1PLAYER BARTOP ARCADE TV

A power strip with outlets and USB ports.

LED lighting (for the marquee backlight) I used this (Yes, I love Amazon).

More quick disconnects, and more M-F jumper wires.

Kit contains: 5x Arcade Buttons,1x Joystick, 1x SD Card with Porta Pi, 20x Female quick disconnects, 20x 6-inch M-F Jumper Wires, couple other things not use.

Sparkfun Pi RetroCade kit (you don't have to use this, but it was a great place to start for me).

power supply for the RPi (use a Canakit, or other 5V, 2.5 amp power supply).

Here is the parts list for this project, as I built it.

Also, I wanted a standalone arcade cabinet that I could share with my 2 boys, and waste countless hours reliving the glory days of my youth, where I wasted countless hours playing arcade games!

1PLAYER BARTOP ARCADE TV

The set they sell comes in a cardboard box, and the idea is you cut holes in the box (which is pre-marked for you and comes with a utility knife to do it with) and screw the components into it, connect to a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3, and hook it to your TV via the HDMI cable.Д«ut I got to thinking, 3 buttons (plus a start and select button) are not enough to play some of the fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. I started out buying the Pi RetroCade set from Sparkfun Electronics, but I soon realized that their bare bones controller was not going to cut it for me! The Sparkfun kit comes with a joystick, 5 buttons, quick disconnects, connector wires, and an SD card loaded with PortaPi Arcade from RetroBuilt Games. Instructions for building these are all over the Internet and Instructables itself, but I figured I would throw my version into the mix! This Instructable is for a 1-player retro bartop arcade cabinet, based on a Raspberry Pi 3 running RetroPie.

1player bartop arcade