![]() ![]() However, it also isn’t nearly as convenient to lug around with you considering you’d need to take, at minimum, the collection of cards that came in-box that you need to operate the game. It may have less graphic capability (don’t laugh), but has a more expansive, role-playing game (RPG) aspect that give it some charm. The best way I can describe the Barcode Battler is that it’s comparable to those Tiger handheld gaming units that every kid had at least one of. I don’t even speak Spanish, and know that no matter how convincing these kids act in this infomercial, there’s not enough to the product to make them forget about Some sources I’ve seen online have said this device was intended to compete with portable gaming consoles like the Nintendo Gameboy and the Sega Game Gear, which may have been, but it seems like ludicrous, revisionist history to me. Nick) would think of putting a Battler under my Christmas tree, I snatched it up without an ounce of remorse. Knowing very well that not a soul (not even St. It wasn’t quite the bargain of seven dollars that I once witnessed it selling for only a year after they initially came out in North America (the bargain bin sure took the shine off that apple!), but it was much cheaper than other versions I’d seen in recent years. While Christmas shopping this past November, I stumbled across a Barcode Battler at a reasonable price on eBay. Diablo (not the video game)? (sigh) The struggle was real. Anybody remember Devil Sticks? Probably not. We never did have the fortune of getting one, but found other ways with which to try to be trendy among our friends. We wanted to be on the cutting edge, and the Barcode Battler seemed like it could do the trick. Sure, we had a few personal computers in the house I have fond memories of, but this was years before they were deemed to be cool. Around the time it debuted in North America, my household was seriously lagging behind in the video game department. Nobody I know besides my twin brother can seem to remember it. The Barcode Battler seems like one of those things I crafted in a dream. A game could be anything really, be it video, board, card, dice, or… whatever this 90s relic classifies as. I didn’t realize it when I thought it up, but I actually left the title somewhat open-ended. Before now, I’ve been using my Music Meets Gaming series to cover music-related video games. ![]()
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