Remember the 1998 Tiger Pokedex toy?

It was almost a good toy! As a kid I was torn between Absolutely Over The Moon with how cool this thing was and deeply disappointed at all of its flaws.

I oscillated like mad every time I played with the thing, which was every day because it lived in my bag with my pokeballs and all my various knockoff pokemon toys. (I'd hide them in the grass and then try to catch them with a Bungie corded spring loaded knock off PokeBall.)

I keep thinking about it. I don't know what to think about it. I played with one the other day, for the first time in nearly two decades.

The screen was too small and too low resolution, and it didn't do enough. It did almost enough, but not actually enough. (The digimon d-terminal would later fulfill the lost promise of the tiger pokedex, being better in every way except that it was digimon.)