Nintendo tried to cash in on the virtual reality craze in the 1990's, and it was an epic fail.

Screenshots from an unnamed Mario platformer intended for the Virtual Boy but never released have been discovered on The Internet Archive.

Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console How Nintendo took a gamble on a new kind of gaming experience in the '90s.

Virtual Boy was an invention of the late Gunpei Yokoi, whose previous brainchildren had been indispensable to Nintendo's success.

The Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s most infamous failure, was plagued by several issues. The most glaring problem was the red monochrome stereoscopic display technology which gave many users a heada… ...

VirtualFriend, a new Virtual Boy emulator for the Vision Pro, brings Nintendo’s short-lived console to life in 3D, once more, albeit with limited features.

On July 21, 1995, the Virtual Boy hit Japanese store shelves and took the world by storm. Wait, no, not by storm. Whatever the opposite of that would be. Took the world by a nice, comfortable day ...

Virtual Boy Wario Land claims the title of being the best exclusive on Nintendo’s worst-selling standalone console. No Wario game is more underplayed and underrated.

Compared with today's VR headsets, Nintendo’s ill-fated, red-tinted head-mounted Virtual Boy display now looks massively dated. However, thanks to modern Oculus Rift headsets, you can now relive ...

Thirteen years on, IGN AU tracked down an unopened Japanese version of the Virtual Boy, along with seven titles available on the system. A total of 22 games were released for the system, and only ...

From Nintendo’s Virtual Boy to Apple’s Vision Pro, Bringing VR to the Masses Has Been a Decadeslong Challenge Apple’s new mixed-reality headset is the latest attempt to take the technology ...

While your author lacks a 3DS, let alone experience with a Virtual Boy, reception to Red Viper suggests it's a good way to experience some intriguing games, especially Nintendo's own first-party work.