Comment on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Babu Frik's Tech Was Inspired by the Game Boy

Star Wars concept artist Matthew Savage has shared a design sketch of Babu Frik's workshop for The Rise of Skywalker, which reveals a piece of technology inspired by the Nintendo Game Boy. Savage shared the concept art on Instagram alongside two further images of Babu Frik's "hack terminal" device, as he teased how this particular set-piece was "possibly inspired by a Nintendo Game Boy." The design of the computer prop appears to draw some real-world inspiration from the classic version of the Nintendo Game Boy, with its grey, softly-rounded rectangular unit, green-coloured screen, dark grey keys, adjustable side dial controls, and two red lights that seemingly mirror the magenta game buttons on the handheld console. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-wars-40-pieces-of-obscure-trivia&captions=true"] Interestingly, this isn't the only Easter egg hidden within the droidsmith's cluttered workshop; some familiar Droids were spotted in the background of the Anzellan's cramped maze of tools and parts, including the head of a 2-1B medical Droid from The Empire Strikes Back and a decommissioned B1 Battle Droid from the Star Wars Prequels. In fact, the final film in the Skywalker saga was jam-packed with Easter eggs, callbacks and references to earlier entries in the long-spanning series -- as well as a number of notable celebrity cameos.