MICRO PLAYER PAC MAN

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.

The media could not be loaded. Dig Dug is probably my favourite arcade game of all time, I still remember the first time I played it on holiday in Orlando, Florida back in 1985. I was hooked thereon!This My Arcade is a faithful replica of the arcade experience in small scale! The graphics and sound are spot on.The joystick because of its diminutive size is a bit more fiddly and less precise than a full size stick, but the whole package, even down to the cabinet graphics is just so damn cute!The unit does not slip during play either. These are fantastic.Would love to see Bally Midway's "Tapper" next!

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.

This was a present for my 9 year grandson, he’d seen one and said he’d like one for his birthday.He loves it, so did his aunts and uncles who remembered the original 🤩

Great game, however the on off switch is worn away on receiving it, which takes the shine off it

This is really exciting!! :), I would recommend it to anybody it's a really good investment to invest in arcade and video games companies they bring a lot of fun to the world :)

Excellent

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.