Nintendo’s new Virtual Boy accessory brings weird retro 3D gaming to Switch but requires extra subscriptions and costs $100
The Virtual Boy stands steady on your desk, but you can’t make it taller or shorter. That’s the tricky part. You need a chair or desk you can raise up and down. There are buttons on top that look important, but they don’t actually do anything – the real controls are on your game screen.
To play, you open the top, put in your Nintendo Switch 2, and peek through two red windows. Everything turns ruby red just like the old 1995 game system. The games come from Nintendo’s special online club that costs extra money every month.
Some games are the same ones from 1995 when the Virtual Boy first came out. But three new games were never played before by anyone. The old games stop working after less than a year – that’s why not many people remember them. Now Nintendo wants to bring back those weird red games for new players.
The Virtual Boy costs $100 and the online club costs more each month. Nintendo also made a cheaper cardboard version for just $25, but most people already bought both kinds. If you want one, you need to look for it starting around February 16.