I’ve been begging for _YEARS_ to play Mega Man 2 on my TV in a really stupid way. Ever since I was -3 years old I thought “imagine if I could directly plug in Mega Man 2 into my TV and play with a cheap controller even though I have a WiiU with it already installed” so thank you Arcade1Up, you have blessed me greatly
You buy this when you are on a family beach vacation and realize it’s going to rain all day and you need to keep the kids quiet. When it’s left at the rental beach house no one will cry but it buys a few hours of calm.
Little kids don’t wanna play these old ass games, no matter how much we retro junkies act like they do. Most of them would rather watch grass grow than to play this ancient stuff 😂
They shoudl've just kept the game in the controller and used an extra long cable or something. Having the separate box is silly and makes it wholly inconvenient. But it's probably just a super generic SoC board that's just an awkward shape to fit in to a controller... but if it was something neat like one of those joystick plug and plays, it probably would fit in to the base of something like that just fine, or if they made it kinda the shape of an NES advantage stick or something, it would've been a kinda neat alternative to the company's usual full size arcade cabinet product and would make sense to exist.
Yes use as a set-top console, but to hack and see what I can do with it. It looks like it has both a micro-USB and an SD Card slot, so those seem like easy entry points.
@@FFSamuraiEven without true market competition they serve a niche audience. Most people don’t have space for more than 1 or 2 cabs so there aren’t many repeat customers. And the price increase/quality decrease over the years hasn’t helped that problem.
13:23 THANK YOU, SCOTT. Unironically, about time people notice Namco games tend to be emulated at incorrect pitch in audio by a lot of people, most notably Arcade1Up.
I feel like a lot of companies are banking on the fact that there are tons of "collectors" out there who will buy their products for the nostalgia/marketing alone and those people will never know exactly how bad it is because they will buy it, never open it, and put it on a shelf as part of a greater collection. The fact that it does anything besides be made of plastic is an after thought
yes the decade of collectors becoming the big thing has ruined a lot and driven prices through the roof. I used to collect SNES and N64 games thankfully I've gotten most of what I want before the hoardes of game collectors moved in.
@@skunkwerkz777it’s brutal, my uncle is a big video game collector and has seemingly everything. It was always my goal to be like that, but the market is so rough nowadays even og Xbox games cost lol
Where I live there is a sellers market that sells a Atari flashback system, it comes with 2 joysticks and 2 paddles and want 70 dollars for it lol. I don't even know which Atari flashback one it is. It's not the first one, but it could be the 9th or 10th one, I don't know
Arcade 1UP I remember used to be all the rage with their machines, and it seems like they’ve lost a lot of customer goodwill because of bad business practices.
@@CalderTF2 A previous Scott Stash went over it in more detail: They expand their library and variety at a glacial pace, yet frequently release new machines that invalidate the older releases by being the same cabinet with more games, at practically the same price. Redundant releases/rereleases if the same games, on non ungradable hardware, sonetimes in form factors no one asked for, at a fairly high price for what you're paying for
I'm 35, grew up with NES, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, Xbox. Oh yeah and Gameboy, GBC and GBA. My son, who is 16 now grew up with a Wii, a 360, a DS, a 3DS and then he started gaming on a computer. Anyway,I love this channel. It's easy to watch, listen and enjoy in a time of chaos. Bravo!
@@YoungMrBlue GameCube games may not have been on the Wii U Virtual Console, but if you mod the system, you can use Homebrew apps to load up GameCube roms on a Wii U.
It has been a while since I've looked at "new tv's", extremely so since it took me listening to this video to end up knowing that many TV's today have few hdmi ports on them. My old Magnavox has 3 HDMI ports, 1 USB port, 6 of the traditional blue red orange yellow white ports for older entertainment media like consoles or even DVD players, a Headphone jack (for smaller speakers but idk who'd actually use their headphones for this relatively big tv), Antenna IN, and a PC-IN RGB. Makes me want to ensure this old thing stays around even when I'm in my 80s,
My cheap 4k LG from 2019 has 3 HDMI in, 2 USB in (basically only for an HDD to record antenna / cable shows), 1 set of component in (plus composite on green), cable / antenna in, and optical spdif out. But yeah, connection options are becoming a luxury, though thankfully external HDMI switches aren't that expensive. I have a cheap one that auto-swaps that connects most of my more modern game consoles to my TV.
