{"id":31556,"date":"2020-04-20T19:46:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=31556"},"modified":"2020-04-20T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:05:56","slug":"gamego-a-retro-gaming-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/gamego-a-retro-gaming-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"GameGo, a Retro Gaming Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nostalgia<\/strong> is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first video game was created in October 1958 by Physicist William Higinbotham. It was now a famous Pong arcade game, which was imitating a simple game of tennis. Since then video games became more and more complex and entered the mainstream. The author of this article wasn\u2019t born in the\u00a0golden age of arcade video games and only started playing video games in the 1990-ies. I spent countless hours with a pair of game controllers and a bunch of friends playing titles like Mario, TNMT, Duck Tales, CONTRA, Chip&Dale and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ah, sweet childhood memories <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Later my friend got 16-bit Sega Genesis and instead of frequenting my home for video gaming, we switched to his. And a couple of years later I have started with PC gaming. As video games became more complex, more effort went into their development. And now it requires a whole team of developers and lots of time<\/strong> to make a video game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if you want to start simpler? Or if you\u2019re in STEM education and want to use video games as a way to introduce students to programming? TinkerGen<\/a> STEM education is developing a Microsoft Makecode compatible retro gaming portable console, GameGo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is based on the STM32F401RET6 ARM Cortex M4 chip and fully supports Microsoft Makecode, both for block programming and JavaScript. Here are the product specifications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n