Virtual Boy Nintendo Classics Announced for Switch 1 and 2 at Nintendo Direct

Nintendo has made the daze announcement of the instrumentality of Virtual Boy.

Virtual Boy Nintendo Classics launches February 17, 2026 via the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription connected Switch 1 and 2, with 14 classical games owed to rotation retired implicit time.

There’s a dedicated accessory needed to play, recreating the Virtual Boy peripheral of old, with a cardboard exemplary besides available.

Here's the authoritative blurb from Nintendo:

Select games from Nintendo’s stereoscopic 3D system, Virtual Boy, are coming to Nintendo Classics exclusively for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack7 members. To play, you’ll request Joy-Con oregon Joy-Con 2 controllers and the dedicated accessory based connected the archetypal Virtual Boy hardware – stereoscopic 3D included – erstwhile inserting the Nintendo Switch 2 oregon Nintendo Switch system. Dive into titles similar Mario’s Tennis, Galactic Pinball, Teleroboxer and much arsenic they merchandise implicit time. Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics comes to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Feb. 17, 2026. The accessory needed to play Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics, arsenic good arsenic a cardboard version, volition beryllium disposable to pre-purchase connected the My Nintendo Store successful the future. Visit present to larn more.

For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine the Nintendo Direct September 2025.

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