Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I got a jakks 5-in-1 plug and play ms pac man (that's insanely selling for $150+ now?) when it came out way back when, mainly for Galaga. With age and new technology, it doesn't work anymore. I saw this one works well on new widescreen tv's, so I decided to get one. It comes with seven more games, which is nice, but I'm only going to play Galaga. And maybe Galaxian since it's there. It plugs in using the same component rca plugs, one for video and one for audio, but is in widescreen. Instead of the scores, etc being on top, they're on the side of the screen. And it looks pretty good on the new screens, especially compared to the old one's standard definition. It plays really well. For Galaga anyway. Although I still suck at Galaga, it's definitely better than the 5-in-1, simply for the fact that the fire button is actually on the right side of the joystick. I tried out pac man and much like the old one, the joystick just doesn't work that well for it. It does okay, but I'm guessing anyone really into pac man wouldn't be too happy with the yellow guy not going the way they want. It's kind of the same thing with dig dug and rally x. The rest of the games seem to work okay I guess. With Galaga I don't notice any delay from the button when firing and the joystick moves well for it, but it only has to go left and right. I do have two issues with it so far. The first seems to be the most common complaint; This thing absolutely sucks to hold when you're playing. Yeah, it'a supposed to be a pixelated pac man and it looks neat, but apparently that's as far as they got when they were designing it. The sharp edges and corners make this better suited as a weapon than as a game controller. It's good plastic and constructed well, just a horrible end result with the design. I've been forced to wrap a towel around it and keep it wedged between my thighs while I'm playing it. It's not a deal-killer but as-is, it's really uncomfortable to hold and use. The other problem I have, and others may not, is pushing A+B to return to the main menu does nothing on mine. To me this isn't that big of a deal, because I really only play Galaga so I don't 'need' to return to the main menu. I guess it's easy enough to just turn it off an on again. Anyway, aside from those two things that I can deal with, I'm really happy with this - just because I can play Galaga and it only cost me $20!