If you pull the pad in half you have a similar layout to the Quest 2 controllers. Thumbstick on the outer edges under your thumb with buttons on the inside.
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Found this series of old photos in my Twitter backup.
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Is anyone here familiar with Namco and Taito’s Japan-only “Let’s! TV Play Classic” plug & play devices? I stumbled upon some information about those online, and, well, they’re rather peculiar.
So, the games featured on these devices are basically arcade ports, but the interesting thing is that there are also arranged versions that have features that are exclusive to the “Let’s! TV Play Classic” range.
Here are gameplay videos of all four devices.
There was also supposed to be a fifth system featuring Bravoman, The Tower of Druaga and arranged versions of both games, but that one was ultimately cancelled.
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Oh nice, Kiki Kaikai!
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Theres an handheld version of that too lol, saw it for sale in pound land a few years back!
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Saw this loose DBZ plug and play unit while at a toy/game collectibles shop today, no idea what the games are like but am guessing they’re probably knock offs of the GBA era 2D Dragon Ball games?
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Found a video of the included games:
The pinball one looks pretty fun!
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Gaming peaked with this.
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Not old… but I cracked up when this was advertised to me recently.
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lol, what the hell?!
The ‘novelty gift’ category has really gone to more expensive places in recent years, hasn’t it?
There are those people collecting those arcade1up LCD cabinets. I see photos in some gaming groups of people with ten of them. I doubt they play them much. After a certain point they could have gotten a nice candy cab and a few real arcade boards for the actual real thing for less money.
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What? What? What? Who would want this? Like, what the heckenridoo?
I see there is also an atari stick one as well. Oh man, what is going on with the world?
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Never seen this before. Love it.
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Here in NL they were sold by Dixons for a few years.
The nostalgia nerd made a nice video about the system if you want to have a closer look.
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Fellow countryman here!
Yeah, I can remember Dixons selling all sorts of odd systems during that time period. The one that rather piqued my interest back then was the Supervision.
It was a bit rubbish, though, so I’m glad I ultimately hadn’t bought it.
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You had Dixons in the Netherlands? I thought they were only in the UK.
Places like Argos used to sell those machines too. I’m sure they were sold under the Systema3 brand in the UK.
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This always annoys me too - it’s tough to find one that has the stick on the left AND arcade Galaga instead of Famicom.
What we came up with was opening up a dirty one from the thrift store and swapping the inputs!! Added a nicer composite cable and we’re off!!
(we need to print a new sticker!!)
I have a little 9 inch CRT by my desk at work and someone put up a 100k Galaga score today! That’s our current high.
Another cool thing is that these save high scores even when you take the batteries out - it writes the scores to memory better than the dang arcade machines do!! I bought this with a 51k Galaga score by CAR. They’re still on the top five after one day at least!
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