LEGO Game Boy set announced!

question is: How many pieces, price, etc? Aslo will there be a Gameboy Color version as well? Personally I would have liked a SNES set instead in the lines of what they did with the Classic Nintendo set....but instead of Mario Bros for the game it would be Super Metroid OR Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The Switch 2

always wanted to moc one, now will buy one. thanks LEGO X Nintendo!

Curious if it will be close in scale to the real thing or if they'll make it over sized.

From the look of the control buttons, probably over sized.

Wait and see.

Oh man... that's about 8 months too late for me as there was a MOC instructions release I found and built from. Can't justify another build of the same thing :(

Would love a Sega Game Gear, but too many curves. That would take skill above my level.

Definite buy from me.

Pretty exciting, I've been hoping they'd do a Game Boy for some time. I prefer the design of the Color, but I know the original is more iconic.

Should be cool, I love the video game licensed stuff! Give me an Intellivision lol.

It would be really cool if it can be used as a Switch control somehow.

I never had a Gameboy or even ever played one. So this is a neat idea, but I don't think it is for me nostalgia wise. But it seems to be a popular idea for others, so well done.

I attached my childhood to the Sega ship..clearly I made the right choice

It will attract a certain section of the community but not old gits like me.

That's definitely gonna be a buy from me, I loved that system

Unless its way oversized out of scale, this should be atleast a better price than the home console models.
Personally would only pick up a gba sp model though. That's the one i have nostalgia for.

I’ll wait for the Sega Game Gear, thanks.

Sounds awesome. Price will be biggest factor.

Interesting! Does it mean Nintendo is about to announce the new Switch console anytime soon? Usually the big players like to time those press bits with each other.

For the Lego model. Probably not as interesting to me, even if the GB holds a place in my heart.

WHAT IS A GAME BOY??

*Insert angry Tommy Lee Jones :p*

@Bricknificent said:
"I'm looking forward to it! I'm hoping LEGO will include multiple game cartridges and screens."

I'm betting they'll do something similar to the 2600, padding it out with a few extra carts and maybe vignettes. I like your idea of alternate screens. I wasn't sure what I thought of the vignettes with the 2600, but when I got them in-hand, I really liked them.

Do Virtual Boy next! (I'd ask for Game Gear, but you'd only be able to play with it for 20 minutes before having to replace the batteries.)

Whilst I have probably more copies of the original console than I should have, I feel a bit intrigued...

But I assume it will be way pricier than I'm willing to pay for it.

If they do the clear one from 1995 (complete with carrying case), it will be funny though :D
(But I cant think of a way to pull it off realistically in Lego form)

Would like to see the colorful old Pokemon cartridges, but that seems unlikely, given MB is large on the licence currently (and the games being a bit late in the GB life cycle).

My computer gaming started with the Atari VCS and ended with the Atari ST so the actual Game Boy was a bit too modern for me. Not that it'll stop me getting a Lego version!

Is it going to cost more than a real gameboy?

Some people are expressing excitement. Suffice to say, I just think it’s cool.

@johleth said:
"I am unexcited. "

What's the matter, it just a Game Boy teaser from LEGO!

@Fan_Of_Bricks said:
"Why announce it almost a year from its release?"

It's a weird lead time in the land of Lego - but in every other toy-collecting market this sort of early-warning is the norm.

@yellowcastle said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
"Please tell me we're finally moving into the era where *my* childhood nostalgia is relevant. Feels like we've been stuck on the 80s for ages."

Yes, the renaissance is upon us. Open the gates for Barney and the Teletubbies. Release the rugrats. Yugioh my digimon."

We've got Sonic the Hedgehog and now Game Boy, that's a promising start.

@WizardOfOss said:
"Earlier I joked about a moving screen, but that obviously wouldn't fit. So in all seriousness, a much more likely solution: Just a screen made from sand green pieces. the color variations in those should perfectly replicate the contrast of a real Game Boy screen."

I'd argue the real screen is closer to olive green (at least in the confines of current Lego colors).

@darthsutius said:
"It's a weird lead time in the land of Lego - but in every other toy-collecting market this sort of early-warning is the norm."
As well as in the gaming industry, albeit maybe a little further out than usual for Nintendo specifically. I've noticed over the last five years that the Lego Nintendo stuff tends to be announced with a timeframe model much closer to Nintendo's than to Lego's, this continues that trend.

Didn't we already see this on an episode of LEGO Masters a couple of years ago??

@Blockwork_Orange said:
"Didn't we already see this on an episode of LEGO Masters a couple of years ago??"

Not that I remember… though I only watched the US show with Will Arnett.

Having owned an original Game Boy when I was 10 (original pack with Tetris of course), it was my main console until the GBASP and then 3DSXL so this ia definitely a cherished piece of nostalgia for me. Think there is a very high chance I'll get it, as i wasn't quite 100% on the NES 71374 so i bypassed it. But having seen the recent Mario and Yoshi build 71438 I'm slowly getting more hopeful on future Nintendo builds. Fingers crossed.

