As somebody who worked on some TV Games in the early 2000s... we didn't see what the controllers were going to be while we worked on them. We had an engineer in the office who repurposed pre-existing joysticks so that we could connect them to the boards we got, and then we uploaded the games to them to test. So like... controller sensitivity? No idea! We even had the order of buttons swapped on us at least once from how we designed it.
I worked on some of them near the end of their run(2008-2010). By then the publishers had gotten onto the idea of making something that competes with the Wii, so we were swinging around bare PCBs with accelerometers to test them. They could actually withstand a bit of rough handling 😂
@@ezekielluna6265 I worked on Dragonball Z, and the Spongebob that included Rocket Power, Jimmy Neutron, and Fairly Oddparents. I've got good friends who worked on Power Rangers SPD.
I am obsessed with how charming old kids drawing games are, and the teledoodle IS SO FREAKING CUTE!!!! I know its basically worthless because of the one-color at a time, but it more than makes up for it with a WOOD CARVING MODE??? THATS SO SICK
I was obssessed with that one when I was a kid, that and my my little pony one! we only had a Nintendo Wii for everyone in the house so it was nice to have that just for me
18:34 - According to the copyright notice on the packaging for this system, they actually *did* get permission from Speed Racer Enterprises, who owned the US rights for the show at the time. (Which makes it even more baffling that the games have barely anything to do with Speed Racer...)
Not just that. Apparently, Senario had the Snood license as well. The big selling point was the Speed Racer license, but the two major games on that plug-and-play were the ports of Snood and Snood Tower. Jungletac made most of the games for the Vs. Maxx controllers, they were the premier choice for famiclone development.
the somber violin from the jony game returning during the “SAV H INC SS” is the funniest thing i’ve heard all day and i want to rewatch this video for the sole purpose of experiencing that arc again
My friend had the SpongeBob plug-and-play where his nose was the joystick, one night we dropped it while playing and realized that it would change the color of the sprites every time we knocked it on something, It ended up getting weird and having glitchy objects and stuff.
I played the first SpongeBob plug n play so much as a kid! The Hooks and Super Chum Bucket were my favorites. I always hoped that more people would cover the games, even if briefly. Thanks for huge nostalgia whiplash!
seeing that giga pets one just. completely unlocked a completely hidden section of my childhood. i remember just continually making new little guys over and over
I got a Gigapets Explorer + Hamster Bundle off of eBay a few years back just to play it again. I think I've 100%'d it now, but I'm not sure because it keeps giving me more quests (could just be for "replayability" tho) and there's such little info about the game online, so no one else seems to know either AFAIK. :P
7:10. I remember playing this several times in daycare😂 i could never get past rhyno in the main game lol, and seeing you play the minigames, you brought back some forggoten memories, thanks man😊
@@unnamed_user97356 Yep. My Arcade has made multiple plug-in-plays, handhelds, and mini arcade cabinets. With a few exceptions for dedicated Pac-Man consoles and the like, they all have the same crappy games on them, usually including Magic Jony.
@@unnamed_user97356 Oh yes. MyArcade has made many consoles. A lot of them use the same hardware and have most of the same games thrown in. Around 200 or 300 usually. One of those games happens to be the fabled “Magic Jony”
It was one of my first too though i was born on 06. But i actually currently have the first spongebob one with the nose, yet it has the games shown on the second one which to me is a bit weird lol.
As far as I know, plug n plays like that Gamestation 300 use what is effectively upgraded bootleg NES hardware. It supports way more colors than what a stock NES did and supposedly could do more, but you'd never know considering the quality of the games. It's also backwards-compatible, which makes it easier to pad out the game list. Often these games are made for stock NES hardware and the upgraded hardware, but both versions get jammed onto the same device.
This was my guess, just from having played a lot of bootleg ##-in-1 NES carts of the era. The modern ones often appear use the exact same versions of specific games -- and even the menu/list formatting has been kept the same on most of them.
from the game selection, the gamestation 300-in-1 seems to use the vt03, which upgrades the the maximum amount of colors for sprites and background tiles to 16, as opposed to four
@@CreeperSteve that's it! I could not remember the name of the hardware. It's still being iterated on as well, I have a knockoff Wii that uses what appears to be a vt368.
1:15 you found it. That was a childhood piece i could never find again and the game i loved too. The game was the one that nobody was talking about it and those two other ones holy.
Man, seeing the Pac-Man plug-and-play is a blast from the past for me. I used to have one of those when I was a kid, and that was my introduction to retro games that I love nowadays, like Dig-Dug, Pac-Man, and Galaxia
I had the first plug n play, and I've been desperately searching for SOMEONE who talks about that final game on there. I always had this vague memory of a weird platformer like game on a SpongeBob plug n play that I was never able to beat, but nobody really talks about it and my parents didn't remember, so I thought maybe I made it up. Thank you for making me feel less crazy, clue
5:41 at this part i was like "oh come on how are you this dumb you click the gem to turn it on" UNTIL I REALIZED IT WAS THE TINY ASS SMALL WHITE BUTTON 😭
Ok I'll give a fun fact about the SpongeBob Plug & Play from 2003: There apparently exist a version of this specific plug & play with music added in but the one without music is the more recognizable one :)
The Magic Jony lore dump at 22:10 was gold. It reminds me of Oney Plays Digimon Rury on Ep1. These mistranslation lore dumps are the funniest things ever to come out of bootlegs
my favourite plug and play memory is going over to my cousin's house. they had one of these generic 500-in-1 consoles. i saw this 'bird week' game and knew i had to try it out. cue my disappointment when it was not, in fact, anything close to what you would think 'bird week' entails. i cant remember what it was but it was not what i wanted it to be.
