Happy 30th Birthday to Nintendo's biggest failure! The Virtual Boy!

[thanonyx thanonyx]

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY VIRTUAL BOY!​

Can you believe that Nintendo's biggest failure is hitting the big THREE-O today? I can, because THAT'S HOW TIME WORKS YA FOO'!

Anyway, it's been 3 decades since Nintendo released this thing, has opinion on it changed given 30 years of hindsight and do you like any of its games?

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Its a Virtual man now

 

[aquova]

The Virtual Boy died so the Wonderswan could live

 

[Cris_Agev]

I automatically thought of this:

Translation: Father, give me legs.

 

[Frickinfrik]

Yay! 30 years of giving people headaches and eye damage!

 

[megabladej]

Never played the thing. Looks interesting and seems to have a passionate fan base. Might give some of it's games ago one day.

 

[Segadude113]

Jack Bros. and Wario Land. :D

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Oculus Rift: I’m a failure because they thought we were related!

 

[RageBurner]

Ah yes, not so portable migraine generator.

 

[Glossy Cat]

The Headache Inducer. That's what we called it. After five minutes of use my friends and I all had headaches. It looked super cool though.

 

[Rox00]

Ah yes The Virtual Boy itself, the system with the greatest game of all time, Jack Bros.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

For a failure , it has really awesome and underrated japanese games that are very unknown to this day .

The Cthulhu-dungeoncrawler-shooter was one that comes to my mind in an instant . And we didnt saw all japanese games on this eye-cancer-device.

Sometimes its a look worth to give while playing Devils advocate here.

No risk , No fun as people say .

 

[MasterEn]

a friend of mine has one of these. no idea if he ever even turned it on and played it, but i got to look at it sitting on his shelf.
also, from watching avgn, i learned that there was a movie called waterworld, which is considered one of the biggest flops in movie history. the only game ever made for it was for the virtual boy.
i wonder if one of these things unintentionally doomed the other one or if that was just a crazy coincidence.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

The ironic thing is that it wasn't even a Nintendo thing -- some other company had come up with the idea and then offered it to both SEGA (which declined... and that should tell you something) and Nintendo for further development, kinda like the Power Glove (another misunderstood failure bearing the Big N's name).

It was a VERY interesting thing, but perhaps too ahead of its time for its own good.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

 

[Chariotsoffire]

I remember back in 95, I walked into a grocery store and saw a demo of this thing. Nobody was even looking at it. I checked it out and it was terrible. Of course, I was 12 and thought 3DO was the coolest thing ever. Regardless, I had a headache for a while afterwards.

 

[Faust03]

are these coming to the switch 2, complete with headache?

 

[Jeff]

I played it at Kay-Bee Toys on display and I beg my parents to get it for Christmas because of Wario Land, Mario's Tennis and Mario Clash. But my parents said no because of the headaches, seizures and eye pains I would get and instead, got Yoshi's Island which is a better choice. Thank goodness for emulators because I can play VB Wario Land all the time now without getting seizures and headaches.

 

[CheesyExplosive]

when ninten-don't took too much meth before the virtual boy release.

 

[DragonMals]

And to think that the second worst in the history of the Big N is the WiiU.... I feel so bad for that console man, it didn't deserve the hate and reputation that it gotten.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Nope is good thing that I didn't see that in stores Maybe they aren't reach in my country.

 

[Isegrim]

This is the 3d Nintendo thing I had...for the Famicom eight years before the Virtual Boy.

I only had 3 games that worked with it, Highway Star/Rad Racer, Famicom Grand Prix 2 and Falsion.

 

[Segadude113]

This is the 3d Nintendo thing I had...for the Famicom eight years before the Virtual Boy.

I only had 3 games that worked with it, Highway Star/Rad Racer, Famicom Grand Prix 2 and Falsion.

Sega did it first with the Master System in 1987

 

[KaiserMk7]

Do emulators for this effectively merge the two images and/or allow you to play the software in grayscale?

 

[aquova]

Do emulators for this effectively merge the two images and/or allow you to play the software in grayscale?

Mednafen supports it, I think that's the only emulator I've used with it. It definitely just shows the left and right image next to each other, and I think it only displays in black and red, although maybe there's a grayscale setting somewhere I didn't notice.