As someone who witnessed its initial release, I’m delightfully baffled that Nintendo is resurrecting the Virtual Boy. We aren ...

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 ...

Here at Ars, we’re big fans of classic console emulators that go beyond providing perfect re-creations to those that actually improve on original hardware with new features we could only dream of as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about video games, technology and pop culture. I don’t think anyone had an official Virtual Boy revival on their 2025 ...

The Virtual Boy is not underrated. In fact, 30 years after its launch, Nintendo’s tabletop oddity is on the short list of items from video game history that’s properly rated. It offered very few games ...

Through the looking glass: Nintendo's ill-fated Virtual Boy tried to bring VR gaming to the masses decades before the tech was ready, resulting in a fabulous flop. Now, as the console turns 30, a ...