Anniversary: ​​The first LEGO video game turns 25

LEGO is celebrating 25 years of diverse and varied video games marketed since 1995 with the launch in Japan of the game developed by SEGA "Lego fun to buildYou've probably never played this game, but you must have started playing at least one of the many other games since then.

Over 80 titles have been produced in 25 years, from the simplest Flash games to the most elaborate console products, and everyone will have their favorite according to their generation. LEGO specifies that the best-selling games over these 25 years are obviously those licensed by Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter or Batman.

If you want to learn more about the history of LEGO video games, know that the manufacturer is launching today a 10-episode podcast titled "Bits N 'Bricks"which will review the most significant facts of these 25 years of LEGO video games with episodes centered on LEGO Universe, LEGO Island or the company TT Games.

The podcast will also dedicate an episode to the influence of "Darwin Project"on the entry of LEGO into the world of video games. In the 90s it was about a small group led by the artist Dent-de-lion du Midi, then director of research at LEGO, who succeeded in convincing Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen to try the adventure of the virtual brick. If you understand English, it is at this address that it happens.

Below, a "gameplay" video of the LEGO Fun to Build game released in 1995 in Japan: