The BEST Plug and Play | SpongeBob 5-in-1 Joystick

[@daerth4423]

Nothing makes you feel old like seeing your kid's old toys featured on things like this.

[@diamondly6250]

@Marcothemanmarco i got it around 7, im 21 now

[@PSPMan]

Man when I was a kid I literally played this thing till it broke. I remember I was able to clear SpongeBob's bubble pop, Patrick and the maze and the super chum bucket multiple times, but the other two mini games were just way too hard and tedious for me to finish. Super Chum Bucket was easily my favorite

[@aries200297457]

mine had the nose broke in half 😂 i still played it though even though i'd occasionally stab my hand on accident

[@PapaEATSYOMama]

Dude this just opened a memory in my head that hasn’t been opened in over 20 years👏👏

[@MrPoke]

I feel like everyone forgets about the 2.0 version of this plug in play. It has different games, except it still has the breakout clone. It had a snowball fight game (like worms) and a Jellyfish evading game. Updated graphics too.

[@CosmicSponge2004]

Is there any video footage of that one!?

[@MrPoke]

@@CosmicSponge2004 Yes on youtube its called "Plug n Play Games: Spongebob Squarepants Jellyfish Dodge". A direct link would probably get locked

[@billforson3143]

I had 2 of them as a kid, just as you described

[@AGZhark]

THAT’S IT. That’s the one I had, and still have. I never knew about this one here, though, so I assumed the video would talk about what you are explaining.

[@ScalsAnimWorkshop]

The game is called Spongebob Jellyfish Dodge, I have it!

[@Dr.ruby7LT]

I did get a 100% complete of Patrick in the Maze, back in my kid age. Did it once many years ago, still have the memory though.

[@polocatfan]

It's a crime that this isn't emulated in MAME yet EDIT: Also Fry Cook Games is actually really good. So much content in that Plug and Play. It even saves your high scores and has MULTIPLAYER.

[@LordScout]

I had both of these as a kid!!

[@BlakeGameYT]

I had this exact one but i somehow broke the "nose" stick and it was just a small nub with razor sharp edges. 7 year old me didn't care, i got through the maze with literal blood, sweat, and tears. Sweet victory!

[@BagzAndPresident]

You didn’t have blood, sweat, or tears

[@mr.business2922]

@@BagzAndPresident is this Bagz or Ross talking

[@RIGIDGAMER]

Woke up one Christmas morning and this is what my mom got me. One of the best Christmas gifts I could have gotten at that time. I can remember plugging it in and playing all day

[@exi8464]

It is my life goal to eventually be able to say "Yeah, FrameRater" at the start of one of these videos

[@FrameRater]

You can submit one in the Discord. 😁

[@inarieon8531]

@@FrameRateri need to make one that’s like the old Frederator cartoon bumper. FRAMerUr RATERrrr

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

does each video have a different intro voice line by a fan ?

[@Big_Chungus935]

@@FrameRater I thought it's all your voice lmao

[@SpongeyBubby]

Didn’t even know a second version existed with music, that’s pretty cool actually. And for that Patrick Maze game, you can complete a character’s challenge three times until they disappear. I managed to finish all of them & beat the game some years back.

[@AGZhark]

The second version has the first game listed, but with different power ups, graphics, and simply looks better

[@KiyloNendroid]

Seeing this plug n play was one hell of a nostalgic blast, i remember playing that tons, but lost it, ever since then ive been hunting for it, but always ended up finding the later 2009 plug n play, which has an almost identical controller

[@san.png-]

had this when i was younger. prob still around the house somewhere lol. never threw it away.

[@mangleman25]

I played the hell out of the Super Chum Bucket when I was a kid, this entire plug n play was an essential part of my childhood

[@idoghacker8008]

A lot of people seem to like the Batman one too. It's neat how many systems used SPG2xx hardware. Also, fun fact: The hardware for these things is so similar to the V. Smile that you can chuck their ROMs into a V. Smile emulator and they'll boot. Controls don't work, but the audio and video are fully functional.

[@jettesides420]

I'll be damned. Holy shit, lol Thats news to me.

[@wraithcadmus]

Most plug and plays I saw around this era were sludgy awful famiclones. This seems... perfectly decent for a kid? The art looks well done and colourful, and it looks like they all play okay, limited as they may be.

[@HidekiNishi7]

This was quite the nostalgia trip. Definitely had a lot of fun playing the Patrick Maze game. I believe out of all of the games, I've only finished The Super Chum Bucket. Overall, pretty cool to see a review of this Plug n' Play.

[@MenisXTO]

I’m about to tear apart my room & basement looking for this & the Avatar one

[@BinaryHedgehog1]

This is the first plug and play I owned and this unlocked so many core memories of mine.

