plug-and-play TV games were a staple of
the early 2000s and that was for good
reason they were cheap and fun and they
made for great gifts it felt like
everyone I knew had their own little
collection of them back in the day you
just pop some batteries in plug the
cables into your TV power it on and
there you go you really can't get much
simpler than that all of the most
popular plug-in plays focused on making
retro games more accessible for instance
Namco had a whole line of them that you
could play their 80s arcade games on if
you were in the mood to play Pac-Man
Galaga mappi at home these things had
you covered if you wanted to play Atari
2600 game or even in television games
you better believe there was a plug-and
playay for those two the sort of retro
throwback style of plug- and plays is
still popular even today here's one that
was made in 2018 it plays the NES
version of Double Dragon and that's
about it there is a market for an easy
method to play nostalgic video games and
plug-in plays fill that Niche pretty
well but the plug and plays I'm going to
feature today aren't quite so
predictable there's nothing I love more
than weird gadgets from the early 2000s
and plug-and-play games scratch a very
particular itch for me so let's look at
some cursed and Unholy plug-and-play TV
games I'm going to go from least weird
to most weird and I can think of no
better place to start than the Jack
Pacific SpongeBob plug- andplay from
2003 this thing already would have been
so iconic but the nose joystick really
sealed the deal there are five games
let's start from the top for some reason
I really like breakout clones and
SpongeBob's bubble pop is no exception
the physics can be a little weird and
hitting the barrels at the top of the
screen to clear the level can be
deceptively difficult but this game is
just fine s's surf Adventure is a
standard issue arcade style shoot them
up invasion of the hooks you throw
crabby patties at the hooks to save your
friends but the real games are these two
at the bottom Patrick and the Maze is
great you explore the Maze and try to
find your friends while solving small
puzzles collecting power-ups and playing
mini games along the way but the final
game is my absolute favorite it's the
super Chum Bucket it's a 2d platformer
with stiff movement and precise jumps
you just get to the top of each level
while dodging obstacles and it's super
satisfying but because you can't save I
haven't put in the time to getting all
the way to the end someday I'll complete
it the 8bit sound effects and the lack
of music maybe disappointing but when I
was a kid it was just cool to see a
plug-and playay with original games
instead of just another retro
compilation I think they did a pretty
good job with this unit overall I think
it's great and here's another SpongeBob
one from 2007 which is surprisingly late
like this was after Steven hillenberg
left and the show got bad like the
Nintendo Wii was out like it's weird how
late this one is and that makes sense
because this is the most technically
impressive plug-in playay I have ever
seen and probably will ever see this
unit has four games starting with
jellyfish Dodge when you select the game
it asks if you want to overwrite your
save data and then it drops you into a
level select screen this thing has a
singleplayer campaign with linear
progression and a save system it's just
a plug-in play you didn't have to go
that hard you run around smacking a
certain number of jellyfish to get the
exit to open or you complete some sort
of objective like surviving for 60
seconds and the next game guide and
Collide is a puzzle game where you place
blocks to direct jellyfish to SpongeBob
so that he can catch them for lack of
better comparison it's kind of like cho
cho rocket there seems to be a lot of
depth and a lot of moving Parts here if
I liked puzzle games more I'd be all
over this but I don't so I'm not and the
third game is snowball Showdown it's a
turn-based artillery game where you
choose where to aim how much power to
use and you try to hit your opponent
with snowballs this one's more
multiplayer focused and you pass the
controller to your friends back and
forth the final game is my absolute
favorite sponge pop it's a full remake
of SpongeBob's bubble pop from the 2003
unit but with better physics better
sound better animations more powerups
just overall better everything am I
engaging with plug-and-play fan service
right now is this SpongeBob's bubble pop
rehydrated okay so let me put into
perspective why these plug-and plays are
interesting right so at the time in the
early 2000s if you wanted to engage with
video games assuming you already had a
TV you had to buy the console you had to
buy your controller you had to buy a
game you had to buy a memory card video
games were not a cheap hobby by any
stretch of the imagination and that
level of Buy in was a pretty big
investment but the compromise that
plug-and-play TV games offered seemed
pretty tempting for 30 bucks you could
throw some batteries in this thing plug
it in your TV and you get to play a
SpongeBob game now did it offer an
experience that was on par with Battle
for Bikini Bottom maybe not but that was
the nature of the compromise you're
compromising some quality in favor of
accessibility but today video games have
