Nintendo maakt al tientallen jaren video game consoles en heeft in die tijd een hoop succes gezien, maar ook de nodige fouten gemaakt. Daarom heeft de website Dorkly.com nu deze lijst gemaakt met de vijf grootste fouten die dit Japanse bedrijf ooit heeft gemaakt. Maar toch is er een kleine nerd in mij die ooit genoot van de NES en de SNES en ook de Gamecube heeft een warm plekje in mijn hart. Maar goed voor ik in huilen uitbarst hier is één fout die ze nooit meer goed kunnen maken:

5. Virtual Boy

The year was 1995 - the Super Nintendo Entertainment Systems (SNES) was already 5 years old, and the Nintendo 64 wouldn't be released for another year. Gamers wanted something new - something they hadn't experienced before: they wanted to jam their faces into a piece of plastic held up by a thin legs and play games with ugly graphics in nothing but red and black colors. Or, at least, that's what Nintendo thought was the case.

It's hard to tell what Nintendo's intention was with the Virtual Boy at all - it couldn't have been to replace the Game Boy, because it wasn't easily portable at all, and required a hard, flat surface for use. It definitely wasn't their idea of a "next gen" console, since it was developed concurrently with the Nintendo 64 (which was released a year later). It was the ugly red-headed (literally) stepchild. And, at some point, Nintendo realized that too. They rushed it to release so they could move all development resources to the upcoming Nintendo 64. The result? Nintendo's first major failure.

How bad did it do? It was only out for a year, and only 22 games were released (and less than 15 were released in North America). After that, it was gone for good. Papa told me he took it to a farm upstate, the same one he took our dog to when he got too old and sick. I bet Rex is jamming his face in it right now.

Fun Fact: The game largely thought to be the worst one for the Virtual Boy was Water World. And when you consider Virtual Boy is Nintendo's worst system - that may make Water World for Virtual Boy the worst game in history. Good news, ET for Atari.