US EditionNintendo Debuts New Virtual Boy Overview Trailer, Launch Date/game Lineup – Headset Now up for Pre-Order
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack will offer 16 Virtual Boy games including two unreleased titles, with quality-of-life features and color options for enhanced play.
- On February 17, 2026, Virtual Boy- Nintendo Classics debuts for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members, with an overview trailer and Virtual Boy headset pre-orders available.
- Reviving the 1995 Virtual Boy, Nintendo is updating the concept by using the Switch 2 as stereoscopic screens instead of the 1995 hardware's single LED strip and rotating mirrors.
- The collection's emulation includes suspend, remap, rewind features, and players can change the Virtual Boy's red image to yellow, green, or greyscale, requiring removal of the red filter.
- Year one brings 16 games, covering most of the original Virtual Boy library, but Nintendo's $100 Virtual Boy recreation plus the Expansion Pack tier raises access costs.
- Nintendo says more titles will roll out throughout 2026, including nine additional games, plus unreleased Zero Racers and D-Hopper, while Nester's Funky Bowling, SD Gundam Dimension War, and Waterworld remain missing likely due to licensing.
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Nintendo debuts new Virtual Boy overview trailer, launch date/game lineup – headset now up for pre-order
While many Switch 2 gamers are squarely focused on the GameCube lineup still, one of Nintendo’s oft-maligned and tantalizingly quirky platforms is also set to make its worldwide debut on the Switch Online Nintendo Classics platform – Virtual Boy. The new physical hardware headset is now up for pre-order for Switch Online members and Nintendo has now unleashed an overview trailer for the platform with the launch lineup. more…
The Virtual Boy returns! This will be the release with the Nintendo Switch Online. Image by Bigstock Nintendo revealed the first details of the new addition to the Nintendo Switch Online library. Among the novelties is the addition to the library of the games of one of the least successful projects of the video game company: the Virtual Boy. As of February 17, 2026, all subscribers of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Package will have access t…
Here are all the Virtual Boy games coming to Switch and Switch 2
As you probably know, Nintendo has a real surprise in store for February 17. That's when Virtual Boy will be re-released, or at least almost. It was originally launched in 1995 but sold extremely poorly, probably because it was a clunky device that could only display games in two colours (red and black) and was also reported to cause headaches, watery eyes, and neck pain after just a short time of playing. The Virtual Boy sold less than a milli…
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