I dunno. I believe a lot of kids at the time did think the Virtual Boy was cool (less so for adults), but the timing of its release was also unfortunate. Peopl

I dunno. I believe a lot of kids at the time did think the Virtual Boy was cool (less so for adults), but the timing of its release was also unfortunate. People were getting their first taste of the 3D rendering capabilities of the Playstation and Saturn around that time. Given a choice between asking their parents to spend their hard earned money on what was basically a new monochrome vector based, single player VirtualBoy and the new, flashy 32-bit systems that supported multiplayer, it's pretty clear which systems were going to win. Add the fact that Nintendo fans were also saving up their money for the Nintendo 64, and the Virtual Boy all of a sudden becomes a very hard sell.