Portable Handheld Games Retro Mini Video Games，Handheld Game Console with 500 Classical FC Games 2.8" Color Screen，Birthday for Boys Girls and Adults (Game500-Red)

My son bought this for himself with his piggy money as he loves retro games. The game selection is great and brings back a lot of good memories for me when I hear the music. Picture quality is pretty good and the volume control has a good range. The plug and play feature is a good add on. It’s survived quite a few accidental drops and keeps on truckin’.

Man I wish I had this when I was a kid all the games in one portable rechargeable battery sturdy case plug it into your TV in the car super fun.

I am an avid game console collector and user; and this one has its pluses and minuses. First of all, this is really light, as if there is nothing inside. It can get loud for something so mall, and the buttons do get mushy. There is not 500 games as advertised .. way less than 500, but for the price it is not bad. It has two language options when you turn it on .. English and Chinese. The games are what you expect for a retro console, and this is a quick way to pass the time when needed. It comes with RGB cables and a usb cord to charge. Most games are clones but that doesn't stop you from having some fun. Enjoy and take it for what it is .. a quick and fun way to pass the time.

It started having problems charging after 3 weeks that I bought it…. Is been a month and after a couple of hours charging the battery doesn’t last… I want to return it

I got this specifically because I like to collect knockoff game consoles. First off, this comes in a very generic box and the device itself is very light. This came with a Li-ion battery that's easily replaceable due to the door on the back. It uses a USB-A to USB Micro-B to charge, which is weird, because that's a super outdated port type and most of my equipment uses USB-C with a few stragglers using USB Micro-B. So this felt like it came straight from the early-to-mid 2000's.Now, about the system. Whenever you turn it on, you are greeted with two options: English and Chinese. Upon entering the English option I found many games were hacks, levels, or games that were never commercially made for the NES (also demakes). This claims 500 games, but the reality is far less. All games are NES-based games. It has 4 buttons, two are the regular A and B buttons and the other two buttons are turbo A and B buttons. This does have an advantage in some games, like Contra. The volume can get pretty loud for what it is. The buttons overall feel okay and definitely remind me of the GBC. The device didn't crash as I used it, so yay!Here's the takeaway, if you are a collector of knockoff game consoles, get it. If you have a young child and are introducing them to video games, this is a great option not only due to the price, but the fact that the device is decently durable. You can also just start it up anytime and start playing a game without creating accounts or setting parental controls and the like. So if that's you, you found the right product.

This small handheld device is great for kids introducing them to the Classic video games.

I feel there are doubles, brings back memories. Hate that you have to scroll all the way back up when you get to the bottom. Game play is nice, good for car rides.

When I saw this thing on Vine, I immediately knew I had to review it. It looked extremely sketchy, the kind of low-effort trash you might see on AliEx or other Chinese marketplaces, something you'd never actually spend your own money on but yet you kind of want to know just how bad it could be. And oh boy, let me tell you it is exactly as disappointing as I thought (hoped) it would be. Let's dive in.The box is probably the best part, complete with ripoff fashion branding and promises to break. I particularly enjoyed the broken English on the front: "Support external gamepad double against." Note: There is no extra gamepad included. Inside we find the handheld, packed reasonably well, along with a two-page manual, a battery they could've just installed for you, the world's worst AV cable, and a *MINI* USB to USB-A cable. Not a micro, not USB-C, this thing has a Mini USB port on it. Almost as retro as the console itself, so a nice touch? Have fun finding a compatible gamepad with a Mini USB port, you'd probably need an adapter. The handheld doesn't look too bad, with a reset button in the middle and 4 buttons for your right thumb, which is 2 too many as every game on this thing are from the NES/Famicom library... sort of. More on that later.Charging it and turning it on reveals a surprisingly bright display (no brightness adjustment) with an SMB3-themed language selection screen and some chiptune music that gets really old really fast, which immediately after selection gives way to a far more generic "500 IN 1" menu (still playing the music, btw the volume wheel is on the left and is slow to adjust) featuring an odd mouse mascot in waiter apparel offering you a drink, as if to say, "You're gonna need this, buddy."Scrolling the games list shows familiar game names, unfamiliar game names, games that have no business being on NES hardware (I assume this is an NES-on-a-chip famiclone adapted for portable use) and games that never existed - such hits as Street Fighter 20, Super Mario 6, 9,10,14,16, Super Contra 6 thru 8, and Angry Bird (sic). Most of these are cosmetic-only hacks of other less recognizable games like Adventure Island and such, with no meaningful gameplay modifications - and the originals can be found farther down the list, so there goes your 500 game total. But wait, there's more!... duplicates. After a while the list starts repeating. I included a picture with two screens showing Excitebike in two places on the list; those pages actually have all the same games on them, just with different numbers in front. This is pretty standard for these multicart game bundles, right down to the popular games having their title screens removed or modded for legal (or not-so-legal) reasons. I included 2 pictures of Mario games with modded start screens. Any game the uses battery saves is missing, probably because it doesn't support game saves, so any Hylian adventures (Zelda) or RPGs are just not here.Ah, but how does it play, you ask? Well the games run fine, no stuttering, colors a bit off but that's not a big deal. The controls, however, are absolute garbage. First of all, B is mapped to the Y button, and A is mapped to the B button. To be fair, this is a more comfortable orientation, but this often leads to covering the front speaker with your hand and muffling the sound. Second, all the buttons and D-pad are mush, so much so that the D-pad will often read diagonal inputs when you don't intend them to. Games like Jackal are really hard to control this way, moving your vehicle all over when you don't want it to. More often than not I'd find my thumbs sliding off the D-pad and buttons in the middle of a game, adding more frustration to the experience. This could be rectified with another gamepad, but there's no way I can see to set one to 1st player, and either way who knows how the controls on it would end up being mapped, as there's no way to change that either. This also messes with the idea I had of using it as a TV console, as you're stuck using the onboard controls.Long story short, what little good this handheld has going for it is greatly overshadowed by its flaws. It's a disappointment, but I expected that so in some way it's kind of not a disappointment? Unless you want to use it as a gag gift, you'd be far better off saving your money for a better handheld. There is good news here, though - there are better retro handhelds out there. Search for retro handhelds online and you'll find many viable options (and a lot of trash) available. I have a Linux-based open source one that, after getting it set up the way I want with some fresh SD cards and a little DIY, serves me quite well. (It is the R36S handheld, for those who are curious.) These others aren't anywhere as cheap, but would definitely be a better investment than this hot famiclone garbage.Two stars, mostly for the janky box. Not recommended for serious use.