Nintendo Is Bringing Back The Virtual Boy As A Switch And Switch 2 Accessory

Nintendo had a genuinely chaotic astonishment up its sleeve for Switch Online + Expansion Pack during its Direct arena connected Friday. The institution is bringing backmost nan Virtual Boy arsenic a beingness instrumentality into which you tin slot your Switch aliases Switch 2. A integrative replica of nan mid-90s tabletop strategy will soon beryllium disposable for Switch Online members to buy. The institution will waste a cardboard type of nan accessory too. No request to swipe your eyes successful disbelief (but if history is immoderate indication, you mightiness person to for alleviation aft utilizing this thing).

You'll request either accessory to play Virtual Boy games, which will commencement hitting Switch Online + Expansion Pack connected February 17. Mario's Tennis (a pack-in crippled for nan original system), Galactic Pinball, Teleroboxer, Space Invaders and Tetris are among nan 14 stereoscopic 3D Virtual Boy games that Nintendo will bring to nan subscription work complete time.

That intends astir of nan Virtual Boy games that were ever released are coming to Switch Online + Expansion Pack. Nintendo only released 22 of them, since nan Virtual Boy ne'er took off. The institution ended accumulation of nan instrumentality and stopped making games for it successful 1996, only a twelvemonth aft nan Virtual Boy deed shelves. Here's hoping nan latest type of nan accessory doesn't springiness players excessively galore headaches.