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 😂
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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”
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 😭
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*
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
When I was a kid my friend had a Lord of the Rings plug-n-play, and it was really interesting because it used motion controls (via a sword-shaped controller) before the Wii was a thing. Unfortunately, if anyone remembers the nightmare of trying to get the right gestures with the sword in Skyward Sword, it was a lot like that, except for some ridiculous reason every character had their own motion and if that character wasn't in the party at the time, and the sensor decided you were trying to do their motion, it would go "Legolas isn't here right now!" and we'd be standing in the living room going "I KNOW DAMN IT"
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
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😊
Oh wait a minute, now i get why UA-cam showed your video to me now. You summoned the whole Plug & Play group of fans from a variety of walks of life over by making the video... Or was it the algorithm? Either way, i enjoyed watching the video and seeing how similar some stuff is to other stuff. Especially if it is by the companies that have/had at least one thing of... Like Super Joystick and MyArcade.
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.
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'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
...i drove by the DreamGear office last week when going to get ramen... i cant believe they still make insane bootlegs and havent gotten sued out of existence
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.
...oh my god. i think that "win lose draw" game is the game i played when i was like *four* at some, i want to say restaurant but that makes no sense? i remember the fact that you couldnt see where you were going to draw because of the lack of hover and being so frustrated and giving up within a few minutes. holy crap you may have just solved a childhood mystery for me
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.
My sister and I played Gigapets, and also had a VsMaxx video extreme. My friend and I also had 2003 Spongebob. I remember he insisted that it was called "Spongecube." He was adamant that we refer to it as Playing Spongecube.
"The 8-bit sound effects and the lack of music may be disappointing, but when I was a kid..." Ah yes, a fellow OG gamer! "...it was just cool to see a plug-and-play with original games instead of just another retro compilation." Aaaand I aged another decade. And I think the can-shooting game from Hogan's Alley was always a bit janky - I remember sitting right in front of the TV with my Zapper (original gray, even!) practically right against the screen and the game still registering the wrong can somehow.
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.
That Super Joy thing was actually officially sold by these “As seen on TV” shopping channels in Germany even though our copyright laws were already quite strict in the early 2000s. You could also win them at lottery booths at fun fairs.
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!
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
@@CornFlavoredChickenPotPieI 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
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.
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.
> 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.
Of all things to noticed, at 30:20 when you're showing off the bootleg Super Mario Bros. game, I noticed that the game's audio is slightly off. This exact same audio comes from the RetroN 2 after-market NES/SNES system by Hyperkin. Is this just a thing with after-market NES/Famiclone systems, where they can't properly emulate the audio of the NES? The same thing happens with Mega Man. A lot of games sound fine, these always stuck out to me.
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
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
I found my old plug and play games in a storage box recently. They all had batteries in them that were extremely corroded. I took them out, cleaned the inside and plugged them in to see if they still worked. Only one of them worked, the Pixar themed one, but I was impressed it survived that long WITH old batteres. The nostalgia was was incredible.
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
The licensed non-bootleg ones? Yeah, they're definitely kind of neat considering what the developer had to deal with to get them to work. The famiclone ones? Noooot so much.
Giga pet explorer holds such a warm place in my heart for some reason. Half of the songs in that game are still fresh in my mind, despite the music not being particularly good.
20:00 Don't worry, they knew exactly what they were doing. Tricking the customer into believing this has analog controls, by making the select button look like a trackball. So evil...
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
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 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.
It always makes me a little happy to see the prevalence of ‘Macross’ on multicarts and such. The game itself isn’t especially great, just love that this is a possible introduction to the series for so many people.
19:41 stood out to me, because it has all of the same crappy games that every one of these famiclone plug and play consoles/handhelds have. Most of these games were made by one company called Power Joy. A Chinese company that has little to no information on them whatsoever. Whatever happened to them is a mystery...
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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.
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)
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 UA-camr, the guy no one can pronounce. You know, that guy.@@Winsane
The way you slowly grabbed the spider-cock stick at 6:50 caught me so off guard lmfao
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
22:10 okay this bit was awesome
I died when you quietly started voicing Jony, including the typos lmao
"Go that way, magic flower!"
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
27:37 They're using a really cool optimization trick called... lying. LOL
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
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
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!
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
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
16:27 From the name to the appearance, this is the most "VIDEO GAMEZ" thing ever. Like something you'd see in a cartoon.
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
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 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
6:56 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.
6:46 Spider-man just has that FL:CL horn on his head don't worry about it.
That’s not a horn
@@user-rp8qp1yi3sHave 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
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.
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.
0:20 The plug and play on the left I actually had as a child!
22:09 The best part of any UA-cam 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
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 😭
YWNBAW
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
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.
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
why does Magic Jony’s voice (22:50) remind me of Barney Gumble
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
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"
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...
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*
Having owned both the Spongebob and MEGA JOY II “60 GAME IN 1” plug & plays, I feel very represented in the thumbnail
24:51 I am so disappointed we didn't get to see what ASSART was...
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.
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.
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
22:28 am i having a stroke
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.
