My ArcadeAtari Pocket Player Pro: Handheld Portable Video Game Console with 100 Games, 2.75" Color Display, Ergonomic Design

My old black and white unit finally died and needed replacing. I love this unit with the colors. It is a favorite game I enjoy. I just turn the sound off while playing especially at night so not to disturb anyone. I do like that it can be powered by a plugged in usb-c charging cable if you don’t want to waste batteries. NOTE: The battery cover requires a VERY small phillips screwdriver in order to remove and replace the security screws for the cover plates.

Bought this as a Christmas gift and my son loves to play while traveling in the car. Great price too!

Son has used this for 6 months now almost daily. Once the sound is turned down, game has to be restarted to adjust volume again. One of the buttons just recently became stuck and we can't get it unstuck. Size is perfect for car rides which is what its used for. Its been a very loved gift and would buy again.

I bought the Atari version of this handheld as I grew up playing an Atari 2600 and wanted a little nostalgia of those days. First off, the unit is very attractive looking and is nicely made. The controls all work fine and there is a good variety of fun games installed. I haven't tried every game yet but the ones I have played are really fun to play. Certain games are a little challenging to play though since they may not have the appropriate controls for the game. For example, Crystal Castles is a game that used a track ball in the arcades. Using the d pad for this game makes it really hard to play. That is one my big gripe about this handheld. The lack of a trackball for games like Crystal Castle and Centipede and the lack of a paddle like controller for games like Breakout and Warlord. Playing Centipede and Missile Command is certainly doable with the d pad, but I had a really hard time controlling the paddle in Breakout with the d pad. I can understand the difficulty of putting a trackball on such a small unit, but I think they could have put some kind of small knob for a paddle control for games that used it, such as breakout. My only other minor gripe is the fact that it was not made to be rechargeable. You have to directly power it with a USB cable or use 4 AA batteries. All in all, it is a really nice unit that has a good variety of games and is really fun to play the memorable games installed on it.

It's a good reboot of the game without the mirror background

Where to start ... First of all this is not an arcade port, silly of me to expect that I guess. No no no, this has to be the Sega Genesis version. The Genesis' biggest weakness was its sound processor. The sounds have that distinct static/distortion/crackley sound. You get these lovely sounds through a single mono speaker that's loud enough.The animation is not as smooth and the colors not as bright as the arcade. 100 percent a Genesis port.The screen, oh the screen is just terrible. Even looking at it straight on the viewing angle is messed up. Tilting your head 2 degrees and a portion of the screen goes black. I didn't even know they made screens this bad still.The d pad is too poorly designed to be reliable to do anything. Ryu's fireballs and dragon punches cannot be executed reliably. Want to press down and back to avoid being tripped? You wish. The d pad pretty much pushes all the way flat, so all the buttons up, down, left and right all press at the same time, it needs to rock on a center stud in the middle of the d pad.The XYZ ABC buttons work, would like them with half the travel that they do have.Would I recommend this product? Sadly no. I could forgive all the short comings of this product if I could play it and actually have fun. The d pad is what keeps this device from being playable. If you cannot reliably perform special moves then there is no point to playing at all.Pros: It looks cool and has a super sweet package it came in.

