{"id":134156,"date":"2023-08-11T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-153880"},"modified":"2023-08-11T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T19:30:00","slug":"video-the-fake-game-boy-that-costs-10-and-contains-200-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/video-the-fake-game-boy-that-costs-10-and-contains-200-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The &#8216;Fake Game Boy&#8217; That Costs $10 And Contains 200 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1ed96a2673c66\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1ed96a2673c66\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Arcade Fun\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1ed96a2673c66\/arcade-fun.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1ed96a2673c66\/arcade-fun.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Arcade Fun\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pre-loaded consoles are a dime a dozen, and it&#8217;s easy to get caught out by the many &#8220;fake&#8221; versions of consoles. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/random_this_fake_nintendo_switch_comes_with_800_games_but_you_wont_want_it_for_christmas\">Nanica Smitch<\/a> is one such example \u2014 a Switch-looking device with 800 games pre-loaded onto it.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re looking at a pre-loaded console that will set you back just under $10 \u2014 <strong>Merkury Inventions Arcade Fun<\/strong>. For just under ten bucks you can get <em>200 games<\/em> to play on the go. Sounds too good to be true, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The lovely Zion over on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@nintendolife\">our YouTube channel<\/a> is on the case. After spotting the handheld at his local grocery store, it piqued his curiosity and he decided to pick one up, take it home, and give it a test run. It looks like a Game Boy, and \u2014 surprisingly \u2014 there are more than a handful of titles you might remember playing on your NES back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious \u2014 and why wouldn&#8217;t you be? \u2014 then check out what Zion thinks about this all-in-one console in the video below. And don&#8217;t forget to let us know if you&#8217;ve ever seen this or picked this up at your local store in the comments<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"4Zuh03321Q0\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life Pre-loaded consoles are a dime a dozen, and it&#8217;s easy to get caught out by the many &#8220;fake&#8221; versions of consoles. The Nanica Smitch is one such example \u2014 a Switch-looking device with 800 games pre-loaded onto it. Today, we&#8217;re looking at a pre-loaded console that will set you back just under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}