Thread 11936707

Just when you think your've seen the worst shit that Nintendo can create along comes this abomination, completely unusued except as a torture device in Saddams Iraq, nearly as big a fail as the gamecube,kids were supposed to strap this shit to there heads and beam glaring red monchrome sludge into their brains, causing nausea and eyestrain, while of course it was overpriced.

Just when you think you've seen all the garbage that nintendo can posisbly shit out along comes this giant turd. The virual Boy. Another giant piece of shit from Nintendo.

The VB is fantastic and it only damages the eyes of the unworthy that can not appreciate its greatness.

I think it's safe to say that Mario officially moved over after this jawdroppingly terrible incident.

>>11936707 (OP)
can you fuck off with the spamming auster

>>11936707 (OP)
The only console with a body count. RIP Gunpei.

I bought one for $20 brand new when they first came out (yes they were marked down to $20)
>loved it
wore my eyes out plenty of times with it
>played it way more than the original gameboy when I first got that WAY more

>>11936717
Juts look at the state of this shit, it's nearly as bad as the mono postage stamp gameboy in 1992 or ccrude bullshit like links awakening (although that crap really is bottom feeding on kids of broken homes)

You can picture it, two days after Dad goes out to buy cigarettes and still has not returned little normie gets handed a box from its Mom saying, 'he left this for you' and insuide it is a fucking virtual boy. Little normie ends up with eyestrain and distrubing nightmares about a giant red mono mario bumming daddy.Things like that create troons for sure.

>>11936738
>>played it way more than the original gameboy
They were shit though, tony screen, monno absolute thash hard to understand how nintendo got away with it in 1992. Were your parents divorced? I have a theory I'm working on about why normie kids did not have computers in their homes in 1992.

>>11936751
The only friend of mine who had a virtual boy was a rich kid. I always wanted to play it but he said it was dumb. I asked to borrow it to try later and ofc he said no. Sad

>>11936751
I did have a computer though. I played all sorts of great games on it like Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 2, Shadow Warrior, Starcraft, Diablo, various point and click games. I also enjoyed playing Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time and F-Zero X on my Nintendo 64 and Super Mario Land and Castlevania on my Game Boy. Your narrative makes no sense. And I don’t even like Nintendo that much but the ZX Spectrum will forever suck sweaty balls.

>>11936782
Why are uyou talking about the wonderous spectrum. You seem very butturt? Why were you plaing ugly mono crap on a screen the size of a matchbox by ninntendo if you could play real games in colour on machines like the PC, Spectrum, Apgia and ST? Was it inthe car when your father was dropping you back to your mother and her boyfriend, your second dad?

>auster finally projecting some insight into his trauma
I knew stepdads were involved. Had to be, typical.

"The Virtual Boy, Nintendo's attempt at a portable virtual reality console, was withdrawn from the market due to poor sales and critical reception. It was discontinued in both Japan and North America within a year of its release. "

It was canned almost immediately in 1996. Imagine selling that lump of crap in 1996 when the PS1 was already out and people wree playing quake o PCs. Nintendo really makes a lot of garbage.

>>11936738
>fellow $19.99 clearance bin VB owner

We had plenty of fun with the virtual boy. Was especially popular after smoking / mushrooms

Ah yes, the "portable" system Nintendo was too cheap to spring for actual LCD screens and instead put a display with a resolution of 1 x 224 and a bunch of motorized mirrors to make it look as if it's a 384 x 224 display

>>11936816
>Bringing your Speccy on the road with you and playing some absolute classics during long trips
Based
They will never understand, you just had to be there

>>11936707 (OP)
my friend has one and Mario Clash is fun

>>11936707 (OP)
I picked one up this year and it's honestly way better than I expected. Sprite work looks decent and the display, while black and red, is super clear and fits your field of vision. Something I've come to really appreciate about the VB games I've played is the music - so far it's all been pretty good, if sometimes a little chaotic for the chip being used (Red Alarm's a good example of that, stuff like Jack Bros, Teleroboxer, or Wario Land has some pretty good compositions that sound good on the hardware). The controller is also not half bad. It feels a little flimsy but it's overall comfortable to hold and I like how the trigger buttons feel in particular. Shame more games don't make use of both Dpads as nicely as Red Alarm or Teleroboxer do, but there's only a couple dozen games on the thing and it doesn't seem like homebrew has done a lot with it yet either.
Personally, I think a port of, or a unique, dungeon crawler like Wizardry would be really cool with the 3D effect; and I think the limited color palette could enhance that feeling of looking into an abyss when you stare down a hallway. It'd have to have an automap though, there's no fucking way I'm pulling my head in and out of the VB to draw my map. That's just asking for my eyes to feel like shit. That reminds me as well, whenever you play an actual VB you should give your eyes a few seconds to adjust after you're done since you're basically emerging from a mini gamer den when you pull your head away.

>>11937374
We need to find a way to save the Virtual Boy

>>11936719
I bet at least half of his threads are him samefagging or responding to himself

I went to Japan and found that one place in Akihabara with a Virtual Boy, but it was not working at the time. That was my one chance to play a Virtual Boy, looks like it's never going to happen.

>>11937416
You missed out on fuck all tho. Utter shit that thing

>>11936707 (OP)
Wow Nintendo made some real junk. This looks like shit, why the fuck did they made it red, let me guess Marios hat or something from zelda