Consult any list of Nintendo's worst releases—heck, any list of the worst consoles from any franchise—and you'll see one name repeated over and over again: the Virtual Boy. Billed as the future of ...

On my desk is a Nintendo device that looks like equipment stolen from a cyberpunk optical shop. It's big, it's red and black, it sits on a tripod, it has an eyepiece, and it has a Nintendo Switch 2 ...

You'll enjoy Nintendo's $100 Virtual Boy Switch 2 accessory if you look at it like a gaming archaeologist. Reading time 6 minutes The recreated Virtual Boy may represent a new era of Nintendo, or at ...

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Historically, Nintendo isn’t the kind of company that embraces failure. Its poorly received games rarely get ported to new platforms and its hardware flops tend to stay locked in the past, not turned ...

Nintendo has announced the Virtual Boy is returning with Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics and a new accessory for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics will be ...

Nintendo's Virtual Boy is arguably one of the strangest-looking gaming contraptions I've laid eyes on. It sits on a desk like a little portable grill, but you look into it like a microscope. Your eyes ...

It is no overstatement to say the Virtual Boy was Nintendo’s biggest console flop by a wide margin. The Wii U sold nearly 14 million units, which still makes it roughly twenty times more popular than ...

Nintendo doesn't have very many high-profile missteps, which makes it all the more notorious when one of its flagship products falters. The Wii U is the most recent example, but before that the ...

No one needs a Virtual Boy. But I always wanted one. And now it's living with me at last. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and ...