One of the spirits in the new Smash Bros game gives love to a certain series on a certain console 😉

(sorry for the poor quality photo, I was just excited to see any kind of Virtual Boy acknowledgement in this game, let alone a game IP that was exclusive to it!)

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I’m glad to see this! At least they’ve acknowledge its existence! 😀

So is Harry a playable character?

No, he’s not playable, he’s a “spirit,” meaning you sort of “attach” him to another character and play that character (with stat-boosts and other abilities that come from the spirit). I think in-game they want you to feel like you actually ARE playing as the spirit characters… through someone else.

There are 1300+ spirits in the game, which are a way to include “lesser” characters (or things) across video game history, like Goombas or… the cardboard box from Metal Gear.

But it’s still nice to see a reference and acknowledgement of the VB, no matter how small.

That’s true because usually they simply ignore that it ever existed in the first place.