<![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Picked one up at a garage sale about 5 years ago... and then promptly went on ebay to buy the Wario game. lol. I didn't get a chance to play much because the things just chugs battery power and they released the adapter as a seperate add-on (which I can't buy anywhere nowadays). Everything said about the virtual boy on here is true... the good and the bad. It was a good experiment... I just can't beleive people paid that much for it!

Schnazer

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @kingofallcosmos: Yeah, I mostly also used it like this. Without the stand, lying on my back.

L_K_M

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I have two Virtual Boys, all of the US games, and a few of the Japanese ones (no region locking). It was a great system, but it was a bit uncomfortable to use. I preferred to have it resting on top of me while I laid on the sofa, but I have played it other ways. Most people never gave it a chance, but it really was a great system with a ton of potential.

kingofallcosmos

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Galactic Pinball was AMAZING!!! End of story!

reecord2

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> wow that thing fits right in my pocket

cheeseboybeans

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @tempestblayze: I love the damn thing, too. I have two of them. It's a damn pity they can't be hooked together to play Mario Tennis against each other.

Man, I wonder what kinds of games would have appeared on the system if it hadn't bombed. It's such an awesome device. I still use it to astonish friends who've never seen one; they often think it's the latest gadget I bought because they've never seen anything like it.

Still looking for the boxing game, and Mario Clash, though.

@IrishHalo: They could release the games on the VC together with red-green-filter-glasses :-D

L_K_M

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @ RENEG

Dude, I would totally buy one of those on day one. Could you imagine something like Metroid Prime in 3D? Yeah, you'd totally have to hide the system in shame whenever people come over, but it would be too hot *not* to own.

Blinded220

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> But still, how many of you would be exited to play a modern version of this, With full color, real good 3D graphics, and maybe even Wii-like controls? It'd be an awesome thing to try, although who knows if it would make a viable replacement for a full console and not just a niche thing.

Reneg

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @RvLeshrac: I like to look at the controls so I'll know what buttons to press and where they are located.

armchairnixon sees you doing that thing there...

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @armchairnixon:

Who looks at the controls?

@ampillion : works it harder, makes it better, does it faster, makes us stronger.:

Thank you! Glad there are still VB defenders out there.

Hard system to defend, too, but Teleroboxer is *still* fun.

RvLeshrac

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @gamestoremanager: When you have to stick your face into that red thing to play the game, it's a bit difficult to look down at the controls while you're playing it.

armchairnixon sees you doing that thing there...

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @iamnotdryad: I guess I should say that it was the first time I'd ever played it, so I didn't know how the controls worked. I guess that's more of a first time thing, though.

armchairnixon sees you doing that thing there...

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> The virtual boy made one huge mistake: it tried to be a portable system, but it was far too bulky to be on. The thing is huge. Like XBOX huge. The graphics were in a jarring shade of red on black. It had little better than gameboy graphics, and that hurt the 3d.

Sadly, you could probabaly do it half well these days. Think a DS like screen setup rigged into goggles like those olympus TV glasses they used to have, with headphone based prologic. Toss in wireless controllers, and it woudl be kinda neat. You won't have to have a huge resolution, as the screens are going to be pretty small, but you'd want to push 'smooth' graphics as to not hurt someone's eyes too badly.

What killed the VB was they tried to do home VR with gameboy level tech, when really you need at least 64 level tech. Sure, they did it in the early 90's with earlier graphics, but the effects were nothing more than a novelty.

mrantimatter

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @jesp3r: Game Cube Controller's
Grandpaw...

relic1980

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Oh my gosh! I really did love this system. My mom picked one up for me at a garage sale when I was 10 (I think? If this was '94...), for $30 or so. I didn't get headaches from it and the games were surprisingly fun/challenging. The 3D effect was also one of the coolest things I'd ever seen up until that point - well worth losing out on color.

Personally, I would *love* to see what Nintendo could do with a Virtua Boy 2, but then again I'm one of those people who never wanted the VR craze to die with the mid 90's.

Blinded220

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @AxCrusnik: Sonic CD actually did make me vomit. I'm not kidding.

dowingba

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I've never seen a virtual boy in person, let alone played one. I'd probably get a headache though. When Sonic 3D Blast came out I couldn't play more than five minutes without feeling like I was going to vomit. Did anyone else get sick playing that game? I wonder what it was. Probably all the flashing colors and fast switching of viewpoints.