never been more accessible it's not
often that you really need to compromise
anymore especially when things like the
Rog allix exist a big huge thanks to
Asus for sponsoring this video the Rog
Alli X is a handheld Windows gaming PC
and easily the best I've ever gotten my
hands on so you can play the to top tier
SpongeBob game the latest AAA games and
everything in between wherever you go
out of the box it's got 1 tbte of m.2
2280 SSD storage which is already more
than enough for most people to fit all
their favorite games but if you want
more the storage is upgradeable but fast
storage isn't as useful without fast Ram
to get those loading speed Snappy so
it's got 24 GB of lpddr 5x 7500 MHz
memory that's going to let you push more
frames and higher resolutions it's got
an 80w hour battery so you don't need to
be constantly camping out next to a
power but when you do it's got fast
charge so it can go from 0 to 50% in
just 30 minutes with the high refresh
rate screen with controls this good for
a device this ergonomic you're going to
want all the battery life you can get so
check the link on screen or in the
description below and check out the Asus
Rog allyx for yourself I am truly amazed
and flabbergasted that this thing is as
good as it is but I've had enough fun I
want to look at something horrible and
I'm going to show it to you right now
it's the Sleeping Beauty plug andplay I
can't blame her for looking so apathetic
I wouldn't be very enthused either if
all I had to look forward to is being
manhandled by a giant because she is the
joystick a very uncomfortable one I'm
sure you're surprised to hear I also
hate to admit that it took me a very
long time to find the power switch it's
hidden Right In Plain Sight right here
and don't even act like you would have
found it immediately and I'm stupid for
not noticing it there are three games
let's start with voice of the forest you
walk around the forest and you got to
find your animal friends and when you
sing a little icon appears that gives
you a hint to where they are once you
find them they follow you back to your
cottage and that's how you complete the
level and you have you have to find more
animals each time next is fairies in
Flight you fly upward and blast goons
with the correctly colored laser it's
extremely basic and I got bored of it
almost immediately and the final game is
birthday celebration you have to stack
the cakes like the arcade game stacker
but you have to make sure the color
matches the layer below I like it but
once again it's very simple and didn't
hold my attention for long for some
reason these games read like a Game Boy
Advance game to me something about the
presentation feels like it would fit
perfectly on the GBA for a kid's game
it's Charming enough but wow this
joystick is horrible and whoever decided
to add glitter that rubs off on your
hands needs to be fired and next up we
have oh no no but like okay this is his
face right this is the face so this
would be his head right and then what's
what is he a unicorn what and what is
this why why does it look like
that something about this I'm sorry
there are five games and if the music
currently playing didn't give it away
they are all absolutely dumpstered here
first off is streets of the city you web
up goons and beat them up while
collecting bags of cash this game uses
all three buttons a to jump B to web and
punch and the spider button to web swing
the controls are so appalling and
inconsistent in a way that I can't even
put into words all I can say is that
it's frustrating immediately if you have
one of these things you know exactly
what I'm talking about spider training
is the second game you shoot webs at the
bad guys and don't shoot the good guys
it is very one note next is Venom's
Vindication Venom will throw bombs down
and you have to shoot a web to catch the
bombs before they hit the ground it's
really annoying because goons will come
from either side and start punching you
but you don't have time to punch the
goons and web up the bomb at the same
time so you're just going to have to
take a hit one way or the other and they
expect you to web up 30 bombs in a row
next up is escape from the sewers it's
an old school style 3D maze game where
you have to web up bombs before they
explode and subdue the lizard
occasionally for five full minutes I
explored the entire Maze and couldn't
find the last bomb and the game just put
me right back at the beginning like go
on do the whole thing again why are
these games designed to be as tedious as
possible and finally we have vultures
Venture you have a little cursor and you
press a to shoot a web and block the
Rockets it's very fun and very cool and
I love it well that was absolutely
Dreadful but we're about to get a whole
lot more Dreadful I have somehow managed
to go my entire life without seeing
Spider-Man 3 I would probably really
like it but I guarantee you I will not
like this thing or maybe I shouldn't
speak so soon because this title screen
looks pretty cool the first game is stop
new Goblin it's supposed to be an arcade
style shoot him up but way more
confusing because Spider-Man is swinging
vertically up and down but his depth
isn't actually changing like he's still
shoots at the same height plane no
matter where he is trying to move around
