Look, I'll be honest – I never owned a Virtual Boy. In fact, I never even touched one, but neither of these things feel particularly shocking when A) the bizarre-looking hardware never released in Europe and B) it's Nintendo's worst-selling console ever, with a reportedly massive differential between it and second-worst. When Wii U outsells you by over 10 million, something has gone wrong.
Needless to say, going into a preview of the Switch and Switch 2's Virtual Boy classics library, my bar was set rather low. A powerful force of morbid curiosity pulled me towards the alien device like my head was magnetized to its peepholes, as I prepared myself for eye strain, a sea of red pixels, and an understanding of why the hardware never really took off. But, after a short stint with the re-released device, I can only apologize to the Virtual Boy for literally being unfamiliar with its game.
