Shameless Plug- and Play!

[@Larry]

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.

[@bogartwilley]

I literally read that in Larry's voice with the "Heh heh" at the end in my head lol

[@BinaryHedgehog1]

Things are a bit more complicated as of late. AtGames got control of the GCC’s Ms. Pac-Man rights and that’s at the center of lawsuit between them and Namco that could determine the future of the game. It turns out that they had been trying to get full control of Ms. Pac-Man around the same time AtGames got control, it’s truly fascinating.

[@FoneyBone1]

And here I thought Namco was just being stingy with such a popular game.

[@pidgeo5]

But, hello you!

[@mark030a]

Oh hey Larry! What are you doing in a place like this?

[@KiwiTheRetroGal]

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

[@badfractal]

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

[@geniuskhan1337]

Those are my childhood

[@no-man_baugh]

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

[@GhalidiusTrident]

Honestly that when that game was first made, it ran on old radar equipment. That was in the fifties. Man how long has time come since video games were just a concept. I'm talking about the prototype from the fifties, not the pong we all know.

[@Astolfo2001]

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

[@superoxas64]

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

[@amberthesuperfox]

The freaking maze was Amazing i loved it

[@wintermute3658]

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.

[@FrameRater]

That's... interesting? And it worked like that in the arcades you mean? How would it know who's playing?

[@BinaryHedgehog1]

It’s a hidden value that changed at regular intervals throughout the game. The higher the number, the more numerous and aggressive the enemies. You can see this value in Namco Museum DS via the guide for that game. It seems to take into account the number of enemies you kill (air and ground) life time, possibly the number of starting lives (the game seems to ramp faster starting with three lives instead of five for some reason) and probably some other hidden factors I don’t know or can’t think of. This value resets to the base every new game, so it doesn’t know who is playing, just that a new game has started.

[@wintermute3658]

@@FrameRater Its tracked by your score and frequency of enemy fighters destroyed. In fact, if you check out the Namco Museum game on the DS, you can actually see the skill level it puts you at. The difficulty of the enemies adjusts accordingly. Try it out, don't shoot any ships and just dodge things, then shoot everything and see how the enemies change.

[@FrameRater]

Yeesh, I've played this game for years and still had more to learn about it. Crazy how that is.

[@wintermute3658]

@@FrameRater Right? This was my favorite arcade game as a kid, reminded me of Star Fox, so I would just dig up info about it for fun.

[@invghost]

A slight delay *Google stadia's heavy breathing*

[@Bensor999]

nah stadia is just straight trash

[@XbninjaXIV]

@P.G. Ferret Streaming video games will never catch on because you will ALWAYS HAVE INPUT LAG

[@whyeven3722]

@P.G. Ferret see that would be all fine and good if the stadia WASN'T shit but here we are in 2020 and input lag is worse than NES on a brand new TV

[@TheSefirosu200x]

@@XbninjaXIV Idk, I had PS Now for a few months and never experienced even the slightest input lag on any game I ever played. And I played a bunch. Like, maybe around 30?

[@Themamba214]

It'd be cool and all if they actually had some exclusives instead of rundown games everyones already played. Its the same problem the wii u had.

[@gamedude1101]

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

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

It brought me back to the JonTron video

[@2011supergamer]

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

[@ChaseMC215]

You can't talk about Ms Pac-Man without mentioning the fact that Bandai Namco was originally supposed to buy her from the original owners, not AtGames. You're probably wondering "but wait a minute, isn't Bandai Namco working with AtGames?". Yeah, they are, but unknown to AtGames, Bandai Namco was still salty about that company buying something that they wanted to buy first. That's why in the remaster for Pac-Man World they just didn't even bother with Ms Pac-Man and instead replaced her with Pac-Mom.

[@backup368]

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

[@Knightmare-ko6fg]

I still have that ms Pac-Man one, I remember playing it all the time

[@ahrichards5241]

No.

[@SxSxG666]

Namco doesn't hold the right to Ms. PacMan alone.

[@billyb7119]

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.

[@rabiroden]

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.

[@link560633]

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

[@BugsyFoga]

Plug n Plays : The Mini consoles of my generation.

