{"id":135902,"date":"2026-02-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196894"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:00:00","slug":"talking-point-wheres-your-nintendo-labo-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/talking-point-wheres-your-nintendo-labo-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: Where’s Your Nintendo Labo Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2018 is a long time ago. It feels like it happened in another dimension, in an alternate (and much nicer) timeline, or some other Marvel universe-typed nonsense. And it’s a timeline we can never get back to. It was also the year that Nintendo dropped its Labo<\/strong> sets, which is infinitely more important and interesting than my ongoing, and seemingly permanent, existential crisis. That’s right, I’m on a permo, kids.<\/p>\n

Anyway. Yes. Labo. It was certainly a curveball, wasn’t it? Building things out of expensive bits of cardboard and string and stuff like that in your front room, all the while telling yourself it was normal, fine and good for an adult (go ahead, kids, you’re fine to pass) to be doing such things. Yes you did. And then – if you’re better at making things than me – you probably played with the resultant creation for a bit before binning it, or putting it in the same cupboard that stores your space hoppers, laser tag vests, hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n

Regardless of how much you may or may not have enjoyed either the LABO concept, or the reality of the final product when you got it in your hands and started playing with it, we are about to witness the re-release of one of Nintendo’s other – and much older – weirdo experiments in the form of the Virtual Boy<\/a> (of which I am a huge fan) which is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online library on Switch 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

Why do I mention this? Well, you see, with this new Virtual Boy launch, you can choose to buy a Virtual Boy replica itself, which is a bit expensive<\/a>, or you can pick up a cheaper cardboard<\/a> version, which will also do the trick.<\/p>\n