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Nintendo Breaks Out of the Box

Even the savviest observer of the Japanese video-game giant Nintendo couldn’t have predicted that the interactive gaming experience it announced last January would involve not a VR headset or a new Mario game, but perforated cardboard, colorful string, elastic bands, and plastic grommets.

These resolutely low-tech items are the stuff of Labo (short for laboratory), a mind-bendingly imaginative series of add-ons for the breakout Switch handheld console, which Nintendo introduced in March of

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