Tetris Pixel Pocket Review | The PERFECT Time-Killing Keychain Gadget?

[@DES-95]

Thanks for sharing this, Jon! As a fan of Tetris, this is a great little machine! A nice collectible that that has Tetris in a smaller size, plus the additional games, for that price: instant buy for the personal games library and collection -- and will go nicely with last year's Tetris products!

[@pablotabloz]

This looks like the perfect combination of playability and portability, something to throw into my "waiting room/road trip" snack bag.

[@dominicsedillo1980]

I can testify that this tiny keychain version is great. Got it for my 8-year old for Christmas. She loves it.

[@tedadamgreen]

What a lot of fun … a perfect pocket game and/or stocking stuffer!! 👊🏻😎🕹️

[@GenXGrownUp]

I think so. Glad at least you agree, Ted. 😉

[@joezar33]

Wouldn't mind giving that out as gift , agree that perfect for waiting around and playing that thing for a few minutes.

[@dannynhl9441]

Gameboy and Tetris is still the perfect handheld combination IMO. And I love portable gaming as a whole. Gameboy Tetris on the Analogue Pocket is also very nice to these older eyes

[@GenXGrownUp]

I keep eyeballing that Analogue - the screen just looks so sweet.

[@dannynhl9441]

@@GenXGrownUp Treated myself to it i guess 2 years ago and def. is nice. Screen is wild I admit.

[@AvatarNeo]

I like the newer approach they've been taking to the bonus games. Including a handful of them as a little extra and clearly putting the actual retro titles as the main event is way better than how they put "300 GAMES" in huge text on the boxes of older units.

[@GenXGrownUp]

I agree with you. It's not a "bonus" when it's part of what's advertised! 😉

[@shireoryx6153]

My finger joints are hurting just looking at this video. Great review

[@GenXGrownUp]

Haha! Sorry for the sympathy aches! 😉

[@joezar33]

​@@GenXGrownUpwait 6:20 😮 how did u botch up that bad in Teteris? lol

[@GenXGrownUp]

@@joezar33 Hey, I was multitasking! 😜

[@joezar33]

​@@GenXGrownUp6:53 nm I was wrong

[@katmacoconnor]

😹”I’ll just throw the box away…” 😹

[@darthsidren7794]

This would be really cool for a zipper pull on a tech travel bag.

[@jayme69]

It's cool but that shimmer is hard to stomach. Would look cool hanging on a backpack though :-) Keep up the awesome work!

[@Incense3]

This is pretty cool. I used to have a Tetris watch that I would play during recess and in the car when I forgot my game boy.

[@MissUmbra]

Imagine playing Mega Man 1-6 on something THIS small Not only would it be insanely hard to see what’s going on, but we’d officially have the world’s smallest playable version of Mega Man

[@MyArcaderetro]

Hey, that's us! 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪

[@GenXGrownUp]

It certainly is! 😉

[@jacob644]

I love your consoles!

[@Icekneecaps]

YOOO

[@AK8901]

Hi! I love your toys! Can we have something that retains high scores please?😊

[@GenXGrownUp]

@@AK8901 Starting with those new Joystick Players this year, high-score saving is starting to be a standard feature. 😀

[@DAwesme]

Are you going to cover the Atari 50 DLC update? It came out yesterday and I'm surprised I haven't seen any GXG content over it

[@GenXGrownUp]

I've been up to my eyeballs in My Arcade releases. Perhaps a live stream this weekend to explore?

[@tedadamgreen]

@@GenXGrownUp Red Baron gameplay would be awesome even if for just a minute 👊🏻🕹️😎

[@MannyCakes1984]

@@GenXGrownUpYes please!

[@DAwesme]

Looking forward to it!

[@FallicIdol]

That looks so cool

[@mikesilva3868]

Agreed 😊

[@Markimark151]

I think this is good for a budget keychain game handheld that would be sold at Target or drugstores, this would be a good gift for students to play Tetris while waiting for school. But I wish they put some effort into the bonus games like include the Nokia mobile games like Snake, Breakout, Bowling, those were fun mobile games included with Nokia brick phones were decent quality, not the filler Atgames shovelware games like Hit Mouse!

[@thefloppiestdisk]

Hey Jon idk if you know this but the My Arcade and Tiny Arcades if you open them up you can find jumpers that go onto different game (Some units have epoxy on the jumpers)

[@GenXGrownUp]

I'd seen that. Thanks for the reminder.

[@thefloppiestdisk]

@@GenXGrownUp It would be cool if you made a video like that doing a mod of one. ;)

[@theretronerd6746]

The most interesting part of this package is the fact that some of these games are intellavision games, checkers and baseball are just nes ports with added graphic hacks. Actually if I remember correctly checkers uses no official rule set. As there’s no forced jump, and a draw is determined by pieces and not by if a player can’t move a piece.

