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 ...

In the latest version of Iwata Asks, Nintendo's president chats with 3DS's Kenichi Sugino and Hideki Konno about some of the hurdles they experienced trying to convince co-workers the new handheld was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nintendo is known for its many successes within the video game world, such as the older Nintendo 64 or the Nintendo Switch. Behind all of its hit consoles, though, lie some products that flopped in ...

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 ...

The Virtual Boy is one of Nintendo's biggest failures. Originally released in 1995, the Virtual Boy was Nintendo's first major attempt at stereoscopic 3D. Criticized for its high price point and being ...

Nintendo is promoting their Virtual Boy headsets on Twitter as the two Switch Online accessories are back in stock.