is frustrating because you have to build
so much momentum it feels like dragging
a sack of potatoes around like he's
really heavy making dodging anything
next to Impossible and it keeps flashing
control prompts on the screen like do
this left and B right and B but you do
them and then nothing happens I don't
know why it keeps telling me to do that
this game stinks and I never want to
play it again next is symbiote struggle
you run around a Symbiote Spider-Man
beating up Thugs and then you're
instructed to web up to the rooftops
where you find the next set of thugs to
beat up but the problem is when you're
in the rooftop area once you web swing
you're locked into that web swing Arc
with no way to correct yourself or
cancel it or reorient so you just swing
and you have to hope that you land close
enough to where you're supposed to just
to fight the same exact thugs over and
over it's incredibly frustrating and
tedious so the next game Sandman smash
you fight some thugs leading up to a
sandman boss fight the fighting feels
fine it's a little bit stiff but not too
bad the Sandman drops gems and when you
collect a certain number of them you
land a finishing blow that blasts him
through the wall into another area I
initially thought the fighting didn't
have much depth to it but then I learned
that you can do this cool web throw move
on Thugs and when Spider-Man gets his
Spider Sense it means there's an item in
the background that I can pick up and
into somebody I didn't like the last
gamees fighting because I was just
fighting thugs over and over but having
the Sandman as a focal point and then
the bad guys just as like fodder it gave
the whole thing like a sense of
direction like having an immediate
objective that I was supposed to focus
on it's really sick I was very surprised
how much I enjoyed this game and the
final game is construction site fight
where you fight both Venom and Sandman
at the same time the construction site
acts like a labyrinth that you have to
Traverse vertically to find either Venom
or Sandman it keeps things moving you
don't have to keep looking at the same
backdrops over over and over it's just a
really exciting back and forth of
fighting and exploring and the best part
is there are no goons the fights can be
a bit confined to a tiny space sometimes
and also I ended up glitching the game
and getting stuck in a wall and I had to
reset I still think Sandman smash is
slightly more enjoyable but both of
these last two games were super fun well
this thing really turned itself around
didn't it it started off really really
bad and then you ended off being really
good I'm super super impressed see you
later spider you later and hello Cosmo
girl very unique design to this plug and
playay here these little controllers
dock onto the console magnetically you
just pop them off and hand them to your
friends the controllers work like a TV
remote they have an IR blaster in there
if it wasn't obvious based on the design
this is a trivia machine built around
Cosmo Girl magazine Cosmo girl is
essentially the kids version of
Cosmopolitan magazine so it's chalk full
of 2005 pre-teen girl fair I'm not so
much interested in the content of this
thing as much as I am the design of it I
just think it's a fascinating device I
would have loved something like this
when I was a kid since we're on the
topic of plug-and-play games with weird
designs check out this one it's kind of
weird but it gets weirder this little
Port opens up but what's it for well
you've got this virtual pet that docks
right into that little Port it's asking
me if I want to create a new virtual pet
and I say no so it loaded up Dan hi Dan
I love you welcome to gigap pets
Explorer when you start a new game you
get to pick your pet I'm going to pick
this doggy right here and name him
stonel obviously and when you dock the
virtual pet to the console it says press
zap to start TV mode when you press it
it uploads the data and then Dan shows
up on the TV to hang out with you in
2006 this would have blown my mind you
meet up with the mayor and he gives you
a tutorial mission where you have to
find some gems and then he sets you free
into this absolutely massive world and
there's no run button so you have to
Traverse it at walking pace it is very
easy to get lost because like I said the
map is so huge and you would think that
the missions would give you a sense of
Direction but no the mayor will just be
like oh yeah find this person and then
doesn't tell you where the person is so
I'm just like okay I guess I'll just
wander around until I find her
eventually I was playing this on stream
and the mission where you try to find
two different kinds of flowers it's
impossible like it's actually impossible
the game will just Place flowers
randomly across the map you have to get
all of the flowers and then go all the
way back to the barn in 2 minutes it is
impossible I have 20 seconds I I'm just
going to have to hope that I find it
because my God I don't know where it is
oh oh oh my God 3 2 1 oh no I have to go
all the way
back is that a
fail what do you mean I have to go all
the way back where's the last
flower five four three I can't make it
back there's no way okay okay we're
trying it again we're doing it again so
we're going to start up here okay yes
okay and then we're going to go straight
