Nice video. I wish you would have talked for a minute about the homebrew scene, though. In the description you mention Planet Virtual Boy, but it would have been cool if you mentioned that they now can make link cables, controller-to-USB adapters, and the flash cart that you are playing on. They're even close to making entirely new carts for homebrew games. And then there is the awesome, but expensive, Street Fighter II port.
The Virtual Boy system also had a rather tragic epilogue. Gumpei Yokoi, the system's designer and one of Nintendo's most celebrated imagineers, was forced to resign over the whole debacle, and a few years later he was hit by a car and killed. This incident might not have happened if not for the system's failure and his subsequent forced retirement. So not only was the Virtual Boy a terrible system, but it also took from us the creator of Metroid, Kid Icarus, and the original GameBoy. Sure, the Atari Jaguar sucked but at least it didn't kill people.
If you get past the horrible blinding effect of the console,the head set had some fun games,like pinball,Wario Land,and Tennis;no console has only bad games;even the 32X add on console had some fun games.Road Rash and MK2 were on 32X.
I remember wanting one as a kid until I tried it at a store. . . It was either Sears or Dillards, I think, cant remember which for sure. I thought it was neat. But so uncomfortable in a few ways.
I had one when I was 12. I kinda liked but I hated the monochrome red and black colors. And it was extremely fatiguing on my back, neck and eyes. Wish I had mine till this day including my SNES, NES and my collection of games.
We don’t talk about the Virtual Boy
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I think changing the red ("screens") into white (so black and white) would've made it a lot better, as simple as it seems.
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ReplyDeleteMy brother and I got one for Christmas and played it all the time!
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ReplyDeleteNice video. I wish you would have talked for a minute about the homebrew scene, though. In the description you mention Planet Virtual Boy, but it would have been cool if you mentioned that they now can make link cables, controller-to-USB adapters, and the flash cart that you are playing on. They're even close to making entirely new carts for homebrew games. And then there is the awesome, but expensive, Street Fighter II port.
ReplyDeleteThe Virtual Boy system also had a rather tragic epilogue. Gumpei Yokoi, the system's designer and one of Nintendo's most celebrated imagineers, was forced to resign over the whole debacle, and a few years later he was hit by a car and killed. This incident might not have happened if not for the system's failure and his subsequent forced retirement. So not only was the Virtual Boy a terrible system, but it also took from us the creator of Metroid, Kid Icarus, and the original GameBoy. Sure, the Atari Jaguar sucked but at least it didn't kill people.
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ReplyDeleteIf you get past the horrible blinding effect of the console,the head set had some fun games,like pinball,Wario Land,and Tennis;no console has only bad games;even the 32X add on console had some fun games.Road Rash and MK2 were on 32X.
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ReplyDeleteI remember wanting one as a kid until I tried it at a store. . . It was either Sears or Dillards, I think, cant remember which for sure. I thought it was neat. But so uncomfortable in a few ways.
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ReplyDeletemy neighbor had a virtual boy, it sucked.
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ReplyDeleteI had one when I was 12. I kinda liked but I hated the monochrome red and black colors. And it was extremely fatiguing on my back, neck and eyes. Wish I had mine till this day including my SNES, NES and my collection of games.
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