I think these things ARE unironically just AtGames products from the same factory with a different logo The "Flashback Blast!" also have the 6 button config.
well when your fat fingers eventually break the tab holding the battery door and you have to tape it on. You might have wished for a screw instead. Although both items are junk and probably nobody cares
To shed some light on the "smoothing filter" thing, what that looks like to me is the game being blown up to 720p or lower without any integer scaling, and then that image being blown up to a higher resolution itself with bilinear filtering. It's easiest to see on the strawberry where the pixel sizes are all out of wack.
only use case i can see for the mega man one is your grandpa walks in the store, sees it, and goes "gee I loved them mega men, i should buy this for lil timmy!" and poor tim doesnt have the heart to tell him he can already play them all, so he tries to kinda turn it into an nes emulator by sticking roms he already has in it just so he can kinda do something with it even if he really just prefers to play said roms on his pc
There's also the fact that MegaMan Legacy Collection with the same set of games is available on other consoles and is a better experience than WHATEVER THIS CONTROLLER HAS.
I have a Pac-Man shaped plug n play with these games on it Bosconian Dig dug Galaga Galaxian Mappy Pac & Pal Pac-Man Pac-Man 256 Pac-ManPlus Rally X Super Pac-Man Xevious Notice the number of Pac-Man games on it. 5 including Pac-Man 256 which is a ROM hack that lets you start at the last level of the game (unlike Pac-Man 256 on Steam, iOS, Android, etc).
Even though Mappy is included in this, I still find Mappy to be the most underrated Namco classic in my opinion. Mappy is genuinely a really great game and overall a lot of fun, yet for some reason it doesn't get the same love and attention as Dig Dug and Pacman. At-least Bosconian and Toy Pop, I see lot of love people want back. I rarely hear people talk about Mappy on the other hand.
If they called it "Namco Collection" nobody would buy it, because the audience foolish enough to buy it likely doesn't know what the hell (a) Namco is, they only know Pac-Man.
@Mimi.1001 There is such thing as the Namco Museum collections which have been around for 20 years since the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era, and those have sold relatively well. And if I'm going to be buying a game compilation expecting it's a bunch of Pac-Man games and it isn't, I'd be kind of pissed and say it's false advertising. It's like if I bought that Mega Man collection and it also ended up including Street Fighter or Ghosts and Goblins because those were also made by Capcom at the time. Nothing wrong with Street Fighter, I would just be expecting it to be entirely Mega Man.
9:11 HEY, fun fact: turns out Arcade1Up WAS gonna go that route. However, if I recall correctly, AtGames put a stop to that, stating they didn't want their copyrights or whatever to be infringed.
It's pretty cool that Capcom has made Mega Man pretty accessible across most generations. I can't believe these are Arcade 1up products though. None of these needed more than 2 buttons.
Scott the Woz drinking challenge: watch any video where he talks about plug and plays or cheap retro flashback consoles and take a shot every time he says some variation of "well these aren't really for me they're for people who haven't played these games in years and want a cheap quick way of playing some older games"
I kinda want to get one now. Not to use as a set-top console, but to hack and see what I can do with it. It looks like it has both a micro-USB and an SD Card slot, so those seem like easy entry points.
These are the "shitty Christmas gifts your aunt and uncle get when they stop in at a Rite Aide for toothpaste and Tylenol on the way to Christmas dinner and then they're staying the weekend" gifts. They're $20 and "Little Billy likes them vidja games." They're "stocking stuffers" for stockings you probably forgot to buy too.
These are older products from a couple years ago and the company somewhat backed away from this product line pretty quickly after release lol. I dont think many people had favorable opinions about them, especially from a company focused on arcade replicas.
