AVAILABLE NOW: As of Dec. 10, get the Virtual Boy for Nintendo Switch 2/Nintendo Switch for $99.99 from Nintendo. You must be a Nintendo Switch Online member to purchase.

That's because the Virtual Boy was undoubtedly Nintendo's biggest misstep in its console history – far more so than the Wii U ...

If you're a Nintendo enthusiast, you've probably had this thought once, twice, or probably a few dozen times: "Why, Nintendo?" Nintendo marches to the beat of its own drum. It's led them to massive ...

I keep wondering when Nintendo will get back into VR. I actually asked Shigeru Miyamoto about it earlier this year. Well, Nintendo's back in the VR game, sort of, with a new Virtual Boy. Retro games ...

Many years before Seeing Red was a Pixar movie about menstruation, “seeing red” perfectly encapsulated Nintendo’s early foray into the VR space, the Virtual Boy. It wasn’t a wearable, like the ...

Who remembers the Virtual Boy? It was Nintendo’s failed attempt at 3D gaming back in the ’90s. The bulky design, eye-straining red and black graphics, and tiny library of games – not to mention how it ...

Nintendo has made the shock announcement of the return of Virtual Boy. Virtual Boy Nintendo Classics launches February 17, 2026 via the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription on Switch 1 ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

We know it is April Fool's Day, but some made-up products are best to happen in the future like in the case of Nintendo Virtual Boy Pro which could pass as Apple Vision Pro's brother. Just imagine it ...

Of all the predictions that one could have made about Friday's Nintendo Direct, nobody could have possibly predicted that Nintendo would revive the Virtual Boy. That's because the Virtual Boy was a ...

Nintendo has made some bold, weird choices with its hardware designs. But none were so bold and weird as 1995’s Virtual Boy, a “woefully premature commercial curio,” as one Ars writer put it, that ...

A few days ago, a Nintendo patent filing once again kickstarted rumors that a second-screen accessory might be on its way to the Nintendo Switch 2, specifically for Nintendo DS games. While it’s an ...