A Fully Functional NES Made Out of LEGO

YouTube TronicsFix, as the name implies, generally fixes stuff. However, in the video below, he has built a working LEGO NES unit for your needed nostalgia fix. Naturally such a project requires some hardware manipulation, and although you might be thinking this is yet another Raspberry Pi/RetroPi enclosure combo, there’s no Pi involved whatsoever. Here he actually stuffs the guts from an original NES into a LEGO enclosure.

The start of the build involves an official kit from LEGO, which looks interesting, but is obviously nonfunctional. It’s also significantly smaller than an actual NES, meaning it doesn’t accept actual cartridges, and definitely not NES-guts. With this established, the beautiful model is disassembled and reconstructed with a significant number of additional bricks to beef it up — as if it was embiggened with the mushroom power-up.

With the controller ports mounted, power and reset buttons plus the chassis itself, it’s then plugged into an old CRT TV to play “the greatest game of all time,” Super Mario Brothers 3. While this isn’t a Raspberry Pi build, the 2646-piece LEGO set used seems like it would fit this hardware quite well. Perhaps one could even mount a new screen in the included brick TV set!

For another, much different LEGO mod, check out this heavily modded Corvette model with moving pistons and wheels.