I was interested right up until they announced you'd have to buy more plastic cardboard crap to actually play them.

Pity...I remember Warioland VB being decent.

Absolute bush league that there’s no TV or palette swap options.

The Virtual Boy accessory is $99.99 USD; the cardboard one is $24.99 USD.

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I may have been able to justify $99.99 had Nintendo included a wireless Virtual Boy controller.

You have to buy an accessory to play games that you cannot actually buy.  If you're a collector I almost suggest you buy the plastic model.  Though it will eventually become totally useless, they're probably going to sell and make so few of these things that it will probably be a valuable collector's item someday.  I'm thinking like how Pokemon Box was laughed at when it came out and now is a Gamecube holy grail item.

The frustrating thing is that they had a system on the market for years that had glasses free 3D and they didn't re-release these games then.

What they really should do is sell the accessory with the games built in.  You still need a Switch or Switch 2 but no subscription necessary.  For a niche product like this it makes no sense to combine an expensive purchase with a subscription.  For the accessory and all of the games, $100 is not a terrible value.  But the approach they're going with is laughably greedy for a product that's notorious for being a huge bomb.  Will they even sell a thousand of these things?

The Red Viper emulator for modded 3DS’sesses is really good: makes use of the 3D slider, can be played 2D, has save states, and offers color palettes. It’s holding me over until I can fully mod my Virtual Boy.

Brother, have you met Nintendo fans? 😂