Diehard Gamefan magazine Virtual Boy cover. Stick your face in a virtual place, indeed.

Diehard Gamefan magazine Virtual Boy cover. Stick your face in a virtual place, indeed.

“We can give you the specs, and the Virtual Boy will supply the blinding headaches.”

“We can give you the specs, and the Virtual Boy will supply the blinding headaches.”

Nintendo Power magazine Virtual Boy cover.

Nintendo Power magazine Virtual Boy cover.

Ad for Mario Clash on the Virtual Boy.

Ad for Mario Clash on the Virtual Boy.

Advert for Nintendo’s Virtual Boy.

Advert for Nintendo’s Virtual Boy.

Virtual Boy advert.

Virtual Boy advert.

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Japanese box art for Virtual Boy Wario Land (Virtual Boy, 1995).

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Japanese box art for Virtual Boy Wario Land (Virtual Boy, 1995).

Here’s an odd one for you: the cover to the Virtual Boy title Innsmouth no Yakata, (Or “INSMOUSE”, if you prefer,) a first-person shooter based on a Japanese B-movie based, in turn, on the H.P. Lovecraft story The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Here’s an odd one for you: the cover to the Virtual Boy title Innsmouth no Yakata, (Or “INSMOUSE”, if you prefer,) a first-person shooter based on a Japanese B-movie based, in turn, on the H.P. Lovecraft story The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Bizarre Virtual Boy commercial which casts the headache-machine as some kind of remorseless Terminator-style hunter-killer robot. It wants your eyes, you see…

Virtual Boy advert.

Virtual Boy advert.