So Duck Hunt checks which duck you hit by flashing a sequence of frames that just have dots on them and if the controller sees the dot, it hits the duck. If the light gun is held at a distance where it can see the whole screen, it's going to hit the first duck it sees. This would explain why you keep shooting ducks you're not pointing at.
@@c1oudsky I know a guy who did reverse-engineer a duck hunt gun so it always hit the target, it was awesome, he also gutted a duck hunt gun and put a ridiculously powerful laser pointer in it
I have win lose or draw and didn't know you could remove that thing. But the non hover is the charm. When you play with a group of friends no matter how good they are every drawing looks like crap and is extremely funny and good times are had.
The Littlest Pet Shop plug and play was such a huge part of my childhood and from what I can remember it was pretty unique compared to others! I loved it so much
Fun video! I never got into the plug-and-play TV games but I saw them all the time in the 2000s for sure. 31:55 I recognized that right away when I heard the music. It actually looks like a mod of Tengen Tetris, reskinned and, changed blocks? How weird. I loved Tengen Tetris as a kid, very nostalgic.
6:35 the second that showed up i instantly got some random flashback i never even thought about where i actually owned this very interesting looking spider-man controller. my mom bought it for me as a gift, but my dad wasn't too fond of the controller design and i understand now.
I got one off of eBay a few years back just to play it again. I think I've 100%'d it now, but I'm not sure because it keeps giving me more quests (could just be for "replayability" tho) and there's such little info about the game online, so no one else seems to know either AFAIK. :P
I think you just unlocked a childhood memory for me! I think I remember playing bubble pop in after school care on the first SpongeBob controller you showed off. I forgot about it, and now I'm feeling really nostalgic. Great video!
I LOVED the Spongebob Nose Plug and Play and the Red Spider-man one, as bad as it is. Some of the others, however, are so stupid that they’re kind of cool, and I might try some of them.
It's also worth noting that if that plug-and-play game isn't licensed, where the controller is like a N64 controller or something, and it had a list of # in 1, then it's a famiclone. For context, a famiclone are bootlegs that bundle in NES titles and is likely to have ROM hacks that almost no one is familiar of, and famiclones will lie with the amount of games in one. The reason bootleg-producing companies produce famiclones and can get away from Nintendo is that they give it a definitely original name like the Mega Joy II mentioned in this. The Gamestation is also another famiclone, yet the fact it got so far as to sell in Barnes and Noble, including pharmacy stores like Walgreens, is quite an achievement for a company. Unlike emulation where it's fine to provide games and assets for preservation, famiclones go down the illegal path, where they provide games and assets for profit, and that is just wrong.
I grew up playing the spongebob plug and play with the nose controller. The weird part is that the games on it are the games from the 2nd spongebob plug and play you showed. I'm def not remembering wrong either, I still have the spongebob nose plug and play, and I vividly remember playing the snowball and jellyfish games
I had a few of these little gems back in the day and I gotta say, I remember the hours of fun I had using the star wars millennium falcon themed one and oddly a poker table one. They both had their respective fun but this was a great trip down memory lane. Would love it if you continued this series for my crippling nostalgia sake.
Oh hey we used to have that Gigapet thing It was basically mine amd my sisters' version of Animal Crossing. It's INVOLVED. We got it for Christmas, and don't remember how long it took to complete it. And the ending is absolutely bonkers. I don't recall any of the "impossible quest" issues, but I wouldn't be surprized if it was fake difficulty that we just powered past (though I almost recall us using each others' characters for some of the more challenging ones? Because you can give things back and forth between players so I also wouldn't be surprized if we cheesed some of the harder ones like that.) I still have it even, though both of the pet modules have long since died.
Wait, ending??? Do you just mean Magma Mountain (or whatever its called, last area you unlock)??? I got one a few years back on eBay and thought I 100%'d it. Couldn't find enough info online about the game, either. I got all the King's Stuff back (haven't played it in a while, don't remember exactly haha), unlocked the final area and all, and thought it was over. I'm still getting quests though, is my only reason I've been unsure. Does it just loop quests for "replayability"? Or is there something where I'll KNOW that it's the end?? Sorry for pressing you and throwing so much info on ya. It's just rare that so many Gigapet Explorer Fans are gathered in one "place", AFAIK haha
I'm shocked that you didn't catch that the games at 17:35 and 18:22 were heavily modified versions of the Famicom shoot-em-up Summer Carnival '92 Recca
0:09 the purple one to the left of the Spider-Man one is what ny finally used for years, I still have it and it’s plugged in to my tv but I haven’t used it in a while
This unlocked an absolutely nostalgic memory my 3/4 year old absolutely loved that 2003 Spongebob plug and play game. My mom had a Van at the time with a TV in the back seats, (very cool at the time!) and i would go to town for hours playing that Super Chumbucket game and i never reached the end either but i absolutely loved playing that all day and going on car trips. I have a insane amount of nostalgia for that game. Simple times...
Bro, I think the last traditional plug and play that felt like one is Bandi's Pac-Man Connect and play. It came out in 2012 and then later re-released in 2015. I remember playing this a lot.
