Lego’s licensed march through the history of console gaming continues with the Sega Genesis. It’s small, sleek, and satisfyingly shiny. Most importantly, it’s only $40, making it the cheapest retro gaming Lego set by far.
The set is about half the size of a regular Sega Genesis and can fit on the surface area of a single notebook. It comes with two detachable controllers, sticker decorations, and enough pieces to customize it into a Sega Mega Drive as well. It comes with 479 pieces in total, including ones to make a Sonic game cartridge, and ships June 1, 2026.
Is this the Sega discount in action? The Lego Nintendo Entertainment System, complete with a small CRT, kicked this whole trend off and was priced at a whopping $230 for 2,646 pieces. Nintendo’s recent Lego Game Boy was much more modest at just $60 for 421 pieces. That still makes the Lego Sega Genesis a great deal and the perfectly priced retro gaming Lego impulse buy.
Having already tackled the Atari 2600, Lego is running out of the most popular classic gaming systems to recreate. The original PlayStation seems like the next obvious set at this point, though I’m personally holding out for a Lego Dreamcast.