The sonic joystick looks like one of those sonic ice creams where they stuck the eyes on wrong.

That Lilo and Stitch game is also a total knock off of Bugaboo the Flea/Roland in the Caves. Oh, and Ms. Pac Man rarely appears in compilations as Namco only own 50% of the rights to it. General Computers own the other half, so both parties have to agree for it to be on a product.

_"no sega don't turn me into a controller"_ *A A A A A A A A A A*

To me at least: “Tennis for Two” sounds less like a fancy dish at a restaurant and more like a password to meet with some super secret spy agency that uses the fancy restaurant as a front

The moment i saw that Spongebob one, immediate flashbacks of grandma's house after school with my cousin, with the two of us getting extremely frustrated with how butt-spankingly hard that game turned out to be

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When you showed the spongebob one, it brought back memories I didn’t know I had!!

"Where is Ms. Pac-Man?" Probably in a Midway collection somewhere.

12:42 2008 was around the time where the Ms Pacman ownership legal issue started to come up that still persists to this day. There's a reason Namco didn't really port Ms. Pacman to anything after Namco Museum Virtual Arcade

So a fun fact about Xevious. The reason why the game was so difficult for you was because the game was actually programmed to adjust to the skill of the player. So if you play really well, the game will adjust to become more challenging. If you play poorly, the game will be much easier. It was made like this to give people who mastered the game a challenge, thereby making it more fun. It's like rubberbanding in Mario Kart, but with shoot-em-ups.

I lost the Ms Pac-man tv game in a breakup over a decade ago, but recently found it in a thrift store for $4. Yoink. There were some old batteries in there, but only relatively minor leakage. Cleaned it up, and it works like new.

I do really like the idea of twisty sticks to simulate paddles/steering wheels. I wish the idea would be implemented in a modern USB stick for MAME or something. I imagine the HDTV boom took a toll on the market for these. The video quality was pretty bad even on a CRT, they probably look abysmal on an HD set. And HDMI wasn't/isn't cheap to implement in comparison to composite.

5:06 - That actually happened to my Namco 80's Plug N' Play game fairly recently when I tested it and my Sega Plug N' Play games. Fortunately, I had a newer and better Pac-Man Plug N' Play game that had all of its games and more, so I wasn't fazed.

Plug n Plays : The Mini consoles of my generation.

I’d like to order a tennis for two... for one 😔

I had that Spongebob joystick as a kid and I would love it to hook it up on the television again. Sadly, I think it has been thrown away by my parents.

Another fun fact: Jakks Pacific was founded by the same guy who founded LJN. Yes, THAT LJN.

The Namco arcade plug and play is what introduced me to Bosconian, it's great to see someone else who actually cares about that game. So much nostalgia.

I actually started collecting these kind of plug and plays just for the ascetics/nostalgia. I find them at thrift stores and flea markets. I find them useful to play them whenever i go out of town. The plug n play is just so convenient when on the road. My collection so far is -Dark vader -Ms. pac-man -wall-e -cheetah girls -Pan-man -WWE

A few points: - "Charanging Stage" is actually arcade accurate, strangely enough. - Yar's Revenge is probably the easiest way to tell those ports aren't emulation, the graphical effects on the forcefield and missile, not to mention the lack of invincibility in the forcefield are telltale signs. - The Namco machine likely also uses ground-up ports, since New Rally-X's music is different. That bagpipe section is only found in the Plug & Play port.

This brings back memories my grandma had the namco plug and play at her house and I would spend hours playing it and the bejeweled plug and play she had

it would be really cool to see someone remove the internals for one of these and build them into a proper cabinet of some sort. That way you wouldn't have the issue of cheap joysticks or cable damage

I remember the Spongebob plug and play! Oh the memories i had

I have the Ms. Pac-Man plug 'n play device myself, though instead of having a video issue like you have with your Pac-Man one, it's got a sound issue that cuts out and moving the wire close to the base sometimes brings it back.

Hold hands with sonic. Chris chan: HEAVY BREATHING.

12:14 this was my first plug and play and i got some of the other ones after it.

