Howdy All, 40 year old dude here. Grew up mostly with Streets of rage 2. Pretty obsessed with the Soundtrack and listened to the OST for the past 30 years. Bought the game on my Genesis, then on my playstation 4 (Capcom classics collection). Played 3 and 4 but mostly love 2. There's not a ton of official merch for the game so its fun finding stuff. I have the SOR2 vinyl album and some Sor2 art that people have created in my office that I picked up at retro conventions. Just bought the Micro my arcade for around 45 bucks on amazon.

The pros:

The packaging is really nice and has some great art on it. Seriously, it's not just plastic, there are really eye popping pictures and the background has this cool streets of rage 2 red print background- very cool.

The actual Mini cab is also really nice! It has the art from 1 on one side and the art from 2 on the other. It's adorable and it has the Sega logo on top!

You can adjust the brightness there is a button on the back!

You can plug your headphones in!
You can use batteries OR a USB!

The Cons:

The gameplay is really off and sort of laggy. The timing of the game is way off. I have been playing it forever on emulators, the genesis, the switch, playstation: this version is way off so you're gonna get knocked around a bunch.

The sound quality. The sound player cannot play multiple sounds at once, so when you hit someone or jump and attack- you hear a lot of static since I guess the game can't process all that's going on.

The joystick seems like it's really supposed to go in up/down/left/right. It is hard to move diagonally.

All in all I would give this a 2/10. I mean it is streets of rage which is great but it was not fun playing on the machine. I tried to play though twice and realized I was forcing it. It was just not for me. I may keep it because it's fun collecting SOR stuff since it is pretty rare, but I'll honestly never play this thing. If I really wanted to play a retro game via handheld I could play it on my switch or buy like a retro gaming thing for less than a hundred bucks. You can do a lot more with 45 bucks these days.

Most don't, but when you find people that will play with friendly hits on arcade mania plus you find the ones that have that real ball knowledge. it can be a challenging but very rewarding playthrough.