![]() I became interested in sub-$150 computers thanks to Intel’s Compute Sticks, which can run Windows (and therefore iTunes/Sonos servers) in the footprint of a Snickers bar. As a lifelong gamer with two young kids, I’d call the Raspberry Pi the greatest purchase I’ve made in years, and with this guide, you’re going to love setting one up for yourself. It’s quite possible that you already own many of the parts you need to use a Pi 3, and if you’re missing something, it’s cheap and easy to get. The revolution here is the price to performance ratio: now, literally anyone can afford a powerful little computer. Any arcade game you can imagine, from Pac-Man to TMNT and Street Fighter II and III, runs flawlessly, as do numerous classic Amiga, Mac, and PC games. Today, RetroPie is capable of emulating everything from Atari’s original Pong to every Nintendo Entertainment System game and much of Sega’s Dreamcast library. You may have heard of the hardware before – it’s called the Raspberry Pi 3 ($35) – but the software it runs, RetroPie, is less well known and has quietly become seriously amazing. ![]() Today, for less than the cost of a single new PlayStation game, you can get a small device that runs 25 years of arcade and console video games, which is to say literally thousands of titles. ![]()
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