Why I buy this one ?
- It pays for itself fast with the money you save on batteries!
- Featuring Breakaway Cable (Prevents damage or injury from tripping.
- Does not work with; Atari Paddle, Classic Pinball, Bass Angler Championship, and TV Kids Controllers

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What our customer's say!

"Forget using it for Pac-man", I bought this to go with two tv-games I just bought-both of which were NOT on the "incompatible" list... and let me tell you...

In regards to the "Jakks Ms. Pac-Man TV Game" I just CANNOT get it to fit in there (maybe I'll have to fiddle with the battery coils on the unit...) The spring-type of device this thing uses to "help" you install is twitchy... just as others have mentioned. I gave up after an hour trying to get it to fit into the thing, and believe me... that is no exaggeration of time.

In regards to the "Jakks Pac-Man Gold TV Game" I got it to fit after about a 15 minute struggle BUT surprise surprise.... the screw-holes in my AC adaptor DON'T LINE UP WITH MY UNIT! Even see the customer photo I uploaded! The black "nub" with the screw hole is too short to even match the holes on the device! So what did I end up doing? I ended up resorting to taping the AC adaptor to the unit... quick fix, but certainly not the solution!

If you planned on getting this for either of the 2 pac-man tv games I mentioned above... save yourself the money and get some batteries or find a different adaptor because this one will get you nowhere. It's a good thing that this was on sale at the time I bought it.

"TV adaptor", I think this is a great idea and I am sure that there is someway to make it work. The only thing is that I can't figure out how to get it into the Jakks Video game I read the instructions and have a screw driver to fit but can't seem to get it to fit into the toy properly. So, I haven't been able to use it yet.

"This is a great product!", I don't like batteries anymore. I have a really old handheld game, and until recently, I hadn't touched it in 6 years. Recently I found it and discovered that I had left the batteries in it all that time. A semi-dry crystalline-like substance had leaked out of the batteries and all over the game and everything that was sitting under it. What a mess. I even developed a strange looking bruise on my finger shortly afterward, and that may have been caused by contact with the substance while trying to clean up the mess. Who can remember to remove the batteries from something that they won't use for a while? No one is going to know if they won't use something for a while. That's why I don't like batteries anymore.

I have 2 of the Jakks TV games, Ms.Pac-Man and Super Pac-Man. I was going to order 2 of the AC adapters, but noticed that the screw hole on Super Pac-Man was further from the battery compartment than the screw hole on Ms.Pac-Man, so I didn't think the AC adapter would fit both games. I just received the AC adapter, and noticed that the thing with the screw slides in and out so it actually fits both Ms.Pac-Man and Super Pac-Man! It was a little confusing as to how to plug it into the game, but I think it's easier than it first seems, and you just have to plug it in, screw it down and trust that it will work. And it worked for me with Ms.Pac-Man and Super Pac-Man! I'm going to order a second one, so that I can play both games without having to unscrew anything.



"Does Exactly What It's Supposed To Do", This is an AC Adapter for Jakks Pacific Tv Games. I purchased it for use with Ms. PacMan/Xevious and Commando/1942. It works great and I see future potential for retrofitting AC capability onto other 6v devices with the same battery configuration. Specific compatibilities are clearly stated on the product packaging. I may buy another.

"Yeesh... what a pain", Looking for a way to reduce the need to change batteries on my TV Games® plug-&-play units, I grabbed the company's "universal" power adapter That fits into each unit's battery compartment. Well, ALMOST each unit... hence my use of quotations around the word "universal" a few sentences back. Due to either the way the batteries are aligned in some TV Games units, and different power/amp/wattage feeds in others, the adapter isn't nearly as "universal" as advertised. The packaging did give me fair warning about which P&Ps it won't work with, which includes the Atari Paddle, Classic Pinball, Bass Angler Championship, and the Kids Brand (aka NickToons, Disney, etc.) controllers.

Fortunately (?), I was able to use the adapter with my Atari (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000645DD), ActiVision (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001HYSG4), and Wheel of Fortune (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009FIN7I) units... granted I can get the battery compartment plug-in plate to behave itself properly, which seldom happens. The springs on the plate's sliding pins are strong, which means you really gotta push the pins in to get `em to stay in place. And if the plate's battery compartment screw isn't properly tightened down, the whole deal can pop out on you. On something of an upside: although it sticks out prominently from the battery compartment, the plate doesn't screw up the ergonomics of the TV Games units I use it with; it doesn't make the comfort level any better or worse. Still, you'd think Jakks Pacific could've taken a far simpler route and just included direct AC adapter jacks on all of their P&P units, and made a truly universal adapter for those P&Ps, so I wouldn't hafta go through all these battery compartment hijinks. But, I guess that's too simple an idea...

But if Jakks IS gonna run with this idea, I'm hoping they'll at least consider selling just the plate part of the adapter so I won't hafta pull the one I have outta one P&P and stick it into another when I wanna play a different TV Games unit. I did consider trying it out with other non-TV Games units that featured the same battery compartment alignment, but the only one where it worked was with the Commodore 64 P&P ()... although the plate was a tighter fit into the C64 compartment than I'd prefer. I'm a bit leery with using this with non-TV Games units, however, because of compatibility issues.

Speaking of compatibility: the adapter's ratings are as follows:

- Input: 120 Volts AC, 60 Hertz, 2.5 Watts

- Output: 8V DC No-Load 1.2VA

- Ideal to be used with DC 6V, 200mA power consumption device

- Positive-core plate jack

Bottom line: Installing the plate part of the adapter can be a major hassle, and really wouldn't have been necessary had Jakks had the foresight to include direct AC adapter jacks in their P&Ps. Still, as soon as the plate's installed and properly screwed down, it keeps its place quite securely. Should Jakks release just the plate part for sale in the future, this might be worth the trouble. Until that day, however, methinks I'll stick to using batteries on my TV Games...

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