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.
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.
Virtual Fishing is a Sports game, developed by Locomotive Corporation and published by Pack-In-Video, which was released in Japan in 1995.
Mario Kart: Virtual Cup is a homebrew fan game for the Virtual Boy.
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.
Game Hero is a Rhythm Homebrew game developed for the Virtual Boy.
Pilot a Next Generation Tank with 3-D HUD! You are a tank commander remote piloting a future generation tank in the year 2179. Unknown enemy forces have attacked and turned your country into a WarZone! Using a red laser based heads-up display (HUD), your tank gives you see-through armor capabilities, while allowing you to pilot from a remote fortified location. Your objective is to stay alive and hunt down enemy AI powered sentry towers, tanks, and helicopters. You navigate your tank using your onboard radar and compass. Two primary weapons are at your fingertips: a machine gun and a BFG. Use your machine gun wisely or it overheats. Your BFG packs a bigger punch but takes time to reload. Aim carefully and always be on the lookout for enemies that are constantly hunting you! Good luck commander.
The sun. For millions of years the source of life. But for one planet the source of it's demise. The temperature climbed, the vast pools of ice at it's poles melted, and the oceans rose. Centuries later, few people remained on this planet, once called Earth. A lone mariner sails the expanse of water, trading to survive. For survival, is all these people do, in this place they know only as Waterworld.
Virtual Lab is a Miscellaneous game, developed and published by J-Wing, which was released in Japan in 1995.
Originally developed by Japan System Supply, Nintendo liked the game idea of Bound High! and took over the project later. The game was, besides Dragon Hopper, going to be one of the games, which should have saved the system with a relaunch, but it was delayed again and again until it was cancelled because of the lack of success of the Virtual Boy. At this time, the game already was completely finished. In Bound High!, Chalvo, the bouncing robot, travels through space In full 3d-D motion in pursuit of alien invaders that threaten the peaceful inhabitants of Earth. Angling from above, players control rolled up Chalvo, who must destroy all enemies on the playfield by landing on them and throwing them down from the playfield. Falling off the playfield himself, Chalvo will loose a life. The playfield is in space, or high above the earth, and is made of many little squares, which are composed differently from level to level, once big plain areas, once many small, scattered blocks. Bouncing over the platforms can be quite incalculable and dangerous, while some are solid, other ones vanish after one hit or reveal puzzles, items or other objects and besides a lot of different enemies, Chalvo also has to carefully avoid winds, the deep crevices, sharp spikes and highly charged electric "shockers" that cause his demise. Adding to the difficulty is the rebound angle when you hit a moving enemy - you don't necessarily bounce straight up in the air. Sometimes blocks lead to an "Another Stage", some kind of mirrored parallel universe with inverted colors and without the dangerous winds.
A homebrew version of Flappy Bird on the Virtual Boy, replacing the bird with a Cheep Cheep from the Super Mario series.
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”.
Star Fox (unofficial title), sometimes referred as Star Fox VB, is a game, presumably part of the Star Fox series, which was shown at CES and E3 in 1995 by Nintendo as a way to promote the Virtual Boy. It was a spaceship demo in a black background, very similar to an Arwing, and it wasn't playable. No official title has ever been given to the game.
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.
VB Mario Land is a cancelled entry in the Super Mario Land series for the Virtual Boy.
Hyper Fighting started as a homebrew Street Fighter fan game for the Virtual Boy, later being released as an unlicensed pirate game for the console (since it rips off Street Fighter II in every aspect without licensing from Capcom).
Panic Bomber is a dropping-piece puzzle game in the Bomberman series.
Space Squash is a Sports game, developed by Tomcat System and published by Coconuts Japan, which was released in Japan in 1995.
V-Tetris is a Miscellaneous game, developed by Locomotive Corporation and published by Bullet Proof Software, which was released in Japan in 1995.
J.League 3D Stadium is an unreleased soccer game for the Virtual Boy from J-Wing. It was slated for release in Japan on March 20th, 1996, but was ultimately cancelled when the Virtual Boy was discontinued. Not much is known about the game, as the only ever mention of it was when it was announced at Space World ’95.