This video brought back so many memories. My mom was in love with all kinds of plug n play games. We had a ton, there was a Shrek one that had the ears on the joy stick and had games based on other Dreamworks movies from that time, there was a bejeweled one that had a diamond joystick the gameplay was similar to candy crush where you have to match the jewels. We also had a one that played Nintendo games that was in a shape of Pac-man. The memories from those times are some of my favorites.
Patrick and the Maze use to be my mother's favorite game. She's gotten so far in that damn game but couldn't save it and one day one of us accidentally unplugged it to play something else since we all shared the same TV and we're were all less than 10 years old
Most plug and plays that emulated old games from the 2000s used something similer to what they used on the nes or a nintendo on a chip, and basically some programer made the game as similar as the original from the console, but they did get some things not right, can tell this when you listen to the victory to yars revenge on the atari 2600 plug and play, I am referring to the license ones and not the bootleg ones
@@OhoJeeChickenPotPieI am not referring to them, I am referring to the Jack Pacific ones, and the Namco ones and the atari one, Basically I'm talking about the licences ones
i bought that first spider-man one a while back with the express bit of "just LOOK at it" and im very glad to see that im not alone in how i perceive that. thing.
"I don't know why you'd ever design a directional pad that looks like this" The original "Duke" Xbox controller also had one like that. XD (and given the egg face buttons, they probably directly took the dpad idea from that too)
I had the spiderman 3 plug & play when I was younger and loved it. Had like a collection of like 15 plug&plays that I wish I still had. Had like 3 star wars themed games, 3 power rangers, a shrek 2 themed game, and a few pacman collection games. Good ole memories.
> For some reason, I really like Breakout clones This gave me instant flashbacks to playing a lot of Ricochet, Blasterball 2 and 3, probably because of the crazy powerups [although there's probably more Breakout clones with powerups out there- only that I haven't looked into them lol] It's super neat to see you cover these, knowing that most of these would mainly have their fame from how they look rather than whatever they contain [which is fair, but again, it can be funny to see what's inside those things]. This also reminded me of hearing that a plug and play version of Mortal Kombat from Jakks actually had a bespoke port of the arcade game that was pretty close, instead of using a Genesis/SNES port, which is pretty surprising.
Imo, the greatest breakout clone that ever happened was eGames' Blast Thru. Incredible soundtrack and great pre-rendered graphics, with awesome chaotic powerups. It was the first one I ever played and it's still my favorite.
You reading the awful storylines and typos killed me 😂 Thank you, I’ve always been curious about these things on Amazon and what the “500 games” actually were
the disney plug and play with multiple game cartridges was such a staple of my childhood i bought one last Christmas to play the lion king slushy game and the goofy farming one. They still hold up imo
The X-Men Plug 'N Play is one of the better ones. Sadly, it also got the most limited release out of all of them, making it pretty much only playable through emulation.
Panasonic 3DO: the only game console where you plug the second controller into the first controller Daisy chaining them together. Power Joy: *hold my beer* Gamestation: *hold my beer too*
I had the gigapets without the small circle thing that adds the animal friend. Ive been trying to remember what it was for years. I was never able to finish the game because i couldnt get something i needed. Thank you for recovering this memory for me
Just as you had no reason to play these, but did, and found a few gems. So, too, I didn't think I should fully watch this. But my laughter was genuine at the sheer jank on display! XD Like, the pikachu in the wrestling mask?!? I cannot recall laughing at a video any time lately. Cured my depression.
That first 50-in-1 thing you tried out - I had something that had a bunch of the exact same games! Like no reskin, blatantly exactly the same. I know because they were the only like 5 that i could semi-stand playing. I'm willing to bet they were likely the same company, because even the menu was the same. Mine, however, wasnt a simple little controller. It was a whole thing made to look like a really cheap flimsy racing sim setup. Seat, steering wheel, pedals (only one of which that did anything and it was just an A button press). Back in the days where I only had my humble xbox shared with my siblings, my 50-in-1 with horrendously copyright bootlegs and those little games were such fun.... for about ten minutes, in all honesty, but i enjoyed it !!
The SpongeBob game makes me nostalgic man, I didn't remember the Patrick game in which you explore the maze but after watching it my memories came back. Also, I used to be scared of the hook mini game because it was hard and I didn't like to think of losing the characters lmao
Man, I had the Super Joy III as a kid. That thing was a blast. If you hit a certain button combination at the title screen of Super Mario Bros, it would cycle through the worlds all the way through 8 then 9 and into bugged values. That's how I saw a bunch of glitched levels as a kid. Many of the games were obscure Japan-only games with mistranslated titles and title screens removed. It was so damn mysterious back then. I used to feel bad that it stopped working one day, like I broke it, but then I learned that the NES-on-a-chip inside doesn't have a heatsink, so it just slowly cooks itself lol.
Man that second SpongeBob game you showed filled me with nostalgia I was born in 03 and I’m 99% sure that was the first ever video game I ever played man I was 4 it’s literally one of my earliest memories
27:14 Ok so this is a janky bootleg of an N64 controller housing even more bootlegs. But I just have to ADMIRE the amount of engineering that went into making this thing. Like, I thought it was going to be some hatch you just slide batteries into. But they went out of their way, to replicate the cartridge function on the back of the N64 controller, to have it's own little battery cartridge. In theory you could hot swap them to have fresh batteries if you somehow had two. And it's even spring loaded? There was someone ENTIRELY too talented who worked on that thing, and I wish them the best.
