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Play Arcade Games on a Simple Setup at 2021 (October)

 You have the crave to play some quick arcade games, and you want to satisfy it when it comes without fussing with emulators, downloads etc. Just setup a basic small arcade home environment which you can jump to whenever you feel the need. Ingredients Raspberry pie (the brains of the system) SD card (storage of the OS + Roms) HDMI cable USB cable (power for the RP [or use the RJ45 for POE if you use RP 4 or later]) LAN (rj45), keyboard - needed for first setup Screen Joystick of your choice (8bitdo?) Supposing you have cables (hdmi, rj45, usb) lying around, and a screen to use as well as an SD card, then the only needed purchases are the actual raspberry pie and joystick, which don't accumulate to a lot of money. Raspberry pie Unless you want to emulate more modern systems (playstation 2 and up) then you can use a raspberry pie 3 (not even the plus version) and it will satisfy your needs without compromise. Please note that I do recommend buying the RP 3+ as if you will need it for...

Build a simple & cheap arcade machine

I want another machine at my home which will be dedicated to games These are my requirements Many different games without the hassle of installing and setting them up (console emulator) Cheap machine (console emulator, probably not one of the newer ones like ps2 and up) Joysticks (several bucks at eBay) Multiplayer support Wireless controllers (so the kids won't damage the machine when they pull the controllers) Nice launcher (So each game will be presented nicely) Launcher could scrape online databases for the details on every game Wifi support (optional, as I can connect to RJ45 once and get all of the scraping done) HDMI output Community support After some digging I think I can get the best results with Android or Rspberry PI. I think there is better support for the Raspberry machines, so I went on the Raspberry PI B+. So I need the following:  Buy Raspberry PI b+ with a simple case (latest version) (about 45$ with shipping etc) OS (linux ...

Launch the perfect set of hundreds of offline free games with a launcher in under 5 minutes

If you want to play good games, but don't want to play online games, and don't want to waste your time for searching games one after the other till you find a decent and free good game then just read this post and I will guide you to the perfect and effortless set of free games you can obtain in 5 minutes. These games will fit any person with the following requirements from his games: Only free games Don't care about graphics (So if a game has good playability you want to play it even if it is 20 years old) Hundreds of games to pick from Obtain them in 5 minutes Have a nice launcher where each game will have a picture and you only need to click the picture to play the game The answer is simple my friend, you are looking for a good console games emulator with a beautiful launcher. Emulators, emulate a specific gaming machine so, for example, you can download a Nintendo (NES) emulator and play all of the Nintendo original games. But still you will nee...