You can create Retro gamebox using RasPi. Just for a few examples:
I have about a dozen of RasPi running in our household, working as connected speakers (Volumio), Pi-hole, Print server and Wordpress server.
Great thing about RasPi is that it is inexpensive (excluding maybe the high-end Rpi4) and I can be a bit more adventurous. After all, RasPi is created for young kids to learn computing. It got be quite durable in those clumsy small hands 