AxCrusnik

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> "I have a headache..."
"May-be it's a tu-mor!"
"IT"S NOT A TUMAH!!!"

This just in: Virtual Boy causes cancer! Are you at risk? More at eleven. Stay tuned to KNN!

KNN (Kotaku News Network) is copyright of the Kotaku Company.

Man, I never tire of Ahnald quotes & references, even bad ones.

Satsuz

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> A bit too GLaDOS-y to trust.

87th

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I'd love to see VB Mario's Tennis played with a Wiimote. ..

stillstyle

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> It Buuuurns.....It Buuuuuuuuuuuurns!

d1sCo_d3aTh

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Whups. My previous post was intended to be @cybereality:

Evil Jim

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @Trowble (XBL/PSN):
Well said! Indeed, Tempest would have been an excellent addition to the VB library. Too bad only a couple dozen games actually made it to release.

I agree the controller is among the best designed for any system. The dual d-pads & contoured grips feel even better than the PS2 Dualshock.

Now to break out some Galactic Pinball!

Evil Jim

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> The original Red Ring of death. What I described my eyes as when going on a session of this game.

Just awful, Truely Awful

huginn

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Honestly I have 2 of these lol, don't ask me why.
Sucked up 8 batteries when I lost my cord, and had a warning for seisures for over 15 mins of gameplay(could turn on an option to turn the system off automatically in case you couldn't feel a flopping tongue swallower coming)
And after all that I'm only an amazing Mario Tennis player, any takers?

BLiNk

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> my friend bought one from Blockbuster when VB went under for $10 it could have been cool if it was colored and not that horrible red.

taftsearlobe23

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I'm sold! gimmie!!!!!

L

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Virtual Boy was awesome, still have a half broken system sitting in my corner. I was lucky enough to catch one on a ToysRUs clearance sale for about $40. Best $40 I ever spend, what a ride. Red Alert was such an awesome shooter, I wish they had made Tempest for it. I also had a lot of fun with the Wario game. Also, I will go on record to say that the Virtual Boy controller was the most well designed, most comfortable game controller of all time. People just didn't give it a chance.

Also, if anyone it interested, please look at the Virtual Boy wiki. It will explain the seemingly random reasons Nintendo made like going with the red color for the unit. It also explains how they couldn't make it head-mounted. Basically the unit works on a linear array of LEDs, not LCDs like you would expect. Each screen has an LED that will reflect off of an array of oscilating mirrors that give the illusion of a low-resolution screen. For this reason, the unit could not be portable (aka head-mounted) because the rapid movement would muck up the displays. Yeah they could probabally make it full color these days, but this is 1995 we are talking about and we all know how well $600 systems sell.

Like everything else, people just love to jump on the hate-train without giving the system a chance. Nintendo was just ahead of its time and the market wasn't ready. Its unfortunate because every time a new innovative product comes out, people cry Virtual Boy 2, and probably never even played the thing in the first place.

LONG LIVE STEREO 3D!!!!!!!

cybereality

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> My mother made me return it after she read the warning labels on the back of the box. I was disappointed. I just wanted to be a kid that wanted to get headaches and eyestrain.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @rockett1: Let me know when you contribute something to a comment section that isn't a lol or a 'RAR I hatez ninttendos!' and I'll start seeing you as more than just some troll.

Also, you're trying to say that good things can't flop? Ask people who've played Zack and Wiki, Okami, Psychonauts, Metal Arms... Not to mention that the Gamecube, the Xbox, nor the Dreamcast were the biggest systems with the most games, 'flops' compared to Sony's systems, and yet they had plenty of fun games and were ultimately still worth the price paid for them for those quality games that only came to those specific systems.

Popular does not equal good.

Ampillion = That Man.

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> The Virtual Boy still is my favourite home console system. It's too bad so many critics never gave it a chance. I've found the "headache problem" so often complained about was perpetuated by people who didn't bother to read the instructions or adjust the lenses properly before use. It's like wearing glasses before getting a proper prescription.

Dry eyes on the other hand just means you're not blinking enough.

