Popular games for platform Virtual Boy
Yikes!!! Get ready for a devious treasure hunt with the infamous scheming Wario. Capture the shining gold and vast treasures locked deep inside a hidden cave. But, beware of poison ponds, perilous prisons, endless walls and creepy woods! Make a quick change into Sea Dragon Wario, Eagle Wario or Bull Wario and utilize their mighty strengths. Blow away enemy cave defenders with body attacks and power actions. Succeed in this greedy plot to seize the riches of this underground world and find this key to freedom!
Mario's Tennis is a tennis game that was released as a launch title for the Virtual Boy. It is the first tennis-related Mario game, and would later be followed by the Mario Tennis series. You get to choose from seven different characters, all with different ability levels, to play against each other in either singles or doubles matches. You can also play in an exhibition or tournament mode.
A homebrew made for the Virtual Boy in 2010.
VB Racing is a homebrew Outrun clone for the Virtual Boy.
VB Mario Land is a cancelled entry in the Super Mario Land series for the Virtual Boy.
Wangan Sensen Red City is a cancelled Virtual Boy game that was to be released sometime in 1996. The game, like many others, was cancelled due to the failure of the Virtual Boy. Translating the title of the game suggests that it is a tactical war simulator. The screenshots seem to confirm this. Reviews of the game say that it used both D-pads, was constituted of 9 stages and had a giant warship as a boss.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is an unreleased game for the Virtual Boy that appeared briefly on Nintendo Power’s Release Forecast lists in December 1995 and January 1996 with a release date of “Winter ’96”.
Attention all Earthlings! Relentless alien hordes have been identified near you. Prevent the dangerous Space Invaders from landing on your territory. Use your cannon to defend against waves of descending alien invaders. Don't let them hit the ground or it's all over for you and the Earth! Destroy them and score points!
Team17 planned on producing Worms for the Virtual Boy back in 1995. Though, after a few weeks, they cancelled this plan due to the lack of interest of the publisher and the expected failure of the Virtual Boy.
"A Yume Nikki Fan Game for the Nintendo Virtual Boy, with programming by Kresna and graphics by Nyrator. A submission created in six weeks for the 2019 Dream Diary Jam. Play as Nina and explore her dreams, collecting various effects along the way. The ending will become available once Nina has collected all four effects. This game is written entirely in NEC V810 assembly and is made to be compatible with actual Virtual Boy hardware. Hardware compatibility has been tested by a third party. The game doesn't feature any sound, as there was not enough time to write an assembly sound driver during the Jam. There is also no saving in the game itself."
Mario Kart: Virtual Cup is a homebrew fan game for the Virtual Boy.
Enter the future of racing 10 years before the turn of the 30th century. Zero Racers was shown at E3 1996, but went unreleased until 2026 as part of the Nintendo Classics collection. Forced to live underground, humanity has lost its former glory and access to certain emotions. This is where the RACE is held. Compete for the highest rank in your machine of choice on courses of interconnected square ducts. You must maintain a rank within each lap's specified range and finish in the top three to advance to the next course. Fly through Rapid Marks on each course to obtain RAPID and use that to give yourself a temporary speed boost!
Prepare to enter the vast expanse of the Milky Way. Put your pinball skills to an interstellar test with four incredible space tables. Blast your pinball at rotating planets and turn them into dust in the Cosmic world. Send your puck flying through galactic formations in the deep-space Colony. Defeat an evil skeleton and hit the ultimate UFO jackpot! Knock down multiple rings and destroy wicked assailants in an Alien place. Defy arduous obstacles and save the world from impending devastation!
Invincible Iron Man Gagaga-In is a cancelled “80’s giant robot fighting action game” for the Virtual Boy, that had been in development by Hudson Soft and the planning and contract development group Eighting. It was planned to release in Japan roughly a year after the system launch. The game has never been officially announced, but images of a design document and an EP-ROM cartridge containing a sample build have been shared in 2018 by a former Hudson employee.
Space Squash is a Sports game, developed by Tomcat System and published by Coconuts Japan, which was released in Japan in 1995.
Pilot a Futuristic Star Fighter in a Battle for Mankind! GALACTIC YEAR 210. The earth and its colonies face annihilation in a futuristic war against the human race. YOU have been chosen to pilot RAGNAROK, a star fighter from an advanced alien civilization. Reinforced by fearless AI CHARACTERS, you must locate and destroy menacing fighters and enemy droids. With sheer VERTICAL FORCE blast your way into another dimension to the final Virtual frontier. This mission for mankind is brutal. Be prepared, for it has only just begun!
Doraemon: Nobita no Doki-doki! Obake Land is a cancelled 1996 action Virtual Boy game based on the popular manga/anime Doraemon by Fujiko Fujio. The game was developed by Epoch and planned to released in March 1996. The game would have Doraemon go through each stage by riding roller-coasters or bungee-jumps. Doraemon would also have to search for hidden tools and rescue his friends who were captured by ghosts. The game would also have five characters as playable characters, each with a unique attack.
Virtual Block is a cancelled Virtual Boy game from Botwas supposed to be released in December of 1995 in time for Christmas, but was cancelled due to the Virtual Boy's failure. This game would have played similarly to Arkanoid in that you had to bounce a ball off a paddle and hit blocks. The only difference in that mechanic is that the game would use two paddles, each controlled by the two D-pads on the controller. Each stage had enemies that you could hit with the ball. There would also have been boss stages, one featuring a giant tree stump enemy that would throw rocks.
“Chris’s Casino” is a casino game for the Virtual Boy that includes three games: Roulette, Blackjack and a Slot Machine.
The Mansion of Innsmouth is an Action game, developed by Betop and published by I'Max, which was released in Japan in 1995. Loosely based on the H.P Lovecraft novel "The Shadow over Innsmouth". On the cover and in the manual, the name is incorrectly rendered as "Insmouse". In 2026, the game was announced to be part of Nintendo Classics - Virtual Boy, under the new localized title.