(figured I'd 'do my part' and make my first Lemmy post...!)
I love this thing too much to part with, but I'm gonna have to be honest: I barely use it. More often or not I retro-game on my Steam Deck...slightly more portable!
Has anyone else built their own units for retro-gaming though?
We've got a full-size arcade cabinet in our kitchen. Was a DIY passion project of my husband's before we met, and it was fun for a while because the various niblings would play with it when they came round for the big family breakfasts we used to do. Sometimes if I was alone in the house I'd leave it on demo mode just to have some comforting background noise.
Niblings grew up, I got used to the quiet of a small town, and I don't think it's even been turned on in about five years because we've also got way more portable options ๐
It's my little one that gets the most use out of mine too, that's for sure.
As @[email protected] said elsewhere I think I enjoyed building it more than actually sitting down to replay something specific. It doesn't help that I have a million other little projects (game programming, music production, model painting, sim-racing...!) that become more interesting as I make progress on another...
Still, I'm glad my darling daughter and her friends get use out of the machine!