Sudden nostalgia unlocked from that 2007 SpongeBob plug-and-play that I didn't know I even had 😳 Completely forgot about that game until I saw the footage and man
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As somebody who worked on some TV Games in the early 2000s... we didn't see what the controllers were going to be while we worked on them. We had an engineer in the office who repurposed pre-existing joysticks so that we could connect them to the boards we got, and then we uploaded the games to them to test.
So like... controller sensitivity? No idea! We even had the order of buttons swapped on us at least once from how we designed it.
I worked on some of them near the end of their run(2008-2010). By then the publishers had gotten onto the idea of making something that competes with the Wii, so we were swinging around bare PCBs with accelerometers to test them. They could actually withstand a bit of rough handling 😂
Thank you for making up most of my childhood!
I had a few growing up in the early 2000’s. They were awesome.
Did you by any chance work on Power rangers SPD, Spongebob, or Dragonball Z?
@@ezekielluna6265 I worked on Dragonball Z, and the Spongebob that included Rocket Power, Jimmy Neutron, and Fairly Oddparents. I've got good friends who worked on Power Rangers SPD.
The way you firmly grasped that Spiderman Joystick made giggle like an idiot lmao
Hold spider appendage gently like hamburger
Bombs away
FIRMLY GRASP IT!
@@IbishuCovetDXi [muffled squidward pain]
@@RadikAlicethis is such a stupid sentence i love it
I like how you spent like 5 minutes setting up Magic Jony and then played it for exactly 4 seconds.
Basically gaming if you cannot buy new games and finished all the previous ones
To be fair, the set up to Magic Jony is infinitely more amusing.
Rerez did this gag before, but it is still funny.
@@raycerx87 Rerez? We don't know who your daffy pals are mate
Rerez the RUclipsr, the guy no one can pronounce. You know, that guy.@@Winsane
I am obsessed with how charming old kids drawing games are, and the teledoodle IS SO FREAKING CUTE!!!! I know its basically worthless because of the one-color at a time, but it more than makes up for it with a WOOD CARVING MODE??? THATS SO SICK
FR THO (woah pongon)
Omg pongon
PONIGRLURAR DOINAIUT
PONGON 😨😨😨😨
POGLYGON!!!!!!!!!
I'm surprised you didn't have _Littlest Pet Shop_ as a plug and play, I loved that game as a kid lol
I was obssessed with that one when I was a kid, that and my my little pony one! we only had a Nintendo Wii for everyone in the house so it was nice to have that just for me
18:34 - According to the copyright notice on the packaging for this system, they actually *did* get permission from Speed Racer Enterprises, who owned the US rights for the show at the time. (Which makes it even more baffling that the games have barely anything to do with Speed Racer...)
It's way easier to get permission than it is to flip the assets in the game they're bootlegging.
Not just that. Apparently, Senario had the Snood license as well. The big selling point was the Speed Racer license, but the two major games on that plug-and-play were the ports of Snood and Snood Tower.
Jungletac made most of the games for the Vs. Maxx controllers, they were the premier choice for famiclone development.
@@Code7Unltd still are, actually. ever heard of lexibook
Long time no see!
the somber violin from the jony game returning during the “SAV H INC SS” is the funniest thing i’ve heard all day and i want to rewatch this video for the sole purpose of experiencing that arc again
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to say
SAVE THE PRINCESS
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to say
SAVE THE PRINCESS
Oh my god same here
I think the font got changed but the developers were to lazy to replace all the letters in the font
My friend had the SpongeBob plug-and-play where his nose was the joystick, one night we dropped it while playing and realized that it would change the color of the sprites every time we knocked it on something, It ended up getting weird and having glitchy objects and stuff.
omg sounds like the start of a creepypasta 😂
dang it, while i'd be afraid to knock those now I love games that are affected in weird ways by simple physical force
I have that one too, and surprisingly, it still works.
Memory unlocked . I remember that
I remember a video where it was like “SpongeBob” as a plush playing them, and that happened in the video once
I played the first SpongeBob plug n play so much as a kid! The Hooks and Super Chum Bucket were my favorites. I always hoped that more people would cover the games, even if briefly.
Thanks for huge nostalgia whiplash!
For real this reminded me of such a cool time. My brother and I played this so much! I remember the hooks one too lmao
I approve of the Pump it Up marquees on the wall. I have an SD cab myself.
the quiet "i have come up" at 22:57 is literally the funniest thing ever
Magic Flower use your fart power!
Best thing I heard today
@@ingothasnolife8040[reverb fart]
HELP
hi fiffy
seeing that giga pets one just. completely unlocked a completely hidden section of my childhood. i remember just continually making new little guys over and over
Same here! I remember playing that ALL THE TIME as a kid.
i need to fix mine
Every so often, someone re-invents the Sega Dreamcast.
I got a Gigapets Explorer + Hamster Bundle off of eBay a few years back just to play it again. I think I've 100%'d it now, but I'm not sure because it keeps giving me more quests (could just be for "replayability" tho) and there's such little info about the game online, so no one else seems to know either AFAIK. :P
I remember watching my cousin and how confused he was with his
I never realized how many of these devices actually exists in the wild until I saw your collection. Man.
Surprising seeing you here fanatica, I still remember that old Robeats Mashup you played.
