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24 alternatives to Gamebuino
A retro portable game console project based on Arduino
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Gamebuino launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing
2019 · internalregister.github.io · its alternatives →
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Arduino compatible retro console for gamers
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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GameShell▲87Open Source Retro Gaming & STEM Portable Console
2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Arduboy▲156A mini open-source game system you can program yourself 👾
2016 · arduboy.com · its alternatives →
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Codebender▲123Development platform for Arduino users, makers and engineers
2014 · codebender.cc · its alternatives →
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eNcade ▲63A Portable Raspberry Pi Gaming Console (Kickstarter)
2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Still very much a work in progress, but really wanted to share this even in it's early state. Had heaps of fun building it to learn more about WebRTC.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A gory retro platformer with dynamic ragdoll physics
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Proton Pulse▲563D Arcade Brick-Breaking Action from a whole new perspective
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A new concept of platform game with a retro effect
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Project V▲64A browser based scrolling shooter.
2015 · projectv.bigvikinggames.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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Retro Gears▲68A mix of retro, pixels and Micromachines on steroids
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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