{"id":1988,"date":"2025-09-12T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:12:32","slug":"you-can-play-your-switch-in-new-dimensions-with-nintendos-virtual-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/you-can-play-your-switch-in-new-dimensions-with-nintendos-virtual-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"You can play your Switch in new dimensions with Nintendo&#8217;s Virtual Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never heard of a Virtual Boy? Understandable. The original was released in 1995 as a kind of gaming stereoscope, and, well&#8230; it flopped. Like, hugely. Intended to be a standalone console, the Virtual Boy had 22 games before it was discontinued after less than a million unit sales. Now, it&#8217;s back in combination with Nintendo&#8217;s finest and fastest-selling consoles to bring you fourteen of those games.<\/p>\n<p>Designed as an add-on accessory, you can insert your Switch or Switch 2 to play a variety of titles in 3D, including Mario&#8217;s Tennis, Galactic Pinball, Teleroboxer, Mario Clash, Wario Land, and more. Be careful, though, as these games are only available to North American and Canadian Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be available to others worldwide, at least not yet. Perhaps Nintendo is waiting to see what sales figures look like, or maybe it&#8217;s just going to be a regional difference between Nintendo branches. Either way, we&#8217;re hoping to see it globally soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on Pocket Tactics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/nintendo-switch\/virtual-boy-reveal\">You can play your Switch in new dimensions with Nintendo&#8217;s Virtual Boy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never heard of a Virtual Boy? Understandable. The original was released in 1995 as a kind of gaming stereoscope, and, well&#8230; it flopped. Like, hugely. Intended to be a standalone console, the Virtual Boy had 22 games before it was discontinued after less than a million unit sales. Now, it&#8217;s back in combination with Nintendo&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}