Diy Tabletop Arcade
Arcade machines are awesome but it 39 s not really feasible for most of us to keep one in our house.
Diy tabletop arcade. It can sit on top of a desk table or bar. Lighted marquee to display your own artwork. If you 39 re looking for something a little smaller instructables user rolfebox shows off. Finally here is the video for the bigger bartop arcade.
Side paddle buttons for pinball and other games. Using a pi keeps the cost weight and complexity to a minimum but the cabinet could also house a more powerful pc based system to play more modern games. It should be noted that most of these diy arcade machines use a software emulator that mimics the game platform the games were initially used on. In this case it s mame multiple arcade machine emulator which is used with the corresponding game rom images.
Some of the features include. The galactic starcade is a diy retro bartop arcade cabinet for two players. I combined all 6 videos into one long film. A full size slide out keyboard tray for pc based games and configuration.
This build was a request and required some creative designing to fit the specs we were going for. It is powered by the raspberry pi micro computer and plays multiple types of retro games primarily nes snes megadrive and arcade mame games.