up here I have 30 seconds to find it and
get back so I'm going to just start
heading in that direction cuz there's
only one way back I that's it it's I
already lose if I'm I'm already too far
away like that's it oh my God why does
it
SP tell him
no no well that was pretty neat but up
next we have the T dooodle I love the
sparkly decal it has a surprisingly soft
analog joystick that feels very nice in
the hand but it is very inaccurate and
very frustrating to actually try to draw
with the cursor kind of just slides all
over the place and trying to draw a
circle always leaves one side lopsided
this released in 2004 and it's a
painting program where you can only use
one color at a time no paint bucket tool
either you can draw and you can erase
and that's it you can change tool which
essentially just changes the theme for
instance chainsawing a log or drawing
with rainbows in the sky it's cute but
there's absolutely no reason why they
couldn't have expanded this more Mario
Paint should not be running circles
around this thing when there's a 12year
gap between the two yeah sure you can
say it's for kids but I can think of no
situation where a kid wouldn't prefer a
piece of paper to the T dooodle well
that was dog water but I have another
drawing game here called Win Lose or
Draw the video drawing game system
plug-and playay no cartrid is required
it claims to be America's favorite TV
drawing game look how much fun they're
having say no more I'm convinced let's
get this thing out of the box and play
some Win Lose or Draw shall we it shows
what you're supposed to draw on the
little LCD screen up top but I
immediately ran into an issue this is
missing an essential feature for a
drawing tablet there's no hover to show
me where my pen is when it's not
touching the pad so you just have to
guess where your previous lines were and
continue your drawing from there and if
it doesn't line up that's too bad your
drawing is just ruined it has this
really rough layer over the touchpad
like I guess to try and give it some
texture but it was really getting on my
nerves so I ripped it out of there and
the sensitivity was immediately so much
better when I removed it but then I
realized oh right it's just a touchpad I
can use my fingers on it so I came up
with a crazy idea if I tape down the tip
of the pen so it's always held down put
a piece of paper over the pad and draw
with a pencil on the pad will it just
translate my drawing exactly to the TV
it's a little Jank but yeah actually it
performed shockingly well like look at
the comparison here win- loser draw is a
super cool idea I love this gadget if it
had hover and a slightly better tablet
it would be awesome though that being
said you'd be better off playing this
game around a table with a pen and paper
or even better one of those transparency
projectors that teachers used to use but
if you specifically want to play a video
game with this concept game and Wario
sketch on Wii U is one that I regularly
go back to okay we are officially
scraping the bottom of the barrel with
this one this is the versus max video
Extreme now there's a lot going on here
so you have this joystick that only
Moves In This Square gate like this is a
gated joystick that only goes in this
Square which is insane then you have
this just circular plate like d-pad why
I don't know why they did it like this I
don't know why you would ever design a
directional pad that looks like this and
functions like this you have this little
wheel thing which you know you this
tilts back and forth this is just
another d-pad this just turns left and
right there's no analog it's just
digital I don't understand the point and
then you have these eggtastic buttons
look at these this Rivals the Xbox Duke
look at these you cannot get more egular
than this there's your power switch
there this is just like a lot this is a
lot this is an alien controller so
there's 50 games on here I'm not going
to look through all 50 probably I'm just
going to you know go through a bunch of
them and just get the general scope of
the thing fast runner the most basic
overhead racing game I have ever seen in
my life rally racer is that the Speed
Racer car the absolute bare minimum for
a motorcycle racing game Bullseye an
incredibly rudimentary schmu space warp
the exact same thing but horizontal
instead of vertical Critters you swing a
net at a butterfly and when you catch it
it says you get it on the bottom pipe
you roll a ball around and try not to
fall in the holes and when you do fall
in the holes it resets you back to the
beginning roller board you roll a ball
into the star hole and then you do it
again track ball you very slowly go
along a track and uh get to the end Sky
Patrol it's a reskin of the same schmu
from earlier race and Chase it's a very
slow clone of rally X jungle protector
it's another reskin of the schmu from
earlier North territory another reskin
of the exact same schmap get home it's a
clone of toy pop but you play as a
penguin salaria it's another clone of
the same schop firefighter it's a
breakout clone but you throw the
firefighter at people to rescue them
from a burning building I actually kind
of like this game just because of how
weird it is Speed Racer okay you can't
use that image that's like definitely
copyrighted oh it's just a reskin of the
