The idea of Open gaming received widespread coverage in 2012 with the Ouya console (https://www.ouya.tv). While not Open Source Hardware, it encouraged a new-generation to start building their own games. This has paved the way for more Open Source products, that provide a great environment to learn how to hack together hardware and code for fun. Here’s a list of commercially available OSHW built around Arduino, with a heavy hit of retro 8-bit gaming (sorted by year first shown). I’ve excluded the systems built on RaspPi, PocketCHIP, etc. – as these are essentially full linux computers running retro-emulators.
TV Console
- 2008 – Uzebox
- 2010 – Hackvision
- 2010 – Video Game Shield (Shield only)
- 2011 – Gameduino (GPU shield)
- 2013 – Gameduino 2 (GPU shield)
- 2015 – Arduinocade
Portable
- 2008 – GamePack (shield only)
- 2008 – Meggy Jr RGB
- 2011 – Gamby (shield only)
- 2012 – Gamebuino
- 2012 – Arduino Esplora (board only)
- 2013 – JoyGamer
- 2013 – DigiPixel (shield only)
- 2014 – Microduino-Joypad
- 2014 – TinyScreen Video Game Kit
- 2014 – DIY Gamer Kit
- 2014 – Arduboy
- 2016 – MAKERbuino (Kit Gamebuino)
- 2016 – Pokitto (32bit ARM, Open but not Arduino)
- 2016 – Attiny Arcade keychain (ATtiny85) by Ilya Titov @webboggles.
- 2017 – Gamebuino META (32bit ARM M0 ~ Arduino Zero)
- 2018 – TinyConsole (ATtiny85) by @DjamalUK.
- 2018 – Tiny Game Corner (ATmega328P game cartridges) by Alojz Jakob.
- 2018 – Tiny Joypad (ATtiny85 game cartridges, landscape/portrait screen) by @Megazoid4.
- 2019 – Multi Game Console (ATtiny85 / Atmel MCU game cartridges on micro SD) by @bobricius.
- 2019 – PYXA (ATmega328P) by @creoqode.
- 2019 – ESPboy (32bit ESP8266) by Roman Sokolov @ESPboy_edu.
- 2020 – 8BitCADE (Arduboy clone) by Jack Daly @JackDalyDesigns.