[@BagzAndPresident]

Core memories? Trend nerd

[@BinaryHedgehog1]

@@BagzAndPresident Ah, I remember my edgelord phase. Good thing I grew out of it, and I know you will too. Besides, "formative memories" doesn't roll off the tongue as well.

[@NintenFan85-ul8wf]

My first was Pac Man Plug n play...

[@JeremyFinch42]

"We are not responsible if God himself decides to smite your Spongebob Plug&Play joystick."

[@ApenBaard]

'Uhm yes customer service?....Yes, my spongebob plug and play caught fire and exploded unexpectedly....what?....oh so youre saying god didnt want me to play on it so thats why it caught fire.....I see, nothing you can do about that, thank you very much, have a nice day'

[@ZeroStar-yt]

11:43 Holy shit, I'm featured!

[@king98popculturecorner]

The memories! I had this as a kid but this is my first time seeing any footage from it in years. The nostalgia is real right now.

[@stellar2237]

I had gotten the Jellyfish Dodge Plug N Play when I was a kid and I still have it to this day. Snowball Showdown was one of my favorites from the selection of games.

[@stanleymontys1189]

i remember having this as a kid! it’s such a charming little bundle and it’s so nice to see it again, and with such an earnest and sweet review of it all to boot! man now i miss all my childhood spongebob toys lol

[@supersmashmaster43]

I had this as a kid and really enjoyed it. The maze game was the one I always came back to, I don’t remember if I ever beat it. It’s funny cause the way I got this was I was out grocery shopping with my mom and she ran into one of her coworkers, and she had just bought it from toysrus. I think they were supposed to be for donation but she ended up giving it to us along with a spiderman one which was also awesome. Still have them laying around somewhere, probably don’t work anymore sadly. A few years later we got a Nick summer camp tv game which was pretty okay also. These were nice little games to mess around with as a kid in the 2000s

[@Charlie-hv3dh]

This is so cool! Cool video, for sure subbed and liked and cant wait for more!

[@onldhes]

You blew my mind by showing me that there are more then one stages in Sandy's Surf Adventure. Up until this point, I assumed it was an endless game. Even more sad, that was my favorite game on the plug and play and was my introduction to shmups.

[@KatOwO2235]

I had one, and one that looked like Darth Vader as a controller

[@MrDan11422]

I remember these plug and play wrre sold everywhere.

[@inkable4319]

I got my own from my babysitter from when I was a kid. I loved it so much that I played it to D E A T H

[@EdmondBrown]

"Patrick And The Maze" was my favorite one.

[@nicks4802]

Why, god, why?!? Why have you voided my warranty?!?

[@VZYBOI]

Just randomly saw a used one for $10 on marketplace, came to KZbin to see if it was what I thought it was and I actually remember havibg one of these around the house when I was a kid the funny thing is I don’t think I ever plugged it in and played it I just remember holding the console in my hands at some point… I think for $10 bucks I’ll pick it up for nostalgia sake

[@justjoshingwithyou6987]

I got this for Christmas one year as a kid it took so long finish everything

[@n1f1sniper]

I used to play this thing so much, but child me never got far in any of the games. It was great to see it again so many years later.

[@CoffeeFlavoredMilk]

I didn't know about the bootleg version of this thing lol. Kinda wonder if that one even has footage of what's on it. Update: Its called the Super 15 in 1. There is a channel that has gameplay footage of all the things on it, as well an article on the bootleg games wiki.

[@megablueman]

This plug n play was my childhood

[@TheRulerOfOats]

Used to love this plug-n-play as a kid, particularly the patrick maze and chum bucket games. I remember I had a thing of calling the robot enemies of the latter 'munching mike'. No clue why.

[@28godzilla]

I remember one of my friends back in 3rd grade had the menu theme variant of this game. We would take turns and play the games together. Good days

[@R.P.Pyotrsovich]

Hey, Spongebob! You're an Atari controller!

[@heyitsroddy]

I didn’t even know the next level for Sandy’s game was Goo Lagoon lol

[@ChaseMC215]

The warrenty itself has some sense of humor. Someone definantly had fun making them. Also, with the Super Chum Bucket game.... What will Plankton achieve for squirrle-napping Sandy? Why the piss cake would Sandy know anything about Plankton wanting the Krabby Patty formula? Shouldn't Plankton kidnap Mr Krabs instead since he is a rival and former best friend to Plankton?? That would make more sense than "Well, I'll squirrle-nap Sandy Cheeks and bribe Spongebob into giving me the secret formula." Plankton isn't that smart, even his computer wife Karen knows that. Shocking that she didn't break up from that mental case, and no, Karen 2.0 technically doesn't count.

