Though Virtual Boy claimed to be a 3D system, the vast majority of the games were more like ‘2D plus depth.’ “…even if we could persuade the system to play them, we’d be exceeding the 16 Mbit of ...

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

The Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console allows one to buy and play NES, Game Gear, Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on the device. At Nintendo’s 73rd annual general shareholders meeting, someone suggested ...

The Nintendo Virtual Boy may have gone down in history as the company's grandest folly, but it's clear that there are many fans out there who feel it didn't get a fair crack of the whip. Team VUEngine ...

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While the Virtual Boy remains something of a cautionary tale, its games weren’t a complete waste of time and space. You’d ...

It's been 16 years since Nintendo's first 3D portable flopped its way into America. Anniversary or not, the recent growing pains that Nintendo's 3DS is currently experiencing have repeatedly been ...

The Virtual Boy wasn't exactly Nintendo's finest hour. Despite this, the device was arguably ahead of its time and over the years has developed a cult following. In 2018, for example, an indie ...

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 ...

Virtual Boy did nothing well. Forget its paltry library of game ideas so half-baked they would make the Atari Jaguar line-up look ready for canonization. Forget the fact that it looked like a bad prop ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Nintendo’s Virtual Boy ...

In early 1995, I remember reading a letter in a video game magazine that talked about how much momentum Nintendo had with the upcoming Ultra 64 console and the futuristic Virtual Boy. When it launched ...