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Nintendo Virtual Boy

Nintendo · 1995

Nintendo's stereoscopic headset: two scanning red LED arrays giving genuine 3D in 1995, on a stand you had to lean into. It sold badly, caused headaches, and was withdrawn within a year — the last product Gunpei Yokoi led at Nintendo. Fascinating, uncomfortable, and the ribbon cables in the displays fail with age.

As catalogued

Maker
Nintendo
CPU
NEC V810-20
Memory
128K
Styles
Virtual Boy
Regions
NTSC-J (Japan), NTSC-U (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
tabletop stereoscopic visor on a stand
OS
cartridge

Chips

2
CPU
NEC V810
VIP
Nintendo VIP

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