[@MinaSmol]

11:30 Oh, it looks so beautiful! 😍

[@CosmicSponge2004]

The sprites in "Sandy's Surf Adventure" remind me alot of her song in "Atalantis SquarePantis" with the small pixel style

[@larryinc64]

0:25 That is just flat out wrong lmao, maybe you were just in an area that somehow did not get much of it, but Spongebob right out of the gate had so much merchandise with entire toy lines dropping in 2000 from Mattel not even a year after the show premiered. From 2001 to 2003 Spongebob had around 8 other video games released too, before this plug-n-play. I remember seeing just about everything you could as a kid with that yellow face on it.

[@FrameRater]

I swear in some interview Stephen said he didn't want merchandise for the show because of how it could contribute to the sea floor's plastic problem. Couldn't find the quote so I didn't mention it. Either way, where I live (Canada, if that helps) there wasn't much until the movie. Believe me I was looking, it wasn't until that first Burger King line of toys (2002?) when I finally got one. Then it was back to nothing again. And yeah SpongeBob had many games at that point, I even covered SuperSponge years ago. I guess video games are technically considered "merch" but I was thinking more in the realm of traditional knick knacks and toys.

[@griffinwelding7987]

When I was little my sister and I had Plug and Play consoles from Christmas. I had a Spiderman one and I think my sister had the Spongebob one. It brought back really great memories seeing the Spongebob Plug and Play on KZbin. After we got those plug and game consoles we gotten the Gamecube and later the Wii. Those plug in games were fun.

[@Gloryzuki]

Now, where have _I_ seen that device before? *rewatches old FrameRater plug-n-play video*

[@Mrs.Nesmith98]

My cousin had this one, I remember playing it all the time as a kid, along with the SpongeBob CD ROM game. Though, I never owned this one, the Scooby Doo Plug N Play is probably the best one in my opinion. SO much nostalgia😂 thanks for giving back the good memories!❤

[@Odelayderado]

Got it for Christmas 2004 wish their was a way to emulate it me and my sister got so far in the chumbucket game I remember tossing the console across the room when I lost

[@MattBuza]

I remember playing this game at a friend's house when I was only six and it was just yesterday I found that SpongeBob tv game at a resale shop along with some other classic throwbacks. Nostalgia at it's best

[@Prettiboyrudy]

I want to play this so badddd I used to beat the Patrick maze one on sight

[@Bobherry]

When I was a kid I sent hours upon hours on this...

[@Jacob-2000]

god the nostalgia. i dont even remember if i still have this. might’ve gotten rid of it years ago but i remember playing this on long car rides for vacation.

[@FirstUsername]

had this as a kid. so sick.

[@terrancestumbrice4640]

I used to play this game in my childhood. Great nostalgia video

[@thegamingprozone1941]

Man what a throwback

[@horstvazinksi3408]

I loved this thing so much

[@GummitMan]

In some alternate timeline all Atari 2600 remotes are the SpongeBob one…

[@nicks4802]

How cool one must feel, to be able to say “yeah, you can go and get smeckledorf’d, because i have a SpongeBob plug & play”

[@bfarm44]

Just spent a whopping 5 bucks on one used in a video shop

[@CrashFan03]

i think i still have this somewhere but i haven't seen it in years

[@windchimes8764]

Loved this as a kid, thanks for sharing

[@coleslaw8493]

i loooved this thing as a kid!

[@JohnSkellington]

I owned the Spongebob and Ms. Pac-Man plug and play games back in the day, and I loved the hell out of both of them.

[@CristySFM1234]

I used to have one when I was a kid, 2004ish with those big TV monitors still used VHSs and stayed up every night to watch Enterprise

[@schmingbeefin4473]

Oh my gosh, that old Spongebob TV brought back so many memories! I played some Spongebob plug and play snowball game vs my mother on that thing.

[@SolarFarle]

Super Chum Bucket is amazing.

[@DrewTNaylor]

I had this system when you could buy it new. Had a lot of fun with the games, particularly Patrick and the Maze (but I never finished it either, nor did I finish any of the others).

[@kidstar1981]

I loved this plug and play sm, we had it in our house for years until it just stopped working lol, it was one of the few games my folks actually bought for me, and seeing this again was such a nostalgic hit AGH so good

[@DannyBenS94]

Nice video, I've been curious about this one. A good cheap (in price) Pac-Man Plug & Play system is Pac-Man Connect & Play. It was released in 2012 I think and comes with 12 games. Most of them are ones that have been re-released many times, but it's one of the very few ways to play Pac-Man Plus. Outside of emulation, it's probably the cheapest way to play it too.

