Made this guy back in 2015… Have made a couple changes here & there. I’ve had the itch to sell it and make a new one from scratch, taking into account things I’ve learned & wanted to change…

About 13 years ago, I made this fella.

https://i.imgur.com/hZYFEmC.jpg

It was a huge amount of fun to build and I was very happy with the result. I hardly play it, but sometimes just put it on and let it cycle through games to fill the house with an arcade-y ambiance.

It started off life with an old PC in it, but currently runs a Raspberry Pi 3.

I built a small Batocera machine a couple months ago using an Odroid N2+ board. Pretty simple to get up and running and plays anything oldschool I could ever want. I get the urge to play it pretty regularly too, so I’m happy it’s ready to go when I am!

We’ve got a full-size arcade cabinet in our kitchen. Was a DIY passion project of my husband’s before we met, and it was fun for a while because the various niblings would play with it when they came round for the big family breakfasts we used to do. Sometimes if I was alone in the house I’d leave it on demo mode just to have some comforting background noise.

Niblings grew up, I got used to the quiet of a small town, and I don’t think it’s even been turned on in about five years because we’ve also got way more portable options 😅

Well, personally I turned a NES cartridge into a RetroPi console

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It’s on my to-do list, but the arcade hardware itself can get quite pricy. I may end up just using USB controllers instead of the buttons, sticks, and trackballs.

I’ve always wanted to but it seems dauntingly expensive and tricky to do. Any tips?

I picked up a little bartop cabinet from a local arcade convention a few years back for a few hundred bucks. Ended up ripping out the Pandora’s Box (overseas piracy device with a bunch of dumped ROMs) and threw a Raspberry Pi into it. Got everything wired up with RetroPi… then realized I needed to add more buttons.

It’s been in that state for years lol