Thrift Store Gamble on Ms. Pac-Man Plug-n-Play by Jakks Pacific: TWO DOLLARS!

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2024

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  • @kalvinravn8431
    @kalvinravn8431 Год назад +14

    I’m 51 years old but back in 2004 when this device was released I’m afraid I wasn’t ready for retro gaming. Now I can’t stop playing the “Old” stuff. Great find my friend!

  • @TheMultiGunMan
    @TheMultiGunMan Год назад +15

    I would have gambled on it too for $2.00. Great find John!

  • @postercereal3654
    @postercereal3654 Год назад +11

    I bought one of these plug-n-plays in 2004 and it still works last I checked. Except it has Dig Dug and regular Pac-Man, but they play really well.
    Thanks for the review!

    • @46Intel
      @46Intel 9 месяцев назад +1

      i think thats from 2003

  • @robotkyle71
    @robotkyle71 Год назад +2

    Nice! We got this when it came out for my wife because Ms. Pacman was her jam, and Galaga mine! I also loved that Bosconian was on it BUT!!! I never knew that you could resist to steer in Pole Position!! I'm glad watched this! I'm gonna go bust it out just to experience that!!

    • @robotkyle71
      @robotkyle71 Год назад +1

      If it didn't work, I'd take it apart to turn it into a scale tabletop game for probably 1:12 scale action figures ; )

  • @emilynam6084
    @emilynam6084 19 дней назад +1

    I'm 26 and I remember when my mom bought this for me and my siblings at toys r us when we were kids. I used to love playing this over school breaks.

  • @ShadeofJeremy
    @ShadeofJeremy Год назад +5

    Only $2. What a great bargain. You really did score on this one. I'd like it for Mappy and Pole Position myself. We had a local pizza place here that had those two and my sister and I played them so much whenever we went there. I'm feeling some nostalgia for that now. Great video Jon and I look forward to the next.

  • @joeyfarris2543
    @joeyfarris2543 Год назад +2

    A victory for $2.00, Cooll👍😎

  • @waynerowlinson6177
    @waynerowlinson6177 Год назад +4

    I lucked into finding one of these at a thrift store a few years back myself. I paid double or triple what you paid (still very cheap). As a matter of fact, I now own most of the TV plug and play devices and most of them are very playable. I think my first one was the "regular" Namco Ms. Pacman Plug and play and it has since become an addiction.
    Thanks for the video!

  • @darkwingdave79
    @darkwingdave79 Год назад +2

    That's an awesome find. Super jealous over here.

  • @ThomaniacsRetrogamingZone
    @ThomaniacsRetrogamingZone Год назад +1

    Congratz to your find. That's awesome!

  • @marccaselle8108
    @marccaselle8108 Год назад +2

    Great find John! These little namco units are pretty nice.

  • @andymanaus1077
    @andymanaus1077 Год назад +1

    Hi Jon. You got an amazing bargain. I bought two Jakks Pacific Plug-n-Plays when they were new. I had Pacman (incl. Bosconian, Rally X, Galaxian, Dig Dug) and Ms Pacman (Incl. Galaga, Pole Position, Zevious and Mappy). They were really well made. Despite a lot of use both units always worked flawlessly. I'm not surprised that yours fired right up. Jakks Pacific clearly cared about making a good product.
    Then I had a garage sale and sold them for a few dollars each. Even though I have a Pandora emulator now, I really regret that decision, not least because Bosconian is one of my all time favourites and it's nowhere to be seen on the Pandora.
    I remember reading some reviews of Jakks Pacific games as well. Reviewers often played them down, saying they'd soon be found for a few dollars in garage sales as people tired of them. I guess they were right in the short term but now some versions can be worth several times more than new prices.
    I've never seen the 2-piece, 7 game version. Maybe it never made it to Australia but I only recall the single piece units being sold here.

