Try taking a bathroom break from a game of Galaga in the arcade and you’ll see why this is a good feature (of course, pause buttons have been standard on home consoles for years… oh well). And not only that, but when you press the pause button (labeled “Menu”), you are given a choice to either continue the current game or return to the main menu. The unit also has a really neat feature that is a drastic improvement from Jakks’ earlier TV games: a pause button.

Pac-Man, Pole Position, Galaga, Xevious, and Mappy Land) with the built-in joystick and buttons. It’s easy to select from any of the five included games ( Ms. The built-in game selection menu is professional and nicely done. But the true beauty of this puppy comes when you install four AA batteries, hook it up to the RCA phono jacks on your TV and switch it on. Pac-Man Collection is probably about $25, but I paid $15, so I am happy. For starters, the console’s presentation is appropriate for the casual player that is likely to buy it: nostalgic and fun. Jakks Pacific got just about everything right with this unit. And being the picky vintage game enthusiast I am (as some might have noticed by my harsh NEX review), this is a miraculous thing. Sure, this thing has probably been reviewed to death by now, but I really wanted to share with you how cool I think this thing is. I have the venerable Atari TV Games unit that looks like a vintage Atari 2600 joystick, the highly underrated and very hackable Commodore 64 30-in-1 unit, the Namco 5-in-1 unit (with Pac-Man, Galaxian, etc), and of course, the subject of this mini-review, Jakks Pacific’s Namco TV Games – Ms.

So far I am an owner of four “TV Games” units.

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