Evil Jim

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I think it was a decent system,and no,I never got a headache. It sucks that it's such a joke amongst the "gamer" crowd,since a new updated version would be so badass. It could be in full color,and not as big or unwieldy.

kidnicky

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> "Virtual Boy is so advanced..."
^The definition of artificial intelligence


Zerbrecher

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @ampillion : works it harder, makes it better, does it faste...:

how would you know if i played it or not? and really who thought it was good if it flopped?

rockett1

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @Kulor: I think that has a lot to do with it. The system itself isn't the most comfortable device ever. Prior to it, you had television based consoles, which would let you lounge on anything within cable's reach of your console... or portable systems that you could lounge on anything so long as you could see the screen. This thing required you to pretty much sit and stick your face into this little screening mask. Add to it the fact that some people experienced headaches, eye irritation or discomfort from staring into these things, and it kinda felt like a minor step up from the Gameboy. Even though it did have a 3D element to it, those that felt that discomfort ultimately booed it. I think if you got it for a clearance price, you got a steal, it's still worth playing... and even if you don't play it, it does look kinda funky for a nice desk decorator.

Ampillion = That Man.

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I will totally admit that I actually bought one of those back in the day. I'm not sure what happened to it after the stand snapped in half though.

I liked mine and all, but I'm really not shocked (and wasn't at the time either) that the system was such a big flop. Seriously, $300 for red lines?

Rebochan

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @Fortyseven:
Hahaha.

Man. I wish I wasn't so damn young as to not even remember when this thing existed. 1994 you people say? Man, I got my first system in 1996. SNES!. Brings a tear to my eye...

But this commercial sort of refutes that regretfulness.

Terrorsaur.

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Great system. It gets a bad rep because...you know, I'm really not sure. I guess by 1995 people were expecting more than just red.
But yeah, I never got a headache, and the majority of friends that played it never did either. I'd be willing to bet most of the anti-VB posts on here haven't played one more than just a few minutes at the store.

Kulor

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I don't think there's anything "arguable" about it. This thing is a paperweight. I doubt you can find numbers that would prove that something else Nintendo made flopped worse than this (hardware-wise).

dunetiger reads kotaku, seems pleased

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @rockett1: Sure you did. Thanks for coming into another thread to bash Nintendo though, good to break the trend of your other posts.

Ampillion = That Man.

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I loved the Virtual Boy (probably because unlike most posters here I actually owned one and many games for it). It had quality titles, the 3d effect was very real, and it was a lot of fun. Still one of my top 3 systems ever and I've owned almost every system released since NES.

Gam3r

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I remember playing that at my friends house a long time ago when it first released. What a piece of shit it was.

rockett1

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Worst. System. Ever.

Gouki4u's avatar has a severe case of Jekyll and Hyde

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> VB is good fun. Still play it from time to time.

Loyal2none

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Ah the blindness machine! I think my friend still has his.

If I ever saw one used here in Japan Id so pick it up just to collect for laughs.

Witzbold

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> And then they killed him. =(

theGimp

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Also, they fired the guy who came up with the original Gameboy, using him as a scapegoat for the Virtual Boy. I'm not sure if he even had much to do with the VB, but it's a pretty big deal to fire the guy who brought you the wildly popular Gameboy.

dowingba

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @Dowingba
The gamecube was at least playable and actually was my fav system last generation. I don't hate Super Mario Sunshine mind you :)

I saw a Virtual Boy about 5 years ago with a $20 clearance price sticker I should have picked it up. I remember trying it out at a friends house. You had to have it set up so you can lean over and look into it. That pretty much killed the system right there. They should have did a head strap so everyone could run around wearing those goofy VR headsets.


Pornosaur

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Arguably one of their biggest flops? I don't think it is arguable. It's definitely their biggest flop. I guess the Cube was their second biggest flop but that didn't do all that bad really.

dowingba

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Ha ha, I only pulled mine out of the closet over Xmas after I bought a UK to US voltage adaptor (I also got it for $30 and made sure I got an A/C adaptor for it). Never had a headache and the games I have are a bit of fun, I'd like to see a port of the Wario game on the virtual console. When in geekier company it is my trump card on how geek I am, a European with a Virtual Boy? Uber-geek

IrishHalo

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> "See", rather. Doh. :|

Fortyseven

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Does anyone remember this one [www.retrojunk.com] ?

Emulated

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @iamnotdryad: One time, I was driving home, and then it got dark out and I couldn't seen the wheel or the pedals and I didn't know what to do! I died. :(

Fortyseven

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @vega480:

Nintendo killed the Virtual Boy by being an impatient child ignoring Gunpei Yokoi, forcing him to retreat after it turned out he was right.
The time they should have waited could have be used to improve the whole device, instead the wanted to release it before the N64 came out.

Tadashi

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> My eyes hurt.