I believe most modern smart TVs have the option to connect a controller nowadays. I got a new Samsung one last year and it came with Xbox game game pass and antstream installed. I never try them because my tv is connected to my PC and Switch but the option are there
yea, you can download emulators on smart tv's or use a usb stick to install retroarch. It works pretty good, imo. Performance will be based on your TV, tho. Most TV's should be able to play up to PSX easily enough.
@@MarioMadness1 i could, but they're just 2 years old and LOVE the color blue. I also managed to find one for ~$17. which is cheap enough to let em play with until they get a bit older ♥ then i can just give em a firestick :)
Extremely agree. Mappy is a really awesome game, yet for some reason doesn't get a lot of love in the gaming community, mainly outside of Japan as far as I know. Mappy is pretty popular in Japan, but here in the US and everywhere else, it only has niche audience who actually gave it a chance and appreciate it.
You pretty much nailed it Scott. Everything you mentioned in this video. Once i saw you were making a video on this, i know I needed to hear your take on all the things i pretty much knew you were going to say about these "consoles"
7:01 At the time of this comment, Amazon is selling a $180 Amazon-branded TV that has 3 HDMI ports, all three of which are mounted on the side rather than the back. The $300 one has 4 HDMI ports.
I don't know. The novelty of seeing if a controller the game was not designed for works, most likely. How is the d-pad on here compared to a standard one? I've seen one of these sorts of units with a joystick before and wondered how it would work, but the joystick can't be used as a controller in other games without a lot of work, which is a shame, it looked really cool. That does beg one question, the unit shown has a six-button Genesis controller, why are there extra buttons, and why not shove the Wily Wars version on there?
i just wish they re released the simpsons arcade game on something other than a stand alone console. Has been available since xbox 360 and they D- listed it.
Always thought with the _Mega Man_ one, couldn't they have crammed _Power Battle_ and _2: Power Fighters_ (from the arcade) on there as well to make use of all those buttons?
Reminds me of the old emulator consoles you'd get at the dollar store 20 years ago. At the time it was great, like 40 console games for 30-40 bucks and this was when phones or roms were more for serious gamers for nostalgia gaming, but in 2024 there's too many better options
I still have my Mortal Kombat plug and play from Jakks Pacific from 2004 - it's a well done and and complete port of the first MK (an uniqe version with all the blood and gore included, and it's better playable than the 16bit console versions) and it still works and plays very good. This devices remind me on it, but who needs six buttons for Pacman or Megaman (edit: it only makes sense when you load ROMs on it, which is a nice feature, but just like you said, there are much better emulation devices out there)?
I'm binging and catching up to a bunch of scott the woz content right now and it's making me want to go find and purchase a wii. I want to play some of my childhood maybe if I could find one with games already pre loaded on it but finding it is harder
13:48 it might not be a filter, it could just be upscaling with bad ratio, like when you put modern screens on modded gameboys and the pixels dither in the wrong places
I’ve been begging for _YEARS_ to play Mega Man 2 on my TV in a really stupid way. Ever since I was -3 years old I thought “imagine if I could directly plug in Mega Man 2 into my TV and play with a cheap controller even though I have a WiiU with it already installed” so thank you Arcade1Up, you have blessed me greatly
Playing it on a Wii U is already pretty stupid, tho. :)
@@Crazy_Gamer_OG What did you just say about the Wii U?
@@legospider1437"Playing it on a Wii U is already pretty stupid, tho. :)"
The Famicom Mini had stupid mini controllers. It was ridiculous to try to play Mega Man 2 that way.
My first time playing Mega Man 2 was on mobile 8-ish years ago. It was pretty wacky, looks like the app was removed from the store though.
You buy this when you are on a family beach vacation and realize it’s going to rain all day and you need to keep the kids quiet. When it’s left at the rental beach house no one will cry but it buys a few hours of calm.
