It also has a neat bonus in that the knob of the joystick is shaped like Pac-Man himself. The joystick is a durable, responsive, clicky, microswitch device that feels similar to an authentic arcade joystick. The joysticks in Jakks Pacific’s TV Games units are traditionally excellent, and Super Pac-Man is no exception to this rule. After bringing the unit home and playing it, however, I have decided that it might even be worth the $20 originally offered. The unit retails for around $20 (US), but until a recent half-off post-Thanksgiving sale at the aforementioned Target, I didn’t consider buying one. I must admit that I never thought I’d encounter this lineup in a TV Games unit my first thought upon seeing the list was “They must be desperate.” It’s no secret that three out of four of the included games in this unit were complete flops in the arcade. In this case, it’s four different Pac-Man titles: Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Super Pac-Man, and Pac & Pal. And it’s their latest Super Pac-Man TV Games unit that I’ll be discussing in this review.Īs always, this battery-powered, stand-alone joystick hooks directly to the A/V inputs on a modern TV and contains a collection of classic games. Jakks Pacific’s line of classic game units, developed by HotGen of London, have typically retained a high standard of quality over the years. But their absolute retail ubiquity doesn’t mean that a few good new ones aren’t leaking through. ![]() ![]() Literally dozens of different units of varying levels of quality line the shelves of my local Target, for instance. ![]() TV Games and their countless imitators are everywhere you go you’ll see them as impulse gifts in stores like Best Buy, Toys “R” Us, or even in less likely retail outlets like Kohls or Bed, Bath, and Beyond. After at least three years on the market, the newly reborn dedicated home video game concept (pioneered by Jakks Pacific) is a product line whose novelty has finally begun to wear off. The popularity of “TV Games” units seems to have waned a bit recently as overexposure and, to some measure, public apathy, have set in.
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