Retro nerd hacks LEGO's Game Boy into the real deal

An enterprising nerd has taken LEGO's new Game Boy creation, performed some suitably geeky magic, and turned it into a real Game Boy. LEGO has a bit of history when it comes to Nintendo hardware. The now-retired Nintendo Entertainment System set is a particular favorite of this writer, and yes, I popped a Raspberry Pi into the …

[Whitter]

Natalie is a star!

See title

[Dr. G. Freeman]

Can it run Doom ?

[Jedit]

But the controls...

With Lego connectors on the D-Pad, that's going to be very uncomfortable to use. For which I hold Lego solely responsible, of course.

[David Robinson 1]

If you ever find yourself in need of an elusive 4x1 piece, you can just take one off the case.

[Blackjack]

I wonder how much a Gameboy Pocket costs nowadays?

[Richard 12]

More of this sort of thing!

*subscribes*

[david willis]

Just waiting for the same full functionality enabled for the new lego Death Star..

[Mr Dogshit]

Pics please

Of Natalie

[John Brown (no body)]

So, how does this Discord thing work?

Go to blog, click link to Discord, get a page with a button asking me to accept invite. I get "Unable to accept invite". Temporarily disable ubbock origin and ghostery for that site and temp trust scripts in NoScipt, no change. Do I need something special? A plugin? Seems bit different to Usenet or IRC :-) [*}

As for the Lego Gameboy project, it'd be fun if Lego Partnered with Nintendo (or Natalie) to offer it as a "premium" kit :-)

*EDIT, never mind, yeah, it's an "app". Seems to be a few in the FreeBSD ports/pkg tree.