  • @ButterSpider3
    @ButterSpider3 Год назад +2

    Wow, just wow! What a diamond in the rough. The wireless feature is kinda mixed for me. I am curious how far it reaches. But, the game selection is top notch! I like all of those. And to see Bosconian included is quite rare. 2 bucks is a great gamble for that not knowing. I will definitely snatch one up if I see it for a decent price. Most of those units i see now are over priced now. Great find, Jon. And thanks for sharing. Love it!!

  • @wertz987
    @wertz987 Год назад +4

    Nice find. I wish I could find stuff like this in Thrift Shops.

    • @marccaselle8108
      @marccaselle8108 Год назад +2

      The few thrift shops in my town don't usually carry plug and plays because they get snatched up real fast.

    • @wertz987
      @wertz987 Год назад +2

      ​@@marccaselle8108 In the early 2000s I found an Atari 800 almost brand new for 25 bucks at Good Will but today there Is nothing.

    • @marccaselle8108
      @marccaselle8108 Год назад +1

      @@wertz987 I would have got that

  • @cristianlira9778
    @cristianlira9778 Год назад +1

    Very nice, I'm kinda jealous now🤣

  • @Monitor1CC
    @Monitor1CC Год назад +1

    One of my best friends had a Jakks plug and play Ms Pac Man very similar to this (including the nice twisty joystick for Pole Position) except it didn’t have that kinda odd detachable arcade base. Otherwise the game line up was the same. That unit was also my introduction to Bosconian which I got kinda addicted to. Really fun, solid little devices for the time and perfect for a quick arcade (adjacent) fix. That is a fantastic find for only $2, especially since some of the Jakks units can go way higher than $35.

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +1

      I see that one-piece much more often, but this was the first time I spotted the two-piece wireless variety in the wild. Bosconian FTW! 😀

    • @bland9876
      @bland9876 11 месяцев назад

      There's at least three different versions of this two of which are wired I believe them is Pac-Man one has a slightly different menu layout then the other two but all three of them have slightly different game list. Very odd

  • @HanzoHimemiya
    @HanzoHimemiya Год назад +2

    those plug and play were another classic option for GBA and PS2 compilations

  • @markracer3281
    @markracer3281 Год назад +3

    As Bubbles from the TPB would say, "DECEEENT"!!! If you ever get bored with it, (Bixby Snyder) "I'll buy it for a dollar"...🙂 Great find, JON!!!

  • @taylerannsupergirl5587
    @taylerannsupergirl5587 Год назад +1

    I have the wired unit. Mappy is my favourite. Great shot in the wild. The dig dug one is great too.

  • @philipdefibaugh5683
    @philipdefibaugh5683 Год назад +1

    I like the look of the joystick because it has the design from the playboard art.

  • @tron3entertainment
    @tron3entertainment Год назад +1

    I still have mine. Took me a while to figure out to twist the knob to drive in Pole Position. I actually have a couple of portable TV's which I intended to play these "on the go". I mostly played it at home for the nostalgia.

  • @recreatethe80s
    @recreatethe80s Год назад +1

    What a great score.

  • @TiltingT
    @TiltingT Год назад +1

    Heck of a cool unit for $2! Great grab

  • @davy_K
    @davy_K Год назад +1

    There's a Jakks paddle unit that lets you play 2600 Circus, Super Breakout, Canyon Bomber , Warlords etc. it's a nice job - has arcade Pong and Warlords too - there's a 2 paddle unit that's obviously best if you can find it.

  • @PCKid32
    @PCKid32 Год назад +1

    Well done. What a bargain. While we travel around Australia in our caravan I always check out thrift shops in little towns just in case. No luck so far but always looking.

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +1

      Hang in there - your luck will come around!

  • @curbydinobot8633
    @curbydinobot8633 Год назад +1

    Its nice to see Pole Position on a namco game lineup. Pole Position seems to be forgotten by arcade 1up. A1up even included Bosconian on one of there party cades but still no Pole Position to this day

  • @Randy_Powell
    @Randy_Powell Год назад +1

    Great find Jon!

