DreamGEAR My Arcade Handhelds

DreamGear, known for previously making NES based Plug-N-Plays, created a line of portable game systems known as "My Arcade" in 2014. These units consist of 16-bit hardware rather than 8-bit, and consist of mostly Nice Code Software and are of low quality. Similar to the Zone systems, they are mostly sold in dollar stores and other places with small toy aisles.

Models and Games

So far, two models of these have been released, and they are both in shells that resemble the Wii U Tablet controller. The first model seems to use Game Boy Advance technology, while the other most likely uses OneBus. Both units have many repeated games on them with different graphics and sounds.

The first and more common model released contains 120 games. Unlike most DreamGEAR games, which mostly try to avoid obvious copyright infringement, some of the games are clones of various NES games like Bomberman, Donkey Kong Jr., and Door Door. Some of them also rip off sprites of characters like Mario, Toad, and Kirby, and voice clips are stolen from Fred Flintstone, Homer Simpson, and Daffy Duck.

The next model released has 220 games, but none are the same as on the previous unit. This one contains the usual DreamGEAR games with 16-bit graphics. Unlike the last system, these games try to hide copyright as much as possible (Ex: removing Elmo from River Jump). While most games included are by Nice Code, some games seem to be either original or from a different company, such as Curly Monkey 2 and Guard Radish.

Trivia

• On the first model, you can access a control test menu by holding down A and B while turning the system on. By doing this, you can see that the start button is actually just a duplicate A button, meaning they probably intended to release a second unit.