[@MannyCakes1984]

This is a really cool product. Looking to get one for myself.

[@glenjust630]

After the reviews of the Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man by My Arcade, I thought for sure the third one this week would be the My Arcade Asteroids flight stick unit. Hopefully soon!

[@miked4377]

nice ...funny how they put intellivision baseball in with the others...its kind of the odd man out without jon inman! nice jon!

[@EarthySpeedpaints]

OHHH THIS IS THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR MY MOM!

[@mikesilva3868]

Nice review 🎉

[@GenXGrownUp]

Many thanks!

[@only257]

@@GenXGrownUpquestion can you link this to a smart tv🎉

[@GenXGrownUp]

@@only257 No external device support via wired or wireless.

[@mixedhairless]

I’ve been carrying and playing my OG first gen Gameboy playing Tetris, while it’s a wonderful things the battery issue is still and issue. I might consider this for Tetris only of course. 😆

[@OriginalGrasshopper]

I gotta admit that “Utmost Warfare” looks like a pretty fun little shmup!

[@RayPruitt-ji9jx]

Snowball is Boxxle on Game Boy and Shove It on Genesis, except you're a man moving boxes. The second level you played is very familiar to me.

[@KristianWontroba]

Great cute bang for buck! Awesome review Jon! 😊

[@TomMannCenturia]

Nifty, I just wish they'd have just spent a tiny bit more to have a better screen.

[@Icekneecaps]

Hey dude there is a new Tetris arcade classic for 2024!and it’s GOLD and I just got it today by the way it’s a target exclusive.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Is that the Arcade Classics from Basic Fun?

[@Icekneecaps]

@@GenXGrownUp yes

[@Icekneecaps]

@@GenXGrownUp I also made a post about it on my channel

[@AD.ArcadeGaming]

Looks interesting. Not bad for the price

[@EyasAlabdoli]

I love kislux that on the butterfly bag it says auguri / tanti auguri which means happy birthday

[@rickrodriguez6244]

Great video, new subscriber. This gadget is neat but it should be $10 for what it is

[@Mark-Wester]

I've got one of the MyArcade Tetris arcades. I like it.

[@hatdag5976]

Is there hold and ghost pieces

[@Mika73x2]

I think that display is better for all other games than Tetris. Tetris game screen is just very small. If something like this would support Tate mode and you could play Tetris with console turned at your hand it would be great. They just needed think how but controllers so it would work.😊

[@EnjoySynthSounds]

❤ Tetris. Nice music and dpad. For the cost you can't nitpick over the screen.

[@FB64_Fakebeta]

I think I might get the Pocket Player version instead because I can actually read the score on it. If the screen on here was higher resolution, it would be perfect.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Nice observation. Slightly less portable, but nicer screen. That doesn't have any bonus games, though, does it? Or does it.

[@FB64_Fakebeta]

@@GenXGrownUp I don’t care about the bonus games anyway, they’re just the same Famiclone (Knockoff NES) games that I’ve seen on the red one they made a long time ago. Plus, half of the time I was looking at the scores and wondering “is that a 0 or an 8?” Because all I could see was something that looked like a 0 with a line on one side lol

[@AWilson3342]

Ive just ordered one for myself

[@marccaselle8108]

The baseball game you showed looked like intellivision baseball.

[@GenXGrownUp]

A few commenters have mentioned that. 😀

[@sjntube]

OKAY. I love this little thing. Sometimes when I want to game, I just want a quick fix and this is just the ticket. I can definitely see my self sporting one of these in my back pocket. Now for something similar made by Atari.... Hmmmmm.

[@sylvainster30]

Pobble reminds me of RiverRaid on the 2600 😂 ✌🏼😎👍🏼

[@sylvainster30]

New subscriber here 👋

[@CactusVRofficial]

just wish you could get it in europe..

[@marccaselle8108]

Just needs the atari arcade tetris and the NES tetris and the gameboy tetris and tetris plus and its all good. 🙂

[@jonathanwhiteside6092]

Neat little product, but the screen is a bit of a turn off.

[@zheta42]

The main game and UI not fitting the pixel grid of the screen is a no-go.

[@clumaster]

All it needs is a clock and you would have a Watch N Game.

[@Jgamer-my8li]

Cool

[@Mika73x2]

Atari 2600, Intellivision or Colecovision mini game like this would be fun😊

[@GenXGrownUp]

Oh, for sure. With an upgraded screen, please. 😁

[@lorensims4846]

The price is certainly tempting, but I'm looking to pay a bit more for something a bit bigger with considerably more capability. The Tetris game is just a bit too small for me.