  • @philipdefibaugh5683
    @philipdefibaugh5683 Год назад +1

    These plug and plays were well made. I bought a Ms. Pacman one in 2004.

  • @alyssazee4967
    @alyssazee4967 14 дней назад

    Hearing those noises brought back memories! Wow forgot all about this!

  • @dantu1000
    @dantu1000 Год назад +1

    Great video, i like you Chanel because u pay attention to your subscribers and inform quite good.

  • @bland9876
    @bland9876 11 месяцев назад +1

    I have one of these and I have another plug and play that have the exact same menu but one of them has more games than the other very odd.

  • @renefigueroa6309
    @renefigueroa6309 Год назад +1

    I actually used to have that plug and play. Unfortunately, I decided to screw this and another Pac-Man plug and play up and a wire that connects to the battery compartment sort of came off. I can safely say that this is one of the better Pac-Man plug and plays with the best one being the Retro Arcade ft. Pac-Man also by Jakks Pacific.

  • @SteveBrandon
    @SteveBrandon Год назад +2

    I see the one-piece unit versions at thrift stores occasionally. I think, even if I was in the market to play those games on a dedicated unit, I'd rather have the one-piece joystick that's wired directly to the television rather than the two-piece seen here since it takes fewer batteries and also because I find infrared controllers to be a bit janky.
    I only have small TVs so I sit super close to the screen when playing games anyway.

  • @miked4377
    @miked4377 Год назад

    thats excellent jon! yeah i love the remote part of it and the top of joystick for pole position steering is very cool....

  • @NotMuchHere
    @NotMuchHere 4 месяца назад

    love that controller over the mini mini console .. where the stick is smaller than a toothpick

  • @matthewlane518
    @matthewlane518 Год назад

    My daughter and had this back in the day, I did finnaly break but it worked a good long time, we bought it new, but we loved the twisty knob for pole position!

  • @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145
    @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Год назад +1

    Most serious gamers dismissed plug-in place back in the day and while there were some very bad plug and play's out there there were some very good ones like this one.
    But for $2 you really couldn't have gone wrong unless it hadn't worked. Even a bad plug & play game is worth $2 for a good laugh or a quick video

  • @thetommygunshow
    @thetommygunshow Год назад +2

    Not bad for $2.

  • @thaddeusmcgrath
    @thaddeusmcgrath Год назад

    Great find, I almost picked up the Mrs. Pacman only plug-n-play by the same company at Goodwill for $5 bucks but also has the same NES rom version as this one so I put it back. I want the arcade fast version as a plug-n-play, even if its a NES rom one I want speed!

  • @alwaystmoza
    @alwaystmoza Год назад

    What a bargain! Galaga was my favourite 😍

  • @georgewhite1972
    @georgewhite1972 Год назад

    You got yourself a real bargain there!!

  • @krantzbucks
    @krantzbucks Год назад

    I bought one of these back in their heyday (two actually) i bought it because it had galaga, ms pac man and dig dug on it. The big bonus for me was that it included Mappy and Bosconian, two games I was unfamiliar with despite having grown up when the games would have been popular. Man, it was fun discovering those games like they were brand new! These namco games are really timeless classics.

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад

      Dig-Dug was an obvious omission here, but I'd happily trade that out for the incusion of Bosconian. I love Dug, but Bosco just doesn't get enough love!

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark Год назад

    I'm super impressed with the responsiveness of the infared controller!

  • @kwouters
    @kwouters Год назад +1

    Nice find! I have the same device, but it’s a wired version. It has the same games and same rotating joystick (that works surprisingly well for Pole Position!). But I know I paid more than $2 for it. 😁

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +1

      I see the one-piece version quite a bit, but this was the first I recall running across this two-piece. Glad I took a shot!

