Article: NINTENDO FLIRTS WITH REALITY WITH VIRTUAL BOY.(PREVIEW)

Byline: STEVEN L. KENT Entertainment News Service

Following up on its impressive holiday showing, Nintendo of America has settled on an aggressive strategy for 1995 that includes the release of a new hardware system and nine games.

Nintendo's biggest announcement is the impending release of Virtual Boy. Seen as the follow-up system to the hand-held Game Boy, Virtual Boy combines several technologies to create astonishing 3-D effects and fast-paced game-play.

As the name suggests, Virtual Boy is a spin-off from virtual reality, a technology in which participants are totally immersed in computer-generated environments through the use of ...

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