Ah, the Virtual Boy, truly the darkest of Nintendo’s black sheep. It was originally released in 1995 and touted as a tabletop portable game console; you stick your face into the eyepieces and ...

Ars Technica AI Reporter and tech historian Benj Edwards has co-written a book on the Virtual Boy with Dr. Jose Zagal. In this exclusive excerpt, Benj and Jose take you back to Nintendo of the early ...