The tennis for two bit was hilarious as soon as the Odyssey came out.

I had that Ms Pacman plug and play a long time ago and it was in great condition. You gave me a huge jolt of nostalgia.

the batman plug n play was actually really good, if my memory serves me correctly. It'd be a blast to go back and revisit the game when I had the time

On Bosconian, you can dremel away the plastic guard under the joystick to get back the diagonal movement. I did it and it works great.

i just remember having 3 plug n plays when i was little: a crayola coloring book-like game, a dora the explorer one that i remember loving, and that ms pacman one you mentioned. is it really rare? bc i'm pretty sure i still have it, buried in the garage somewhere for sure.

The corrosion from old batteries is not limited to the battery compartment, I recently opened an old plug and play and the circuit board had corroded and components were damaged, beyond repair.

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I had that Intellevision plug & play you showed with Shark Shark. That and a Street Fighter 2 plug & play made to look like a mini Sega Genesis are the only plug and play consoles my family had.

I used to have a small number of plug-n-plays back in their heyday. Closest I have now are four of those HDMI Mini consoles you mentioned and a few compilation discs.

Oh, happy Thanksgiving Frame. Hope you got a lot of macaroni.

One Plug and Play console I remember having as a kid was this Spiderman action platformer, but it didn't have a normal controller instead it had these wrist and ankle straps that you wore and it used very rudementry motion controls

All I have is that Atari controller one. I think it's kinda funny, the entire 2600 can fit into the controller + 10 games.

That was my first piece of tech I dismantled too! I still have mine, one of the buttons got stuck but I got it sorted. It will always hold a special place in my heart. Plus I was obsessed with ms pac man because my grandparents had a straight up arcade system in their basement. And it was the only 'console' we had besides a PC. I think this was about '95?

As a kid I got 2 Jakks Pacifics plug and play consoels that I believe were from the same series or family as the spongebob with the nose-stick one. The 2 I got were a Batman one and a Star Wars: Revenge of The Sith one. The Star Wars one I remember it being pretty okay-ish with several minigames based on the movie, but the Batman one I recall it being legit really good, being a decent action platformer with some vehicle levels and even some levels where you would proceed through a location by searching for items and clues a la detective adventure game. Heck, the game even was structured like a Classic Mega Man game where you chose from the batcomputer what villain you wanna take on next. I might be blinded by nostalgia but I remember having a blast with it.

I remember having that Namco Plug & Play... Along with that Spider-Man one, Fantastic 4, and The Batman (the game based off the mid-2000s Batman cartoon).

There is also a Mortal Kombat plug and play thingy by Jakks Pacific

Fortunately, if you get the Namco Museum disc with Pole Position, you can play it with a NeGcon, which is the only alternative I had to the plug-n-play. (The one I owned stopped powering on entirely)

9:40 OMG THE NOSTALGIA! I LOVED this game as a kid!

They weren't all terrible, or rather I'm sure my memory of Radica's Genesis 6-in-1 is a bit skewed. Though I distinctly remember sound emulation was quite poor.

I had a handheld Monopoly game when I was 12 but it broke. I was lucky enough to come across another at a local charity shop when I was 25, it had corroded batteries inside but upon replacing them I found that the unit works fine!

You can fix a broken cable by replacing it with panel mount RCA jacks. It's a simple project if you have the tools for it.

Fun fact: In Galaga for the Retro Arcade Pac-Man plug and play, the score will display the 7th digit on the player 1 side if you reach 1 million points meaning instead of showing up as 917687, it will show up as 1917687.

I remember having the Namco one with Ms. Pac Man, the Spongebob one, the Disney one and a Scooby Doo one. My cousin had a Fantastic Four one, a Dragon Ball Z one and a Football one.

I had a friend who had an AtGames Sega Genesis console and thought it was the real console until I told him that that console of his is a crappy plug and play.

The Sonic Plug n Play has a lot of good memories for me. Back in 2007 or 2008, my dad gave me the Sonic-shaped console for Christmas, it was literally the best Christmas of my life bc it was my first console ever. But unfortunately it broke down and my dad took it to be fixed by a friend of his and I never saw it again. I'm looking for one to buy it, but I have no success.

