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24 alternatives to Cupcade: RaspberryPi Micro Arcade Kit

Make a miniature arcade cabinet with real, working games

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cupcade: RaspberryPi Micro Arcade Kit launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Polycade▲72
A modern arcade cabinet
2015 · its alternatives →
2
Battlecade▲87
A portable vintage gaming concept for two
2015 · its alternatives →
3
MATRIX Creator▲76
Raspberry Pi Dev Board w/ 8 Mics, FPGA, MC, IMU, + more
2016 · its alternatives →
4
Raspi Boy▲107
Build your own retro handheld game console
2016 · its alternatives →
5
Raspberry Pi Model A+▲160
Smaller, better, and cheaper: $20
2014 · its alternatives →
6IH
I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi▲423
2013 · madebynathan.com · its alternatives →
7
Tiny Arcade▲2
A retro tiny playable game cabinet
2015 · its alternatives →
8
The Next Penelope▲56
MicroMachines-style arcade racer
2015 · its alternatives →
9
GIPHY Arcade▲141
Create and share microgames powered by fun GIFs 👾
2019 · its alternatives →
10
Tingbot▲119
Transform your Raspberry Pi into a platform for creativity
2015 · its alternatives →
11IB
I built a full-size arcade machine from scratch (CAD-files + images)▲35
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Proton Pulse▲56
3D Arcade Brick-Breaking Action from a whole new perspective
2015 · its alternatives →
13PA
Pibow (a case for your Raspberry Pi)▲27
2012 · pibow.com · its alternatives →
14RP
Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display▲357
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
15
Portable Arcade for Raspberry Pi▲3
Portable Arcade Machine for all you retrogaming enthusiast.
2018 · its alternatives →
16
GameShell▲87
Open Source Retro Gaming & STEM Portable Console
2017 · its alternatives →
17
Space Race Cocktail Arcade Machine ▲72
250 preloaded retro games in this vintage 2 players cabinet
2015 · its alternatives →
18IB
I built a handheld CHIP-8 game console to teach myself embedded systems▲128
A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
19
DeskArcade▲83
An arcade in your menu bar - playable over anything
Jun 2026 · getdeskarcade.com · its alternatives →
20IM
I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game▲139
Inspired by games like Turing Complete/Virtual Circuit Board/Logic World, I tried to make a mix of aseprite and wiredworld/wired-logic, the idea being the user can build a digital circuit using a "fullstack" pixelart creation workflow. The circuit is just an image. The primitives are (i) connected wires which have undefined, 0 or 1 state during simulation (displayed brighter or darker in function of the state) and (ii) NANDs, which are little pixel triangles. During simulation the user can interact with any wire by clicking on it, toggling its state, which is cool for messing…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
Raspberry Pi 2▲288
2nd generation with faster processor and more memory
2015 · its alternatives →
22
Code Arcade▲111
An arcade game for programmers
2016 · its alternatives →
23
Arcade Maker▲67
New, lovely arcade shooter with orignal graphics & music
2016 · its alternatives →
24
Arduboy▲156
A mini open-source game system you can program yourself 👾
2016 · its alternatives →

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