This Giant Game Boy Guitar Is for Real

What’s better than having a Game Boy from the good old days that you can actually play with?

A guitar that doubles as a Game Boy, of course. And not just any guitar slash Game Boy, it’s a dual purpose giant Game Boy guitar.

Drooling already?

A dude who we can call by the name of Dr. Fibb (though he’s not fibbing about this giant Game Boy guitar) created the contraption for BitFixGaming forum’s 2015 Game Boy classic building competition.

The “announcement” in the forum states the main concept of the build:

A Raspberry Pi “portable” into a working electric guitar. In order to fit the Game Boy theme, I’ll be tossing out the stock guitar body and building a new body from scratch that will resemble a DMG. Additionally, the Pi will be running RetroPie with GB, GBC, and GBA games. I will probably include NES games as well (maybe Turbografx too?) but not SNES games as adding X and Y buttons will throw off the DMG look. I’ll include L and R because they’ll be hidden on the back of the guitar body.

I’ll be using a 5″ backup monitor because I feel that’s the ideal size for fitting between the guitar pickup and neck.

If you want more of the technical side – from software to hardware, check out the Guitar Boy build off page. And of course, look at this video and be entertained.