In this video, Did You Know Gaming takes a look at the fascinating history of Nintendo's Virtual Boy. Despite the Virtual Boy's reputation of being am awkward failure, it's far from Nintendo's biggest mistake. It actually sold better than the Satellaview and 64DD, and gave developers some valuable experience making VR games.

Research/Writing by Dr Lava
Video Editing by Greg
Narration by Dazz

Special thanks to the authors of "Seeing Red," Jose Zagal and Benj Edwards; Yokoi's official biographer Takefumi Makino, and everyone at Planet Virtual Boy for consultation and proofreading (Blitter, Speedy Ink, and F-wow, to Zel, Arya, and Emily) And thanks to Jacob Necomb for the Japanese translations.

Sources/Further Reading:
横井軍平ゲーム館 (Gunpei Yokoi's 1997 biography, approximately 40% in his own words, while the other 60% is paraphrased --by his co-author Takefumi Makino -- from long interviews he did with Yokoi with the express purpose of writing this book)
ゲームの父・横井軍平伝 任天堂のＤＮＡを創造した男 (Takefumi's second Yokoi biography, published in 2010)
Gunpei Yokoi: Vie Et Philosophie Du Dieu Des Jouets Nintendo (Yokoi's French biography, by Florent Gorges, published in 2010)
Seeing Red (2024 book by José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards)
The Ultimate History of Video Games: Revisited (2001 book by Steven L Kent)
Game Over: Press Start to Continue (1999 book by David Sheff)
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