2 Player Holiday Bundle

Transform your holiday season into an interactive gaming experience with the 2 Player Holiday Bundle by Makey Makey. Designed for makers, gamers, and curious minds ages 8 to infinity. This hands-on STEM kit gives you everything needed to build, customize, and play two-player arcade controllers using simple circuits and a bit of ingenuity.

Whether you are going head-to-head with family in competitive retro games, collaborating with a friend to beat high scores, or building a custom controller for your favorite game, this kit turns screen time into a creative adventure after all of the gifts have been unwrapped.

Bundle Features

• Complete 2-Player Setup: Everything you need to construct a custom multi-player arcade right out of the box—no extra tools required!

• Head-to-Head & Co-op Action: Perfect for building collaborative controllers or competing in 1v1 multiplayer showdowns with friends and family.

• Exclusive Access to Selfie Arcade: Our exclusive app for the Retro Joystick Invention Launchpad, now 2 player is just plug-and-play.

• Extend the Holiday Fun: A perfect set of DIY controllers for our limited time Holiday 2 Player Arcade to keep the festive cheer rolling!

• Limitless Re-invention: Once the holidays are over, remix, hack, and rebuild your controllers into anything from musical instruments to custom gamepads using conductive materials found around your home.

Bundle Includes

1. Makey Makey Classic

The world-famous invention kit that tricks your computer into treating everyday objects as keyboard inputs.

• Plug & Play: Connects in seconds via USB without driver installation or software setup.

• Creativity Beyond the Bundle: Use play-dough, foil, graphite drawings, fruit, or water to close simple circuits and trigger keypresses. The creativity doesn’t stop when the joysticks are built!

• Parent-Approved STEM: Trusted worldwide to teach circuit building, conductivity, and computational thinking.

2. 2x Retro Joystick Invention Launchpads

Build two physical, arcade-style joysticks using full-color zine which includes step-by-step assembly instructions.

• Hands-On Assembly: Learn applied engineering concepts as you craft your own retro game controllers.

• Tips, Tricks, Techniques: Gain new skills and abilities while building your controller that you can apply to all sorts of future Makey Makey inventions. 

• Custom Game Access: Designed to integrate with Makey Makey’s online game apps—including Selfie Arcade—allowing you to customize retro games with personal photos or textures as well as other exclusive apps.

3. Player 2 Backpack

Unlock the full potential of your Makey Makey by adding more keys from the back of the board and making them alligator-clip-friendly.

• Expands Controls: Converts the back header pins into accessible inputs (such as WASD keys), making multi-player setups seamless.

• Enhanced Gameplay: Perfect for head-to-head multiplayer or complex single-player controls like 3D navigation and 1st person action games.

4. Makey Makey USB-C Cable

• A reliable, modern USB-C connection cable to keep your arcade powered and communicating with your modern devices.

Recommended Makey Makey Apps

• Selfie Arcade - **Access included with purchase of Retro Joystick Invention Launchpad**

• Holiday 2 Player Arcade - 3 games, 2 players,1 Arcade… everybody wins!

• Makey Makey VibeCode Arcade - Create, modify, and play 16 bit retro video games in moments with AI!