[@shesarockstudios]

I was gifted 2 of these as a kid. I also had that one you mentioned during sandys game that reused the music.

[@CCClarinet12]

SAME

[@trevorholzer7456]

I play this SpongeBob game with my sister it was 2004 the first tv game I was 9 she was 13 sadly the game is broken end in 2006 never works so we start play Nintendo games 2008-Presents

[@mastermoye3915]

MY CHILDHOOD!!!!

[@KanpaiGuren]

I haven't seen these games in like 15 years. Thank you.

[@elijahvincent985]

I remember having this! To explain the striped color banding in Patrick's maze, it has to do with how the NTSC signal is being drawn from the hardware. Your recorder picked up what is known as a visual artifact resulting from a 70-year-old video standard.

[@TheKodiah]

Man, I actually had one of these as a kid!

[@Repeatingpower7]

Man this bright back some memories, I had the jellyfish dodge one back when I was a kid. I just recently pulled it out of storage and found high scores on the bubble pop game from over 15 years ago. You gotta make sure you don’t leave the batteries in these or else they will corrode bad over time.

[@TylerWilliamsGB]

It plugs right into the TV, already has the game inside it, and is also a toy of Spongbob’s face. It’s like what? It’s like 18 toys in 1

[@Deadly7K]

I remember playing this on my gigantic big gray box TV. I don’t think I ever beat Patrick’s Maze.. I was always so close! I think I almost broke the nose because I used to play this game so often on the TV but I think we sold it in a rummage :(

[@CCClarinet12]

My family had a big gray box TV when I was a kid too and I would always play either this SpongeBob game or my vSmile on it

[@MilesTails101]

I didn’t get my first wii until 2009, but this here was my very first introduction into video games. This and the fry cook games

[@cicerothenekoknightplaysall]

I've been collecting plug and plays for years a lot of cool and unique games just stuck on the hardware

[@Danominator]

Seeing as we just celebrated Thanksgiving, I'm thankful that this design exists. It's so cursed that I can't help but love it.

[@KatOwO2235]

I had both the SpongeBob plug and play and the SpongeBob CRT TV with matching remote

[@CaleAdams]

Got that for Christmas that year was lots of fun

[@zlarb]

i remember when i was little i got all the way to level 32 on the chum bucket mode and then my younger brother for whatever reason decided to throw the plug-and-play causing the game to freeze. i never actually got to see the ending until today!!!

[@hectoralejandrotorrespopoc9232]

Rainbow bands come from chromatic aberratiom from the conversión of the video signal to composite.

[@FrameRater]

It's only visible in that one game, from my experience at least. Why would that be?

[@hectoralejandrotorrespopoc9232]

@@FrameRater Maybe from the compression process of the background image oraybe the colors, i don't if it uses real backgrounds or pre-rendered ones.

[@BBladem83]

Great vid! Played through these before Cosmic Shake released this year. Fun times!

[@diamondly6250]

omg i had this as a kid

[@TheIceCreamWizard]

Someone: Owen doesn’t win Total Drama Me: 2:57

[@WickedBowserJr]

Great coverage, though it’s fun for all ages and not just kids. Thank you for making this his great review!

[@WilliamHungVEVO]

God I miss this console so much, core memory unlocked

[@verenasonar1698]

My brother and I actually had that years ago when we were kids, We used to play with it all the time along with another plug in console we had It was loads of fun

[@austinhinton3944]

We used to have this exact game along with the Pineapple House version. Had them well up until the 2010s gathering dust in the entertainment stand. The cords had long since broke where the cord meets the casing.

[@ZiggityZeke]

I loved mine. I oughta find it...

[@levelup-zay]

One of my favorite childhood SpongeBob plug n play is SpongeBob Squarepants Bikini Bottom 500 racing game

[@michaellevin2861]

I know the second Plug and Play works on Mame along with two other Spongebob Plug and Plays (Fry Cook Games, Bikini Bottom 500, and a side one that had a remade bubblepop), but this original one as of yet still has not been dumped. Shame, as this one was my childhood more than the ones that came after, that I only knew existed in adulthood.

[@maiyjekns]

This is crazzyy I had this as a kid growing up you just brought back memories man 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@shadesplayed2992]

I had one of those SpongeBob tv’s and my grandma kept the SpongeBob plug and play at her house 🖐️. She also had a plug and play that was designed after spongebobs pineapple.

[@sherriebrown8318]

I loved this thing! Still miss it.

[@Reyn_the_Insane]

I used to speedrun Patrick and the Maze. I played it so many times I memorized the maze layout.