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Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
Me too, did the same thing. Then I let a friend borrow it and never got it back :(. Loved that system.
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Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
Me too, did the same thing. Then I let a friend borrow it and never got it back :(. Loved that system.
Why red and black? Why not a soft neon blue or green? Regardless whether it's painful it's simply ugly. Nintendo turned down the SNES CD and made this? I don't think it the most god awful gimmick ever (ahem, U Force), it just makes no impression.
I might be one of the few but I actually enjoyed the virtual boy, the games have a arcade like feel to them. I bought mine brand new for $34.99 bundled with mario tennis back around 2001 and also bought wario land brand new for it for $9.99 at the same time, I don't regret buying one at all.
The type of LED they used was only available in red at the time. It's not a normal LED.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarMist
Well, at least one other color was available, but it'd have been far more expensive. A color display was not possible both because of the very high cost and because it'd have seriously hurt the sharpness of the screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
I think it looks fine in red and black, it's much like the original GB in terms of colors, and that system is great. Except, of course, the VB is far more powerful than the Game Boy (or GB Color, color excepted), with sprite scaling and rotation, some polygon powers, multiple parallax layers with real 3d effects, etc.
...Yeah, I like the VB. I got one three and a half years ago or so, and though I only have four games now, I do like the system quite a bit... the issue with games is that I only very rarely see them locally, and only infrequently buy stuff on EBay, which I'd have to do to get more games. Also I do have some of the best games (Wario Land (best game on the system, and my second favorite Wario title after the first Wario Land), Vertical Force (very, VERY good game), Red Alarm (pretty good, fun game), and the good-but-not-great Mario's Tennis); I do want more though, an AC adapter (the battery life is not good...), and it'd be cool to have a stand too; my system doesn't have one.
As for the games, though, yeah, they're great. Sure, there aren't many of them -- just 14 US-released, 22 including the eight Japanese exclusives -- but some of them are pretty good games, most are exclusives, and I like the 3d effect. I may have gotten some quite minor headaches from the thing, maybe, but for the most part I have no problems playing the system. I think that's something that varies greatly from person to person, and I'm not one who has a problem with this stuff.
Oh, and the audio's great too, and I love how it's stereo without headphones, thanks to those two speakers, one next to each of your ears.
It'd be great if Nintendo would put VB games up on the 3DS Virtual Console at some point, in 3d... more people should be able to play great games like Wario Land, without having to buy a VB to play them. Oh, and yeah, most VB games are short experiences; the system doesn't have great, long epics. I'm okay with that though, the games are good while they last, and the system is best played for short-ish lengths of time anyway, each time you play.
... I have the Sega Master System 3d glasses too, and I like those as well. Zaxxon 3d is awesome! (I have four of the eight 3d games).
I've looked at a Virtual Boy a couple times but could never pull the trigger on it since it'd just be a gimmick and I doubt I'd play it that much. Last thing I need is another console just sitting around my house, especially if it's not another Sega console ;)
I did got my VB system from yard sale for 0.50 cents, looking back than it was still funny to see that seller have NO idea what is it in first place. It works like new, came with some games, stand and two controller which one uses power cord and other takes batteries. I only spend handful of hours on it.
Red Alert is awesome, it's like a StarFox clone.
It's very underrated, a idea that came out at wrong time which it's a big flop itself, and a commercial failure when first came out. Again, design itself is poor, it's not very portable as it meant to be in first place.
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Originally Posted by Thunderblaze16
Now this is kind of great VB design I'm talking about that they should use instead!Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunderblaze16
I would like to try Jack Brothers, it loofs pretty fun(and there's even a PW system, why Nintendo didn't have such in the Mario game, I have no idea), other then that, why bother(3D tetris is ok, as is the boxing game, but why bother, I would rather play the normal tetris game, and punch out instead).
to csgx1: Speaking of Vertical Force
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To TheSonicRetard: Wow that's cool, but I bet that costs a pretty penny?
I played one years ago at my friend's house when it was still in production and IIRC, he had that machine someone posted a pic of that lets you play on a TV, pretty cool. I remember it vaguely. I think the only game I played was Mario Tennis. I thought it was pretty cool at the time, but I was just a kid. I do plan on buying one eventually.
The biggest tragedy of this thing is that it had pretty decent hardware in the thing but it was ruined by the concept itself. It certainly makes it a very strange case.
I wouldn't mind having a Virtual Boy either, at least if only for VB Wario Land. As it stands though, the common value of the system, being $100+, is a bit too much for me to justify.