[@matthewrease2376]

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

[@TKFTGuillotine]

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.

[@FlyingDuckMan360]

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.

[@LexicaLovesick]

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.

[@stevemclovin1566]

Hold hands with sonic. Chris chan: HEAVY BREATHING.

[@greenhowie]

When an OC isn't believed in enough, they become a plug-n-play.

[@Nestalgba92023]

Or: Darth Vader breathing?

[@tomapple64]

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

[@MrLynxMelee]

:(

[@brandong.1857]

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.

[@theonlybilge]

5:03 *USB-C

[@zrrion6the6insect6]

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

[@RadsZerich]

In theory that could be pretty easy as you would pretty much just have to make a arcade box and slap a crt tv in it move the controls around or replace them with higher options and put them in the cabinet as well and just leave the plug in play relatively intact with the AV cables connecting directly to the crt, a better option though would be to just get a Raspberry Pi and load it with roms and get some arcade controls for it instead of the limited PnP

[@zrrion6the6insect6]

@@RadsZerich I really just want to play mappy so it wouldn't bother me for it to have such limits

[@juliannoordennen1585]

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.

[@ChaseMC215]

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

[@coltonk.3086]

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

[@marccaselle8108]

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

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

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.

[@danieluranga6872]

I have a Ms. Pac-Man one with the same exact problem! Looks like each Plug n Play model came with it's own special faulty wiring, lol.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@danieluranga6872 That's a shame. I already had to Krazy glue back on the joystick to the base after twisting it a lot to break it out of whatever it was held into. I will say the Ms. Pac-Man plug 'n play was a vast improvement over the previous model. Later plug 'n plays like the Pac-Man 20th anniversary thing I bought at a Dollar General looked very good for what you did get.

[@JessicaFEREM]

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

[@bobdeclor528]

14:24 "thats not a penis" "....oh." "its a fist!"

[@RangoAnimations]

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

[@bland9876]

those games are actually good

[@beanmchocolate3900]

FrameRater: There's no such thing as an ugly sound. Shark: URURURUGURUR! FrameRater: I stand corrected...

[@crazydudedoesrandomstuff9095]

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

[@group2gaming]

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

[@Isaacfess]

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

[@moetthepoet]

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.

[@YoManRuLz1]

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.

[@gilliusthunderhead2185]

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

[@TheGauges420]

I did, I ate a whole entire plate of Baked Mac&Chz, and it was delicious.

[@teh_supar_hackr]

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.

[@T3KNUG3T5]

Poor lad

[@ThatOldSchoolMagic]

teh_supar_hackr 0010101 I wouldn’t exactly say a plug and play. Its more like a Cheap clone console.

[@JarodMoonchild1975]

@OP : Even though you're not wrong, that was kinda mean. But we all gotta stop believing in Santa Claus sometime, I guess.

[@jcruz5050]

From the looks of that PACKING TAPE wrapped a million times around your wires, yea I wouldn't DIY anymore consoles if i were u! Lmao Good vid tho

[@patchouli3422]

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.

[@adultmoshifan87]

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!

[@renefigueroa6309]

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.

[@justocelott]

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

[@FrazzaJazz]

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.

[@T3KNUG3T5]

Emulation of the A2600 on a NES is "technically" possible. Theres a few reasons why. A big reason is because the MOS 6507 (the CPU in the A2600) is basically a MOS 6502 (the core of the RP2A03) with a lower memory limitation (8KB) and features removed. So it is possible to CPU emulate the 2600 on a NES. The PPU portion of the TIA could be pushed as Raw bytes by a Emulator to the NES PPU and emulating TIA sound on the NES can rely on the 2 Pulse Channels at 50% Duty cycle and/or the noise channel. I wonder if anyone *has* made a A2600 emulator for a NES. Its theoretically possible on a CPU level. But the others could either be byte pushed or probably have specialized code written to help emulate the TIA PPU on the NES PPU using the RP2A03. And the TIA Sound on the RP2A03 core by pushing the sound to be simulated by the DPCM channel or simulate it by the Pulse Channels/Noise channel.