KM91

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I remember buying this thing for 30 dollars. I dont know how but I did. What was the going rate?

DCPlayaPride

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> OH MY GOD I USED TO PLAY THIS, MARIO TENNIS FTW.

Vidril

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I've always thought the concept for VB was interesting, if only it wasn't so crappy :P

That Girl Hates You

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> i still have mine! i never got a headache from it, and i used to play tennis and wario for hours.

aphexacid

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I had an opportunity to play one for the first time last year, and I was so excited. About 2 minutes into the game my eyes and head were just aching. I had to stop before even finishing a game of Mario's Tennis! So sad.

LA Trash

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> "Virtual Boy, so advanced, it will melt your brain AFTER ONLY 30 MINUTES!"

If they'd only sold it with a life time subscription to ibuprofen, it'd probably done okay.

Synthaxx

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @Dreamwriter: I'm not sure I've seen a 32 bit processor where half the word was taken up by the instruction, leaving only half for the immediate value if any. I mean, how would you tell it what register to put the output in?

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @tempestblayze:
I liked the tennis game and Rad Alarm.

I think it was a failure because it was also a console not made for the public at that time. It´s like releasing a developer tool, or something like that. The idea of VR googles doesn´t works for gaming because of stuff like that. Being nto confortable, hard to learn, giving headaches.. such stuff are nuisances that only people who work on it can handle, like having your eyes sore and your hands achig for working so long. Even this "I can´t see the controls so it´s hard" is a kind of talk like "you must master the shortcuts" kind of logic. Now we have consoles with the "easy to learn hard to master" trand again, thanks god.

Wyld

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I have to wonder if, as big of a flop as the Virtual Boy was, how it compares to some of Nintendo's pre-video game flops, when they were still trying to diversify away from playing cards and tried everything from a taxi service to instant ramen.

Lezard

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> My eyes hurt.

-

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Warning: If you still have your VB, remember to dust it off before you stick your head in it. Especially if you have dust allergies. This is from personal experience.

metadae

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I'm sure if they could market cheap versions of those goggles that have two mini-screens and VGA jacks, they'd have a sucessful version of this. That and surround sound... Too badass.

Garro

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> The mario tennis and Wario games were the best games I ever played on the VB. I wish there were ports. :|

Cpryd001

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> It's GREAT doing multiplayer!

Hey man, what are you doing now?
I'm hitting the ball!
Okay how about now?
Oh just returning!

Great Multiplayer times indeed.




DELICIOUS BUNNY

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> For all the shit Nintendo gets off of the VB, they still made a profit on it.

Foxstar Sixtail

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Just thinking about playing that thing gives me a headache.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Anyone feel they recognize the controller?

No one?

jesp3r

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> how this was ever put out on the market i will never know.

2th

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @armchairnixon: It was a flop of a console and It certainly had it's faults, but come on! couldn't see the pad? When you are poking the fire do you look at the mantelpiece? I think not!

GOD

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @goonface: Teleroboxer, that game was tough at the end but I did beat the robot cat boss. Don't remember which one was the ninja.

shadow300z

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Wario, boxing, and tennis were freaking sweet games. Never really got headaches but I always felt disoriented and sweaty after spending more than an hour playing that game.

shadow300z

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> This is one of the few gaming systems I haven't owned, mostly because the 3 or 4 times I played it I though my eyes were being pulled out of my head.

N1GHTRA1N

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @tempestblayze: I liked mine too but I sold it long ago. I bought it not long after the release for a mere $25 dollars at a Wal-Mart haha. Has anyone ever beaten the Ninja in Teleroboxer?

goonface

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I got one for twenty bucks at kb toys right around when it was officially dead. it later got wizzed on by my cat. everyone's a critic.

protoman

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> This was actually one of the later commercials, early ones were stupid, they'd say "it's so powerful we can't show it to you", which combined with a lack of screenshots on boxes and the only demo in most stores being the single-color line graphics game, made people think the system was only capable of single-color line-grahics. Which is one of the reasons the system failed. Its graphics were actually quite good at the time, particularly for a portable system. It only had one more color than the Gameboy, but it made great use of that, and the higher resolution, larger sprites, etc.

@Doomstalk:
The bits weren't referring to the size of the memory registers, but the size of the data the CPU could process at one time. And in terms of that, going from 16-bits to 32-bits is a HUGE jump in CPU power, because it means you can have up to 65,536 different commands and have them deal with numbers up to 65,535 in one single clock cycle. After 32-bit the jump is far less of an improvement, because who needs more than 65,536 programming commands? Just means you can process larger numbers in a shorter time (and larger numbers aren't needed for much more than memory addresses).


