Arcade Machine Pack And Play
There’s something about the large imposing wooden box of an arcade machine that lends a confident presence to a room. The problem with a tall and heavy box is that …read more Continue reading Arcade Machine Pack And Play
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Vintage Arcade Used Negative Voltage to Turn Volume Up to 11
When [Nicole Express] got her hands on the logic board for the 1986 SNK arcade game Athena, she ran into a rather thorny problem: The board expected to be fed …read more Continue reading Vintage Arcade Used Negative Voltage to Turn Volume Up to 11
Bartop Arcade Machine That Isn’t Afraid Of Change
Arcade machines have a distinct look and feel with large imposing cabinets and smaller bartop machines that try to keep the look and feel of a traditional upright arcade cabinet …read more Continue reading Bartop Arcade Machine That Isn’t Afraid Of Change
Solid Oak Arcade Cabinet: When Particle Board Won’t Do
Having an arcade cabinet of one’s own is a common dream among those who grew up during the video game arcade heyday of the 80s and early 90s. It’s a fairly common build that doesn’t take too much specialized knowledge to build. This cabinet, on the other hand, pulled out …read more
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Throwing Down the FPGA Gauntlet
Gauntlet is a well-known arcade game from 1985 with many sequels and ports to more modern architectures such as Xbox and GameCube. Thanks to its popularity and relative age, the original arcade cabinet is well documented with the schematics available online. It was regarded as the most complex and ambitious …read more
Toddler Arcade Cabinet is a Stand-Up Job
A few years ago, [Mark] built an arcade cabinet into a low table. But once his new gaming buddy [Grayson] came along and started crawling, it wasn’t practical to have a low, pointy table around. Trouble is, [Mark] had already given [Grayson] his first taste with a Thomas the Tank …read more
Greeking out with Arduinos
Learning a new language is hard work, but they say that the best way to learn something is to teach it. [Angeliki Beyko] is learning Greek, and what better way to teach than to build a vocabulary flash-card game from Arduinos, color screens, 1602 text screens, and arcade buttons? After …read more
Miniature Star Wars Arcade Lets You Blow Up the Death Star on the Go
If you have fond childhood memories of afternoons spent at the local arcade, then you’ve had the occasional daydream about tracking down one of those old cabinets and putting it in the living room. But the size, cost, and rarity of these machines makes actually owning one impractical for most …read more
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The Google Chrome Dinosaur Game, in Real Life
[Ryan] wanted to hack the Google Chrome Dinosaur Game so he could control the dinosaur with his own movements. The game only requires two keyboard presses (up and down arrow keys), so controlling the game with the Arduino Keyboard library only requires a few simple function calls.
He uses the …read more
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Jumbo LED Matrix Brings Classic Sprites to Life
Despite all the incredible advancements made in video game technology over the last few decades, the 8-bit classics never seem to go out of style. Even if you weren’t old enough to experience these games when they were new, it’s impossible not to be impressed by what the early video …read more
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