Virtual Boy at 30: The legacy of Nintendo’s biggest console flop

Many years before Seeing Red was a Pixar movie about menstruation, “seeing red” perfectly encapsulated Nintendo’s early foray into the VR space, the Virtual Boy. It wasn’t a wearable, like the PlayStation VR and Quests of today, but a tabletop headset users peer into, similar to a Victorian-era stereoscope. Like the original Game Boy, it was a monochrome device, only instead of swamp-water green, all the games were depicted in vivid red against a deep black background.