Designers share all secrets in the fun, a set of nostalgic set

I owe the original boy game everything. If it were not for the brick of the gray-gray-holding gray, and a copy of the Super Mario LandI don’t doubt that I’ll write these words in gizmodo. It was a gadget that started all my life-consuming stress with cut-up technology and my love for dismissing others. So I apologize for the frustration of feelings and nostalgia when Lego announced that he has made the 421 brick version of the Nintendo.

Issued from Oct. 1 for $ 60, Lego Game Boy is the best building. Ilego says it is 18+ to the top, but nothing isolated enough for a ten-year-old child to follow the instructions. (However, they would not have any other nostalgia in 1989 (is the whole fun and built LEGo games after work; this works for me.) This works for me.)

As I commented on my hands – a few weeks before, the Lego game boy is more than just a feeling – and about 1: 1 display. In addition to the depressed buttons, discerning dial, and the power of skiling power, you can also enter the brick species of the Super Mario Land including Laddy of Lda: Link resurrection Cartridges of Lego Game sports. Remove the back cover and you get access to three unique Lenticular screens and two favorite bootup boy screen displaying a nintendo logo down.

There are Easter tons within a Lego game boy who makes more than the deepest skin fun. I spoke to Carl Merriam, a Grand Designer in Legi team, Simon Kent, Director of Dego Group, a Lego Game Director arranged to find its invisible secrets.

Hacking Lego Game Boy

There have been powerful ideas words that find any company receiving credit for the Lego Game Boy. Is this Lego or is a nintendo? The answer is both – as it should be. Nintendo is famous for the most protection of its IP products – Franchises, and ammunition is properly digested and require high approval. To make a Lego’s version of the boy, Merriam and Kent had to move on to the gray outer shells and pink keys.

“Nintendo was very involved,” said Kent, who is in Lego for about 20 years, told Gizmodo. “We have a group running in Japan … Let us connect to different IP groups or hardware groups or creative groups in the middle of the best product or certainly linked to the real [Game Boy]. “

Merriam, the Great Designer at the age of 12, started as a fan before arriving at a toy company. Worked in LEGO sets, including lifting, Minecraft, and Super Mario, calling a few known series. In the game boy, he assumed all year in the development, a team up to 10 to 20 before reaching the last construction and receives special sensitivity, more of Nintendo-y.

The size of a game match showed preventing from what the Lego did, but in the end, I would say that you were honest in the real bag, which should be commended.

“We don’t really have a lot of place here to do many things, and we played almost all kinds of different ways to make something about sports,” said Merriam told Gizmoto. “It emerged that one thing we can find in all this thing made all the keys the same haptic response as a real device, or as close as possible in LEGO mountains.”

He said each of the Lego Game boy’s place was a challenge for the design itself. Merriam says it is possible to make up 30 to 40 different types of id-pad, buttons and exchange. I’ve seen that paying attention to the details as I created a lego set. After D-Pad is actually a small rabbit part of the spring you give the spring in it. The same goes with A and B buttons; Those actually the minfig cloth painted pink painted, and there is a small rubber belt behind it that gives us a common button to travel when you are pressed. Start and selecting the keys in the dark pieces of tie and change they are gray, and fall in love with them in 1969, Kent said. Comparing Lego Game Game Control Controls and my first game of the game that my mother bought in 1993, I have to impress the Hard Lego is the best.

Ask me how are they approaching the boy’s LEGO game – Are they a model first or they can be able to build? How do you continue to choose pieces, yet? It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of different lego pieces to be used. With the Vault all back about 70 years to select, where are you starting? Indeed, Lego could – and create – create a few new, game wishes, but intelligence in making many new parts?

“My mind is made up of the Lego program, so whenever I see anything in the real world, I see a piece of lego maybe something,” said Merriam. Explaining me that the clear pane of LEGO’s screen is actually a window frame “is an old episode,” and it was a good problem to be detrimental.

As for the custom pieces … well, you can try to find out which, or can I just tell you. Includes one of the corners of the Lego Game.

“We wanted to break up all that was on mobile about the boy’s boy,” added Kent. “We have been negotiated – should we make any agreements to connect? In the event of other headphones? Should a small light arrives [like the Game Boy Light Magnifier]? But, finally, we wanted to keep it simple and focus on … taking the favorite games and where. “

Speaking of games, Cartridge Instridges, or game paks as they were formally called, was the later, after they finished making external functions. In Ownish Game Cart, there is a piece of “Keep the battery” repeat “repeating how the PAK game saves the progress of your game.

Another fiery questions I would ask the two that is included / kick like a piece of leiculars in the area are called. “I call a dingler, I have no technical template,” Merriam said. So when you have it, it isn’t reasonable called dingler!

Lego condolent comfort?

The boy’s boy is the second nintendo of the nintendo that is well missed. The first was LEGO and sated extracted by 2020. That place was great, with many pieces, and it was very expensive. Kent says the Lego Game boy was an attempt of nintendo Set that is not expensive.

“For a long time, the group of all wants to do the boy’s game, and we felt that it might be possible, and we wanted to examine a different point,” said Kent. “Obviously, NES came with TV. The high price point, so we wanted to do something small to test the area.”

I tried to find Merriam and Kent tell me if anything more of Lego Nintendo Consoles on the way, but will not let anything. So when you wait for Lego Snes, N64, or GameCube, you have to wait.

Pure happiness and fun

When I first saw the Lego game boy, I was happy and curious about how it would be different in many of the storytellers there. To my surprise – or maybe they should not have had to say that Merriam and Kent did not consider creating fans out there.

“If you are searching for anything related to mental property, there may be a LEGO version except there somewhere,” said Kent. “We have a very special reason.

“One of the most interesting differences between being a LEGO fan and a Lego Designer to design the product that people create a product of a different challenge than doing source,” said Merriam.

At the end of the day, the boy’s ligo game – or any of the lego set, indeed-should be fun to build. Yes, I often get a layer of Lego sets, but that usually comes with the enjoyment of all the care that has created not only, but inside.

“The Lego system is like a language,” said Merriam. “I would like to try poems about the Lego program. Every time, I can find it, and I believe I have accomplished in this.”