Building a LED MatrixGame Console With Arduino

Retro games are cool! The pixel games like tetris, ping-pong, snake etc., are fun to play with physical buttons instead of a touch screen. In this tutorial, we will build a Retro gaming console with super bright Red led matrices, a Joystick and a ATmega328 (with Arduino Uno bootloader. The fun part is not just building it writing/porting pixel games! So let's get started.

• Soldering

Solder all the parts shown above as per the schematic. Easier said than done. It took about 2 hours, to solder the parts for me. Let me know in the comments how well it went for you!

The code varies greatly for each game. You can download the code for all the games from the download section. If you've a specific question about the code, please do comment below.

Ping Ping code by Zola labs

Tetris by Jae Yeong Bae

GitHub repository

Zipped download containing pdf schematic, and code for all the games.

Would you be interested in purchasing a dedicated kit for the the matrixGame? This will include a dedicated PCB, which will make assembling the kit easy. A acrylic case, specifically cut-out for the game. If enough people sign-up we will make a matrixGame kit.