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Life & fun · April 10, 2014

Nintendo Virtual Boy

Most advanced 3D, virtual reality game system

Nintendo Virtual Boy launched on April 10, 2014 with 34 votes, #531 of 1,174 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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The Virtual Boy [ a ] is a video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo and released in Japan on July 21, 1995, and in North America on August 14, 1995. Promoted as the first system capable of rendering stereoscopic 3D graphics, it featured a red monochrome display viewed through a binocular eyepiece, with games employing a parallax effect to simulate depth. The console struggled commercially, and its limited market performance led Nintendo to discontinue production and game development in 1996, following the release of only 22 games. The 32-bit Virtual Boy's development spanned four years under the codename VR32 . Nintendo entered a licensing agreement with the U.S.-based…from en.wikipedia.org

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