I mean, at least this explanation makes sense 🤣
which nowadays is also dumb because is most likely that kids have Smartphones with games on them, or Cocomelon/TikTok
Little kids don’t wanna play these old ass games, no matter how much we retro junkies act like they do. Most of them would rather watch grass grow than to play this ancient stuff 😂
Well first I need a beach house, but before that I need a house and kids
I loved these things as a kid no joke and I'm from the 90's/00's @@chiarosuburekeni9325
"It's a sticker" is somehow the perfect representation of these things
1:22 tiger electronics jumpscare on the right side
❗️NOWT wrong with the 'Tiger LCD' Games.
so glad I'm not the only one that noticed it lmfaooo
😂😂 so sly
Wtf why did it just move that was weird lol
Easy tiger.
It’s amazing how far plug and play consoles have came in the past 25 years. They’ve changed the cord.
😲
They added a cord for power!
They shoudl've just kept the game in the controller and used an extra long cable or something. Having the separate box is silly and makes it wholly inconvenient. But it's probably just a super generic SoC board that's just an awkward shape to fit in to a controller... but if it was something neat like one of those joystick plug and plays, it probably would fit in to the base of something like that just fine, or if they made it kinda the shape of an NES advantage stick or something, it would've been a kinda neat alternative to the company's usual full size arcade cabinet product and would make sense to exist.
Yes use as a set-top console, but to hack and see what I can do with it.
It looks like it has both a micro-USB and an SD Card slot, so those seem like easy entry points.
It's pretty hilarious that a pacman clone console has 6 buttons. All you need is joystick and one freaking button to press start lmao 😂
Yeah hahhahaa😊
They definitely wanna put Street Fighter on it at some point without needing new molds
don't forget it has mappy
They look like bootleg Saturn controllers.
What about xevious, you need two
The Arcade1UP storyline truly has gone places I never would have expected
Genuinely surprised they are still around, and I don’t think it will be much longer
@@RusticRonnieWhy? They have like one competitor and at their prices selling one cabinet sets them for like ten billion years.
@@FFSamuraiEven without true market competition they serve a niche audience. Most people don’t have space for more than 1 or 2 cabs so there aren’t many repeat customers. And the price increase/quality decrease over the years hasn’t helped that problem.
13:23
THANK YOU, SCOTT. Unironically, about time people notice Namco games tend to be emulated at incorrect pitch in audio by a lot of people, most notably Arcade1Up.
PAC-MAN's Pixel Bash not only has higher pitched audio, but slower audio.
I audibly gasped and clutched my pearls when you discovered it was just a sticker
proof or it didnt happen 😊
@@ReyaadGafurcan confirm I was there, I clutched my own pearls in perfect harmony
I feel like a lot of companies are banking on the fact that there are tons of "collectors" out there who will buy their products for the nostalgia/marketing alone and those people will never know exactly how bad it is because they will buy it, never open it, and put it on a shelf as part of a greater collection. The fact that it does anything besides be made of plastic is an after thought
yes the decade of collectors becoming the big thing has ruined a lot and driven prices through the roof. I used to collect SNES and N64 games thankfully I've gotten most of what I want before the hoardes of game collectors moved in.
@@skunkwerkz777it’s brutal, my uncle is a big video game collector and has seemingly everything. It was always my goal to be like that, but the market is so rough nowadays even og Xbox games cost lol
Where I live there is a sellers market that sells a Atari flashback system, it comes with 2 joysticks and 2 paddles and want 70 dollars for it lol. I don't even know which Atari flashback one it is. It's not the first one, but it could be the 9th or 10th one, I don't know
Arcade 1UP I remember used to be all the rage with their machines, and it seems like they’ve lost a lot of customer goodwill because of bad business practices.
Indeed😊
What did they do?
Nah. These plug n plays have been out for a while.
Why are all of you demonizing them all of a sudden? They're still making cabinets like usual.
@@CalderTF2 A previous Scott Stash went over it in more detail: They expand their library and variety at a glacial pace, yet frequently release new machines that invalidate the older releases by being the same cabinet with more games, at practically the same price.
