6" Collectible Retro Burgertime Micro Player (Electronic Games)

First thing to note is that I paid only £15 for the 'Mappy' unit. That's a bargain, and it's a great fun little 1983 arcade game from Namco, makers of Pac-Man. The other titles cost up to £30, so I don't think I'll be buying any more. More on those, later. This is a neat miniature arcade cabinet. The coin-slot door is one big on/off push-button. Power comes from 4 x AA batteries or a USB lead (not included). The joystick and buttons on the control deck all work. The stick itself can be unscrewed leaving you with a D-Pad type control instead. If you've got large hands you'll be able to hold the whole thing while you play it. Smaller hands might want to put it on a table top. For younger kids, maybe stick it down with some Blu-Tak as it's quite light! 'Mappy' is a fun little game, where you play Mappy the Mouse who has to collect items from a house while being chased by a gang of cats. Curiously Mappy wears a police uniform, so we have to assume he's actually recovering stolen goods! The screen scrolls left / right to show the whole house, and instead of jumping up and down between levels, you bounce on trampolines and just press the joystick to hop off at different levels. You can also open and slam doors to knock your persuers down for a few seconds. But beware of one larger cat who likes to hide behind some of the objects you have to collect, and bouncing too many times on the same trampoline will break it. There are also bonus levels where you have to pop balloons in a maze of vertical passages and more trampolines - some of which you have to deliberately break to move on. It's fun, it's easy to play, it gets quicker and trickier as you go through the levels, and plays some jolly tunes along the way. Everything a great arcade game should be. It's also a lovely bit of nostalgia as it's one of the earliest arcade game cabinets I ever remember seeing other than 'Space Invaders'. Now if only they did 'Time Pilot' too... Now for the technicalities. What you're getting here is a miniature clone of the 8-bit Nintendo NES system with some microswitched controls and a small full-colour LCD pixel display. The box says 'Officially Licensed Product' and is distributed by a division of Sony of all people, but doesn't seem to mention Nintendo anywhere. It's pretty good quality and you are getting a proper screen, not a crude Game-and-Watch type LCD screen with fixed shapes being turned on and off. The NES version of Mappy is a great one and plays just as well as the arcade. You could even argue the standard portrait-oriented screen works better for this game than the original's vertical display. The thing is with something like 'Pac-Man' though, is if I was paying more, I'd expect to be playing the original arcade machine game code and have the proper vertical screen. I can't really fault the NES version of Pac-Man, but it's not going to please someone properly into their videogame history. Well, unless someone else buys it for them! The same goes for Galaga, Galaxian, Dig Dug... basically all the games that cost more than the Mappy unit. Paying £30 for a NES clone that then only plays one game seems a bit much. And frankly the NES versions you get of 'Joe & Mac' ('Caveman Ninja') and 'Heavy Barrel' are a poor imitation of the arcade originals. They look much cruder and skip a lot of the gameplay elements. They should have stuck to early 80s titles in this format. So, I'm all in favour of a miniature 'Mappy' arcade machine at £15. But as a stickler I think £30 is overpriced for the others. I'd either expect something that has a few games built-in for that price, or something that's genuinely playing the original arcade game code.

Small, entertaining and a good party piece and icebreaker at parties. Now need to complete the set. I have 8 of the first set plus one of the premium my arcade cabs (space invaders). These are a good little piece of history done in a retro style which appealed to me

My son was recently playing this little arcade game in a store so i purchased in on amazon for a little Xmas pressie to surprise him. It was much more expensive in the store we were in so I got a bargain by waiting and shopping online. He really enjoyed the game. It looks cool and won’t take up a lot of space and even if he gets bored of it it will look great on display as it’s such a good looking little retro collectible.

Fun Desk item to have around, can be used as a game item or an ornament.

These units may be small, but wow - they certainly look the part. I have all 10 and I am looking forward to the new releases in April. I have them all on display shelves, all powered by a 10 port USB hub. 2 of them (Bad Dudes and Heavy Barrel) don't go into demo mode and just stay on the title screen which is a shame, but I can live with that. And 2 of them have audio in demo mode... now my display turns on and off and set times using a programmable mains plug so the audio level resets every time... a simple solution if you want them quiet in demo mode without having to physically turn the volume down each time is to cut the jack of a pair of old headphones and plug it in. Voila - no sound. Yes, they are the NES versions - but so what, they look the business.

Not happy at all. This item was not new or it was an ex display model. The 3 clear round tapes that are supposed to hold the lid closed had already been cut and the lid was a bit damaged. I don't really care about the box but proof that it has already been previously opened. The actual yellow console had finger marks all over and the mini joy stick was missing. This is a present for our 9 years old son so no time to send it back and we had to clean it. Also left over sticky bits where a label was probably previously placed... for the price! We will have to explain to our son that the joy stick was optional!!! We don't mind buying second hand items but @ second hand price and not full price. We would love to receive the joy stick, hopefully!

My little boy got this for Christmas and loves it (and I loved it more once I figured out where the volume control was) the only negative is that it only has 2 levels?

Excellent gift for daughter (was really for me) who loves PAC-Man now paying the extra for the colour version makes such a huge difference to gameplay we love it. Love that it runs on 4 AA batteries and has sound and also a headphone port. Even better is the micro USB port available for power.

Correcto, plastico de calidad, gomas antidezlizantes malas, caja con un par de imperfecciones pequeñas y omite la "outlandish story" del cabinet original: "microwave mystery, micro mouse police!"

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Ormai li sto collezionando tutti, non ne posso fare a meno. Certo non sono precisissime riproduzioni in scala dei cabinati arcade anni 80-90, pure la rom del gioco non è quella del cabinato. Eppure questi mini cabinati da 15cm ci si avvicinano molto. Funzionano con 4 batterie aa oppure alimentati da usb (va bene un caricatore per cellulare da 5v). Schermo da 2 pollici molto luminoso. Volume regolabile. Joystick e pulsanti fanno discretamente il loro lavoro nei limiti delle dimensioni che hanno. Ma più che per giocarci li colleziono per averli li in bella vista, nella loro scatola, tra l'altro molto ben realizzata. E quando lo sguardo ci si posa ecco che inizia un personalissimo viaggio nel tempo, agli anni 80-90, all'infanzia e all'adolescenza. Alle spensierate giornate passate con gli amici. Alle sale giochi, al bar centrale che aveva 2/3 cabinati e il flipper, a quando arrivava la "fiera" in città, alle vacanze estive in riviera... Retronostalgia tecnologica

Il gioco vale veramente i soldi spesi: ottima riproduzione del cabinato anni ‘80. Di questa linea ‘My Arcade’ ho anche Dig Dug...entrambi ottima giocabilità!!! Spedizione Amazon al solito super...

Excelente juego