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Today I achieved a Video Game Collector Milestone by being the first person to complete the "Techno Source hangtab" plug & play set CIB, an arbitrary full set that I also invented today. 
Eight of the nine are running NES (or mostly-NES) under the hood, the one exception being Activision.
The hardest to find in the package was certainly the TV Play Power 10-in-1, followed very closely by Activision.
There is a very common Activision 10-in-1 by Jakks Pacific, which is somehow a completely different Activision 10-in-1 from the Techno Source version. I uploaded a video today, the only video on the internet to show all the games
We now come to the questions and answers section of our press conference. Frank will be fielding questions from the audience.
An excellent question. Unfortunately none of these are available at retail anymore, the most recent one here was released 12 years ago. All of these were purchased from secondhand sources, though most of them were NOS.
You can, however, still get the MSI plug & play systems at Bed Bath & Beyond, if you want to pay like $20 to play Mega Man 2 on a Famiclone with inaccurate audio and a bad joystick.
I'm sorry this is not a question this is an observation, though it is a good one that I didn't know about.
An excellent question. Dumping the ROMs off of plug & play is a terrible process that nobody wants to do, so I don't have the answer to this. But I do have an ulterior motive talking about it, which is that I hope to get people interested enough to help.
The ROMs are not easily accessible under the epoxy blobs, so dumping these typically means a lot of wiring work and reverse engineering. Also most are destructive, so the system won't work anymore. Also the games are mostly crap so interest is probably low.
We have no idea what hardware is under here. These games are close enough to the originals that I suspect some level of emulation with the audio replaced by something the hardware does natively.
The Intellivison ports are...well, they exist. They're pretty much the bare minimum, they have all of the features but the actual gameplay is wrong on pretty much all of them. Timing is off, a.i. behavior is totally wrong, etc.
It's hard to say without actually digitizing the ROMs but I would say from observations that 7 of the 9 are running stock NES and would work, 1 is running an enhancement to the hardware to allow more colors and audio, and Activision is not NES at all.
I have! But nobody in my usual circles for this sort of thing recognizes the board.
