My wife is in charge of a 6th grade social at my son's school, which is 80s themed, and they would like some kind of 80s video game for the kids to paly. It needs to be an 80s game and im' thinking 4 player is the way to go. It doesn't get much more 80s than 4 player TMNT. I have a 4 player mame pedestal cabinet that just so happens to be TMNT themed. I don't really want to transport the entire cabinet, but i was thinking, i could unbolt the control panel box from the base, throw in a raspberry pi, plug in the ipac4 and have it boot up directly into the 4 player tmnt mame rom. (they have a projector setup in the gym that we can plug it into. I don't want or need a front end or list of games...just TMNT. I've built several retropie systems over the years, but it just seems like a lot more than i need for this purpose. plus i'm not sure how to get it to boot directly into a specific rom. I have been out of the loop for a while so i'm coming here for help.
what is the easiest way to accomplish this? Is there an SD card image floating around out there with just a basic OS and MAME? Do i need to use retropie?
any help would be appreciated.