[@jacob644]

Nice!

[@only257]

Nice 🎉

[@GCJACK83]

For the price, size, and form factor, yeah. This would be a good waste of $20 as a time-killer if you're on break at work or something like that.

[@rainydayman2k]

The Baseball bonus game looks like a reskin of Intellivision's Major League Baseball.

[@ZumaZoom07]

Just bought one 😂

[@GenXGrownUp]

Hope you enjoy!

[@retro_reflections]

The major problem I have with all of these 'new' My Arcade products is that they're just variations on existing items, in either a different form factor, or with a few tweaks. It strikes me that they haven't got any new IP to really knock the socks off of anyone, although I'd very much love to be proved wrong.

[@GenXGrownUp]

You're not wrong - lots of riffing on the Namco titles for the last several years. They showed a Pole Position device at CES, so that should be right around the corner.

[@deadvikingtrolls]

Saw this at gamestop today while looking for gameboy stuff and said nope. My initial thoughts are that it doesn't look particularly ergonomic, the screen is nearly too small and the rotate buttons should not be oriented that way. Have gb tetris, modretro tetris and tetris 99 already so I bought paperboy and left.

[@GenXGrownUp]

👌

[@deadvikingtrolls]

@GenXGrownUp 🤌

[@marccaselle8108]

Poor jon, i bet my paycheck that the bonus games are NOT NES caliber.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Never bet paychecks with me - I'm entirely unarmed! 💸

[@marccaselle8108]

@@GenXGrownUp well played sir

[@tone80ful]

Awesome review! 👍 Almost 2025 and they are still releasing battery operated products. 👎

[@GenXGrownUp]

Thanks. 😁 How would you power this if not by battery?

[@tone80ful]

​@@GenXGrownUpi mean not AA or AAA batteries. USB rechargeable like their other release or mini arcade machines from other brands.

[@GenXGrownUp]

@@tone80ful I see. Manufacturers can't seem to win. I see two pretty even camps who are in favor of and against pre-installed rechargeable batteries. Half the consumers are like you and desire a pre-installed battery. Others, worry that a pre-installed will eventually fair and render the device unusable without replacement and are in favor of user-replaceable batteries. In the end, not including a battery helps to keep the cost down a bit, though I understand the lack of conveniene.

[@marccaselle8108]

I will wait until myacade does a pocket tetris player that has the following Arcade atari Tetris NES tetris NES Tengen Tetris Gameboy Tetris PS1 Tetris Plus Tetris the grand master.

[@GenXGrownUp]

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[@EddiePepper]

A good review, thank you, but, I hate to be that guy, but, for ten dollars more you could get a tracfone blu view 5 and play many different versions of Tetris. :P

[@GenXGrownUp]

Many thanks. I think you'll get little debate this is far from the first, best, or only way to play. But it is among the newest. 😉

[@jayjayshowcaser5859]

The design is cool of the pixel pocket / but the games on the screen looks horrible

[@GenXGrownUp]

👌

[@MrMegaManFan]

I get where you're coming from about it being cute, but for $20 to play a strange version of Tetris with screen tearing, "that's a no for me dog." The other no-name games don't add value because you can find them in every plug and play and they're always bad. For $5? Maybe. Not $20.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Thanks for sharing your opinion.

[@CoachTabe]

Yeah, I just don't see the appeal here at all. Maybe for 10 bucks but for 20 with a bad screen and graphical issues all over? Nah.

[@GenXGrownUp]

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[@GenXGrownUp]

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[@katmacoconnor]

🧱💜

[@ninjagaiden86]

This is an NES rom that needs to be dumped 😩

[@hiddentrack1701]

Maybe I'm too picky, but the lack of a high score table on this and the inaccurate sound on the Ms Pac-Man joystick player yesterday are big misses. Enough to put me off purchasing them both.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Totally understandable. My job in reviews is to help consumers make informed buying decisions, so it sounds like at least on that front, a win! 😉

[@hiddentrack1701]

Agreed. Even if we might differ on a final score, I always appreciate your enthusiasm for these games and products, Jon.

[@GenXGrownUp]

@@hiddentrack1701 The ability to disagree and still be pals is a dying art in KZbin comments. I DEFINITELY appreciate you! 🥰

[@Michael-yp9ip]

What about PAC-MAN?

[@GenXGrownUp]

@@Michael-yp9ip What about him? He's right here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKOad59_l8aqbMU

[@soaremicheledavid6020]

Never liked Tetris, not even when i was a kid, was boring than, is boring now. You have to be desperate to play this.

[@GenXGrownUp]

No, I don't. 😉