motorcycle racing game from earlier okay
bounce it's a tennis game where you
press a at the right time and you will
always hit the ball back off-road racer
it's a very very slow clone of bump and
jump in Challenge 100 you play as Kopi
and you try not to get squished by the
top of the screen crazy hit it's uh yeah
it's wacka all dump and go oh it's the
it's the motorbike racing game but with
the truck instead okay elfland you play
as Casper the slug and you touch enemies
that are the same color as you and they
die gears okay that's definitely Speed
Racer you can't use that that's
copyrighted how many times are they
going to reskin the exact same overhead
racing game Rocket Rider oh my God it's
the same 2D racing game again pro tennis
nice artwork oh it's that mobile game
where you try to line it up with the one
above okay I've gone through half of
them I'm not going to look at the rest
this is just action 52 but more boring
because at least action 52 is like funny
this is just lame now if you thought 50
games were a lot check this out the game
station plug-and-play game system with
300 video games how many video games
does one man need how many 300 that
might be too many in 2016 I bought this
thing at a Barnes & Noble for $30 was it
worth it let's find out let's just slide
the whole thing out of here so we have
the main unit right here we have the
second player controller and we have a
tennis racket now the first question
that I have to ask is what is that on
the left oh don't worry that's just the
select button watch how it
recedes they could have made this that
they didn't somehow the d-pad is even
worse than before look how far it sticks
out from the console oh look at the
travel on that and if you look at the
back here USB port now my first thought
was oh I'll stick a flash drive in there
and I don't know run some ROMs or
something but no that's just the second
player controller Port you plug the
second controller in there and then your
your friend can can play too I don't
know why you would want to bring your
friends on to play this but uh you can
now in first glance you might be like oh
yeah yellow white red whatever but what
why is this a USB we have two ways to
power this thing you can power it with
the batteries or you can power it with
the USB it's very nice to have the
option actually very forward thinking I
got to give them some credit for that
one so there actually are three 300
games on here I'm not going to bother
going through all of them I'll just pick
out some ones that look interesting and
highlight them Heroes mice 2 oh I'm
trying to punch the mice
up so I'm punching them back up I don't
know what I'm gaining from this
invincible girl what what could that be
all right here's the problem with this
right I have no idea what's going on so
I'm having a lot of trouble trying to
summarize this Oh I thought my objective
was to break out but now I'm not sure
the thing that always baffles me every
time I look at one of these is that
someone had to sit down and like develop
all these and like make the Sprites and
make the art it had to go through some
form of like quality control like it had
to go through bug testing just for me to
look at it and be like I don't I don't
understand I don't get it mommy can I
play repair urgently please please Mommy
I did all my homework ah I have to
repair urgently oh
dear uh uh uh that one I want to play
Magic Johnny
magic Johnny yes is that Pikachu and a
wrestling mask because nutrition sucked
by all wait what no I wanted to read
that no it's going by too fast
no this is the story of magic
Johnny because nutrition sucked by the
huge monsters so all the plants have
shriving
one this at atmosphere of Peace has been
[Music]
destroyed the green land is becoming to
Wasteland and people's lives were also
threaten by
[Music]
monsters go that way magic
flower till one day a little hero called
Johnny has come up I have come up he
must defeat all these Monsters by his
magic Flower Magic flower use your F
power so magic Johnny's power is that he
can spawn a giant rose that eats his
enemies okay magic Johnny that's I mean
that's a pretty good magic power Crystal
blast yes Crystal blast let's go stage
one hit him hit him yes yes I have
Diamond
blasted I missed that one each one of
these games offers like 5 Seconds of
entertainment value it doesn't have to
be entertaining they already made the
sale like if you got this far you
already paid for it nature Clan mirror
devil
World ah uh what do I do what am I
supposed to
do okay I don't get it at all like I
don't understand even a little bit what
is going on nut crackie I got to see nut
crackie what did that say
seven
save
[Music]
in hello princess I'm coming for okay
that's it well this is terrible pizza
boy oh my God this
music I tried to deliver pizza and then
she
disappeared what's going on wonder ball
why do I get points sometimes and other
times I don't I don't think I'm not
controlling anything it just kind of
happens on its own I'm actually kind of
Blown Away by how unbelievably confusing
these are I'm pretty sure these games
were made by actual aliens because I am
not interpreting any of this let's try
lucky ball wait what this this is a
Nintendo pinball oh my God this is
actually a pirate game this is this is
Nintendo pinball for NES so they just