@The_Chosen_1 said:
"The only thing that should be teased 9 months in advance is a pregnancy.

Congrats, Lego -- it's a (game)BOY!! "

9 months is too far in advance to predict a pregnancy. At that point, the embryo will remain free-floating for about a week, and tests won't even yield meaningful results for another week after that.

Nintendo holds off the Switch 2 reveal for this :--).

Oh boy

Little 7 year old me asked for a Gameboy for Christmas and I got a Sega Game Gear instead. You could see the disappointment in my face when I opened that one. My folks were upsold on it at the store. Sure it had a colored, backlit screen, but it took 6 AA batteries and lasted like 2 hours. The GB on the other hand only took 4 AA batteries but lasted seemingly forever.

October? What am I supposed to do with this information for 9 months?

@SolidState said:
"Way more excited for a handheld than these home console models. I assume we'll get Tetris but I really wish we could have gotten Pokemon as a cartridge."

Don't think that'd be legally possible. MegaBlox has the liscense for Pokemon Construction sets. Though maybe someone offers custom stickers or prints to personalize the cart?

@MisterBrickster said:
"Please tell me we're finally moving into the era where *my* childhood nostalgia is relevant. Feels like we've been stuck on the 80s for ages."

The Gameboy came out in 1989, making it more 80s Nostalgia Bait :P

@legomaniac said:
"Oh boy"

Sam, is that you?

Yawn.

@Eightcoins8 said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
"Please tell me we're finally moving into the era where *my* childhood nostalgia is relevant. Feels like we've been stuck on the 80s for ages."

The Gameboy came out in 1989, making it more 80s Nostalgia Bait :P"

Not only is that not how decade-based nostalgia works, but the Game Boy didn't come out in *your* country until 1990.

Between this and Star Trek I swear LEGO is trying to bankrupt me. If they ever released an Amstrad CPC 6128... I would never financially recover.

@Username28 said:
" @Blockwork_Orange said:
"Didn't we already see this on an episode of LEGO Masters a couple of years ago??"

Not that I remember… though I only watched the US show with Will Arnett."

It was done in one of the Australian seasons as a redemption challenge. Funnily enough, the other team built a polaroid camera which has also been turned into a Lego set. (Not sure if it was based on the same model as the Lego one is though.)

Meh... now if it was a Coleco Electronic Quarterback or Baseball...

@Miyakan said:
" @Username28 said:
" @Blockwork_Orange said:
"Didn't we already see this on an episode of LEGO Masters a couple of years ago??"

Not that I remember… though I only watched the US show with Will Arnett."

It was done in one of the Australian seasons as a redemption challenge. Funnily enough, the other team built a polaroid camera which has also been turned into a Lego set. (Not sure if it was based on the same model as the Lego one is though.)"

Ahhhh... That's where I remembered it from! Both the US and Australian versions of LEGO Masters have been shown on Canadian TV networks!

@Andrusi said:
" @Eightcoins8 said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
"Please tell me we're finally moving into the era where *my* childhood nostalgia is relevant. Feels like we've been stuck on the 80s for ages."

The Gameboy came out in 1989, making it more 80s Nostalgia Bait :P"

Not only is that not how decade-based nostalgia works, but the Game Boy didn't come out in *your* country until 1990."

Ahh the 90s….the fall of the Berlin Wall, My Prerogative, Jack Nicholson as The Joker…

@sotwuser said:
"Meh... now if it was a Coleco Electronic Quarterback or Baseball..."

We had a Coleco Vision when I was a kid... my dad worked for Activision in the 80's and used to bring home all sorts of games from work, but they were just PCB itself without the plastic outer case and we had to try and line them up and stuff them in correctly into the console to play them... good times... Not sure I'd have the urge to build one out of Lego though!

@pretzemilia said:
"Potentially interesting, but it's strange to get this teaser so far in advance."

My thoughts exactly. And it doesn't seem like a very difficult object to recreate in Lego form. I wonder what features they'll throw in to make it a little more special. Hopefully this is much cheaper than the NES and doesn't have side builds to bloat the price and piece count.

Just not interested in anything where Lego make sets of real objects.
Buy the real thing and let's focus on fantasy stuff.

@Lamarider said:
"Just not interested in anything where Lego make sets of real objects.
Buy the real thing and let's focus on fantasy stuff."

I enjoy the real objects for two reasons. One: seeing how the accomplish the shaping. Two: seeing how they duplicate the mechanism. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how 21345 works, but it's darned impressive.

My first day 1 pre-order was the NES. Guess I now know what my second one will be.

I hope this has some sort of play feature with falling Tetris blocks on the screen.

I imagine they could make this basically life size. Will almost certainly get this one.

I am underwhelmed by the announcement. Like a lot of nostalgia sets it certainly has a fan base., but brick-built non-functional replicas are losing their novelty for me. At this point they'd have to include fully-functional electronics to make this idea interesting.