Dreamwriter

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Arguably their biggest flop? I certainly know which side of the argument I'd take.

brello

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @brent_w: dude, it was a joke. funny? no. do i care? no.

sadkermit - soon to be banned for standing up to the ummm nazi.

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @GaijinWarrior:

Um, so whats the new biggest flop?

brent_w

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Correction, this WAS Nintendo's biggest flop. Mario Tennis was pretty fun though, I remember buying the big red turd from Toys R Us for $130 and being really pissed about my purchase.

GaijinWarrior

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I still dont know what they were thinking with the virtual boy.

Dimipapa

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @sadkermit:

Its not in stereoscopic 3d on the commercial, when looking into the virtual boy helmet it is.

Obviously for the commercial they just showed either the left or right eye perspective and left the other one out.

brent_w

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I remember that ad!

Yeah, I never got to play one though, guess I didn't miss much. Kinda like the 32X :)

DaiMacculate

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> "My god... it's full of stars." Played it, never bought.

Could they please pick a consistent typeface?

Brackynews

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I used to love mine, even though the only games I was good at was Pinball and the Wario. I had Tennis and... Mario Clash? Clash was fun, but I could never beat that damn thing. Guess I had the boxing game too, if I recall...

The thing never really gave me any headaches or whatever, but it was good at making my eyes feel dry. That and the fact I beat half the games I had, and the other half were a sports game, a pinball game, and damn Clash, I did pretty good with the thing. Sadly, I think it was stolen from me at some point, or lost on a trip, as I have never seen the thing since.

Fun games, on an unwieldy system that ate up batteries if I remember right. At least they moved on to the GBA and DS afterwards instead of trying again...

Ampillion = That Man.

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> If it's SO advanced it can't be done on a TV....how the fuck did they manage to get the gameplay into the commercial? I thought they had just said it wasn't possible.

I'm glad I passed on that abortion.

sadkermit - soon to be banned for standing up to the ummm nazi.

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @armchairnixon:

I bet you look at the keyboard while you type don't you?

jisf0rjosh

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I still have mine in my attic.

AlienGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> Heh. I remember the only time I actually played a Virtual Boy was at a Toys R Us store when I was young. Played that Wario game, which was okay. I was expecting a lot from it, but I just saw a whole lotta red and yeah...never saw one again.

Saint Anima

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @Doomstalk:

That was everything back in the day.

Marketing had all of us kids mesmerized by the number of bits.

I still remember those Jaguar commercials with the chalkboard ...

brent_w

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> omfg 32 bits?!? thats clearly too much system for me...

Covert_Knight

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I had one; I only had two games. The packaged Mario Tennis and Wario Land. I loved Wario Land.

havoks

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I love how they tout the number of bits. It seems absurd to sell a gaming system to consumers based on the size of its memory registers. The only people that really matters to is developers.

Doomstalk

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> What are you people talking about?! This was the greatest system ever!

I want all of my games to be in red!

I want tripods on my next gen systems!

Without these things, next-gen is lame!

SuperCracker

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> guess I should have researched before posting, I was half right, they went with red because it was cheaper, and then in 1996 the lower cost blue and green led came out.

vega480

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> i liked my virtual boy :( the wario game was great

Gadzooks149

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> wasn't it shortly after it came out the blue led came out so that it could have been in color. not sure the specifics, but I swear I remember talks of it that if Nintendo had waited it could have been in color?

vega480

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I loved it..Wario was awesome (well just Wario)

Hikaru

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @armchairnixon:

please tell me you're trolling with "you couldn't see the controls, so you had no idea what to do"

iamnotdryad

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> @tempestblayze:

I had fun with mine as a kid, mostly because of the Wario game and pinball.

iamnotdryad

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> That was a horrible system. I only played it once at an Incredible Universe store (if you could even call it that), but I knew it was horrible even with my limited time with the console. You couldn't see the controls, so you had no idea what to do, and the graphics weren't that great.

armchairnixon sees you doing that thing there...

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I actually pulled mine out from my closet yesterday. I still had fun with it. I feel like the only person who enjoyed this. I never got a headache from it.

tempestblayze

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I must have one.

Winterbringer

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Boy Commercial]]> I have a headache now.

VishusBurn

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