The Virtual Boy has become the punch-line of countless jokes ever since its catastrophic failure, but the system was actually pretty fun.

Laying the Virtual Boy to Rest Why the comparisons between the 3DS and Nintendo's failed 1995 system need to die.

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.

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 ...

The authors of an upcoming book on Nintendo's infamous video game console argue that the Virtual Boy was more than just a gimmicky failure.

Hardware The Virtual Boy is a bit of an odd bird, a fact immediately apparent as soon as it springs from its garishly colored box, cardboard that is perhaps compensating for what's to come. We've ...

Virtual Boy did nothing well. Forget its paltry library of game ideas so half-baked they would make the Atari Jaguar line-up look ready for canonization. Forget the fact that it looked like a bad ...

While the dismal commercial performance of the Wii U has made headlines recently, it's a long way from being Nintendo's most famous failure - that unwelcome accolade falls to the Virtual Boy ...

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 headache ...

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 ...

The Virtual Boy, on the other hand, was simply a display sitting on a cheap-looking stand that had no real adjustments for individual needs other than the most basic adjustments to its angle.