Redundant releases/rereleases if the same games, on non ungradable hardware, sonetimes in form factors no one asked for, at a fairly high price for what you're paying for
I'm 35, grew up with NES, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, Xbox. Oh yeah and Gameboy, GBC and GBA.
My son, who is 16 now grew up with a Wii, a 360, a DS, a 3DS and then he started gaming on a computer.
Anyway,I love this channel. It's easy to watch, listen and enjoy in a time of chaos. Bravo!
"People will already have a device to play their Roms on!" Indeed, I got a totally legal Wii U for all my GameCube games.
How? GameCube wasn’t on virtual console???
@@YoungMrBlue I had hacked, i mean, "modified" my Wii U and have close to all Nintendo games from NES to the Wii U.😇
@@YoungMrBlue GameCube games may not have been on the Wii U Virtual Console, but if you mod the system, you can use Homebrew apps to load up GameCube roms on a Wii U.
@@YoungMrBluemodded Wii U with a modded virtual Wii running Nintendont. You can play GameCube games at 1080p
@@YoungMrBlueNintendon't
It has been a while since I've looked at "new tv's", extremely so since it took me listening to this video to end up knowing that many TV's today have few hdmi ports on them. My old Magnavox has 3 HDMI ports, 1 USB port, 6 of the traditional blue red orange yellow white ports for older entertainment media like consoles or even DVD players, a Headphone jack (for smaller speakers but idk who'd actually use their headphones for this relatively big tv), Antenna IN, and a PC-IN RGB. Makes me want to ensure this old thing stays around even when I'm in my 80s,
I guess I owe its so far decent life span due to not using it so often over the years.
I also have an old TV with 3 HDMI ports, S-video, component cables. But it's before smart TV so no apps.
@@BrianIsWatchingno apps is a good thing. If you want the smart features you can plug in a Roku stick, but the built in apps on smart TVs are trash
My cheap 4k LG from 2019 has 3 HDMI in, 2 USB in (basically only for an HDD to record antenna / cable shows), 1 set of component in (plus composite on green), cable / antenna in, and optical spdif out.
But yeah, connection options are becoming a luxury, though thankfully external HDMI switches aren't that expensive. I have a cheap one that auto-swaps that connects most of my more modern game consoles to my TV.
A lot of TVs will have 3 or 4 now. I bought a cheap 4K TV at Walmart and it has 4 ports. Scott is a little behind with that statement.
Cant wait for the Scott's Stash episode on the Wii Balance Board
Honestly is probably coming soon
I want to see 12 minute video of just Scott petting his cats
I think these things ARE unironically just AtGames products from the same factory with a different logo
The "Flashback Blast!" also have the 6 button config.
shATgames
That's definitely their company motto now. It used to be "Arcade 1up: We learned all the wrong lessons." but that didn't focus test very well.
I pushed the like button when Scott pointed out the screw in the back of the controller. Those only exist for inconvenience and no other reason.
well when your fat fingers eventually break the tab holding the battery door and you have to tape it on. You might have wished for a screw instead. Although both items are junk and probably nobody cares
Those controllers look like if someone who had only just learned about game controllers was told to design a fake toy version for toddlers.
the HDMI was the most expensive part lmao
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Scott’s stash brightens my day
these are prime for people who know their family member is into video games and knows nothing else
I love that the spanish translation for "Wireless gaming" in the box just says "wireless gambling game" in spanish
Google translation be like
To shed some light on the "smoothing filter" thing, what that looks like to me is the game being blown up to 720p or lower without any integer scaling, and then that image being blown up to a higher resolution itself with bilinear filtering. It's easiest to see on the strawberry where the pixel sizes are all out of wack.
only use case i can see for the mega man one is your grandpa walks in the store, sees it, and goes "gee I loved them mega men, i should buy this for lil timmy!" and poor tim doesnt have the heart to tell him he can already play them all, so he tries to kinda turn it into an nes emulator by sticking roms he already has in it just so he can kinda do something with it even if he really just prefers to play said roms on his pc
There's also the fact that MegaMan Legacy Collection with the same set of games is available on other consoles and is a better experience than WHATEVER THIS CONTROLLER HAS.
