Retro Gadgets

Retro Gadgets is a creative game about building, coding and playing with your own working retro gadgets at a pixel-art workbench. Assemble a gadget, add finishing touches such as paint and stickers, then power it on and give it a name. You can make video game consoles, weather machines, lightboards, radios, drum machines and more.

Build your gadgets

Solder circuit boards, connect CPUs and audio and video chips, and add buttons, switches, speakers and lights. An ever-growing collection of components includes dials, gauges, LEDs, LCDs, joysticks and more. Connect boards to create new shapes, use magnets to join parts, and test your creations at the workbench.

Personalise gadgets with different component colours, stencils, drawings and printed stickers. You can also upload a logo. The workbench has drawers for tools and parts, and lets you solder, paint, print stickers and handle them with tweezers, as well as twist knobs, tap buttons and flick switches.

Code and play

Write and debug code in a Lua environment, or upload it directly to a gadget’s CPU. You can program games, live weather stations, drum machines, cameras, video players and radios.

Share and revisit

Browse gadgets made by people around the world, download them, play with them and take them apart to see how they work. You can then build your own version. Store your creations in the archive drawer, return to older gadgets to work on or fix them, or start new ones; you can make as many as you want. You can also bring your gadgets to your computer desktop with a switch.