14:08 if this is emulation they must have changed the ROM a bit for pole position. A Jakk’s Pacific sign is not in the original.

I had the Atari 2600 plug and play, it was good for the time , I also got a Mortal Kombat Plug and play which was an okay port of the arcade game. My older sister had the spongebob one and I liked some of the games

I have the Out Run 2019 plug-n-play and I like it quite a bit. Still have the box too!

I had a Commodore 64 Plug n Play Joystick from Mammoth Toys when I was a teenager. It was fun. It had Gateway to Apshai, snippets of California Games, and even the entire Winter Games Experience. My favorite games to play on it were Eliminator and Tower Toppler *sighs* I miss that C64 Joystick Too bad it did not come with Giana Sisters though

4:16 Looks like someone is punching straight through Sonic's head

I only ever had 2 of these plug and plays, and I still have them. One is the wireless version of the Ms Pacman one, and the other is actually a Commodore64 in a joystick. Like...... it literally is Commodore64 hardware modernized that autoboots a game list. I freaking ADORE that one to this day.

The Ms. Pacman one had a few iterations, I have one with a gray top and has two additional games, Rally - x and bosconion

I know I've still gotta have the Ms. Pac-Man one with the twisty joystick around here somewhere. But before that, I recall playing with the Atari 2600 one with Adventure and Yar's Revenge at someone's house. I had to change those batteries multiple times, but I got to play around with several fluffy kitties. I remember playing with some "Game & Watch" style McDonalds game about skateboarding during that visit. I also remember as a kid reeeeeally wanting a "The Batman" plug & play I saw at Goodwill that had gauntlets you'd wear that would allow Batman to punch when you punched.

I grew up with that last Namco one

I had tons of these as a kid, and I have issues with the wires going back. But my favorite one was the spiderman one (the all black one)

I have two versions of the Ms-Pacman plug&play that are very similar in appearance. One of them saves high scores, the other doesn't.

I have that blue Ms Pac Man plug & play, and it still works great. I've never encountered any visual glitches in any of the games.

One I especially like and still have myself is the Commodore 64 Direct-To-TV. Solidly-made, good selection of games (including some hidden ones if you wiggle the joystick side-to-side for a few seconds on the "LOADING READY RUN" screen) with quality emulation, and it's what got me into C64 gaming. So definitely worth a look!

I still have a few boxes of these. Few years back I would find any and all plug n plays from thrift stores.

I'll have an order of Tennis for Two please

3:37 omfg dude We had that plug and play when we were kids and I've always been looking for that fish game, Ty so much, this game was so good we used to play it all the time on that console xD

That outro was so good i hadto rewind and watch it again

Spongebob Squarepants Bikini Bottom 500 was my favorite plug n play.

I used to have a pac man plug and play in the past with Pole Position and I never knew how to play that game until in the later years, you have to twist the joystick

Anyone had the radica Sega genesis one? Pretty legit controller on it and mini genesis model 2 as the box. Loved that thing.

I used to have the Ms Pac Man plug & Play. It was fantastic. Played far more like the arcade AI than most home ports. Then it just stopped working. I tried buy 3 replacements, none worked. Now I've also got a Pandora's Box 4S+ so I've got all those arcade games and they play great. Much better. I've got the Sega AT Games Mini everyone seems to hate, I don't see the problem with it. 40 Sega games that all play spot on. Sure the sound is minority off on a few which most casual gamers won't notice, and it's not HDMI, but neither was an actual Sega.

I also remember you being invulnerable in that field in Yar's revenge, at least the the homing drone thing. I think it was the difficulty dip switch that did that.

The Pac-Man plug and play pictured at 12:58 has the save game feature as well if I remember correctly.

I use to love plug and play, i had 3 different spongebob ones when i was younger and they were the greatest things ever

This is super obscure, but there was a version of the Ms. Pac-Man one that had a cartridge slot. One of the cartridges contains Bosconian, and you can play it using the 6-way stick. That's the only way to play it using a 6-way if I'm not mistaken.