I love that the Pac-Man Collection only has 2 Pac-Man games and doesn’t even have the one everyone likes best
Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man should always come together, dangit!
@@MacUser2-il2cxMs. Pac-Man is owned by someone else.
Rest In Peace Ms. Pac-Man
@games can suck it @@Crazy_Gamer_OG
I have a Pac-Man shaped plug n play with these games on it
Bosconian
Dig dug
Galaga
Galaxian
Mappy
Pac & Pal
Pac-Man
Pac-Man 256
Pac-ManPlus
Rally X
Super Pac-Man
Xevious
Notice the number of Pac-Man games on it. 5 including Pac-Man 256 which is a ROM hack that lets you start at the last level of the game (unlike Pac-Man 256 on Steam, iOS, Android, etc).
I'm inspired by scott's commitment to owning things.
Another day another Namco thing that refuses to acknowledge Bosconian exists.
First played it in the Namco volume 1 on PlayStation, freaking loved it. "ALIVE ALIVE"
man I loved Bosconian on the old Namco plug and play
Or toy pop
@@jacobj3933Same, that introduced me to the game. Shame Namco doesn’t want us to remember though.
Even though Mappy is included in this, I still find Mappy to be the most underrated Namco classic in my opinion. Mappy is genuinely a really great game and overall a lot of fun, yet for some reason it doesn't get the same love and attention as Dig Dug and Pacman. At-least Bosconian and Toy Pop, I see lot of love people want back. I rarely hear people talk about Mappy on the other hand.
“Let’s take the main gimmick of our product, and remove it” - Arcade1Up
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Concordo
Si ese es fernando. Quien seria Francisco
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I love how it's called "Pac-Man Collection" but there's only TWO Pac-Man games included on the console.
Yeah they also could have included pac-man plus or pac man arragment
If they called it "Namco Collection" nobody would buy it, because the audience foolish enough to buy it likely doesn't know what the hell (a) Namco is, they only know Pac-Man.
@@MrYoshiNL Honestly, I'm not complaining because my favorite game Mappy is included there anyway. For that game alone, I'm completely satisfied.
@Mimi.1001 There is such thing as the Namco Museum collections which have been around for 20 years since the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era, and those have sold relatively well. And if I'm going to be buying a game compilation expecting it's a bunch of Pac-Man games and it isn't, I'd be kind of pissed and say it's false advertising. It's like if I bought that Mega Man collection and it also ended up including Street Fighter or Ghosts and Goblins because those were also made by Capcom at the time. Nothing wrong with Street Fighter, I would just be expecting it to be entirely Mega Man.
At least the Mega Man controller doesn't require a screwdriver to change the batteries, so that's progress I guess.
9:11 HEY, fun fact: turns out Arcade1Up WAS gonna go that route. However, if I recall correctly, AtGames put a stop to that, stating they didn't want their copyrights or whatever to be infringed.
The prototypes, shown off at CES 2020: www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_super/1551/15511094/3624133-image%20from%20ios.jpg
Not like that matters anyway considering that they're incompetent when it comes to game emulation.
"White man have been here."
"How can you tell?"
"New Scott's Stash upload."
For those who are wondering what is the background music it’s the challenge music from megaman 9 and 10
The old Plug and Plays had the decency to look good on the shelf when you were tired if them.
Wasn’t even aware arcade 1up was hopping on the plug and play wagon, nice to see them doing something for people who aren’t hardcore gamers.
These are a coupla years old. They bailed.on em quick cause no one wanted them
Good job editing Justin
The 1 player/2 player button layout to start/reset is straight from their quater arcade cabinets.
It's pretty cool that Capcom has made Mega Man pretty accessible across most generations. I can't believe these are Arcade 1up products though. None of these needed more than 2 buttons.
