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Tired of dropping quarters into the machine to play another game of Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig-Dug or The Tower of Druaga? Of course you are. With the BLAST from AtGames, you can plug right into your big TV and enjoy a wireless controller that lets you play eight great Bandai and Namco 80's era video games: Dig Dug, Galaga, Galaxian, Mappy, Pac-Man, Spykid, The Tower of Druaga and Xevious.
But what's in the actual box? That's what tech expert Dave Taylor finds out with this Adventures in Unboxing installment...
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A retro video game system? Let's open the box
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Dave Taylor here and I just got this. This is the Blast from Act Games and this is the Bandai
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Namco version which means that it includes Dig Dug, Galaga, Galaxian, Mappy, Pac-Man, Spy Kid
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The Tower of Druaga, and Xevious. But they've redone all of them with actually their controller
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and everything. So it has a wireless controller. They've redone the graphics so that it's HD at
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1080i. Not quite 1080p but still doesn't look pretty darn good on a modern TV. You can save
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and load games and you can even rewind the games to beat the level boss if you just keep finding
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it too hard. But I'm going to review that in a separate video. Right now what I want to do is
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I want to just open the box and let's see what's inside. So best way to do that is to actually
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open the box and of course since it has a little sticker I didn't need my official box opening
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tool, a knife. So let's see what's in here. So there's a tray and there's some paperwork. Let's
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see what's going on. So the paper is the instruction manual, always helpful, and some very amusing and
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very nice little Pac-Man stickers. I'm pretty sure my kids will want to snag that. And then how this
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system works is they actually have a receiver unit and then they have the handle. The player
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is actually just handheld and it's it's pretty light. In fact I can hear something in there. I
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think it's probably because I need to put a battery in. But it's a really cool idea. So this is HDMI
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So this is like an HDMI receiver unit. You plug it in you're good to go. Now I do notice there's a
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little power here, a little micro USB. And I noticed over here in the box there's a micro USB cable
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So I have a feeling I'm going to need to figure out how to power this. But it's also the case that
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since this has a battery. Let's see what it's looking for here. Looks like two AAAs. That's easy
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enough. And yeah I'm pretty sure that rattle will go away once I put batteries in. So two AAAs in
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this. You play this and have all sorts of fun. And then this probably. Some TVs actually have power
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on their HDMI. Pretty sure mine doesn't. So this one I'll probably have to figure out power to
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So it doesn't come with a charger. It just comes with the cable. So not a huge crisis but something
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worth knowing. Now I'm not going to actually hook it up right now because I know you want to. And I
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know I really want to play these games. But I'm just doing an unboxing and hey it's nothing else
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in the box now. So what I can show you is I can show you a couple of photos from the company
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So the first one here is this is the main control screen. And you can see how you access all the
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different games. So that looks pretty fun. I assume there's two pages to it because all the games that
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I mentioned are not on that screen. But seriously mostly I just want this to play Pac-Man. I like
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Pac-Man. It's like a great old school video game. And then if you're actually playing a game here's
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what it's going to look like. So it's not glorious. They haven't redone the graphics to make it
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three-dimensional with VR or anything like that. But old classic games I'm guessing they're probably
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using the original code from the original games. And it's all tucked into this nice little wireless
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handheld unit. How nice is that? And I can see on the top there's an on off switch. So it's exactly
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what you want. And this is super fun. $29.99 at games.net. So you definitely will want to come back
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And I'll actually see if I can drop a link in here so you can come back and you can actually
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see the review. At which point I will actually show you some of the games in action. But for now
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unboxing pretty straightforward. They haven't put a ton of effort into making this the most
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beautiful interior. But you know what? It is totally functional and I am ready to go and
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plug it in and get a blast of Bandai Namco gaming. So if you are so inspired go ahead and click on
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that subscribe button. I appreciate that. And otherwise I will catch you in my next video
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