Is Virtual Boy Wario Land on Steam?

No. Virtual Boy Wario Land is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Virtual Boy Wario Land on?

Virtual Boy Wario Land is available on Virtual Boy.

When did Virtual Boy Wario Land release?

Virtual Boy Wario Land was first released on November 27, 1995.

Virtual Boy Wario Land

Nov 27, 1995PlatformVirtual Boy

Virtual Boy Wario Land — frequently asked questions

Is Virtual Boy Wario Land on Steam?: No. Virtual Boy Wario Land is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Virtual Boy Wario Land on?: Virtual Boy Wario Land is available on Virtual Boy.
When did Virtual Boy Wario Land release?: Virtual Boy Wario Land was first released on November 27, 1995.

About Virtual Boy Wario Land

Yikes!!! Get ready for a devious treasure hunt with the infamous scheming Wario. Capture the shining gold and vast treasures locked deep inside a hidden cave. But, beware of poison ponds, perilous prisons, endless walls and creepy woods! Make a quick change into Sea Dragon Wario, Eagle Wario or Bull Wario and utilize their mighty strengths. Blow away enemy cave defenders with body attacks and power actions. Succeed in this greedy plot to seize the riches of this underground world and find this key to freedom!

Summary via IGDB.

Game details

Platforms: Virtual Boy
Developer: Nintendo R&D1
Publisher: Nintendo
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action
Series: Mario Bros.
Official site: Visit

Details via IGDB.

Reception

IGDB rating

63/100

from 16 ratings

Collector value & authenticity

Virtual Boy · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-22

Loose

$70

Complete

$170

Sealed

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Release record

Territory	Date	Serial	Barcode
Japan	1 Dec 1995	VUE-VWCJ-JPN	4902370502343
North America	27 Nov 1995	VUE-VWCJ-USA	045496770068
Mexico Gamela México	—	VUE-VWCJ-USA	045496770068
Brazil Playtronic Industrial Ltda.	—	VUE-VWCJ-USA	7896273603122
North AmericaNot for resale	—	DIS-VUE-VWCJ-USA	—
Japandemo	—	—	—

North America (nfr): Store-display cartridge. Verify the DIS- prefix, not the "Not For Resale" label — the label is trivial to print.
Japan (demo): Demonstration sample; identified only by a sticker on the box, so a boxless copy is indistinguishable from retail.

Community score: 95/100
Region: JP+NA
Released: 1995
Authenticity: Med

On Nintendo Switch Online since Feb 17, 2026 — the cartridge is now a collectibleMedium counterfeit risk

Virtual Boy prices, all games & how to spot a fake

The one Virtual Boy game that would stand on its own on any console — and the platform's best argument for itself.

The Virtual Boy has a single undisputed masterpiece, and the community broadly agrees on which one. Wario Land holds the highest rating on the platform by a wide margin — a full-length R&D1 Wario platformer that treats the stereoscopic display as a real mechanic, not a gimmick: foreground and background are separate playfields, and Wario moves between them. Nothing else on the system justifies the hardware this well.

Its price says something too — it is one of the cheapest genuinely great games in retro collecting, because demand here was always collector demand, and its Switch Online release barely moved the cartridge market.

How it was made

Nintendo R&D1, produced by Gunpei Yokoi — the man who designed the Virtual Boy itself. Co-directed by Hiroji Kiyotake, who designed both Samus Aran and Wario, and Hirofumi Matsuoka. The staff list is smaller than other Wario Land games: the platform's best title was not its biggest production.

The music was Kazumi Totaka's final project at R&D1. Yokoi left Nintendo in 1996, the year the platform died, and was killed in a road accident in 1997.

What the press said at the time

GamePro	March 1996	4.8/5
Weekly Famicom Tsūshin #364	1996	27/40
Game Zero	1995	22.5/25
Game Informer	1996	7.75/10
Next Generation	1996	2/5

The period press split violently on it: GamePro's 4.8/5 against Next Generation's 2/5, with Famitsu unimpressed in the middle. Readers were not divided at all — Wario Land took first place in Nintendo Power's reader-voted Virtual Boy chart in every issue from February 1996 until the chart stopped in July. The glowing scores came later: N64 Magazine 93% in 1999, Defunct Games 97/100 in 2005.

Cartridge & preservation record

Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.

Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).

Worth knowing

Totaka's Song is in here. Kazumi Totaka hides a 19-note melody in games he scores. Wait about a minute and fifteen seconds on the END screen after the credits, without touching a button, and it plays. This was the last one he hid at R&D1.
It outlived the hardware. The foreground/background switching mechanic went on to influence Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010) and Mutant Mudds (2012).

Before you buy

Six documented variants, not two: Japanese and North American retail, Mexico, Brazil (Playtronic — same serial as the US cart, different barcode), a North American Not-For-Resale store-display cart carrying a DIS- serial prefix, and a Japanese demonstration sample identified only by a box sticker. The NFR is scarcer than retail and often listed by sellers who do not realise what they have — check the DIS- prefix rather than the printed label, which is trivial to fake. Faking the retail cart is not worth the effort at this price, but that logic does not extend up the platform: the expensive Japanese exclusives are heavily reproduced. This cart saves to battery-backed SRAM on a soldered CR1616 cell that is now over thirty years old; if saves vanish at power-off that is the battery, not the game.