screens. Tiger also released an electronic version of The Weakest Link with voice recordings by Anne Robinson. They released an electronic tabletop version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire with voice recordings by host Chris Tarrant. Tiger also produces the long lasting iDog Interactive Music Companion, the ZoomBox - a portable 3-in-1 home entertainment projector that will play DVDs, CDs and connects to most gaming systems, the VideoNow personal video player, the VCamNow digital camcorder, and the ChatNow line of kid-oriented two-way radios. In 2000, Tiger was licensed to provide a variety of electronics with the Yahoo! brand name, including digital cameras, webcams, and a "Hits Downloader" that made music from the Internet accessible through Tiger's assorted "HitClips" players. Tiger Electronics has been part of the Hasbro toy company since 1998. Tiger agreed to manufacture and market electronic toys for Hasbro and Sega. In 1995, Tiger acquired the Texas Instruments toy division. In 1997 it produced a quaint fishing game called Fishing Championship, in the shape of a reduced fishing rod. Tiger produced a version of Lights Out around 1995. The line was a major success in Japan, where there were even reality shows based around gamers competing to find the best barcodes to defeat other players. These were barcode games which read any barcode and used it to generate stats for the player character. In the fall of 1994, Tiger introduced a specialized line of their handheld LCD games, called Tiger Barcodzz.
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