Lego travels to the 1980s with a console model of "Pac Man" of 2,651 pieces

() — Kids of the eighties, rejoice! The Lego toy company is about to release a 2,651-piece set celebrating “Pac-Man.”

The set is based on an actual 1980s arcade “arcade” and includes a brick that lights up the coin slot, Lego reports on its website.

“Pac-Man” was released in Tokyo in 1980 and became the most successful arcade game of all time. Players control “Pac-Man”, a yellow cheese-shaped character who must eat all the little dots in a maze while avoiding four ghosts.

Although the Lego set doesn’t really function as a gaming system, it’s “loaded with retro gaming details you’ll want to devour,” the company says.

It features what Lego calls a “mechanical maze” that is activated by turning a crank located on the side of the set.

The set can also be used to create a scene of figures playing ‘Pac-Man’. Credit: LEGO

“When turning, the characters move through the maze in a realistic way, thanks to successful engineering efforts,” he says.

Measuring 13 inches tall, 10 inches wide, and 7 inches deep, the gaming “machine” has a removable back panel that reveals its inner workings.

“Pac-Man,” the brainchild of 25-year-old game designer Toru Iwatani, pioneered a number of innovations in gameplay and game design. He introduced the first “power-up”, the big pill that made ghosts vulnerable, and the first cutscenes, the little animated sequences between one level and the next. It was also one of the first games in the maze genre.

In honor of its role as a pillar of video game history, “Pac-Man” was among the titles added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 2012.

The Pac-Man Arcade set goes on sale for $270 on June 4, as part of Lego’s Icons collection, which is “designed for a challenging yet rewarding building experience,” the company says.

Other sets in the collection include a Land Rover Classic Defender 90, the Titanic and the Eiffel Tower.