Jakks TV Plug & Plays.

[drzaius1]

I have one with Ms Pac man, Galaga and Pole Position. They are great for plahing on the dvd player on long road trips with the kids. The only thing i miss is the ability to slam the joystick from side to side while playing Galaga. The arcade machine experience is still the ultimate.

[ODBJBG]

I have some of the old Pac Man and Frogger ones. Before you got five or six games each.

I like some of the new games that they've made as well. They're good for kids and a fun throwback to the old days.

[Werewolf]

I've tried the Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man versions for the break room at work. Unfortunately they are not very durable. Also wasn't happy to discover while the games looked right they weren't the original arcade versions. I'm become a real stickler for that.

The Pac-Man ones are my favs. They are ports but they are REALLY good ports. The current Retro Arcade Pac-Man 12 Arcade Classics is great.

[VintageMike]

I've tried the Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man versions for the break room at work. Unfortunately they are not very durable. Also wasn't happy to discover while the games looked right they weren't the original arcade versions. I'm become a real stickler for that.

[bizzaro megomauler]

i have a few of them. I got the intellivision one (i think i sold it here though) and the wheel of fortune one. I would love to get more but i have the originals, so it would just lead to another box of stuff i never use! they are great though and worth every last cent!

[HardyGirl]

When I was working w/ the older kids, I bought one of the Atari joysticks, but it had different games. It had Adventure, Missile Command, Pong, and some others. They loved it.

[Werewolf]

I love little retro gadgets like this.

Some mini reviews.

Atari 10 Video classics.

Adventure, Gravitar,Circus Atari, Pong, Missile Command, Centipede, Yars Revenge, Asteroids, Breakout and Real Sports Volleyball.

Love the look of it. Very close to an actual 2600 joystick. Just a little thicker to house the batteries and power buttons. The emulation on this is not bad. I think it must be an NES on a chip design because the sounds are all a little off. Overall a nice selection of games. Pong, Circus Atari and Breakout don't control all that well with with the joystick though. The high points being Missile Command and Asteroids. They look and play great. Centipede is a little off and is faster than the real 2600 version.

Atari 13 Paddle Games.

Steeple Chase, Demons to Diamonds, Street Racer, Pong, Canyon Bomber, Circus Atari, Arcade Warlords, Warlords, Video Olympics, Breakout Super Breakout, Casino and Night Driver.

Not as authentic looking as the Joystick. It still resembles the classic paddle. Just a bigger heavier version of it. It has three more games than the 2600 stick but three of them are Pong. Video Olympics, Pong and Arcade Pong. Arcade Pong being the best of the three. The games control well and look and sound as they should. The best of the games are Warlords and Arcade Warlords. Where the paddle really excels is with its terrific option screen in the games. You have a virtual Atari sixer to set the game options like you would on an actual Atari. Pretty neat. The game select screen is also really cool and look like virtual Atari cartridges.

Some people might find the games really archaic and probably not a whole lot of fun and to be fair some of them have not aged all that well. But I think old school Atari fans will dig them and find them a great value. Oh, yeah, and they both work just fine on modern LCD HDTVs.

Anyone else like these?