A YouTuber known for console mods has done the impossible and turned Nintendo’s failed Virtual Boy into a portable handheld. After a year and several custom-made parts, Shank Mods managed to fit the ...

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 ...

When looking back on classic gaming, there’s plenty of room for debate. What was the best Atari game? Which was the superior 16-bit console, the Genesis or the Super NES? Would the N64 have been more ...

You'll enjoy Nintendo's $100 Virtual Boy Switch 2 accessory if you look at it like a gaming archaeologist. Reading time 6 minutes The recreated Virtual Boy may represent a new era of Nintendo, or at ...

The Virtual Boy went down as one of the biggest flops in gaming history and stayed on the market for a whopping twelve months after its release in July 1995. In Japan, production was even stopped ...

Update [Thu 5th Feb 2026, 1:45pm]: Well folks, it's a good job we reached out about this, because Nintendo UK has now confirmed that the Labo VR peripheral will in fact not be compatible with Virtual ...

There’s a lot of people wishing that the mid-2020s were more like the mid-1990s, but I don’t expect many were doing so for a chance to experience the Virtual Boy’s brief heyday. Yet here we are, with ...