Playtag

"Play Tag" is a prototype game for the Philips Videopac+ (G7400). It features one or two players avoiding being tagged by the other. Upon being tagged, the tagged player becomes the catcher. The game offers 15 variations selectable via specific keys. Scores are tracked in different corners of the screen: current score, highest score for each player, and highest score in the current game.

In November 1996, a prototype game labeled "Plantage" was discovered at a Dutch flea market, and soon found its way into the hands of a Videopac collector. Other than the fact that it was a "catch" game, little information surfaced about it. Eventually, a screenshot or two and even a short video clip appeared on some European web sites, and the name "Play Tag" began to be associated with it. This may have been due to the discovery of a second prototype, but this is unclear. Those sites eventually went offline and the game all but fell off the radar until 2009, when Bas Kornalijnslijper and René van den Enden created cartridge reproductions. A total of 69 cartridges, with color manuals and Videopac-style box inserts, were produced. Interestingly, the cover artist chose street graffiti – a different kind of "tagging" – as a theme for the manual. The game itself is more of a take on the children's game of Tag.

The reproduction cartridges were released on Oct. 4, 2009, and originally sold for 25 Euro. Boxes were not included.