  • @jayme69
    @jayme69 Год назад

    Great pickup Jon! I've had a few Jakks Pacific plug n' plays in the past and they're pretty good with the same sort of sounds issues you've highlighted. Keep your eyes peeled for more as there's quite a few different ones out there :-)

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +1

      This happens to me all the time. I ignore an entire segment of the market (Tiny Arcades come to mind), and then once I try one, I'm hooked! 😀

  • @PhoenixGuitars
    @PhoenixGuitars Год назад

    “Tested” - Yes. And working.

  • @TheIcePirate
    @TheIcePirate Год назад +1

    Score, great find

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +3

      Thanks. Haven't seen you around lately, Ice. Hope you're doing great!

    • @TheIcePirate
      @TheIcePirate Год назад +1

      @@GenXGrownUp yeah, I lurk a lot

  • @GCJACK83
    @GCJACK83 Год назад

    The thing with a lot of thrift stores is, the people they employ are usually elderly and have no idea of what the aftermarket prices on a lot of what their location carries really is. In short, it's like your parents selling your comic book collection for $2.00 a box in a yard sale and you have important books in those boxes like the first appearance of Superman, first Batman appearance, first X-Men, etc. The big money books that, if in good condition, can net thousands of dollars by themselves. Yet your parents have no idea that these books are worth more than $2.00 and the books get sold off at an incredible loss.

  • @retro_reflections
    @retro_reflections Год назад

    Absolute result for two bucks - and now I'm off to have a look for a few myself!

  • @richchinnici6182
    @richchinnici6182 28 дней назад

    I have a predecessor version of the Jakks Pacific Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man plug and plays. Just without the wireless controller feature. The Ms. Pac Man one has the steering wheel joystick for Pole Position too. I thought the game ports were impressive.

  • @bb78729
    @bb78729 Год назад

    I once had a Jakks Pacific plug-and-play unit similar to that. Only it had five games. Bought at a Target store in Austin Texas in 2006. Had until 2021 when I realized the batteries had exploded inside it.

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад

      Argh! Old batteries have killed more cool old electronics than I care to think about. 🥲

  • @brandohim
    @brandohim Год назад

    Really cool!!! I have the atari joystick one with yars revenge, missile command, centipede

  • @TrekkiELO
    @TrekkiELO 12 дней назад

    I've still got the Namco Ms. Pac-Man Super Gamekey Mega Pack by Jakks Pacific that I'd bought back in 2005. 😎

  • @PacMania67
    @PacMania67 Год назад

    i had this one when i was much much younger. not completely sure if we still have it, though i do still have that pac-man 256 plug 'n' play somewhere

  • @Jeepster71
    @Jeepster71 Год назад

    Got this used a few years ago, but it came with the joystick broken. Would up costing me nothing as a result, but I able to fix it some time later with some super-glue. Be careful with it as the joystick shaft is plastic unlike the non-wireless version that has a sturdier joystick. Got it for New Rally-X (I must have all versions) , Ms. Pac-Man and the unique Pole Position control. If you search for it, there is also a rom for it that works with the current version of MAME on Windows.

  • @PeBoVision
    @PeBoVision Год назад

    I have $100+ purchases that haven't worked out so well.
    And an absoluely amazing collection of games... Bosconian alone would made my day (one of my arcade favourites) but add get Pole Position, Xevious, Galaga, Mappy, Rally X, AND Ms Pacman (the BEST Pacman), and you've got a pretty solid collection of games.
    For $2.
    That beats a clone-and-duplicate-filled "250,000 games" plug-n-play console any day of the week!
    And lets never hear you talking about throwing things away ever gain with a collector audience watching !!! I've paid good money for stuff that doesn't work! (and landfills don't need more tech)

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад

      Absolutely. Thanks for watching! 😀

  • @GasFayce
    @GasFayce Год назад

    You have officially become the Video Game Whisperer! Awesome score on this one. I remember when these came out but always thought they would be hot garbage. You have definitely changed my opinion!

