A look back at the Virtual Boy and how it came to be

Did you know that the tech behind the Virtual Boy was shopped around to Mattel, Hasbro, and Sega before it eventually landed at Nintendo? Those three companies turned it down, but a demonstration of a tank game to Gunpei Yokoi proved to be key in getting Nintendo to hop on board with the idea. Obviously now we know the move to the Virtual Boy was a misstep for Nintendo, but if you want to see things got to that point, check out the exhaustive feature on the entire process below.