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In Freshman philosophy class, my professor once invited us to indulge in a thought experiment: imagine, for a second, that you were grown in a test tube in a completely ascetic laboratory. You spend the next 21 years living in a single room of this laboratory... you can do anything you want, but the scientific puppet masters behind the scenes are conducting an experiment on you. The experiment is this: your entire environment is designed so you never, ever see the color red.
The thought experiment was this: would you actually still know what red was? Is a knowledge of colors ingrained? Or would your mind shatter into a thousand pieces the first time the doors opened and you were presented with the mind-bending phenomenon of a red fire hydrant.
Yes, it was a stupid thought experiment. But you don't need to have been denied any firsthand knowledge of the color red since birth to have your mind gorily dehisce when you check out Retro Gaming's Virtual Boy retrospective, "Games That Defined the Nintendo Virtual Boy." There's screenshots galore, and every one resembles a Game Boy title played after both ingesting Clorax and driving your thumbs into your eyes.
Games That Defined Nintendo Virtual Boy [Retro Gaming with Racketboy]
