What Is the Tiny Arcade?
We're old school arcade lovers here - there is nothing quite like the experience of playing a
game on an arcade cabinet. We've created Tiny Arcade to let you experience that feeling
anywhere, by shrinking an arcade cabinet to just a few inches tall.
The Tiny Arcade lets you experience many retro type games which can be downloaded
completely free from our site or any number of others that create games for the Tiny Arcade.
You can also play videos on the Tiny Arcade at 30 FPS with audio.
The Tiny Arcade is based around TinyCircuits, a modular Arduino compatible platform the
size of a quarter which stack together like electronic LEGOs. There is an analog joystick and
two push buttons for playing the games, a built in speaker for playing audio, a Lithium battery,
built in USB for charging (and reprogramming), and a microSD expansion slot.
Even though the Tiny Arcade is built around the Arduino platform - don't worry if you're not a
programmer, there is no need to download any special software or do any soldering with the
Tiny Arcade, you can use it without any special knowledge.
microSD Game Expansion
The Tiny Arcade can load games on the fly off a microSD card, a menu is provided at power
up that shows a preview of all of the games available on the microSD card, choose one and it
gets loaded in a second and you're playing away. No need to reprogram the Tiny Arcade over
USB.
