Which Pi?

[Amrree]

Hello folks.
I am attempting to find a Rasbery Pi system/setup/thingy for my other half for Christmas. He's retro/old/40 and he would mostly use it for playing old timey games and Kodi. He loves all this type of stuff and tinkering. He even watches other people tinker with things on YouTube. Cost isnt a huge concern, anything up to £200.
Any recommendations? Realistic ones please, i'm actually gonna buy this and give it to him for a gift being the nice girl I am!.

[BMS Doug]

Pi3
Micro SD card (minimum 8gb, larger sizes available) (if you get multiple cards he can easily switch the use of the pi by switching card).
official pi 2.5A power supply
heatsink for pi (pi3 actually can need one).
Case (wide variety available)

Optional items (may already have them)
Hdmi lead
Keyboard
Mouse
game controllers (bluetooth ones will work with the pi3)

[broe23]

The Canakit is good. Get a better case for it. There is the Cubietruck series of SBC's. They have a unit with 8GB onboard NVRAM and will run both Linux and Android.

As for the Pi, there are plenty of projects that people have made from MAME cabinets to using old game system cases to hide the board in and use for retro gaming.

[Amrree]

Thanks everyone.

[ejolson]

The Canakit is good.

I just got a Pi 3B with 2.5 amp power supply from CanaKit. While happy, I'm also having minor problems with it. I suspect the power supply, so if you could test yours as indicated in the above post I'd be grateful.

In reply to the original post, I too would recommend the Pi 3. Even if you have to underclock it to keep it from crashing, it is still three times faster than the Pi 2. Unless the project you have in mind has very low power requirements, the extra performance of the 3 is useful.

[bensimmo]

Just get the new official kit. It'll all work.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ten-mi ... i-new-kit/
Has everything needed to start out, well no monitor, but if you have a HDMI screen then that already sorted.