If you liked this you can watch the Scott the Woz video
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@@Moferr i hate when people comment this shit it’s so annoying “VERIFIED WITH ONLY 456 LIKES???? LET ME CHANGE RHAT 😂😂”
@@garfieldfan925That doesn’t mean other people don’t derive enjoyment or fun from doing it. So let them have their fun
0:20 The plug and play on the left I actually had as a child!
7:10. I remember playing this several times in daycare😂 i could never get past rhyno in the main game lol, and seeing you play the minigames, you brought back some forggoten memories, thanks man😊
Spiderman one is... oddly phallic.
The way he grabs it and just instantly breaks down in laughter
Well yeah it's his web shooter
"This one is just Spider-Man's penis. Bombs away."
-Jon Tron
Hung like a horse.
Frickin helicopter stick
22:09 The best part of any RUclips video that covers any MyArcade console is the inevitable dramatic reading of the Magic Jony opening cutscene.
So true. This is the third video I’ve seen it in, and it never gets old XD
WAIT THERE ARE MORE OF THESE???
@@unnamed_user97356 Yep. My Arcade has made multiple plug-in-plays, handhelds, and mini arcade cabinets. With a few exceptions for dedicated Pac-Man consoles and the like, they all have the same crappy games on them, usually including Magic Jony.
@@unnamed_user97356 Oh yes. MyArcade has made many consoles. A lot of them use the same hardware and have most of the same games thrown in. Around 200 or 300 usually. One of those games happens to be the fabled “Magic Jony”
@@unnamed_user97356Yep. Rerez is one of them
22:10 okay this bit was awesome
I died when you quietly started voicing Jony, including the typos lmao
"Go that way, magic flower!"
24:09 No context.
Man that second SpongeBob game you showed filled me with nostalgia I was born in 03 and I’m 99% sure that was the first ever video game I ever played
It was one of my first too though i was born on 06. But i actually currently have the first spongebob one with the nose, yet it has the games shown on the second one which to me is a bit weird lol.
6:43 I've consumed enough 'Monosonium glutamate' to know exactly what that is.😂
This joke is buried beneath 4 layers of extremely specific Internet knowledge and yet I had the same. Exact. Thought.
oh no i understood exactly what you were referencing as soon as i saw monosodium. i need holy water
Is that a slang for cum?
I hate when corporations add e621 to my food.
That's the stuff in doritos
6:46 Spider-man just has that FL:CL horn on his head don't worry about it.
That’s not a horn
@@Jay-u7e7zHave you ever watched FLCL?
From an anime or not, you can certainly feel the horn somewhere either way
It looks like it came from a horse
Initially, the "horn" was supposed to shoot webbing
I like the guy in the thumbnail. He seems a little confused and stressed as to why he is holding AV cables. I fw that heavy
As far as I know, plug n plays like that Gamestation 300 use what is effectively upgraded bootleg NES hardware. It supports way more colors than what a stock NES did and supposedly could do more, but you'd never know considering the quality of the games. It's also backwards-compatible, which makes it easier to pad out the game list. Often these games are made for stock NES hardware and the upgraded hardware, but both versions get jammed onto the same device.
The feeling when the makers of a crappy plug n play game put more effort in than valve does in fixing TF2.
This was my guess, just from having played a lot of bootleg ##-in-1 NES carts of the era. The modern ones often appear use the exact same versions of specific games -- and even the menu/list formatting has been kept the same on most of them.
from the game selection, the gamestation 300-in-1 seems to use the vt03, which upgrades the the maximum amount of colors for sprites and background tiles to 16, as opposed to four
@@subplot I wouldn't be surprised if some giant zip full of pirated NES games was being passed around for the past 20 years.
@@CreeperSteve that's it! I could not remember the name of the hardware. It's still being iterated on as well, I have a knockoff Wii that uses what appears to be a vt368.
1:15 you found it. That was a childhood piece i could never find again and the game i loved too. The game was the one that nobody was talking about it and those two other ones holy.
Man, seeing the Pac-Man plug-and-play is a blast from the past for me. I used to have one of those when I was a kid, and that was my introduction to retro games that I love nowadays, like Dig-Dug, Pac-Man, and Galaxia
24:09 the game station 300 in 1 lore getting real deep with this one
Real
oh like the GS1 GS2 GS3 GS4 GS5
@@eeveethecat124 i actually had a gs2 back in the day (ps2 knockoff, the gs2 doesn't actually exist)
the slore
This was one iPad away from being a Dankpods video
Planet Clue, DankPods and Billiam all have similar vibes and topic ranges to their videos that I love
IT is however just reminding me of Jontron's Round up of plug in play "We've got a few more years before the economy crashes, COME ON!"
@@NEEDbaconto me it reminded me of Rerez worst ever series. Even the magic Jony bit was the same joke.
yes
I had the first plug n play, and I've been desperately searching for SOMEONE who talks about that final game on there. I always had this vague memory of a weird platformer like game on a SpongeBob plug n play that I was never able to beat, but nobody really talks about it and my parents didn't remember, so I thought maybe I made it up. Thank you for making me feel less crazy, clue
why does Magic Jony’s voice (22:50) remind me of Barney Gumble
5:41 at this part i was like "oh come on how are you this dumb you click the gem to turn it on" UNTIL I REALIZED IT WAS THE TINY ASS SMALL WHITE BUTTON 😭
its a switch
The way you slowly grabbed the spider-cock stick at 6:50 caught me so off guard lmfao
... spider-cock... perfect, lol.
