The proper Lego Nintendo Recreation Boy doesn’t exist…

Nick Lever, video editor and Lego Masters Australia finalist, has recreated the unique Nintendo Recreation Boy in bricks — and with such droolworthy depth that I hereby petition Lego to make it into an official set.

It’s simply 364 items, solely 115 completely different components, most of them frequent sufficient you could find ‘em filth low cost. Nearly each recognizable side of the Recreation Boy is represented, from the angled rice-grain Begin / Choose buttons to the distinctive tint of the display screen — achieved right here by inserting lime inexperienced tiles beneath a trans-blue window.

Whereas there’s no detachable battery tray or entrance speaker, you possibly can certainly press down on the D-pad and click on in a “cartridge.” You would possibly need to take an in depth take a look at these A and B buttons, too…

The one exception to the “let’s hold the construct low cost” rule is that 6×6 lime inexperienced tile. “It was $0.40 however now they’re offered out worldwide due to my silly construct,” Lever tells The Verge. However he says you possibly can merely use three 2×6 lime inexperienced tiles as a substitute.

With that one tweak to my BrickLink procuring cart, it appears I might spend as little as $42 earlier than tax and delivery to buy all of the components I would like. He’s promoting the directions for $5.65 at Rebrickable (which might additionally mechanically populate your BrickLink procuring cart), in case you’d love to do the identical.

This isn’t Lever’s first stab on the Recreation Boy; subsequent time, he says he would possibly strive constructing the one which survived getting bombed within the Gulf Struggle.