Jakks Pacific TV Games (2002)

For decades, the Atari 2600's black joystick has symbolized the raw spirit of early console video gaming. How fitting, then, that the joystick itself evolved into an entire videogame console in 2004, when a small toy company called Jakks Pacific launched the phenomenally successful TV Games line. The TV Games controller/game console hooks directly to standard inputs on a television and runs off batteries. Atari TV Games was the first version, bundling ten of the most popular classic Atari games from the 1980s--Pong, Asteroids, Breakout, and more--in a controller that looked just like the original Atari VCS (#7) joystick.