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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virtual reality is about to hit the mainstream following Facebook's big-money acquisition of the company behind Oculus Rift, but the concept has endured a troubled history. Nintendo tried its hand at ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to retro video games, I trust no one more than Jeremy Parish. In college, I listened obsessively to his retro podcast, Retronauts, memorizing each deep-dive as if I were studying for a ...