I'm a fairly big Mega Man fan, having owned/played every mainline title from the Classic, X, Zero, ZX and Legends series (minus some spin-offs and non canon titles I wasn't able to find), so the prospect of a cheap (more on that later), legal and convenient way to play the original NES entries on the go was simply irresistible to me and I jumped on it as soon as I had the chance. But obviously this review is not about my Mega Man fandom but rather about what you can expect from a product like this one. Therefore, I'm not discussing anything about the games themselves apart from the fact that while they're not MSX2 Metal Gear 2 they're still some of the finest 8-bit titles of all time.Now the machine itself. From a hardware standpoint, this silly little gadget gives a very good first impression. It's sturdy, runs on four standard AA batteries and its controls are among the best I've ever felt, even on more "real" handheld consoles. Great build, great feel and has a very cute front design depicting Mega Man, Cut Man and Guts Man! I just hope the printing stands the test of time...Build quality: 9With that out of the way it's time to get honest with the rest.Time to get to the software part.Rather than having a HOME button, the system has a hard reset function that restarts the whole thing, minus the My Arcade star-up screen. There is a launcher upon activation, with the same 8-bit (and aspect ratio) presentation as the games themselves, but rather than six separate ROMS, it seems to be a single ROM with the launcher and all six games inside it, hence the need for a hard reset to change the games. Not a big deal in itself, but it further shows My Arcade's peculiar approach to the game data, and might explain several things tha may or may not go beyond regular emulation.The screen is OK, and is bright and crisp enough, but it's a cheap 2.75" LCD display that's not clearly visible from every angle. Good enough (but not perfect) for individual play, but nothing more.Screen: 7The games are colorful and look rather nice, but are displayed on the same forced 4:3 aspect ratio the NES games are presented on the Legacy Collection on last-gen consoles. No pixel perfect option. Also, expect A LOT of uneven pixels on the horizontal resolution as a result of the forced aspect ratio. The vertical resolution is absolutely perfect, though, as evidenced by the life and weapon gauges! A feat not even the Legacy Collection 2 ports of MM9 and 10 on last-gen consoles could achieve! Weird, indeed...Aspect ratio: 6Pixel uniformity: 5How well the games run is a different story. There is a lot of diagonal screen tearing (specially noticeable on strobing effects), probably due to the cheap screen not being able to achieve the proper refresh rate (maybe it is to maximize battery life?). This, along with the wildly uneven horizontal pixels gives the visual presentation a shoddy quality purists will never forget (or forgive). The emulation (or whatever it is) is competent on all other aspects and even the parallax scrolling on later entries is correctly presented here, with no additional glitches or artifacts.Visual accuracy: 10Visual performance: 5This device doesn't support any assisting tools common to most emulators, even the crudest ones. So, don't expect any visual and sound adjustments beside the physical volume and brightness buttons on the handheld itself, and certainly no state saving of any kind. That's right! Old school at its finest (and at its cruelest)! Mega Man 1 in ONE sitting! Yay! At least the others keep their password function! :PAdditional emulation features: 0Controls: On the control department, I'm happy to report the games control like a dream! The pad and buttons are confortable, accurate and responsive with almost zero lag, even with all that screen tearing and slowdown inherent to 8-bits! You can even shoot Mega Man's main weapon along the music and stay on the rhythm)! Another feat not achieved on modern consoles... go figure...Controls and responsiveness: 10The sound fares better than the visual presentation but it's still not a 1:1 replica of the original NES hardware. However, the stuff that's not perfectly recreated does sound nice and never gets annoying.Sound emulation: 8The battery life is more than adequate and after maybe 12-15 hours of non-continuous operation I haven't had to replace/recharge them yet (I'm using four Eneloop rechargeable batteries).Battery life: 8 at least, but not fully assessed until I have to actually replace/recharge the batteries.A word on pricing: While I said earlier this thing was cheap, I think it is... for a LICENSED product. That means you will own legal/authorized copies of Mega Man 1-6. If that's important to you, then the price is OK for what you'll get. But the licensing does come at a cost, and the result is that this one's not probably the cheapest handheld to play these games on. Since these Pocket Player gadgets came out there have been many comments about how much a ripoff they are, and how this or that device can run these same ROMS (and many more) in way better and cheaper ways. To each their own. I'm not going into that kind of discussion. Not here and not anywhere else.This is an official product and for better or worse, you're also paying for that. It's still way cheaper than playing the Mega Man Legacy Collection on a Switch, though.Pricing: 6.Overall: I personally still liked this handheld and have been having a great time playing these titles on the go. Well, at least until my travel time and/or patience allow me with MM1. I'm glad to have a relatively inexpensive way to play these titles on the go without having to carry a Switch around and fearing it gets damaged or stolen (beside all that, the box is beautiful). So, it works for me. Since it might not work for you, I felt I needed to be as honest as I'm capable of with its many flaws despite how much fun I'm having with it. So there you have it. Enjoy (or not)!Overall: 6.5-7.

Lots of fun. Classic Atari games