May i introduce you to 'Retropie'

Every retro games console dating back to the Atari right up to (i can confirm this) the Dreamcast and PS one

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2m4prjf7d.....52544.jpg?dl=0

All in one $50 package that sits in the palm of your paw.

Yeah, if I had some spare cash lying around. (well, more than the £5 I spent on two controllers) I was thinking about this.. actually I was thinking about getting an ouya and putting something on that.. But yeah, I had an old laptop with a broken screen lying around and was bored..I wish the retropie distro worked on things other than raspberrys cos I want a front end that isn't as ugly as sin. lakka looks like something from the 90s.

Well the retropie uses Emulation Station as it's front end, running atop a slightly customised rasbian (debian) os , which is also an independent project and cross platform. http://emulationstation.org/

ES also supports skins, I'm sure someone out there has made a more 'retro' themed skin for it. if not you could try and make your own, i don't think it's overly complicated to do, though i prefer the default skin myself, i think it looks quite sleek and is easy to navigate.

I love ES's default skin to be honest, I'll have to give retropie a try on my laptop then!

Just ES on it's own :) retropie is a whole operating system built for ARM. (not intel)