I waited for him to shake his hand in disgust with audible "ugh" XD
SPIDER WHAT!?!?!
Having owned both the Spongebob and MEGA JOY II “60 GAME IN 1” plug & plays, I feel very represented in the thumbnail
Ok I'll give a fun fact about the SpongeBob Plug & Play from 2003: There apparently exist a version of this specific plug & play with music added in but the one without music is the more recognizable one :)
Mine has the music in it. I didn't even know it came without music. You can turn the music on and off if you want.
Bruuuuuh I remember playing the fuck out of this, I need to get my hands on one somehow
my menu has no music, but sound is existent. I never knew there was a variation with music.
i had the later games in the old shell with the iconic spongebob nose joystick. not sure what it was exactly but im suprised theres so many versions
i had one and it had a different game mode that let you play in spongebobs neighbourhood which was all 2d
The Magic Jony lore dump at 22:10 was gold. It reminds me of Oney Plays Digimon Rury on Ep1. These mistranslation lore dumps are the funniest things ever to come out of bootlegs
jony looks like dumbass pikachu
21:57 as someone who owned the 220 in 1 as a kid, seeing the magic jony in such quality made me cry
my favourite plug and play memory is going over to my cousin's house. they had one of these generic 500-in-1 consoles. i saw this 'bird week' game and knew i had to try it out. cue my disappointment when it was not, in fact, anything close to what you would think 'bird week' entails. i cant remember what it was but it was not what i wanted it to be.
So Duck Hunt checks which duck you hit by flashing a sequence of frames that just have dots on them and if the controller sees the dot, it hits the duck. If the light gun is held at a distance where it can see the whole screen, it's going to hit the first duck it sees. This would explain why you keep shooting ducks you're not pointing at.
this sounds like you don't need to aim at all with a controller like that
@@c1oudsky I know a guy who did reverse-engineer a duck hunt gun so it always hit the target, it was awesome, he also gutted a duck hunt gun and put a ridiculously powerful laser pointer in it
27:37 They're using a really cool optimization trick called... lying. LOL
You’ve unlocked an entire section of my memory I completely forgot about with the first spongebob one! I spent hours and hours in the patrick maze
I have win lose or draw and didn't know you could remove that thing. But the non hover is the charm. When you play with a group of friends no matter how good they are every drawing looks like crap and is extremely funny and good times are had.
I cannot get over the magic jony intro voiceover- that was frikin comedy gold
I had the first SpongeBob plug & play!
I found the maze game to be scary because I'd constantly get lost & immediately run into all danger possible
Is it worth it?
LOL ME TOOOO the Sandy one was always my favorite
The Littlest Pet Shop plug and play was such a huge part of my childhood and from what I can remember it was pretty unique compared to others! I loved it so much
Fun video! I never got into the plug-and-play TV games but I saw them all the time in the 2000s for sure. 31:55 I recognized that right away when I heard the music. It actually looks like a mod of Tengen Tetris, reskinned and, changed blocks? How weird. I loved Tengen Tetris as a kid, very nostalgic.
7:11 I'd never web up goons with THAT... thing
What was their idea is what id like to know
spider dingaling
6:35 the second that showed up i instantly got some random flashback i never even thought about where i actually owned this very interesting looking spider-man controller. my mom bought it for me as a gift, but my dad wasn't too fond of the controller design and i understand now.
I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR GIGA PETS EXPLORER FOR YEARS
THANK YOU KK CLUE BLESS YOUR SOUL
I got one off of eBay a few years back just to play it again. I think I've 100%'d it now, but I'm not sure because it keeps giving me more quests (could just be for "replayability" tho) and there's such little info about the game online, so no one else seems to know either AFAIK. :P
imagine an alternate universe where every day you plug in your computer / phone
Kinda like how bethesda redesigned the pipboy in fallout 4 to have a data transfer cable.
Thats just charging your phone/computer
AND YOU PLAY ON IT?!?!
that is our universe...
@@wills2894 i uhh... i think that was the joke...
I think you just unlocked a childhood memory for me! I think I remember playing bubble pop in after school care on the first SpongeBob controller you showed off. I forgot about it, and now I'm feeling really nostalgic. Great video!
Absolutely thrilled to see more content in this format love it keep it coming!
I LOVED the Spongebob Nose Plug and Play and the Red Spider-man one, as bad as it is. Some of the others, however, are so stupid that they’re kind of cool, and I might try some of them.
I really enjoyed the effort put into the Magic Jony bit. It almost feels like some Vinny Vinesauce lore. 10/10, highlight of my week.
It's also worth noting that if that plug-and-play game isn't licensed, where the controller is like a N64 controller or something, and it had a list of # in 1, then it's a famiclone.
For context, a famiclone are bootlegs that bundle in NES titles and is likely to have ROM hacks that almost no one is familiar of, and famiclones will lie with the amount of games in one.
The reason bootleg-producing companies produce famiclones and can get away from Nintendo is that they give it a definitely original name like the Mega Joy II mentioned in this.
The Gamestation is also another famiclone, yet the fact it got so far as to sell in Barnes and Noble, including pharmacy stores like Walgreens, is quite an achievement for a company.
Unlike emulation where it's fine to provide games and assets for preservation, famiclones go down the illegal path, where they provide games and assets for profit, and that is just wrong.
