The Lego Game Boy makes for a great gift, and it’s $10 off today

The Lego Game Boy is simply a joyousness to assemble and display. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

Deals connected the Lego Game Boy are virtually nonexistent, prevention for the $10 discount that Costco and Sam’s Club offered their members erstwhile the acceptable launched precocious past year. The woody is backmost — this time, astatine Kohl’s — and nary rank is required to get $10 off. You tin acquisition the Lego Game Boy and person it shipped (or elite to prime it up in-store) for $49.99 erstwhile you usage promo codification TOYS10 at checkout.

Lego Game Boy

Where to Buy:

• $59.95 astatine Amazon
• $59.99 astatine Lego
• $59.99 $49.99 astatine Kohls (with codification TOYS10)

The Lego Game Boy is simply a 421-piece homage to Nintendo’s influential handheld from 1989. And, dissimilar astir Lego sets, determination are assorted ways to interact with the brick-based Game Boy that mightiness evoke immoderate beardown memories if you ever owned this model. It features clickable buttons, a movable floating directional pad, and a acceptable of Lego car tires that enactment arsenic the Start and Select buttons. Clearly, Lego and Nintendo had amusive designing this.

The acceptable includes 2 cartridges you tin assemble (The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Super Mario Land). While the mock cartridges evidently don’t footwear into existent games, the acceptable includes lenticular screens that marque it look similar these games are moving connected the hardware. My workfellow Sean Hollister reviewed the Lego Game Boy, and helium adores the attraction to item and astir everything astir it but the screen, which doesn’t lucifer the archetypal hardware’s constricted greenish colour palette. Even if you’re arsenic peculiar arsenic Sean is, there’s inactive a batch to emotion here.