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Play Hundreds of Classic Games on This Retro Home Arcade
The Polycade uses emulator software to conjure up “Pac-Man,” “Street Fighter II,” and other classic titles.
When Tyler Bushnell was a kid, he remembers biking 6 miles on the weekends to blow all his money on that hot release, “Street Fighter II.”
Years later those “Hadoukens!” must still echo in his head, because Bushnell—who just so happens to be the son of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell—is building a wall-mounted console that plays potentially thousands of classic video games. The Polycade cabinet features a 28-inch screen and joysticks for two players to face off, something Bushnell feels is missing from the contemporary gaming experience. He writes on his Kickstarter campaign, which beat its $20,000 goal in two days: