“That’s the way Nintendo is”: Tetris legend says Game Boy designer Gunpei Yokoi “made Nintendo’s game business, for chrissakes” but that still didn’t save him when “Virtual Boy was dead on arrival”

Somebody has to take responsibility

Virtual Boy is poised for what once seemed like an unlikely comeback on Switch 2, but while Nintendo might want to celebrate the VR console as a kitschy throwback nowadays, in the ’90s, the consequences for the platform’s failure were a lot more dire… [2494 chars]

Source: GamesRadar+ | Published: 2025-09-18T16:00:42Z

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