The Nintendo Game Boy is an essential part of handheld gaming history. Launched in 1989, the Game Boy was the first major handheld gaming system to truly take off around the world. While retro gaming ...

30 years ago, Nintendo launched Pokémon on Game Boy, birthing the world's highest-grossing media franchise with $147B in lifetime revenue. A look back at its epic origin. Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green ...

The Nintendo Switch Online Classics Library is a great way to revisit games from years past. Many of the more recent retro catalogues, from Game Boy Advance to ...

Hands on with a redo of Nintendo's quirkiest console - The Virtual Boy - on Switch 2, plus 'Mario Tennis Fever' and more.

No one needs a Virtual Boy. But I always wanted one. And now it's living with me at last. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and ...

Nintendo’s Virtual Boy app is now available to download on Switch and Switch 2 as part of its Nintendo Classics offering. You’ll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership to ...

The forthcoming Nintendo Virtual Boy accessory for Switch and Switch 2 can play VR-supported games, as reported by Video Games Chronicle. There are four available games to play, including Super Mario ...

Launched approximately one million years ago – in the ancient year of 1995 – the Virtual Boy was Nintendo’s ill-fated early attempt to kickstart 3D gaming, long before the immensely more successful ...

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 ...

Leon is a young, aspiring gaming journalist from the city of Lincolnshire, England. Since the early years of his life, he has been obsessed with gaming, stemming from his initial introduction through ...

Nintendo shocked the gaming world when it announced that Virtual Boy games would be coming to its Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription service back in September 2025 alongside two new ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...