Scott the Woz drinking challenge: watch any video where he talks about plug and plays or cheap retro flashback consoles and take a shot every time he says some variation of "well these aren't really for me they're for people who haven't played these games in years and want a cheap quick way of playing some older games"
Scott going hard at Walgreens and CVS in this vid.
10:30 these vids are becoming more scott the woz by the day
I kinda want to get one now.
Not to use as a set-top console, but to hack and see what I can do with it.
It looks like it has both a micro-USB and an SD Card slot, so those seem like easy entry points.
I miss playing the GBA Pokémon games on my Android, so this could fill that void for me
@@anth636just get a Miyoo Mini Plus
These are the "shitty Christmas gifts your aunt and uncle get when they stop in at a Rite Aide for toothpaste and Tylenol on the way to Christmas dinner and then they're staying the weekend" gifts. They're $20 and "Little Billy likes them vidja games."
They're "stocking stuffers" for stockings you probably forgot to buy too.
Arcade1Up doing Jakks Pacific-style Plug & Play games in 2024.
These are older products from a couple years ago and the company somewhat backed away from this product line pretty quickly after release lol. I dont think many people had favorable opinions about them, especially from a company focused on arcade replicas.
they gave you what is basically an entire sega saturn controller to play NES games
Another episode of "Why did you even buy that, Scott?"
Tax write offs for production costs.
Stuff like this make me appreciate my My Arcade Nano arcade cabinets even more.
Ah yes, a Pac Man collection, where only 2/10 games are Pac Man
I believe most modern smart TVs have the option to connect a controller nowadays. I got a new Samsung one last year and it came with Xbox game game pass and antstream installed. I never try them because my tv is connected to my PC and Switch but the option are there
yea, you can download emulators on smart tv's or use a usb stick to install retroarch. It works pretty good, imo. Performance will be based on your TV, tho. Most TV's should be able to play up to PSX easily enough.
The tiger product on the side made me think you were going to compare it at some point, and I kept expecting for it to show up 🤣
Thanks to this video i know what to buy for a very very young family member
I can even load it up with roms for them, which is a plus
nah, you can do firestick or android. with 1000's of roms
@@MarioMadness1 i could, but they're just 2 years old and LOVE the color blue.
I also managed to find one for ~$17.
which is cheap enough to let em play with
until they get a bit older ♥
then i can just give em a firestick :)
@@SAYHI2JAMMY I use a retroid or rg35xx myself. but little more expensive
Plug n play console makes a comeback
All jokes aside, I think Mappy Is criminally underrated
Extremely agree. Mappy is a really awesome game, yet for some reason doesn't get a lot of love in the gaming community, mainly outside of Japan as far as I know. Mappy is pretty popular in Japan, but here in the US and everywhere else, it only has niche audience who actually gave it a chance and appreciate it.
I love have Scott knowingly buys a product that is bad, makes a video about how bad it is, and seems slightly surprised at how bad they are.
He is doing us a favor
A classic Mega Man console where you're forced to use a d-pad that looks like that is a crime.
Let’s all appreciate that Justin Womble edited this!
You pretty much nailed it Scott. Everything you mentioned in this video. Once i saw you were making a video on this, i know I needed to hear your take on all the things i pretty much knew you were going to say about these "consoles"
7:01 At the time of this comment, Amazon is selling a $180 Amazon-branded TV that has 3 HDMI ports, all three of which are mounted on the side rather than the back. The $300 one has 4 HDMI ports.
Wait, why does the Arcade1Up Pac-Man HDMI console have more than Pac-man games on it? Shouldn't it be called the Namco Collection console?
all i can think when seeing these Joysticks is that YuGi-oh card Kaiba used in the Battle City finals
Enemy controller
Why is it that I want every MegaMan collection?
For some reason I still have the urge to buy that thing.