When I was a kid my friend had a Lord of the Rings plug-n-play, and it was really interesting because it used motion controls (via a sword-shaped controller) before the Wii was a thing. Unfortunately, if anyone remembers the nightmare of trying to get the right gestures with the sword in Skyward Sword, it was a lot like that, except for some ridiculous reason every character had their own motion and if that character wasn't in the party at the time, and the sensor decided you were trying to do their motion, it would go "Legolas isn't here right now!" and we'd be standing in the living room going "I KNOW DAMN IT"
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
22:00 OMG I remember Vinny played this lmao
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
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😊
"We're scraping the bottom of the barrel," Clue says, halfway into the video,
Oh wait a minute, now i get why UA-cam showed your video to me now. You summoned the whole Plug & Play group of fans from a variety of walks of life over by making the video... Or was it the algorithm? Either way, i enjoyed watching the video and seeing how similar some stuff is to other stuff. Especially if it is by the companies that have/had at least one thing of... Like Super Joystick and MyArcade.
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.
4:43 rambley noticed
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.
That spider man plug n play use to piss me tf off as a kid janky ass controls. 7:24
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 💯💯💯
...i drove by the DreamGear office last week when going to get ramen... i cant believe they still make insane bootlegs and havent gotten sued out of existence
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.
...oh my god. i think that "win lose draw" game is the game i played when i was like *four* at some, i want to say restaurant but that makes no sense? i remember the fact that you couldnt see where you were going to draw because of the lack of hover and being so frustrated and giving up within a few minutes. holy crap you may have just solved a childhood mystery for me
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
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.
"300 games? That might be too many!'
Steam libraries: *Nervous laughter
21:57 as someone who owned the 220 in 1 as a kid, seeing the magic jony in such quality made me cry
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
My sister and I played Gigapets, and also had a VsMaxx video extreme. My friend and I also had 2003 Spongebob. I remember he insisted that it was called "Spongecube." He was adamant that we refer to it as Playing Spongecube.
waking up from the sleepover to play spongecube in the early morning
31:59 this piece set is absolutely wild
"The 8-bit sound effects and the lack of music may be disappointing, but when I was a kid..."
Ah yes, a fellow OG gamer!
"...it was just cool to see a plug-and-play with original games instead of just another retro compilation."
Aaaand I aged another decade.
And I think the can-shooting game from Hogan's Alley was always a bit janky - I remember sitting right in front of the TV with my Zapper (original gray, even!) practically right against the screen and the game still registering the wrong can somehow.
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.
That Super Joy thing was actually officially sold by these “As seen on TV” shopping channels in Germany even though our copyright laws were already quite strict in the early 2000s. You could also win them at lottery booths at fun fairs.
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!
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!
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
@@CornFlavoredChickenPotPieI 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
26:24 I'm also not really pro bootleg but the only bootleg I can let slide is my boy 7 grand dad
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
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.
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.
What's crazy is that I have played many of those games from the 50 in1 maxx controller as a child...
Dude that Spongbob one in the beginning was my childhood. I also had one that looked like his house.
I approve of the Pump it Up marquees on the wall. I have an SD cab myself.
> 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.
Of all things to noticed, at 30:20 when you're showing off the bootleg Super Mario Bros. game, I noticed that the game's audio is slightly off. This exact same audio comes from the RetroN 2 after-market NES/SNES system by Hyperkin.
Is this just a thing with after-market NES/Famiclone systems, where they can't properly emulate the audio of the NES?
The same thing happens with Mega Man. A lot of games sound fine, these always stuck out to me.
WAKE UP PLANET CLUE POSTED
24:29 why is that bootleg Clu Clu Land theme so commonly on every bootleg???
The spiderman one is so freaky 6:44
why he got his spenis on the head tho
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
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
I found my old plug and play games in a storage box recently. They all had batteries in them that were extremely corroded. I took them out, cleaned the inside and plugged them in to see if they still worked. Only one of them worked, the Pixar themed one, but I was impressed it survived that long WITH old batteres. The nostalgia was was incredible.
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
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
it's so sad plug-and-play systems aren't nearly as creative as back then
The licensed non-bootleg ones? Yeah, they're definitely kind of neat considering what the developer had to deal with to get them to work.
The famiclone ones? Noooot so much.
Giga pet explorer holds such a warm place in my heart for some reason. Half of the songs in that game are still fresh in my mind, despite the music not being particularly good.
20:00 Don't worry, they knew exactly what they were doing. Tricking the customer into believing this has analog controls, by making the select button look like a trackball. So evil...
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
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 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.
ITS A Spider-Weiner LOL
They made the select button so big because you'll want to select a different game five seconds after the last one.
OMG, Gigapets is such a blast from the past. I remember playing it for hours.
It always makes me a little happy to see the prevalence of ‘Macross’ on multicarts and such. The game itself isn’t especially great, just love that this is a possible introduction to the series for so many people.
19:41 stood out to me, because it has all of the same crappy games that every one of these famiclone plug and play consoles/handhelds have. Most of these games were made by one company called Power Joy. A Chinese company that has little to no information on them whatsoever. Whatever happened to them is a mystery...
You could have went further into the video
@@paulhalvorson6122 as soon as I posted this comment I saw it lmao I'm sorry
14:15 Why is that eraser aggressively thrusting at me with that look on his face?
Sponsored by ROG? Planet Clue really is going places
Bro seeing the Spiderman 3 plug and play sent me back to my childhood. I loved it so much
I really like this format. Just hearing you talk and handle this old stuff is a joy to watch. :)