reskinned air umbrella wait a minute is
this going to be this is balloon fight
this is another pirated Nintendo game
you can't do this this game might be
literally 40 years old but Nintendo will
still sue you for including it in a
compilation illegally penguin oh my God
it's nuts and milk this is another
pirated Nintendo game that they just
reskinned to be penguins why so they put
just a bunch of Homebrew crap near the
beginning of the compilation and then
later on they were just like n we'll
just put all the pirate Nintendo games
near the end no one's going to scroll
that far they're probably right too
that's the funny part so about the
little table tennis racket that it comes
with I tried it out on stream here's a
clip of me trying it out on stream for
those wondering it's just an IR blaster
when you swing it sends a button press
command to the console yeah it's really
simple but it feels really nice they
nailed the sensitivity
how why why does this work better than
the Gog go TV I'm furious so this thing
has mostly original games and then they
started getting a little illegal with it
towards the end now some of these
plug-in plays show nowhere near that
level of restraint because the mega Joy
2 is just obvious blatant piracy
territory I mean look at this thing
they're not even trying to hide it like
this is just a Nintendo 64 Controller
now I'm not trying to sound like I'm
anti-piracy pirating from Nintendo is
always morally correct however let me
make this abundantly clear I am not pro
bootleg redistributing copyrighted
assets for free for the sake of
preservation is cool redistributing
copyrighted assets for profit or for
personal gain not cool very bad it's
fascinating because this spawned an
entire line of femic Clone bootlegs that
were so prolific that Nintendo took
legal action against them this is one of
many I have three of them and you will
see them after this before we boot this
up and take a look at it I just want to
show you the anatomy of this thing so
you got your video ports here you got a
power adapter slot there it's 6 volts uh
you have this weird battery cartridge on
the back so you're supposed to like open
this up place the batteries inside of
this little plastic case and then that's
slots into the back here uh this one is
so old that the battery slot thing
doesn't slot in anymore it just kind of
blasts out of there see like it it
doesn't like it just pops out it doesn't
work the reset button is here so that
sends you back to the menu then you have
your start and select buttons here which
is a crime because you know that on the
N64 controller this is a and b But the A
and B buttons are here this b and a and
then there's turbo b and a up here it's
a very weird thing let's go Boot It Up
look at this thing with all the cables
coming out of it looks like it's on life
support so when you boot it up it says
fun educational 8,000 in1 so let's see
if there's really 8,000 games oh my God
oh my God how could they even put that
many games on this thing they're using a
really cool optimization trick called
lying there are only 76 actual games on
here and they just repeat them until the
number reaches 8,000 so let's try out
Mickey Safari letter I think I know this
game this is Mickey's adventures in
numberland how' they get the rights to
that they didn't they stole it they
included Doug hunt Hogan's alley and
wild gunman but you can't play any of
these because there's no gun like
there's no there's no way to use the gun
look here's load Runner one of the most
popular NES games ever made and it's
just it's just on here look here's nuts
and milk which for some reason is on
every pirate console ever made I mean
good choice this game rocks I'm just I
just think it's funny that for some
reason nuts and milk is the one fcom
game that's on all of these but yeah
look it's just it's Nintendo's ice
climber there it is there's so many
Nintendo properties on this thing you'd
think it's Super Smash Brothers I mean
the problem with this thing is that it's
just really uninteresting just because
it's all NES games that are unchanged
and it's like yeah no I know I know what
NES games are like I I play a lot of
them but it's like what am I supposed to
say about this like I've said everything
there is to say so I'm just going to
move on and now for the Super Joy 3 very
obviously cut from the same cloth look
at these things uh a couple of major
differences uh namely uh this fake
joystick this is just hard plastic it
doesn't move I don't know why it's here
uh I it is genuinely baffling to me why
didn't they just leave it out like they
did with this one I mean these are
probably not made by the same people
there are probably like 900 million
different Chinese factories pumping
these things out back in like 200 one
but also look at this button placement
how could they do this look at that
distance second controller Port look gun
and joystick number two so look they
didn't forget the gun capability this
time but also prepare
yourself they put an entire cartridge
slot right on the back and when you hold
it you can feel the cartridge slot with
your fingers it really digs in back
there it's very nice okay well this
should look familiar we've seen this
before but the difference is when you
press reset it says fun time look at
