Switch 2’s Virtual Boy offering is alarmingly accurate and an essential history lesson

Under a year ago, I purchased a Virtual Boy. I did so for two reasons: the first was to fill a curious little gap in my video game collection. The second and main reason was in service of a stupid joke: Nintendo had told us that there’d be no Switch 2 consoles for media ahead of launch day, and so in order to have a ‘day one review’, I decided to review another Nintendo portable. It was an expensive gag.

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