I had both the Namco ones and Disney one. The RCA cords started to wear internally and you'd get this off staticy interference

I had a blast playing a batman plug and play in a vacation in the Caribbean but never found the game when back home. I still wonder if the game is online.

I have the Pac-Man Plug-n-Play that includes the Pole Position. Mine is in proper working condition and runs flawlessly (and remains tough-as-nails)! I've had it since I was 11 years old... I still have and play it at 24!

I would actually have to count, but I'd say I have about 30 different plug and play games in my collection. Maybe 5 of them were purchased new, the others were from second hand stores, Goodwill etc. I've been lucky, so far only one has had an issue. Of all things, it had a bad wire for video out. I did manage to fix it though. Out of all of them, very few are really worth more than a couple of dollars. The one's you've mentioned are some of the best, and there are a couple other decent one's as well. Thanks for the video, it was a good "waste" of 19 minutes.

4:15 MY CHILDHOOD!!!!!!!

I had the sponge bob and disney one i miss them

I've been obsessed with the Arcade version of Ms Pacman my entire life, so in 2004 or 2005 when I saw the Jakks Pacific Ms Pacman plug n play at Walmart, I bought it immediately. Unfortunately it had a 6-way joystick, probably for Xevious or one of the other games. Ms Pacman needs a 4-way gate if you're going to play it seriously. The 6-way makes fast cornering and reversing for faking out the ghosts a nightmare as any push diagonally will make a fast reverse or corner misregister, totally screwing up your run.

regarding the retro arcade featuring pac-man, Namco pubblished their own version, Pac-man connect and play, as a tie in to Pac-man and the ghostly adventures. this version adds Pac-man 255, which is esentially the original pac-man except you start on level 255, meaning the next level will be the infamous kill screen. this tactic was previously used in famiclone based plug and plays, but namco's use of it is more out of user convenience rather than downright lasyness.

The Atari Flashback 2, which I got Christmas 2005 is an excellent plug and play, with 40 pre-loaded games. It uses actual Stella hardware instead of emulation via the NES on a chip, so it plays correctly. I've never busted mine open, but the leads are inside so you can solder in a cartridge slot

12:58 I hear that sounds for supermarket!!

I owned those Atari joystick, Namco, and Disney plug and plays and still have those first two.

I found a used namco ms pacman plug n play mentioned in this video I’ve managed to get it working but it doesnt have any sound any idea what might be causing that?

My nephew loved the spongebob plug and play and the mortal kombat one..

Theser were like the 2000s kids versions of the Tiger Handhelds but actually spicy

Rally X was my first arcade love. My dad would drag me away from the machine for getting "too excited" 🙄. Unsure what year it would have been but I was born in 74 so must have been very early 80s. I have this handheld plug and play amongst others. The activation 2600 one you mentioned I didn't like the hit detection on it, seems to be a bit off. Good video (watching whilst down with covid)

I owned that rare Ms. Pac-man. Lost it to battery acid a couple years back

Amazing clip at 5:06 and whats funny it was taken from JonTron's video about plug n plays

Also I want to try one of those TV plug and play machines on my Retrotink 2x and see how it plays :)

I had both Namco plug n plays and the Disney one with Stitch and Aladdin

I have a Mrs pac man one but I tried to use it and it only worked when the wires were in a very specific finicky spot and I can't put it back together so same problem

Hopefully by now you've learned to replace the cord with a audio/video RCA cable. Just use a meter to check continuity between solder pads and the colored plug then start stripping and soldering the new cord on on the PCB. If you did it right you're back in the game, if not then swap the wires, you just got the audio and video wires in the wrong place. If you don't have a bunch of those cables in a drawer or closet, then the thrift store down the street has boxes of them for .99 cents each.

Lmao my mom got addicted to the fruit drop game on the disney plug and play back in the day

That sonic playpal is really cool because they are bigger games than the arcade ports.

5:06 Nice touch! That's actualy from the Jontron plug and play episode!