this they put the king of video games on
here just totally blatantly straight out
in the open this level of recklessness
is what got these guys sued because you
can't just be going around putting Mario
on your pirate console you just can't
okay yeah we've we've seen the whole
pirated NES games thing before it's
nothing new but what is new here is
check this out I got my famicom
cartridge right here this is the iconic
The Fabulous Hudson soft nuts and milk
from
1984 it just sticks out like that and
here's how you have to hold it when you
do that like you just have to hold it
like that what other option do you have
Turner on and look at that nuts and milk
it's running straight off the real ficom
cartridge finally I can play nuts and
milk using my real
cartridge okay but Jokes Aside this is
actually really cool like this is a
pretty convenient way to test my famicom
cartridges is pretty good and then we
have another one cut from the same cloth
again the power Joy this one's got a few
weird differences to it number one check
out this joystick it actually moves and
it actually does function although it's
just an8 directional digital d-pad just
shaped differently of course now why is
it shaped like this well they put the
gun right there it's just right in the
middle of the controller like that
that's really sick actually and it feels
very comfortable to hold like that click
is nice too and of course you've got the
second player controller port and it
comes with a very crappy controller for
the second player with PlayStation
buttons inexplicably yeah whatever we've
seen this before who cares so let's get
this thing booted up and see what it's
like power Joy with some Ms paint uh
geese and some Ms paint roses uh are
these all shooting games let's try
falling block falling bricks I wonder
what game this is going to be a clone of
oh Yep this is pirated Tetra oh wa that
ain't no Tetris like I've ever seen I
hate this oh no this is cursed Tetris
Panzer flying car okay uh a very
barebones 2D racing game okay okay yeah
it seems like most of these are shooting
games so we're going to have to do
something a little drastic oh yeah it is
definitely CRT time for those
uninitiated LCD screens don't work with
light gun games you got to get a CRT
like this one so I've Got The Power Joy
right here I'm about to shoot at the
screen like that all right so I'm about
to start off with shoot copter let's go
oh it's a hack of duck hun of course it
is okay hit that one instantly uh just
if it's not clear on camera I'm probably
like 2 feet away from the screen so not
far but I wanted to you know I wanted
the gun to appear on camera this is
working perfectly absolutely perfectly
so yeah it's just a hack of duck hunt
but they replaced the ducks with hel Ops
for some
reason all right we're about to get a
perfect game let's see if I got a yeah
per absolute perfect game yeah this this
feels incredible it is like exact okay
let's try shooting 600 let's try that oh
okay this is the duck hunt shooting cans
game they replaced the Sprite with
something they look like little birds or
something I can't even
tell no not that one I think it doesn't
know which one I'm aiming at sometimes
there we
go okay I was definitely aiming at the
bottom one and I the top one okay I
don't get that if anything it's overly
sensitive like they need to reduce the
sensitivity I'm guessing shoot glass is
going to be clay pigeons let's see yep
clay pigeons
okay okay got that one nope I ran out of
shots so I missed the left one hit the
right
one all right cool got both of them yeah
so this is really good it struggled on
the cans game but this feels perfect wow
that feels really nice what happened to
like gun games we need to bring them
back well that was really fun this thing
works pretty good I got to give it to
him but there's still one trick it has
up its sleeve let's get to that now the
power Joy cartridge PJ 008 you shove
this right into the back here now this
cartridge slot is it's really crunchy
I'm sure you heard that but yeah let's
boot this up and see what's on the
cartridge 84 and one okay is this just
going to be more pirated NES games
because I have had more than enough of
that it looks like these are just
pirated NES games you got pack land load
run R paper boy finally I have a way to
play Aladdin
3 oh it just goes right into it no title
screen or anything huh okay I mean we
kind of all knew what to expect pirate
NES games you know they're they're
pirate NES games very uninteresting just
like every Trend plug-and plays were
squeezed for their every drop of
potential for the sake of capitalism but
even then it's weird to see how much
range they had some were simply Retro
Game compilations some were entirely
original some were trying to be game
conso of their own and some were just
straight up illegal bootlegs the concept
of some game developers being tasked to
make a SpongeBob game on what was
essentially 20-year-old system on a chip
Hardware at the time is fascinating to
me limitations breed Innovation the
modern-day equivalent would be seeing
what people can do with the Raspberry Pi
Arduino or fpga and I love all that
stuff too so it should be no surprise
that plug-and-play TV games will always
hold a special place in my heart hey
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