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Pelletino puts a tilt-controlled Pac Man in your pocket

Rob Beschizza
Feb 04, 2026
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Pelletino. Image: aedile / Github

Pelletino is a tiny handheld Pac-Mac arcade game you play by tilting it. It runs the original 1980 arcade ROM under emulation on a 32-bit RISC-V ESP32-C6 microcontroller, wedded to a 240×280 ST7789 LCD and a six-axis inertial measurement unit to detect movements. The faithful recreation gets smooth 60 FPS gameplay on ~$3…

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