I don't know. The novelty of seeing if a controller the game was not designed for works, most likely. How is the d-pad on here compared to a standard one? I've seen one of these sorts of units with a joystick before and wondered how it would work, but the joystick can't be used as a controller in other games without a lot of work, which is a shame, it looked really cool. That does beg one question, the unit shown has a six-button Genesis controller, why are there extra buttons, and why not shove the Wily Wars version on there?
My guilty pleasure too Scott thanks for the video
Love the JonTron reference in the beginning.
"Perfect for children with no necks!"
GAME FILLIP
Scott and Jon still dissing each other???
@@mrbeaver6000"Finally a game console for me!"
@@leighdappajon is racist and xenophobic. Scott isn’t. Scott wins
this is like if Plug & Play systems made you feel an overwhelming sense of despair whenever you played them
I can listen to Scott's hands talk about plug and play video games all day.
I'm surprised it still USES Micro USB instead of Type C.
Pac man console looking like a dewalt wireless battery
real
i just wish they re released the simpsons arcade game on something other than a stand alone console. Has been available since xbox 360 and they D- listed it.
You can thank some kid choking on a battery and his parents suing for the screw requirement for certain devices.
I bet these could be hacked easily.
Wouldn't really matter seeing as they already play ROMs.
I’d buy one of these for my kids if they wanted a video game system. That’s about it.
Always thought with the _Mega Man_ one, couldn't they have crammed _Power Battle_ and _2: Power Fighters_ (from the arcade) on there as well to make use of all those buttons?
this Scott guy seems kinda cool, he should start a scripted comedy channel
🐿 Jimothy
EPIC
RetroArch works on chromecasts with most controllers.
I literally just got the notif for this upload 6 days later. Nice
Last minute gifts for little Timmy.
I just want a good Crazy Taxi Arcade 1 Up cabinet with the original music. That would be legendary.
How many times does Scott say "garbage" or "crummy" in this video
Weird trashy things like this probably do a lot of damage to how people percieve pac man and mega man tbh
Not sure if its been done or not but id loce to see scotts thoughts on 8bitdo
Reminds me of the old emulator consoles you'd get at the dollar store 20 years ago. At the time it was great, like 40 console games for 30-40 bucks and this was when phones or roms were more for serious gamers for nostalgia gaming, but in 2024 there's too many better options
Theses are the ultimate uncle Christmas gift
No way I'd buy these for my nephews, lol.
@@Crazy_Gamer_OG then you’re a good uncle! Lol
Only 2 HDMI ports?
I have 4 on my LG OLED.
What kind of cheap TVs are you using?
I still have my Mortal Kombat plug and play from Jakks Pacific from 2004 - it's a well done and and complete port of the first MK (an uniqe version with all the blood and gore included, and it's better playable than the 16bit console versions) and it still works and plays very good. This devices remind me on it, but who needs six buttons for Pacman or Megaman (edit: it only makes sense when you load ROMs on it, which is a nice feature, but just like you said, there are much better emulation devices out there)?
This video was recommended to me and I was thinking, hey that sounds like Scott......lol
As a poor kid i loved this kinda of things, i couldnt have a console but i can have a tetris and pacman controller with it
Funny how the Pacman Collection one only has 2 of the games when there's a lot more than that.
8:13
😂 AVGN moment there, Scott?
Arcade1up will never release a light gun cabinet
I'm binging and catching up to a bunch of scott the woz content right now and it's making me want to go find and purchase a wii. I want to play some of my childhood maybe if I could find one with games already pre loaded on it but finding it is harder
I worry what kind of TVs Scott has, because my TV has four HDMI ports.
On the side.
(But what annoys me is the HEADPHONE JACK is on the back.)
The best thing that ever happened was when the guy at Walmart wanted to get rid of the last Simpson’s Arcade machine so he gave it to me for like $180
This is the most accurate criticism on the internet
13:48 it might not be a filter, it could just be upscaling with bad ratio, like when you put modern screens on modded gameboys and the pixels dither in the wrong places
That’s some crazy consoles!
1:46 look out, tiger electronics is trying to come back!