    • @Alpha5119
      @Alpha5119 Год назад

      My breakfast burrito at McDonald's cost more than this. Very good find

  • @JustinEmlay
    @JustinEmlay Год назад

    I'm surprised they marked it down that far. I always passed on the wireless stuff assuming the lag would have been trash. Guess I was wrong!

  • @Earths1stgamer
    @Earths1stgamer Год назад

    That is a great Plug n play i have one myself you got a great deal the regular crap ones are 10 at a thrift store so 2 for this is awesome i have a nice Activision plugger it looks great it has Imagic games on it i think they got the rights to them ill have to post it again on Twitter so you can see it also theres a good Intellivision plugger it is a controller style so no disk crap like the OG Intelly ok great job on the video!

  • @chrisnizer
    @chrisnizer 4 месяца назад

    Jakk's Pacific always made high quality products so that's no surprise, great price though.

  • @errollleggo447
    @errollleggo447 Год назад +2

    Good score for $2!
    Edit: Looks emulated to me.

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +3

      Thanks, Leggo. I agree, but emulated WHAT? Not NES and not arcade. I don't recognize these particular ROMs (assuming they are ROMs and not re-writes).

    • @errollleggo447
      @errollleggo447 Год назад

      @@GenXGrownUp Pole Position kinda looks like the arcade to me. Need a side by side comparison.

    • @jessragan6714
      @jessragan6714 Год назад +1

      @@GenXGrownUp They're totally ports. Good ports, though! Evidently handled by former members of Probe Development, but still very good in spite of that.

    • @errollleggo447
      @errollleggo447 Год назад +1

      @@GenXGrownUp Side by side, graphics very similar, but sound is a little different.

  • @fatimaramos1300
    @fatimaramos1300 Год назад +2

    Can you review the bandi pacman plug n play controller that includes 12 games Baked in to the controller.

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +2

      I don't own it, but I'll keep any eye out!

    • @jessragan6714
      @jessragan6714 Год назад +1

      @@GenXGrownUp It's AT LEAST as good as the Jakks. Suffers from composite video (at the time it was released, HDMI was the dominant format) but is arcade-faithful to the point that weird arcade exploits will work. Shame about the pixel Pac-Man design, though. Counter-ergonomic!

  • @imaxjunior6531
    @imaxjunior6531 Год назад +1

    Treasure for $2.

  • @Mrshoujo
    @Mrshoujo Год назад +1

    My Ms. Pac-Man unit looks different than yours. Paid $10 on a Black Friday one year. Had to replace it when a bedbug heat treatment broke it.

  • @Etech_Shorts
    @Etech_Shorts 9 месяцев назад

    I have a plug n play with the same version of Galaga (looks the same, sounds the same,) and the no shoot bug works!

  • @elevatingmetrodetroit7072
    @elevatingmetrodetroit7072 Год назад

    That’s awsome that it works! Could you please do a review off the arcade classics rampage though?

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад

      Thanks for the request. I have it on my list of possible future vids.

  • @yadabub
    @yadabub Год назад

    A lucky find. They are quite good, actually. They do eat batteries, though.

  • @Piggydudefan1486
    @Piggydudefan1486 Год назад

    I love arcades

  • @jl4557
    @jl4557 Год назад +1

    Way better than Arcade 1Up

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад

      Well, I don't know about that. Cheaper, for sure.

  • @nikosaek781
    @nikosaek781 Год назад +1

    the batteries costed more than the unit lol

  • @SteveBaileyHQ
    @SteveBaileyHQ Год назад

    $2 isn't a gamble. That's one less cup of coffee... Damn good call to buy that. #Jealous

  • @ramgladore
    @ramgladore Год назад

    I have this device. Not a bad deal.

