Build a retro console for classic gaming fun

Anyone growing up in the past 30 years is likely to feel a twinge of nostalgia when remembering playing such classics as Super Mario Bros., Pac-Man and Street Fighter. Some readers may even have been fortunate enough to own their own games console, while the rest of us had to be content with pumping coins into any arcade machine they could get their hands on.

Using the custom RetroPie operating system, your Raspberry Pi can be transformed into a machine capable of playing all your favourite games for dozens of different titles for Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Atari and more.

If you’re familiar with emulating games, you may wonder why you would install RetroPie given the number of emulators out there. The answer is simply that installing RetroPie is one of the quickest and easiest ways to play video games classics – the frontend software, EmulationStation, is specifically designed for display on.