Hi! I was wondering…after NES and SNES…I bet the N64 one can happen..
Do you think it will happen for Virtual Boy?
Smaller, Lighter, with strap for the head. and rechargeable battery on the remote,
with either red black screen or black and white via options and all the games that came out in the west and for the 1st time in europe.
i think this is a wonderful idea! what yall think?

I’m not really sure if this could work; a motif of the Classic series is that the form factor is smaller than the original so it can be differentiated easily and be a cool item to display. Obviously Nintendo could make a smaller headset, but I feel like they’d have to sacrifice either the original design for size or keep the original design but make it not as small in comparison to the original console as the other Classics, and I’m not sure Nintendo would want to make either compromise. The former also applies to the rest of Nintendo’s portable systems.

Regardless, I would love for Nintendo to find a way to make a Classic Virtual Boy, or for them to port all the games to Switch (or 3DS… because that thing is still alive, but with GuyPerfect working on the emulator it no longer feels like a necessity). I could be wrong about all this, however.

Another thing I’d love to see is for Nintendo to make sequels to the series they started on Virtual Boy, for example, Teleroboxer… I don’t see this ever happening though. Thus far I’ve been satisfied with Nintendo even acknowledging its existence in things such as Tomodachi life (All hail Virtual Boy!), and the video for E3 2015 where they announced the Nintendo World Championships were coming back – which only makes me think about how cool it would be for some Virtual Boy games to be featured in that!

Do I think it “could” happen? Yes, they could easily make a little lightweight plastic VR headset-type device with the entire VB library on it, include Bound High and Dragon Hopper on it, and charge about $100 for it. That would be a dream come true for many of us, and I personally would love to see it.

Do I think it “will” happen? I’d pretty much bet my life savings that it won’t. Nintendo already tried to give this system to the public back in ’95, and the public responded with a near-universal “no thank you”. The past success, library of hits, and loads of hype leading to launch are what resulted in the success of the NES and SNES Classic Minis. A Virtual Boy Classic would not be afforded those same perks and advantages. Even an N64 Classic (which is a system that was received by the public 1000000x better than the VB but still pretty lukewarm by Nintendo standards) probably wouldn’t invoke anywhere near the level of hype and fervor (and therefore sales) of the NES and SNES Classic.

What I could see happening way before we’d ever see a VB Classic, would be 3DS releases of Virtual Boy games, hopefully in a compilation, much like the Mr. Game & Watch DS compilations. That seems much more viable to me, and even that seems like a fading hope, given that the 3DS is currently a shadow walking towards the sunset.

Personally I think the “classic” consoles are a genius move that cashes in on the generation that was raised on Nintendo, and now finally has the money to spend on it. It’s a way to get a chunk of the “retro gaming” aftermarket pie. Releasing a VB Classic would likely be profitable, especially now that there are lots of people with both the NES and SNES classic, who would “need” to get the VB one, even if they were never very big on VB in the first place.

But it’s looking like the new president of Nintendo wants to focus more on mobile gaming, setting his sights on the wallets of younger gamers. So I give it a 0% chance of happening. We’ll have to create it ourselves.

I think getting an emulator running on something like the Oculus Go would be the best bet. Then release a wireless controller that looks like the original. It’s going to be too expensive to do an HMD only for Virtual Boy without a very large volume of orders behind it.

Technically: Yes
Realistically: No

However unlikely I would so love to have one, especially if they pulled a Starfox 2 with Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers. We can dream..

That would be awesome but i’m not holding my hopes up about it so…

I can’t recall where I heard this, but since Nintendo have expressed interest in doing VR again, a theory I heard was doing a similar Samsung Gear VR type situation aspect with the Nintendo Switch… so just sliding the tablet into a headset.

Doing such, could easily put the VB games in the monthly “free” classic games Nintendo plans on doing for their Online Subscription, release them individually on the eShop, or of course a compilation cartridge… again all being use through a proposed “Switch VR”

I think this theory could very well be accurate and would explain why Nintendo hasn’t just put them on the 3DS.

Alternatively, since Nintendo is claiming they’ll be supporting the 3DS “past 2019” then there is still plenty of time to put VB games on the 3DS too.

Yes! If Nintendo did some sort of Switch VR, putting VB games on that would be a much better fit than on 3DS. I’d rather play these games in an immersive VR environment (like a real VB) than on a tiny 3DS screen. The immersive 3D is a huge part of the games.

Imagine playing Galactic Pinball on a VB (or Switch headset) vs. playing it on, say, a 2DS. If you want a 2-D monochrome pinball game, there are lots of Game Boy pinball games that are more fun than Galactic Pinball. It’s the immersive 3D that makes the experience.

I would say doubtful. Likely they would not try to make a mini version of a failed console. The way Nintendo liquidated everything so quickly makes me figure they want this stricken from any history of Nintendo and wash their hands of any mention of this console all together.

Yea, I agree with speedy. Could it happen? of course. Any fan could make that with a rpi and some free time. But will Nintendo mass produce and sell something like that? Doubtful. I personally have no interest in this whole retro mini console craze. All it is is a way for companies to cash in by storing roms on a flash chip in a plastic shell and raking in the dough. I don’t need a vb mini or a virtual boy emulator, just give me the good ol’ fashioned clunky hardware and carts! That being said, if they did release one with dragonhopper included, I would buy it in a heartbeat, heh.

So I’d say the best route would be to buy a cheap smart phone:

flash a custom rom then remove all the phone stuff,
add a nice background, add a emulator for virtual boy,
add a charge extender,
modify a Google VR headset with the charge port and paint it,
add a custom painted Bluetooth controller
add all the ROMs to a SD card.

It would be light, wearable and probably really nice.

This is definitely a thing, but I think most of us are probably Nintendo re-releases it in some form, especially if the unearth Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers like speedy said

Dreammary wrote:
So I’d say the best route would be to buy a cheap smart phone:

flash a custom rom then remove all the phone stuff,
add a nice background, add a emulator for virtual boy,
add a charge extender,
modify a Google VR headset with the charge port and paint it,
add a custom painted Bluetooth controller
add all the ROMs to a SD card.

It would be light, wearable and probably really nice.

Nintendo for the most part doesn’t even acknowledge Virtual Boy beyond being a toy and not even a video game console. They would sadly never make such a device for us fans.

I don’t think it will happen. VB is kind of a shame in Nintendo’s history. They want to forget it. It’s not even in the official timeline:
https://www.nintendo.com/corp/history.jsp