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Mystery Box

Mystery Box

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🕹️ 156 Mega Drive classics already inside — one button and you're nine again

📺 One cable and it's back on the television, where it belongs

🔋 Battery or two AAs — no account, no update, no adverts, ever

Mystery Box

Mystery Box

Regular price €12,95
Regular price €12,95 Sale price
SAVE Sold out
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    Bought it for my grandson. Three weeks later it's still on my bench — that Streets of Rage music hit and I was 24 again. Ordered him his own. This one's mine now.

    Greg P.
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    Got it for my husband's 41st thinking it was a desk toy. He found the cable, hooked it to the TV, and rang his brother. They played Golden Axe till half eleven, shouting the same things at each other they did as kids. Haven't seen him like that in years.

    Marcy D.
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    Handed him Sonic on Sunday — the real thing, not a phone. Now he's at the counter every morning before school, cereal going soggy, working that joystick just like I did. No ads, no account, no one after his money. I'm 38, and I got to give him exactly what I had.

    Brandon K.
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    Description

    You can still hear it. The cartridge going in. The blue sky, the green hill, the sound the first ring made — and someone shouting that dinner is on the table in ten minutes.

    That console is gone. Sold at a car boot sale, lost in a house move, or still in your parents' loft under a bag of curtains, with no cables and no television left in the world that will take it. The games are out there somewhere behind an account, an emulator and forty minutes of setup, and by the time it finally works you don't feel like playing any more.

    🕹️ Pocket Arcade puts the whole thing back on your desk, 16 cm tall. A real ball-top joystick under your thumb, six buttons, a bright 2.8-inch screen — and 156 of the 16-bit games you grew up on already inside it.

    You won't scroll this menu. You'll read it out loud:

    • 💙 Sonic the Hedgehog — plus Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic Spinball
    • 🥋 Mortal Kombat and Super Street Fighter II
    • 🪓 Golden Axe I & II
    • 👊 Streets of Rage 3 and Double Dragon II
    • 🐺 Altered Beast, Shinobi III, Comix Zone, Gunstar Heroes
    • 🐬 Ecco the Dolphin, Tetris, Columns, Kid Chameleon
    • …and around 150 more, every one of them already on the board

    One red button and you are standing in the first level. No account, no login, no update, no subscription, not one advert — the same three seconds it took you in 1992, and your thumbs still know exactly what to do.

    📦 What turns up at your door:

    • 🕹️ The cabinet — ball-top joystick, six buttons, 2.8-inch colour screen, speaker with its own volume wheel
    • 🔋 Removable 700 mAh battery — about 3 hours of play, about 1 hour to charge
    • 🔌 USB charging cable — or drop in two ordinary AA batteries when there's no socket
    • 📺 AV cable — puts the games back on your television, full size, where they always were
    • 🎧 Headphone jack — so the house doesn't have to hear a thing
    • 📏 9 × 9 × 16 cm, 231 g — small enough for a desk, heavy enough to feel real

    It is remarkable how fast a grown man will end up sitting on the floor in front of the television again. Good from 6 years up — which is roughly the age you were.

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    How fast will it ship?

    🚚 Free to your door, anywhere in the world:

    • 📦 1-3 business days — we pack it and hand it over
    • ✈️ 5-10 business days — delivery to you
    • 🔎 Tracking number by email the moment it leaves
    • 💸 $0 shipping, every country, no minimum order
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    What if it doesn't work out?

    🛡️ Then you get your money back. No arguing, no restocking fee, no posting it back to us.

    • 🗓️ 30 days from the day it lands on your doormat
    • ✉️ One email to support@arcadepocket.store — that's the whole process
    • 📮 You keep the machine. We don't ask for it back
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    Does it need wifi, an account or updates?

    None of the three — and that is the entire point of it.

    • 🚫 No wifi, no app, no login
    • 🚫 No subscription, no in-game purchases
    • 🚫 No adverts. Not one
    • ♾️ Switch it on in ten years and it still plays exactly the same
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    How does it charge, and can I use normal batteries?

    Both ways work — the old-fashioned one included:

    • 🔌 700 mAh rechargeable battery in the box, removable
    • ⏱️ About 1 hour to charge over the included USB cable
    • 🎯 About 3 hours of playing on one charge
    • 🔄 Or drop in two ordinary AA batteries when there's no socket in sight
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    Can I really play it on my TV?

    Yes — and the cable for it is already in the box.

    • 🔴 Yellow, white and red plugs go into your TV's AV inputs
    • 🖥️ The game moves to the big screen, full size
    • 🕹️ The joystick and buttons on the cabinet still control it
    • 🎧 Or plug headphones in and keep the whole thing to yourself
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    Is it too small for adult hands?

    No. This is a desktop machine, not a keyring.

    • 📏 16 cm tall, 9 cm wide, 231 g in your hand
    • 🕹️ Control deck a full 9 cm across, six real buttons
    • 👍 The ball-top joystick sits between thumb and fingers, the way an arcade stick should
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      ★★★★★

      I had to sit down on the stool

      Bought it for my grandson and three weeks later it is still on the bench in the garage, next to my coffee. First time that Streets of Rage music came out of it I actually had to sit down on the stool for a minute. I was twenty-four and skint and that game was the whole weekend. Ordered him his own one on Tuesday — this one is mine now.

      Greg P. — Dayton, OH

    • t2 tv hookup

      ★★★★★

      Two grown men on my sofa until half past eleven

      I got it for my husband's forty-first thinking it was a desk toy. He found the yellow, white and red cable, put it on the living room TV, and then he rang his brother. They played Golden Axe until half eleven shouting the exact same things at each other they shouted when they were kids in that house. I have not seen him like that in years.

      Marcy D. — Chandler, AZ

    • t3 kitchen kid

      ★★★★★

      My boy is eight. I was eight.

      Sunday morning I put Sonic on and gave it to him — the real one, not something on a phone. Now he is at the kitchen counter with it every morning before school, working that joystick with his cereal going soggy, exactly the way I did. Nothing asking him for money, no account with his name on it. I am thirty-eight and I got to hand him the same thing I had.

      Brandon K. — Greenville, SC

      30DAY

      Thirty Days to Get 1992 Back — Or You Get Your $69.90 Back

      Set it up, switch it on, point it at somebody. If it doesn't do exactly what the video shows, message us within 30 days and we'll refund you in full. No restocking fee, and in most cases we won't even ask you to ship it back.