Ian's Retro Museum
Just Plug In And Play

A look at the plug and play hardware I have in my collection

A nice easy way to play games without loading them from standalone media. Usually based around a theme, featuring games from specific hardware, developer, or publisher, and often cheaply made and targeted at the youngsters

Although some of them were actually pretty good, and contained several Easter Eggs to find.

I like Easter Eggs!

Inmotion



What a lucky find at a car boot sale for all of £3, it's a bit rubbish even if it almost looks like a shrunken PS5. Yes that is a Sinclair Spectrum power supply

Connectv Football



Weird football based game. Makes you look like you're playing Dance Dance Revolution... Badly

Jakks Pacific Disney Cars 2



Picked up for free, it's smaller than it looks

Atari Flashback (7800)



Bought online for pennies, no PSU, but found one that works

AT Games Atari Flashback Blast



Very cheap, wireless joypad and purple Firestick type console

Zone Family Fit



The biggest gaming item I own

Blaze Atari Retro TV Joystick



£2 from a local car boot sale, it works

Pinball TV Game



Another recent donation. I suspect it's a NES on a chip device with a custom ROM image loaded

TV Play Power Intellivision (X2)



Spotted in Gamescene local to my parents house, then picked up a non-working one online

Venturer Super Games



Cost me pennies, another Nintendo on a chip console

Space Invaders



Cost £3, actually very good, micro switched stick for the win

Ms PacMan



Again, very cheap, so why not

Capcom (Jakks Pacific)



Bought from Super Tomato in Cardiff

Namco Plug and Play TV Game



Bought from Taunton Retro Toy Fair from Avatar Games

Systema TV Boy



Another purchase from Avatar Games at the Taunton Retro Toy Market, this is an unlicensed Atari 2600 clone in an handheld form factor, but can be used as a console with its external joystick ports

Atari Flashback (2600)



Wanted one of these for a while, it came with the wrong PSU, but I found one, and it works

Retro TV Game



£2 on Vinted, tiny and a bit rubbish

C64 DTV



Awesome machine, very hackable, lots of Easter eggs

Super Mini SFC



A recent donation

Orb Retro Arcade



I bought this on Vinted, it was a whole £1 + £2.29 shipping to a local collection point. It would have cost another 50p for delivery to my house

Jakks Pacific - The Batman



Saw this on Vinted for £1, bought it, you know how this goes

Fizz Arcade Classics



Again, I saw this on Vinted for £1, bought it, you know how this goes

I hope you all find this as interesting and as nostalgic as I do.

Special thanks to my long-suffering partner Denise for putting up with all this "nonsense".

No cats were annoyed during the creation of this site



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