Has anyone on here every owned one or had a go on one
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Has anyone on here every owned one or had a go on one
Had one, regretted it, returned it.
Never played one before, but I was thinking of getting one on eBay, but that would be useless, because one of my eyes has bad vision, which means that I can't see 3D.
I bought mine back when they were being liquidated for like $80. Also picked up the entire US library for an additional $100. It's actually a pretty damn fun machine. It gets a bad wrap, like a lot of other not-popular systems, because people think that it didn't sell due to shitty games. It didn't sell, in fact, due to a lot of reasons - portability, price, support, mislead consumer expectations (i.e. Virtual reality, not 3D) etc -- but the games are actually great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Markss
I have mine set up in a corner of my game room. It feels sorta like a home arcade machine, at times, because it offers an experience you can't really get anywhere else. I dunno how much they go for now, but they were as cheap as $20 at one point. If you can get one real cheap, I say pick it up because it's not bad.
The 3D isn't the main reason I play the VB, it's the games. A lot of the 3D effects are pretty shallow anyways. The Virtual Boy has, by far, the best wario land game, and a pretty great punch-out clone in teleroboxer. The system oozes that mid-90's SNES quality, so if you enjoy SNES platformers and action games by Nintendo from about 1994, you'll probably like what the VB offers.Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiespruce
Ive played it and i want one,very cool system and i found it much easier on the eyes than the 3ds which i find almost unplayable.
I got to play one a few years ago and thought it was bloody awful.
Really hurt my eyes and found it impossible to get comfortable playing it.
Welcome to the club, although my bad vision has been fixed with some eye laser surgery it did not fix my inability to see 3D,Quote:
Originally Posted by eddiespruce
Can you see the 3D in the Nintendo 3DS? I looked at one but didn't get it, so either I'm just not easily impressed or I just don't understand what its supposed to look like.
I have excellent vision, and I can't stand to look at the 3DS's 3D for more then a few seconds.
I'll just stick to my non-3D, single screen GBA SP AGB-101.
I don't have a 3DS, but if a friend of mine picks one up, I'll definitely try it. I haven't had eye surgery, but perhaps I will in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
I have the Sega Scope 3D, the Virtual Boy, and a 3DS. The Sega Scope 3D and Virtual boy don't hurt my eyes, but the 3DS does. It's hard to explain... it's not so much pain, as it is this weird feeling. It's very uncomfortable to me, it almost feels like my eyes are very slightly crossed.
I don't get that sensation at all with the Sega Scope 3D or the VB. The VB will cause eye strain after a while simply because your eyes are less than an inch away from the screen, but actually playing the thing doesn't hurt. The Sega Scope 3D is actually the best 3D I've experienced thus far.
I played one of these once, due to someone deciding they had far too much money and importing it over from the states.
It's crap, it's uncomfortable, the red is annoying to look at and the games are mostly quite poor.
Not really. What games did you play?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gogogadget
Thats exactly what happens it seems to make you go cross-eyed instantly,i cant play games like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
I still have mine (I bought it in early 1997 when they were $30 new). It's not comfortable to play for long sessions but I have always liked it since I'm a fan of Nintendo R&D1's games and (at the time) having a new vector graphics shooter with Red Alarm.
Recently got back into Virtual Boy and played mine last week. Picked up Vertical Force and Red Alarm which are both pretty fun. Vertical Force is a little on the easy side and it's quite short. Other decent games that I've played are Wario and Galactic Pinball.
Unfortunately the Virtual Boy doesn't have too many games to choose from. Definitely not very comfortable to play for long periods.
I once owned 2 VBs, with a Blockbuster custom case, I'd sold one of the units for the same price I'd paid, $30.
I had all of the North American released titles, but sold Water World since it was even worse than the movie. The system isn't bad, and while the library isn't spectacular, it's still enjoyable for short gaming sessions. Tolero Boxer is my favorite title for the system.
Is that even fucking possible?!Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
I'd say it's an exaggeration. It's basically a 3rd person defender clone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bastardcat
The movie was terrible.
I've had the time to play quite a bit with a friend's Virtual Boy while on vacation for the weekend a few times. He had almost every game on the system except for Jack Bros and Virtual Baseball, and I must say the system is pretty underwhelming. Not awful as a system (Though the red and black really hurts your vision on some games), but the game library is just so lacking.
Vertical Force is probably the only game I really enjoyed on the system. A fun little shooter that's not like the bullet hell ones of today.
Mario Clash's gameplay is weird and boring. Mario Bros, but not as fun.
Wario is just too long and doesn't work with the red/black pallette. Good game, but horrible to play on the Virtual Boy.
Mario Tennis has no depth perception and pales in comparison to Mario Tennis on N64.
Teleroboxer is way too hard.
3D Tetris is really unfun and hard to figure out what's going on due to the 3D view.
And Galactic Pinball isn't really fit for the Virtual Boy, and the boards are plain.
With the high prices the games and system command today and the fact that 95% of the games are seriously not fun to play, it's not worth the investment.
The Virtual Boy was so lame, that there was next to no interest in emulating it.
I loved Waterworld. Right up there with The Postman, it's one of my favorite SciFi films.
Teleroboxer or something along those lines, decent game actually, so bad example :pQuote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
Red Alarm, which is awful, because everything is a wireframe so you have no idea what you're doing and it's unplayable.
Mario Clash, which is alright, except it was only cutting edge in 1984, not after Super Mario World
Mario Tennis, yeah, it's alright i guess, it's tennis?
So yeah, those 4, I know there is 10 more, but still, the game may of been cool to see in the 3D perspective once, but for the most part what i've played and seen is like a collection of minigames on horrible gimmicky hardware
Postman you say?
That game looks pretty kickass, but what does it have to do with Postmanship?
I've had two virtual boys myself. A friend loaned me a half broken one missing all of its parts, and I later got a complete unit of my own.
Overall I like the system. I've spent a long time playing it and my eyes don't hurt. They do feel pretty odd when I "come up" out of the system though, requiring a few minutes to adjust to reality again.
http://www.jax184.com/pictures/room/.../T1i_8292s.JPG
It lives here, hoping some unsuspecting person will stuff their face in it.
For a moment there I got excited, but then I realized that is just a nosecone in the upper left, next to your boxed set of Flowery Twats, and not an energy dome.
Hey, just because my miniature traffic cone isn't blessed by Devo is no reason to be hard on it.
Have you seen the system that lets you play the VB games on your tv?
http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/....9306970b-800wi
Modding your VB never hurts too.
http://www.planetvb.com/content/news/hmvb.jpg
I don't plan on getting one on less I bump into one at a good will or something but meh.
Get a Game.Com. Hours of masochist enjoyment! (Try MK Trilogy for the best effect)
But OT, I played a Virtual Boy BITD at Toys R Us quite a bit. I was never impressed.
No, it's more like a broken ripoff of Battlezone.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqko2uObggg
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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.
I'd buy one of these in a heart beatQuote:
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?