I grew up playing the spongebob plug and play with the nose controller. The weird part is that the games on it are the games from the 2nd spongebob plug and play you showed. I'm def not remembering wrong either, I still have the spongebob nose plug and play, and I vividly remember playing the snowball and jellyfish games
I had a few of these little gems back in the day and I gotta say, I remember the hours of fun I had using the star wars millennium falcon themed one and oddly a poker table one. They both had their respective fun but this was a great trip down memory lane. Would love it if you continued this series for my crippling nostalgia sake.
Oh hey we used to have that Gigapet thing
It was basically mine amd my sisters' version of Animal Crossing.
It's INVOLVED. We got it for Christmas, and don't remember how long it took to complete it. And the ending is absolutely bonkers.
I don't recall any of the "impossible quest" issues, but I wouldn't be surprized if it was fake difficulty that we just powered past (though I almost recall us using each others' characters for some of the more challenging ones? Because you can give things back and forth between players so I also wouldn't be surprized if we cheesed some of the harder ones like that.)
I still have it even, though both of the pet modules have long since died.
Wait, ending??? Do you just mean Magma Mountain (or whatever its called, last area you unlock)??? I got one a few years back on eBay and thought I 100%'d it. Couldn't find enough info online about the game, either. I got all the King's Stuff back (haven't played it in a while, don't remember exactly haha), unlocked the final area and all, and thought it was over. I'm still getting quests though, is my only reason I've been unsure. Does it just loop quests for "replayability"? Or is there something where I'll KNOW that it's the end?? Sorry for pressing you and throwing so much info on ya. It's just rare that so many Gigapet Explorer Fans are gathered in one "place", AFAIK haha
16:27 From the name to the appearance, this is the most "VIDEO GAMEZ" thing ever. Like something you'd see in a cartoon.
I'm shocked that you didn't catch that the games at 17:35 and 18:22 were heavily modified versions of the Famicom shoot-em-up Summer Carnival '92 Recca
The Recca clones are pretty good cuz like ...it's Recca lol
Recca mentioned 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The motorcycle game is just Hang-On
i THOUGHT it looked familiar 💯💯💯
0:09 the purple one to the left of the Spider-Man one is what ny finally used for years, I still have it and it’s plugged in to my tv but I haven’t used it in a while
This unlocked an absolutely nostalgic memory my 3/4 year old absolutely loved that 2003 Spongebob plug and play game. My mom had a Van at the time with a TV in the back seats, (very cool at the time!) and i would go to town for hours playing that Super Chumbucket game and i never reached the end either but i absolutely loved playing that all day and going on car trips. I have a insane amount of nostalgia for that game. Simple times...
"We're scraping the bottom of the barrel," Clue says, halfway into the video,
Bro, I think the last traditional plug and play that felt like one is Bandi's Pac-Man Connect and play. It came out in 2012 and then later re-released in 2015. I remember playing this a lot.
I want to find whoever designed the Spider-Man joystick and shake their hand. Pure comedy.
shake their spiderman appendage
@@ron133. they'd have to take me out to dinner first
This video brought back so many memories. My mom was in love with all kinds of plug n play games. We had a ton, there was a Shrek one that had the ears on the joy stick and had games based on other Dreamworks movies from that time, there was a bejeweled one that had a diamond joystick the gameplay was similar to candy crush where you have to match the jewels. We also had a one that played Nintendo games that was in a shape of Pac-man. The memories from those times are some of my favorites.
Patrick and the Maze use to be my mother's favorite game. She's gotten so far in that damn game but couldn't save it and one day one of us accidentally unplugged it to play something else since we all shared the same TV and we're were all less than 10 years old
Most plug and plays that emulated old games from the 2000s used something similer to what they used on the nes or a nintendo on a chip, and basically some programer made the game as similar as the original from the console, but they did get some things not right, can tell this when you listen to the victory to yars revenge on the atari 2600 plug and play, I am referring to the license ones and not the bootleg ones
Those are called famiclones
@@OhoJeeChickenPotPieI am not referring to them, I am referring to the Jack Pacific ones, and the Namco ones and the atari one, Basically I'm talking about the licences ones
i bought that first spider-man one a while back with the express bit of "just LOOK at it" and im very glad to see that im not alone in how i perceive that. thing.
"300 games? That might be too many!'
Steam libraries: *Nervous laughter
"I don't know why you'd ever design a directional pad that looks like this"
The original "Duke" Xbox controller also had one like that. XD
(and given the egg face buttons, they probably directly took the dpad idea from that too)
I had the spiderman 3 plug & play when I was younger and loved it. Had like a collection of like 15 plug&plays that I wish I still had. Had like 3 star wars themed games, 3 power rangers, a shrek 2 themed game, and a few pacman collection games. Good ole memories.
31:59 this piece set is absolutely wild
> For some reason, I really like Breakout clones
This gave me instant flashbacks to playing a lot of Ricochet, Blasterball 2 and 3, probably because of the crazy powerups [although there's probably more Breakout clones with powerups out there- only that I haven't looked into them lol]
It's super neat to see you cover these, knowing that most of these would mainly have their fame from how they look rather than whatever they contain [which is fair, but again, it can be funny to see what's inside those things]. This also reminded me of hearing that a plug and play version of Mortal Kombat from Jakks actually had a bespoke port of the arcade game that was pretty close, instead of using a Genesis/SNES port, which is pretty surprising.
