Gaming

Best and worst in arcade cabinet building…

James from RetroBlast writes “I am submitting three items all featured at RetroBlast in one way or another and all having to do with custom-built arcade cabinets. The three represent the best to the worst in arcade cabinet building.” James outlines the good, bad and ugly of making your own arcade cabinets – regardless of how these turned out, there are lot of things to learn from the approach many of the Makers took. I actually like some of the “ugly ones”…

Continue Reading February 29th, 2008 Phillip Torrone4

Review: A cheap LCD projector – The Hasboro Zoombox!

Brian has a great review of the Hasbro Zoombox! “When someone asked me recently about cool gadgets for holiday gifts, the Hasbro Zoombox was one of the items I mentioned. I didn’t think I’d buy one this year, though, but that was before I took a closer look. Ever since editing Retro Gaming Hacks, I’ve been on a big retro gaming kick. Lately, I’ve been focusing on collecting cartridges for my Atari 130XE, and big screen Donkey Kong and Miner 2049er have been taking up some of my gaming time….”

Continue Reading February 29th, 2008 Phillip Torrone16

Super Breakout version allows for competitive or collaborative gaming

This version of the classic game “Breakout” allows two people to play at once. The players can compete against each other or work collaboratively to eliminate all the bricks. Accelerometers in the controllers move the paddles horizontally across the screen. Check out the circuit diagrams and more on the link below. Super Breakout – Link

Continue Reading February 26th, 2008 Jonahbc

Create and old-school arcade machine

Pretty nice how-to on building an old-school arcade machine. This one uses a CRT monitor to make it really authentic, but we assume that the LCD version would probably take a lot less fortification. Build Your Own Arcade Machine – Link

Continue Reading February 25th, 2008 Jonahbc2

One-handed Wii controller

From Hackszine: Ryan Culy designed a single-handed, combination Wiimote and Nunchuck (motechuck?), making Nunchuck-enabled Wii games accessible to a friend who is missing a hand. It’s a solid concept and a nice looking custom acrylic execution. Benheck named this one his Hack Pick of the Wii-k: The basic idea is that you strap the nunchuck […]

Continue Reading February 20th, 2008 Gareth Branwyn

Sensor squid relation game

My colleagues and I in the Arts, Media and Engineering program at Arizona State University are working on a wireless tangible interface object for collaboration, called the Sensor Squid. It’s basically an Arduino-controlled, Bluetooth communicating 6-foot plush cephalopod used to control a Max/MSP game about community-generated media. You can download the code, parts list, and […]

Continue Reading February 19th, 2008 Becky Stern2

Arduino breathalyzer controls video game

Matt Mechtley writes: You’re throwing a party for the Game Developers Conference and you think it would be cool to have a custom game. What’s the natural response? How about Pong that adapts its difficulty based on how drunk you are! Matt hacked a breathalyzer by reading the pinouts to the seven-segment LCD with an […]

Continue Reading February 19th, 2008 Becky Stern4

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