Lego Nintendo Game Boy announced to be released in October 2025

When I was a young lad, before the harsh reality of responsibility caught up with me, I had my Playstation, I had my Lego, and I had time to play with both. Those were simpler days, when handheld gaming devices ran on AA batteries, collaborations between brands and everyone’s preferred building blocks were hardly a thing. Of course, a lot has changed since then, namely that I now spend a lot less time playing video games and plastic bricks.

Since life required me to get a job, Nintendo has released countless quality handhelds, and LEGO has partnered with some of the biggest brands and franchises on the planet, ensuring that whether you’re into Harry Potter or Formula 1, there’s something for everyone The right product for you. But today, in a fifteen-second trailer released online, those worlds collide in a way no one saw coming: a Lego Nintendo console.

Build classic Nintendo systems in LEGO® style. Will launch in October 2025. pic.twitter.com/XEyhbARqXq

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 9, 2025

Everything we know about the LEGO Game Boy so far

The trailer posted on the official Nintendo upcoming collaborations, Expected to be released in October this yearwhich will pay tribute to the first-generation Game Boy in 1989. In the video we see light gray bricks that match the color of the original console casing, two purple round blocks that are reminiscent of the A and B buttons I grew up smashing with all my might, and A dark cross-shaped block, which undoubtedly represents the direction keys that players use to control characters and so on.

We don’t know how functional the kit will be. Within their broad range, some LEGO sets offer a degree of interactivity once completed, while others remain completely static and are designed purely as display pieces. For the Game Boy, considering this is a set aimed at an older generation, I wouldn’t be surprised if it came with a nice stand to display it on when finished. But looking back at previous Lego sets inspired by Nintendo hardware, it’s entirely possible that the Game Boy could have some bricks.

long term partnership

While this particular collaboration caught the attention of many, it’s not the first time LEGO and Nintendo have come together on an idea. In fact, this isn’t even the first time they’ve released a brick-based console together.

Back in 2020, LEGO unveiled an incredible set based on the 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System that, while visually appealing, also had multiple functions. The set comes with a buildable game cartridge that can be inserted and removed from the console, and even includes an ’80s-style Lego TV with a crank on the side to see Nintendo’s protagonist Mario in the game’s opening level Run and jump. All this.

With that in mind, it’s hard to imagine LEGO and Nintendo announcing a set in advance that didn’t include some of the ingenuity that characterized their last console-based collaboration. What that ingenuity will look like this time, though, is anyone’s guess. Regardless, October can’t come soon enough for an entire generation of gamers and developers.

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