Guitar Boy is a working Game Boy and guitar

For many guitarists, riffs and gaming are natural bedfellows, but they've never been integrated quite so seamlessly as on the Guitar Boy, a hybrid guitar and handheld console.

Put together by YouTube user fibbef s for the BitFix Gaming forum's 2015 Game Boy Classic build-off, the Guitar Boy is made up of parts from a Peavey Rockmaster, but there's also a 5" monitor and 2200mAh battery installed, while a Raspberry Pi runs the Boy's in-built games - fibbef shares how he put the instrument together in his build diary.

You can see the Guitar Boy in action above - we'll admit that having strings over the screen won't make for the easiest pixel-perfect jumps in Super Mario Land, but we appreciate the fact that the A and B buttons double as volume and tone controls.

Mike has been Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com since 2019, and an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict for far longer. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and 15 years' experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. His writing also appears in the The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock as Maebe.