- Nintendo has released a new trailer for Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics
- The collection will arrive on February 17, 2026
- In particular, it includes two unreleased games and a color change option
Nintendo has released a trailer for its upcoming Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics collection that will be available exclusively to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers.
First, the trailer confirms a February 17, 2026 release date for the collection. Furthermore, an impressive seven titles will be available to play from day one. These are as follows:
- Galactic Pinball
- 3-D Tetris
- Teleroboxes
- Virtual Boy Wario Land
- The Mansion of Innsmouth (Innsmouth no Yakata)
- Golf
- Red alert
A further nine games are set to arrive during 2026, but do not yet have a concrete release date. They will be:
- Mario Clash
- Mario’s tennis
- Jack Bros.
- Space Invaders Virtual Collection
- Virtual bowling
- Vertical force
- V-Tetris
- Zero racers
- Dragon Hopper
The last two in the last, Zero racers and D-Hopper, are particularly important additions. Both games were previously never released, despite being in seemingly complete states. The former is a Virtual Boy version F-zero, while the latter is a top-down platformer from Intelligent Systems, better known today as the core developer of Fire emblem franchise.
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So there are a total of 16 games coming up in year one. If we subtract these two previously unreleased titles, it still accounts for the vast majority of the original Virtual Boy library, which consisted of only 22 games. Missing in action for now will be games like Nester’s Funky Bowling, SD Gundam Dimension War, and water world, which would likely have some level of licensing bureaucracy surrounding them.
Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics will also have the usual array of quality-of-life features, including reusable controls and a rewind function for when you make mistakes or want to redo a section.
Perhaps the best addition, however, will be the ability to change the primary color of the image. The trailer shows retina-melting red changing to yellow, green, and even shades of gray. Bizarrely though, this is a feature planned for a later date and won’t be available at launch.
Personally, I’m still not keen on Virtual Boy for the Nintendo Switch device (or its smaller cardboard counterpart) being a requirement to play these games. That’s a pretty big investment, especially when you factor in that you’ll also need to use the more expensive expansion pack to access the library in the first place.
I’m sure Nintendo would prefer that players enjoy the unique stereoscopic 3D effect that comes with all these games. But I see no reason why they can’t also be enjoyed in handheld mode in plain 2D form.
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