I have the main unit and original box.
type game console
country Japan
year 1995
os Nintendo
cpu 32bit RISC
speed 20 MHz
ram 1 MB dram / 512 KB sram
graphic
colors 2
sound 16 bits stereo
ports cartridge, controller, phones, external port
The Nintendo Virtual Boy — Gaming’s Most Ambitious Failure
The Nintendo Virtual Boy, released in July 1995 in Japan and August 1995 in North America, was one of gaming’s most ambitious and notorious commercial failures — a tabletop stereoscopic 3D gaming system that used red LED displays to create genuine depth perception through a binocular eyepiece. Designed by Gunpei Yokoi, the Virtual Boy produced true 3D imagery years before 3D gaming became mainstream, but its red-only display, uncomfortable playing position requiring users to peer into the eyepiece, and concerns about eye strain led to poor reviews and sales. Nintendo discontinued it after just 22 official games and fewer than 800,000 units sold. The Virtual Boy is today one of the most collectible Nintendo systems precisely because of its failure — rare, unusual, and representing Nintendo at its most experimentally ambitious.