Whereas PS5s, Xbox’s and Nintendo Switches could also be dominating the gaming market today, retro gaming continues to be very a lot a factor, and LEGO is releasing an attention-grabbing new set that means that you can get your 80s on in 2025… after placing it collectively your self.

In keeping with Hypebeast, LEGO has teamed with Nintendo to drop a brand new Recreation Boy mannequin set that not solely enables you to construct a duplicate of the traditional Nineteen Eighties handheld gaming system, however is even playable because it comes with a workable display and interchangeable cartridges.

From Hypebeast:

LEGO is reviving handheld gaming nostalgia with its newest launch: a near-life-size brick-built duplicate of the unique Nintendo Recreation Boy. Introduced at this time, the 421-piece LEGO Recreation Boy mannequin celebrates the long-lasting handheld’s legacy with devoted particulars, together with the A and B buttons, +Management Pad, distinction dial and even a practical Recreation Pak slot.

The set consists of two interchangeable brick-built cartridges — The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening and Tremendous Mario Land — in addition to swappable screens that replicate every sport’s look, together with the traditional Nintendo begin display.

When you have been alive when this joint first dropped you understand how magical it was even with out the colour or backlit display. We would should cop only for nostalgia’s sake.

The LEGO x Recreation Boy is ready to launch on Oct. 1 for a modest $60. Again when it first launched in 1989, the Recreation Boy value $90, which was absurd to 95% of fogeys who simply didn’t perceive how vital it was to our early adolescence social standing to personal one in all these. Nice occasions.

Pre-orders for the system are reside on the LEGO web site. Will you be copping one in all these joints? Tell us within the feedback part under.