dreamGEAR, LLC is a distributor of unauthorized Famiclone consoles and game accessories, founded in 2001. They are among one of the few plug and play companies left.
Beginning in the mid-2010s, dreamGEAR rebranded their systems under the brand name "My Arcade Gaming".[1] Sometime around 2016-2017, My Arcade became a separate division of the company entirely, with the dreamGEAR branch now being used solely for game console accessories.
dreamGEAR has a licensing agreement with G-Mode, the rights holder to most of Data East's video game library, and therefore some of their games (e.g. BurgerTime) are included, officially, on some of dreamGEAR's products. Further licensing agreements would later be held with companies such as Bandai Namco Entertainment, Taito, and Capcom, for a variety of devices.
Hardware[]
dreamGEAR distributes a variety of hardware, including plug and plays, handhelds, mini arcade cabinets. Many of dreamGEAR's plug and play systems are manufactured by Trump Grand, though bizarrely, the company would attempt to poorly rebrand systems they manufactured for dreamGEAR by placing a Power Joy logo over the dreamGEAR one or using the same shell and changing out the software. An example of this is the Power Joy KS-2521C. At one point, Trump Grand would even use the "My Arcade" branding on systems completely unrelated to dreamGEAR.
Plug and play systems[]
The 50-in-1.
Standalone plug and play consoles released by dreamGEAR. Early systems tend to refer to themselves as a "Plug 'N' Play".
- 15 in 1 - Small controller with 15 games.
- 30 in 1 - Small controller with 30 games.
- 45 in 1- Standard controller with 45 games.
- 50 in 1 - Standard controller with 50 games.
- 75 in 1 - Standard controller with 75 games.
- 121 in 1 - Large controller with 121 games, made by Qi Sheng Long.
- 140 in 1 - Large controller with 140 games.
- RetroPlay Controller - Small controller with 200 games.
- GameStation - Game system that resembles a Sega Dreamcast, features 75 games.
- GameStation Retro
- GameStation Wireless
- Turbo GT - Steering wheel controller.
- Play-A-Long Guitar Kids - Guitar game.
- Wireless 86 in 1 - Wireless controller with 86 games.
- Wireless 130 in 1 - Wireless controller with 130 games.
- World Series Baseball - VT168-based plug and play using Waixing's game set. Notably, it features Pyramid, a Luxor clone with a near identical VT368 version developed by Cube Technology.
- VR Table Tennis - Interactive table tennis game.
- Motion Control - Wii-style interactive game. VT03 based.
- Tennis Rally - Wireless tennis with 40 games, made by Macro Winners Electronics Ltd..
Home console-shaped systems[]
- MyArcade Wireless Game Station - Variant of the Reactor Arcade with Nice Code games thrown in, and more misspelled titles than usual for a variant of the MiWi BS-9800. Bizarrely, some of them feature misleading thumbnails making them seem like one game when they are in reality another;[2] what likely happened was the games were meant to be there, but were never correctly implemented, causing them to boot to another game.
- Abscondee - VT03 version
- Achery - Archery (Panda), from Olympic, VT03
- Agilemice - Assart (Nice Code, NA), thumbnail shows original game
- Arena - Assart (Nice Code, NA), thumbnail shows original game
- Assart - NA version by Nice Code
- Backstroke - 100m Backstroke (Panda)
- Balloon Labyrihth - Balloon Labyrinth
- Brave Boy - Original "Octopus" version, thumbnail shows supposed game
- Breast - 100m Breast (Panda)
- Bubbles
- Burrow Explorer - Burrow Explorer (Gameventer)
- Butterfly - 100m Butterfly (Panda)
- Coast Guard - Coast Guard (Copyright)
- Cryptic Base - Alone, thumbnail shows the Aether Fighter variant. Interestingly not a name known to be given by Nice Code to this game.
Handhelds[]
Handhelds and portable arcade cabinets distributed by dreamGEAR.
- Portable Gaming System
- Gamer Max
- Gamer Mini
- Gamer V
- Go Gamer Portable
- Retro Arcade Machine
- Retro Arcade Machine X
Portable arcade cabinets[]
- Bad Dudes Micro Player
- BurgerTime Micro Player
- Caveman Ninja Micro Player
- Data East Mini Player
- Heavy Barrel Micro Player
- Karate Champ Micro Player
- Pac-Man Micro Player
- Dig Dug Micro Player
- Namco Museum Mini Player
- Rolling Thunder Micro Player
- Bubble Bobble Micro Player
- Galaga Micro Player
- Galaxian Micro Player
- Elevator Action Micro Player
- Ms. Pac-Man Micro Player
- Retro Arcade Machine X
- Retro Machine
Handhelds[]
- Gamer Max Portable
- Gamer Mini
- Gamer V Portable
- Gamer X Portable
- Go Gamer Portable
- Learning Pad
- Pixel Classic
- Pixel Player
- Pac-Man Pocket Player
- Don Doko Don Pocket Player
- Bubble Bobble Pocket Player
- Dig Dug Pocket Player
- Ms. Pac-Man Pocket Player
- Galaga Pocket Player