Nintendo Virtual Boy
Before there was the Meta Quest, there was the Virtual Boy. In 1995, Nintendo came out with this futuristic gaming device and got absolutely slammed in the process. The Video Game Critic called this device a “dismal failure,” noting a warning on the box cautioning the possibility of “permanent vision damage.” The gaming device was discontinued less than a year later. Roughly 20 years later, Oculus released its first virtual reality headset in 2016. It’s been almost a decade since then, however, and though VR has gotten better, I wouldn’t call it a success quite yet.