[@ConsoleWarriors]

I've messed around with a few plug and plays over the years. The only one I remember owning myself was a Scooby Doo one I got as a Christmas gift. A relatively cheap combination of two of my passions from a relative. It's alright, though I never really understood the plot that was intertwined with the games since it was told through silent stills. Particular favorites were the Mystery Machine game and the log jumping game. There was also one game where you could have Scooby jump into Shaggy's arms on command which was cute.

[@keithfulkerson]

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.

[@hunnybon]

I believe the best you could get with emulating these is "MESS", you can emulate very obscure consoles such as the "Mega Duck"

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I think I got a few plug and plays as gifts from relatives when I was a kid, don't think I ever used them much. I was like "I have an N64, PS2, GBA, and PC, why would I need this thing?"

[@xemlyrics]

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.

[@dreux_]

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

[@pegasusactua2985]

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.

[@JohnSmith-bb2np]

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.

[@chaggydawg]

Soldering iron, new composite cables, and some capacitor replacements might fix up those issues for you

[@Mace2.0]

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).

[@gallifreyanknight1355]

I had those too. The Fantastic 4 one was always my favourite

[@Astolfo2001]

Fun Fact: The guys who distributed the Intellivision plug and play mentioned in the video in the UK (Character options) also make Doctor Who toys.

[@zekester2097]

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)

[@retrogamelord3763]

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

[@KonElKent]

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

[@a2pha]

Original Atari 2600 Asteroids had the asteroids flicker. Your "Plug And Play" did not show this. Also some of the newest "Plug And Play" feature Save and Load states. These are absolutely desirable for any hardcore gamer. To turn off the slight lag seen on modern video screens, bring up your configuration and disable "motion enhancement." Be sure to turn it back on when you're done or your movies will suffer.

[@aomregcik]

I grew up with that last Namco one

[@twicethemegapower3995]

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.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

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

[@WeavilePro196]

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

[@alexv3375]

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!

[@MadmanEpic]

Namco goin' hard on them plug n' plays.

[@jayx2983]

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.

[@MultiDakman]

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

[@yadabub]

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.

[@AwesomeAceZ]

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.

[@Chaos89P]

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.

[@nathanwalker7983]

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

[@DustyTheDog]

I had a Dragon Ball Z one that was shaped like Shenron. That was my all time favorite plug n play, with Sponge bob coming in next. I also had the sponge bob, ms. pacman, and regular pacman. For 20 or 25$ my mom couldn't get a better "video game" for me. I grew up incredibly poor, and these were a chrismas gift I looked forward to. I have a lot of good memories with these.

[@oeidayo]

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.

[@PJ-sv4iw]

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

[@rolingthunder8612]

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.

[@RoninCatholic]

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.

[@Aquaticdragon]

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?

[@PSPMan]

I'll have an order of Tennis for Two please

[@Larry]

hold the pong

[@Chaos89P]

That is a real Odyssey of taste.

[@immortallix]

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

[@elijahvincent985]

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!

[@phuckieu7806]

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.

[@MikeRetroModz]

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

[@werewolf74]

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.

[@ArcNeoMasato]

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.

[@ethanpaul1865]

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

[@matthewrease2376]

The latency isn't about being a composite signal, it's the fact that modern displays do image processing.

[@ZeeBeeZB]

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

[@JoeyJ0J0]

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

[@JustinKruger336]

If only they would make a Mortal Kombat plug and play with all the classics before the ps2 and able to plug into a plug not a damn batteries pack. The arcade 1 up machine is ok but it's not gona last its cheaply made and will end up as a collectors item. Much better to play fighting games on your own large tv and sit in a lazy boy recliner than a tiny screen arcade that I gotta lean over to play.

[@Cabbitania]

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.

[@amberthesuperfox]

I had the sponge bob and disney one i miss them

[@AE-jo2fy]

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

[@almipopp5152]

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

[@geniuskhan1337]

AtGames having a bad rep for sound quality? Hell, that's why I refuse to play the Genesis Flashback, or at least mute it

[@Masterchief0521]

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

[@Lugbzurg]

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.

[@kaitlint3987]

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