  • @guidogouweloos
    @guidogouweloos Год назад

    I bought this one in the US, not sure if it is wireless. Also have the other one. Both still unopened, probably because they were in NTSC instead of PAL, and I already had the Namco museum series for the PS1 and MAME of course.

    • @guidogouweloos
      @guidogouweloos Год назад

      Also I bought all the Game & Watch keychain versions I could find, that were sold back then.

  • @fco64
    @fco64 Год назад +1

    I have a plug n play of ms pacman that is a different model but the games are almost the same on the collection I have it since i was born and thats how i fell in love with retro gaming
    Edit: the version I have is the first version of ms pac man plug n play it's not wireless

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад

      Nice!

    • @fco64
      @fco64 Год назад

      @@GenXGrownUp I forgot to say the controller it's 100% metal and the buttons are super satisfying to click I would say that's the best version of this plug n play

  • @johneygd
    @johneygd Год назад

    There’re million variantions of those pacman handhelds whether it’s based on sigmented display technology or current technology such as emulation,fpga or just a straight port to current chipsets,i honestly get tired from all those pacman handheld variantions,is it really necessary to have so much variations of it and would they still really do believe that those pacman variations of handhelds will fly off store shelves while making lots of money from it???
    I hardly could believe that,
    Personally if i would own one of these then why would i ever want all those other variations of it,
    But apart from that you did a great gamble of buying that special pacman handheld for only 2 dollars😁

  • @BoomGiggity
    @BoomGiggity Год назад

    I wonder if the Galaga glitch works on that device.

  • @john2001plus
    @john2001plus Месяц назад

    I have a ten-game version I bought in the early 2000s. I got it mostly for Pole Position.
    I don't think that the Joystick works great for Ms. Pacman. Too much wrong input. This is why I bought the Arcade1up.

  • @bb78729
    @bb78729 Год назад

    I would love to get my hands on another one. Especially the one that has the seven and one. Know anybody that has one that might be willing to part with it? We can make arrangements and I can purchase it some way or another.

  • @NotMuchHere
    @NotMuchHere 4 месяца назад

    can you add 10k games? (probably not) winner winner chicken dinner!

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  4 месяца назад

      You can do anything if you try hard enough. 😉

  • @thegamesninja3119
    @thegamesninja3119 Год назад

    Bosconians with 4 direction Pac Man style controller is too easy. Jakks unit I has used 4 direction controller.

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +2

      The original Bosconian has an 8-way joystick, so if anything, it's accurate. 😀

    • @thegamesninja3119
      @thegamesninja3119 Год назад

      @@GenXGrownUp the extra duagonal makes it harder

    • @jessragan6714
      @jessragan6714 Год назад

      Purple with chrome stripes on the front? Yeah, I hate that thing. Total Famiclone.

  • @DigitallezSTG
    @DigitallezSTG Год назад

    Actually, all the namco plug n' play froms jakks pacific uses real ports from the original arcade games

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +1

      Except this one, you mean? 😆 This is close, but definitely modified. I'd like to learn more about what's running on this.

    • @DigitallezSTG
      @DigitallezSTG Год назад +1

      @@GenXGrownUp Well yes XD. They are more like custom ports. But they do use data from the original games. Even in the pac-man one, you can reach level 256 and find that famous glitch because of the fact that they are ports from the original roms. That's why they are so close to the original games

  • @michaelgilreath1025
    @michaelgilreath1025 Год назад

    Risky???

  • @albertramirez9770
    @albertramirez9770 Год назад

    🕹️💄🤩👍🏼

    • @albertramirez9770
      @albertramirez9770 Год назад

      “..faster than a speeding bullet..” OH MY😱💗🙏🏼

  • @astra6712
    @astra6712 Год назад

    Too bad it’s designed for right handers

    • @GenXGrownUp
      @GenXGrownUp  Год назад +1

      No more so than most arcade machines. And the titular game, Ms. Pac-Man, needs no buttons at all during play, so no problem there.