{"id":30610,"date":"2026-01-30T17:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30610"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","slug":"virtual-boy-switch-online-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/games\/virtual-boy-switch-online-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Boy Switch Online Launch Line-Up &amp; 2 Unreleased Games to Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/virtual-boy-nintendo-classics\/\">previously reported<\/a> that <strong>Nintendo<\/strong>\u2019s infamous Virtual Boy early VR console would making its way onto <strong>Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack<\/strong> on February 17, 2026, and now we also know which games will be playable upon the system\u2019s launch on the service.<br \/><br \/>A total of seven <strong>Virtual Boy<\/strong> games will be playable from the <strong>Virtual Boy<\/strong>\u2019s launch on <strong>Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack<\/strong>. These will be: <strong>Galactic Pinball<\/strong>; <strong>Teleroboxer<\/strong>; <strong>Red Alarm<\/strong>; <strong>Virtual Boy Wario Land<\/strong>; <strong>3-D Tetris<\/strong>; <strong>Golf<\/strong>; and T<strong>he Mansion of Innsmouth<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>However, there\u2019s a catch, in addition to requiring a <strong>Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack<\/strong> membership to play <strong>Virtual Boy<\/strong> games on <strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong> or <strong>Nintendo Switch 2<\/strong>, you will also need to own either the V<strong>irtual Boy for Nintendo Switch 2\/Nintendo Switch accessory <\/strong>in either its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/virtual-boy-for-nintendo-switch-2-120829\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standard<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/virtual-boy-cardboard-model-for-nintendo-switch-2-120828\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cardboard<\/a> form. Both can be purchased from the <strong>Nintendo Store<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>In addition to confirming the N<strong>intendo Classics<\/strong> <strong>Virtual Boy<\/strong> launch line-up, <strong>Nintendo<\/strong> has also revealed that amongst the other <strong>Virtual Boy<\/strong> titles to be added to the\u00a0 <strong>Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack<\/strong> service later this year will be two previously unreleased titles. Said unreleased <strong>Virtual Boy<\/strong> games are:<strong> F-Zero<\/strong> title <strong>Zero Racers<\/strong>, and the adventure game <strong>D-Hopper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Virtual Boy \u2013 Nintendo Classics \u2013 Overview Trailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nVvaCe4esCQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We previously reported that Nintendo\u2019s infamous Virtual Boy early VR console would making its way onto Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack on February 17, 2026, and now we also know which games will be playable upon the system\u2019s launch on the service. A total of seven Virtual Boy games will be playable from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[50,201,202],"class_list":["post-30610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-nintendo-classics","tag-nintoendo-switch-online","tag-virtual-boy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31079,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30610\/revisions\/31079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}