It has been a while since I did my post on my portable Retro Pie console.
If you haven't seen it, I built my son a portable game console for our flight to Florida last year. It consisted of 16 buttons, complete with shoulder buttons and 6 street fighter style action buttons, a 3.5" color screen, long battery life, 4,000+ retro games from 1970's to 2000, and all powered by a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W.
I also have a similar device on my TV with 8,000+ games and using a Raspberry Pi 3. If you have a $35 Raspberry Pi and one or two console controllers lying around you can make your own. The process is very easy and doesn't require any electronics knowledge to make a TV-based console. The portable is a whole nother story.
Retro Pie is an open source bundle that includes a launcher for over 50 different retro consoles so you can seamlessly run game roms from all the popular game consoles of the 1970's to around 2000.
Setting up a Retro Pie for a TV is fairly easy, and can be done with the following components:
Raspberry Pi 3B or 3B+
Micro SD Memory Card (8GB+)
Case (Optional)
HDMI Cable
Some controller(s) used or new
For about $75-100 you can have a gaming console with over 8,000 retro games you grew up playing. Many support 2+ players if you have multiple controllers.
Setting up is easy, but there are a few tricks you learn as you do it. The Retro Pie Website does a good job walking you through the installation and how to configure it. If you have kids, it is an awesome project to do together.
I have built a portable as well as one for my TV, my next project is to build a tabletop version.
Check out this video if you want to see Retro Pie in action
Honestly, I am not a huge fan of retro games, I am a graphics whore and love modern games but there are a few I enjoy playing and it's a lot more enjoyable with kids. Some of them will give you tears of nostalgia and others will make you wonder how the hell we played them as a kid.
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