Feature: The Story Of Virtual Tank, A Lost Virtual Boy Successor To Atari's Battlezone

"We were really surprised at the speed that the platform died".

We've pleased to present a chapter from Bitmap Books' excellent The Games That Weren't, which looks at an unreleased Virtual Boy title that aimed to emulate the success of Atari's Battlezone – but sadly never saw the light of day.

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Nintendo helped rejuvenate the games industry after the 1983 crash with the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US, followed by blisteringly successful launches of the Game Boy and Super Nintendo. It seemed the company could do no wrong at the time. So, when announcing that its next console was to be a portable virtual reality gaming device, there were one or two raised eyebrows. However, this was Nintendo, and ‘failure’ wasn’t a familiar word to them.

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