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Keep your consoles in play with a patch bay (pictures)

With this simple how-to, you can wire your old and new video game systems into one television and have all your classic games ready to play in the blink of a patch.

Stephen Beacham
I'm an award-winning Senior Video Producer and Host for CNET.com focusing on How-To videos, AI, and environmental technologies. I lead CNET's How-To video strategy for horizontal and vertical video formats on multiple platforms. I am responsible for managing and optimizing CNET's flagship YouTube channel by developing and implementing our publishing and subscriber growth strategies. I also serve as CNET's Live Events Producer and Live Streaming Engineer coordinating CNET's team coverage of big tech events since 2011. I come from an audio production background as a Music Producer, Audio Engineer, and Mixer and have worked with multi-platinum artists including Green Day, Smash Mouth, and Lenny Kravitz. Today, I continue to produce and mix records for artists and bands spanning a wide range of genres and have been building a list of credits sound designing and mixing short films.
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Video game patch bay

Look familiar? These don't need to get exiled to the garage -- you can keep your friends close and your consoles closer, with an RCA patch bay and some cables. Here we take a look at the components you'll need so you can play classic games on your TV.
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RCA and 1/4-inch patch bay

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1/4-inch patch cables

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RCA component cable

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Video game patch bay supplies

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Connect your game consoles

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Label your sources

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Patch in your game systems

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RCA and 1/4-inch patch bay

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