Designers share all the secrets in the group of fun and nostalgia

I am the original game player, everything. If it was not a gray Nintendo brick from a mobile effort, and a copy of Super Mario EarthI doubt that I will write these words on Gizmodo. The tool that my concern began for life was advanced technology and my passion for sharing with others. So, excuse me because I am soaked in emotion and nostalgia for nostalgia for how long Ligo announced It was making a copy of a group of bricks of 421 pieces of the famous Nintendo Handheld.

Lego Game Boy was released on October 1 for $ 60, which is a very easy structure. LEGO says he is between the ages of 18 and over, but there was not enough enough that a 10 -year -old child could not follow the instructions. (Nevertheless, they will not have any longing to nostalgia to the mobile that was released in 1989.) It took me about one hour and 15 minutes to complete it, but I think it would have taken less than an hour if I did not stop shooting B-Roll to get a social video. (Everything is enjoyable and the LEGO collection construction games after work; this also works for me.)

I also indicated my work A few weeks ago, Lego Game Boy is more than just a charming piece – and approximately 1: 1 replica -. In addition to pressure buttons, scrolling faces, and sliding energy, you can also appear in brick versions of Super Mario Earth and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening Game cartridges in Lego Game Boy. Remove the rear cap and you will be able to reach the swap in three different scientific screens that include two games and the famous Boy Boy Boy Boy, which features the Nintendo slogan sliding.

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There is a lot of Easter eggs within the Lego Game Boy, which makes it more than just a deep entertainment. She spoke with Karl Miriam, the first designer of the Lego Group, and Simon Kent, the LEGO design director, who worked on the Lego Game Boy, is to be discovered by some of its invisible secrets.

LEGO GAM BOY Design

There were some strong opinions about the company that is credited with the Lego Game Boy game. Is it Lego or is he Nintendo? The answer is both – as it should. Nintendo is very popular with its IP-products, privileges, and characters warn well and require approval at the higher level. To do the LEGO version of Game Boy, Merriam and Kent had to exceed only external gray buttons and pink buttons.

“Nintendo was very involved,” said Kent, who was in Lego for nearly 20 years, told Gizmodo. “We have a team working in Japan … They allow us mainly to contact IP teams, different devices teams, or even creative teams within Nintendo to get the correct information to make the product the best possible.

Myriam, a great designer who was in Lego for 12 years, started as a fan before landing in the game company. It has worked on LEGO groups, including Boost, Minecraft and Super Mario, to name a few. For The Game Boy, who says it took about a year of concept to development, the team passed from 10 to 20 repetitions before descending on the final design and replacing it to feel the additional privacy.

Game Boy dimensions have proven to be restricted by LEGO, but in the end, I would like to say that it is almost loyal to the actual lawyer, which must be praised.

“We do not have much space here to do a lot of things, and we played with all different types of functional methods to make you able to do something with games,” Miriam told Gizmodo. “It turns out that the only thing we can achieve all over everything is to make all buttons have the same reactions as the actual system, or the closest thing we can get in Lego Bricks.”

He said that every area of ​​LEGO Game Boy was a design challenge on its own. Merriam says he might have built 30 to 40 copies of the way D-Pad, buttons, and keys. I noticed that interest in detail was when I built the LEGO group. Behind the D-Pad is actually a small rubber piece that gives it a pile when pressed. The same applies to the buttons A and B; These are actually Minifig caps painted pink, and there is a small rubber band behind them that gives them a familiar button when pressed. Kent told me that the buttons that are chosen and chosen are the pieces of black tires that have been changed to gray, dating back to 1969. Compared to the Lego Game Boy with the original game boy who my mom bought in 1993, I must say that it is impressive how difficult it is to repeat LEGO.

I asked how they approached the Lego Game Boy – Did they design it first or just get a construction right? How can you even choose the pieces, though? It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of unique LEGO pieces available for use. With the return of an entire cellar for nearly 70 years to choose where to start? LEGO definitely can – and do so – create some new parts for the game boy, but where is the creativity in making many new parts?

Myriam said: “My mind was built from the LEGO system, so whenever I see anything in the real world, I see the LEGO piece that might be this thing.” It has made it clear to me how the transparent painting of the Lego Game Boy is actually a “completely old piece” window, and it was a good problem for its design to be concentrated properly.

For the custom pieces … well, you can try to know any of them, or I can tell you that. It involves one of the angles of the boy Lego.

“We wanted to merge everything that was mobile around Game Boy,” Kent added. “We have had discussions – should we do any peripheral devices that they can connect? Do you have to come with some headphones? Do you have to come with a little light (such as Game Boy Light Mextaile)? But in the end, we wanted to keep it simple and focused on … taking their favorite games and playing them anywhere.”

When talking about games, the income of cartridges, or Game Paks was officially called, something that happened later in this process, after they finished making the external state and making sure all jobs are done. in Zelda The game cart, there is a “battery save” piece that repeats the way the Paks game maintained the game’s progress.

One of the burning questions that I had to ask the two is what is called the plot similar to the joint/Kikstand, which maintains the lender screens in place. Myriam told me: “I call it Denger, I have no artistic term for that.” So you have, it’s unofficially called Dingler!

More upcoming LEGO Nintendo keyboards?

The Game Boy is the second Nintendo control unit by LEGO. The first was The LEGO NES group was released in 2020. This group was bigger, had more pieces, and was more expensive. Kent says the LEGO game was an attempt by the more affordable Nintendo group.

“For a long time, the team generally wanted to do the country’s country, and we felt that now it might have been the right time, and we also wanted to explore a different price point,” Kent said. “It is clear that NES came with a TV. It is a higher price point, so we wanted to do something smaller to test that area.”

I tried to get Merriam and Kent to tell me whether there are more LEGO Nintendo keyboards on the way, but they will not leave anything. So if you are waiting for LEGO Snes, N64 or GameCube, you will just have to continue waiting.

Farm and pure joy

When I saw the game LEGA Game Boy for the first time, I was excited and curious to find out how this would differ from many fans’ creations there. I was surprised – or perhaps I should not – that Merria and Kent did not look at the fans’ creations there.

“If you search for anything related to intellectual property, it is possible that there will be a copy of it somewhere,” Kent said. “We are very keen on this exact reason. We do not deliberately look at the fans related to the fans because we want to focus on the real real thing and do what we think is the right thing with the partner with which we cooperate.”

“One of the most interesting differences between being LEGO is a LEGO admirer and the LEGO designer is that we are designing a product for people to build at home, and to make the product building the product’s pleasure experience a completely different challenge from just making something similar to source materials,” said Myriam.

At the end of the day, the Boy Lego Game Boy – or any LEGO group, really – should be fun. Yes, I often build the LEGO collections, but this usually comes at the expense of enjoying all the care that I went to design not only what the complete construction looks abroad, but inside.

“LEGO is similar to language,” said Myriam. “I love to try to write hair with LEGO. Every time while, I can achieve it, and I think I have achieved it in this.”