Ricochet is such a cool aesthetic
Blasterball was one of my go to games back in the day. I've been wanting to play it again but getting it running these days is pretty annoying.
Imo, the greatest breakout clone that ever happened was eGames' Blast Thru. Incredible soundtrack and great pre-rendered graphics, with awesome chaotic powerups. It was the first one I ever played and it's still my favorite.
WAKE UP PLANET CLUE POSTED
You reading the awful storylines and typos killed me 😂
Thank you, I’ve always been curious about these things on Amazon and what the “500 games” actually were
the disney plug and play with multiple game cartridges was such a staple of my childhood i bought one last Christmas to play the lion king slushy game and the goofy farming one. They still hold up imo
i have been waiting for 17 years for somebody to talk about giga pets explorer. it was my absolute favourite game when i was in preschool
5:05 I'm yiiking out man I'M YIIKING OUT!!!!!
Finally, I can yiik out on the go!
I screamed as I began to shake, vibrating with motion.
WE'RE YIIKING OUT
The X-Men Plug 'N Play is one of the better ones. Sadly, it also got the most limited release out of all of them, making it pretty much only playable through emulation.
3:29 SpongeBob’s bubble pop rehydrated😂
That spider man plug n play use to piss me tf off as a kid janky ass controls. 7:24
I really like this format. Just hearing you talk and handle this old stuff is a joy to watch. :)
Dude that Spongbob one in the beginning was my childhood. I also had one that looked like his house.
Panasonic 3DO: the only game console where you plug the second controller into the first controller Daisy chaining them together.
Power Joy: *hold my beer*
Gamestation: *hold my beer too*
I had the gigapets without the small circle thing that adds the animal friend. Ive been trying to remember what it was for years. I was never able to finish the game because i couldnt get something i needed. Thank you for recovering this memory for me
I spent SO many hours with that Ms. Pacman one. Must be at least 15 years since but I can still remember the exact feel of the joystick and buttons
Just as you had no reason to play these, but did, and found a few gems.
So, too, I didn't think I should fully watch this.
But my laughter was genuine at the sheer jank on display! XD
Like, the pikachu in the wrestling mask?!? I cannot recall laughing at a video any time lately. Cured my depression.
I was like "Man that VSMaxx is oddly a lot like Action 52" and then you compared it to Action 52 and I was like "Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
I felt the same in Clue's Garfield 2004 video with the Chibi-Robo! comparisons
There were actually multiple games that were just sprite swaps that you didn't seem to notice
like that motorcycle game looked like Rad Racer
That first 50-in-1 thing you tried out - I had something that had a bunch of the exact same games! Like no reskin, blatantly exactly the same. I know because they were the only like 5 that i could semi-stand playing. I'm willing to bet they were likely the same company, because even the menu was the same.
Mine, however, wasnt a simple little controller. It was a whole thing made to look like a really cheap flimsy racing sim setup. Seat, steering wheel, pedals (only one of which that did anything and it was just an A button press). Back in the days where I only had my humble xbox shared with my siblings, my 50-in-1 with horrendously copyright bootlegs and those little games were such fun.... for about ten minutes, in all honesty, but i enjoyed it !!
The SpongeBob game makes me nostalgic man, I didn't remember the Patrick game in which you explore the maze but after watching it my memories came back.
Also, I used to be scared of the hook mini game because it was hard and I didn't like to think of losing the characters lmao
What’s super strange is I remember having the spongebob one with the joystick nose, but it had the games of the 2007 one?
I did too!!! how odd. maybe there were different revisions?
I have a feeling like its just Daja vu. I remember an old mobile game that turned out to be only for the DS when I researched
@@tyujg7495. no, i still have mine. it’s literally in my drawer right now
had it too, there was also a b button
Me too!
24:51 I am so disappointed we didn't get to see what ASSART was...
Man, I had the Super Joy III as a kid. That thing was a blast. If you hit a certain button combination at the title screen of Super Mario Bros, it would cycle through the worlds all the way through 8 then 9 and into bugged values. That's how I saw a bunch of glitched levels as a kid. Many of the games were obscure Japan-only games with mistranslated titles and title screens removed. It was so damn mysterious back then.
I used to feel bad that it stopped working one day, like I broke it, but then I learned that the NES-on-a-chip inside doesn't have a heatsink, so it just slowly cooks itself lol.
Man that second SpongeBob game you showed filled me with nostalgia I was born in 03 and I’m 99% sure that was the first ever video game I ever played man I was 4 it’s literally one of my earliest memories
dude that spongebob bubble pop was so good man i put weeks into that thing
27:14 Ok so this is a janky bootleg of an N64 controller housing even more bootlegs.
But I just have to ADMIRE the amount of engineering that went into making this thing. Like, I thought it was going to be some hatch you just slide batteries into. But they went out of their way, to replicate the cartridge function on the back of the N64 controller, to have it's own little battery cartridge. In theory you could hot swap them to have fresh batteries if you somehow had two. And it's even spring loaded? There was someone ENTIRELY too talented who worked on that thing, and I wish them the best.
Sudden nostalgia unlocked from that 2007 SpongeBob plug-and-play that I didn't know I even had 😳 Completely forgot about that game until I saw the footage and man
your icon is very fitting
OMG, Gigapets is such a blast from the past. I remember playing it for hours.
I would love a part 2 to this. Plug and play is fascinating to me and a trip back to childhood!