@Ridgeheart said:
"I get that people want to have their nostalgia cemented, their childhoods validated. That's the reason roughly half of us are even on this site in the first place, and to have TLG give us a wink and a pat of the head so as to say "I see you, I hear you, I respect your wishes, and also give me your money".

On the other hand, for every one of you who weeps bitter tears of rejection into your pillow, for every one of you who cries out "Why won't LEGO finally give me a brick-built rendition of my old Betamax, Zune, Atari Jaguar, Coleco Adam, Atari Lynx, MSX, Atari 5200, NEO-GEO, or any piece of hardware that Sega has ever done", is because maybe they weren't objectively good and/or profitable. This doesn't invaluate you as a person. It doesn't invaluate your childhood either - but in your adulthood, you cannot rely on other nominal adults to justify your nostalgia.

Suppose TLG never finishes your dream set, or indeed your Dreamcast-set, then - I dunno, build your own? It's LEGO. What's stopping you?"

An Apple IIe with amber monitor is too f--cking boring to MOC. I need someone to do it for me.

Burger Time FOREVER!!!

@Ridgeheart said:
"I get that people want to have their nostalgia cemented, their childhoods validated. That's the reason roughly half of us are even on this site in the first place, and to have TLG give us a wink and a pat of the head so as to say "I see you, I hear you, I respect your wishes, and also give me your money".

On the other hand, for every one of you who weeps bitter tears of rejection into your pillow, for every one of you who cries out "Why won't LEGO finally give me a brick-built rendition of my old Betamax, Zune, Atari Jaguar, Coleco Adam, Atari Lynx, MSX, Atari 5200, NEO-GEO, or any piece of hardware that Sega has ever done", is because maybe they weren't objectively good and/or profitable. This doesn't invaluate you as a person. It doesn't invaluate your childhood either - but in your adulthood, you cannot rely on other nominal adults to justify your nostalgia.

Suppose TLG never finishes your dream set, or indeed your Dreamcast-set, then - I dunno, build your own? It's LEGO. What's stopping you?"

Shouldn’t someone living in the Netherlands be familiair with how Sega dominated the European market? The Master System sold infinitely more than the NES. Sales were to the point that it still got Officially Licensed Pal releases around 1996.
I also remember the Megadrive selling way better than the SNES. Sony’s Playstation was the first time another brand was able to beat Sega in Europe when it comes to Home Consoles (being the only console with a decent port of Doom probably helped).
In other PAL regions it was the same story. My ex was Australian and recognized some megadrive games because his relatives that were kids to young adults in the 90s all had one.

Nintendo only dominated when it came to *handhelds* in PAL regions until the Wii came out.

@Slave2lego said:
"Whatever the opposite of excited is…. thats me"

Excitementless

@Eightcoins8 said:
"Nintendo only dominated when it came to *handhelds* in PAL regions until the Wii came out.
"

So, funny thing about one of their earlier consoles, the most profitable main console of the Gamecube generation was...the Nintendo Gamecube. As maligned and unloved as it was, as low as the install base was, it still made more money than any of the competition. Why? Because Nintendo was the only one of those companies that made sure the first unit out of the door was earning a profit margin. The competition used the consoles as loss-leaders to get you locked into their game format, essentially subsidizing their user bases with a discounted console. It took them years for the manufacturing to become affordable enough to start earning them back out of the red, and by that time they had all racked up tremendous losses that may not have ever been wiped out on console sales alone.

@Lamarider said:
"Just not interested in anything where Lego make sets of real objects.
Buy the real thing and let's focus on fantasy stuff."

In this case the real thing is infinitely more overpriced thanks to anything retro gaming being scalped hard on sight pre cd-rom generation by around the 2010s. Especially anything Nintendo or Sega.

Kinda the opposite of the Polaroid Model where the real thing usually costs 1/4th of the lego Set used.

@Ridgeheart said:
"Invalidate. Devaluate. INVALUATE."

Add some dashes in the middle of those words and you'd sound like a weird Dalek.

It will probably be really nice looking but slightly overpriced. Since it’s so far out on the calendar, I really don’t care about it for now.

@Eightcoins8 said:
" @Lamarider said:
"Just not interested in anything where Lego make sets of real objects.
Buy the real thing and let's focus on fantasy stuff."

In this case the real thing is infinitely more overpriced thanks to anything retro gaming being scalped hard on sight pre cd-rom generation by around the 2010s. Especially anything Nintendo or Sega.

Kinda the opposite of the Polaroid Model where the real thing usually costs 1/4th of the lego Set used."

I was at a local comic book shop/retro collectibles store this past summer. I looked at the Game Boy Advance SP since my original from 2003 was on the fritz. The guy wanted $100 for one that was cosmetically not much better than my well-used and beat-up example.

I can remember a decade ago, most early '00s consoles being super-cheap (as in less than $50) used from Gamestop and many of my PS2 and GBA games bought around the same time being pocket change. No more... Now you're better off just going with the various handheld emulators being sold these days.

On top of that, even more recent consoles like the DSi and 2DS/3DS aren't cheap secondhand.