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Welding ’em up Retro Gadgets Lets You Build Your Own GameBoy

Ever wanted to build your own Tiger Electronics handset? If the answer is “yes” or even “maybe, why?”, then you can find Classic Widget handy when it launches on PC later this year. It’s a gadget-making station that lets you “invent, build, solder, code, and customize” your own electronics. That’s according to Bologna-based Evil Licorice developers who are among them Kingdom co-creator Marco Bancale. Check out the trailer below and try not to burn yourself with any soldering irons.

Classic Widget

You’ll be able to share any gadgets you’ve made with other players through the Steam Workshop, but you’ll have to first build them out of whatever you like. Rummage through the drawers provided to find circuit boards, joysticks, buttons, and all the other things that people using their own soldering irons keep laying around. If you spot anything that someone else has done and want to know how to do it yourself, you can download it and rip it apart to reverse engineer your own version, says Evil Licorice.

If you have any encryption tools then you can enjoy yourself that way too. Retro Gadgets incorporates a “fully documented Lua environment”. That means you can build and program consoles, weather stations, calculators, and what appear to be versions of the classic memory game Simon. Haven’t seen one of those in yonks. All of this would just be a nice diversion except for the option to export your gadget to your desktop. So you can finally have some virtual gadgets sitting on your digital desk.

Something about Retro Gadgets reminds me of the now defunct Zachtronics. It may seem like stuff that I’m completely trash, but more capable minds can do wonders with. I’ve rewatched the trailer a few times trying to figure out how much add-on there is, and am amazed at how much it seems like you have to. I especially like the option to adorn your handcrafted electronics with all-tubular flame ornaments.

Classic gadgets coming to Steam in early access later this year. It’s also getting a demo next week Steam Next Festival. I will probably use it to build Tamagotchi.

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