“Just to note I bought from Pimoroni together everything needed for the Picade setup. This included
-Raspberry Pi 3 B+
-Offical Raspberry Pi Universal Power Supply
-Picade
-(I already had source the memory card)
Amazing quality of everything included in the Picade product. The box/materials/instructions feels like a high class premium product. I built the unit with my partner and had so much fun building together. The instructions are really clear and printed on high quality paper. The quality of the IPS screen is phenomenal. The viewing angles from above and the sides is crisp and very impressive. The sound produced from the speakers provded are clear and don't distort at higher volumes. Also it's so crisp with all the games I tested(Streets of Rage in particular!) Setting up the software was easy to follow from Pimoroni resources. Expect to want to customise the game loader styles and also the ability to have menu music in the game selection screen. The best part about the Picade is that you feel comfortable with the components and will surely leave you with ideas to enhance your picade!(Large battery for gaming on the go! Or I did see that Pimoroni just released gorgeous plasma arcade buttons!). Just to also note the communication from Pimoroni has been top notch, I did have one issue with one of the buttons but a replacement was sent out straight away and the service was superb.
If you are looking for a classy high quality arcade cabient that is not going to take up a huge amount of space, I would highly recommend the Picade.
Thanks again all the team at Pimoroni for an amazing product.”
“This is a great bit of kit and not only is great for educational value, teaching kids how machines are physically built, it's great to give it a hammering for some games too!
Stick the latest Raspberry Pi board in too and you can use bluetooth to add a second controller too.
In some places the instructions were a bit unclear as to what exactly you had to do until you managed to do it but that's all part of the fun of building things from scratch I guess!
It's a great little project to build. once you've built the machine, the software bit is where it gets interesting!”
“This is beautiful. It was very therapeutic and relaxing to build. Not too tricky and not too easy. All of the components had clearly been well thought through during design and the clicky joystick is like catnip to any gamer.”
“a cheap but expertly engineered, designed and crafted kit for the ultimate retro arcade gamer. detailed and sensible instructions make building it a breeze.”
