Nintendo didn’t need to go so hard

Nintendo invited me to a “holiday window” to play to come Switch 2 titles like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond,, Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2,, Hades 2,, Pokémon Legends: ZA, and Kirby Air RidersBut the only thing I can’t stop thinking is the Game Boy that was exposed to the entrance.

Announced at the SDCC 2025, the game of boys is even better in person than in online renderings. The laptop the size of a brick, which is made up of 421 brick pieces, costs $ 50 and is released on October 1. As a display part, its dimensions of almost 1: 1 rekindled nostalgia for my favorite gadget of all time, the device that hung me for technology and games.

The pink buttons A and B, as well as the start-up and selection buttons, are entirely pressed (the D-PAD is strangely not); Contrast and volume framing on the left and right movement; And the power switch at the top left is put in place as the real thing (although it does not lock the Lego game cartridge in place). Unfortunately, the liaison cable blanket does not come out.

Speaking of the cartridges, there are two – one for Super Mario Land and one for Zelda’s legend: Link’s Awakening– that you can place yourself in the Lego version of the Game Boy.

Get out of the panel at the back of the brick pocket computer and lift a joint, and you can exchange between three lenticular cards included – the nintendo emblematic logo sliding on the bootup and a representative each of the two games – which show the movement when you view the toy at different angles.

It is a beautiful brick recreation of the Nintendo 8 -bit pocket computer with which I could not stop playing. For collectors, set # 72046 is even delivered with stands to support the game and cartridges on a shelf or a window.

I thought Nintendo went hard with the Lego Nes Set, with a brick television with a liquidation Super Mario Bros. Level, which was published in 2020. (Funny fact: I was the first person at Moderne Le Lego Nes to be playable using a cheap screen and classic guts when I worked at the entrance.) But this Lego game boy goes just as hard (if not more difficult). It is a pure nostalgia and nintendo that do what it does best: print money. I can’t wait to get my hands on one to build … and mod. Anyone have ideas about the best way to convert this bad boy into a playable game boy?