The right 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 totally different elements, most of them frequent sufficient yow will discover ‘em grime low-cost. Virtually each recognizable aspect of the Recreation Boy is represented, from the angled rice-grain Begin / Choose buttons to the distinctive tint of the display — 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 may 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 because of my silly construct,” Lever tells The Verge. However he says you possibly can merely use three 2×6 lime inexperienced tiles as a substitute.

“The angle on the Begin / Choose killed me, and the way in which they come out not fairly half a stud,” says Lever. His directions are detailed! Picture: Nick Lever

With that one tweak to my BrickLink procuring cart, it appears I might spend as little as $42 earlier than tax and transport to buy all of the elements I want. He’s promoting the directions for $5.65 at Rebrickable (which may additionally routinely 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 may attempt constructing the one which survived getting bombed within the Gulf Struggle.

Right here’s an image I took of that Recreation Boy after I visited the Nintendo Retailer in New York. Photograph by Sean Hollister / The Verge