Polygon

Internet detectives unearth rare screenshots of canceled Virtual Boy Mario Land

Ian Walker loves exploring niche communities and researching the development of classic video games. Three screenshots of the Mario franchise’s unreleased Virtual Boy outing have resurfaced online, ...
Ars Technica

Nintendo’s lost 1990s “VR” console comes to 3DS thanks to a remarkable emulator

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 ...
Gizmodo

It Took Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro to Make Me Appreciate Nintendo’s Virtual Boy

Virtual Boy Wario Land is one of the most underrated gems of Nintendo’s golden age. You’d never know it since the game was locked away on Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, the oft-derided 3D console now ...
Ars Technica

Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console

Ars Technica AI Reporter and tech historian Benj Edwards has co-written a book on the Virtual Boy with Dr. Jose Zagal. In this exclusive excerpt, Benj and Jose take you back to Nintendo of the early ...
Road to VR

Nintendo is Reviving its Infamously Failed Virtual Boy with a Switch-compatible Accessory

Feel free to double-check the calendar… yes, it is in fact September 12th and not April 1st. Nintendo, always managing to surprise in one way or another, is reviving its infamously failed 3D gaming ...
Polygon

Internet detectives unearth rare screenshots of canceled Virtual Boy Mario Land

Three screenshots of the Mario franchise’s unreleased Virtual Boy outing have resurfaced online, giving us the best look at the game anyone’s seen since 1995. Nintendo showed “VB Mario Land,” as the ...