What did you think of the Virtual Boy in 1995?

[What's His Face]

Really? I mean basically it was the same level of 3D as Star Fox and Stunt FX 3D. I didn't think it was that good. And most of the games were like Tennis, Wario and Jack Bros, were basically 2D with more background layers.

At roughly 4x the framerate of the SFX-chip games, lad.

Mario Tennis? Looks lame on YouTube, right? Play it on VB, and you have an instinctual sense of ball location at all times without the need of a "shadow hint" on the field - it plays on the way our brains are wired for depth perception. Wario? The 3D effects and ability to pop into the background were as impressive as the Mode-7 effects in Super Castlevania IV in 1990/1991...but without the obnoxious slowdown (which I've only seen a couple of minutes of on real hardware for the previously-listed reason). I didn't play Jack Bros., but being able to see the next level below in 3D sounds rad af.

And that's the ticket. The 3D effects in these games were spectacular in their time and price point.

I really need to add a VB player to my hacked 3DS.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

When I first saw it in magazines, I'd thought:
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That picture is strange, I feel like it's a really old meme... Must be from KYM.

Anyway, too soon for 1995.

Even Sega tried VR once then stopped

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

At least in the UK this thing was so poorly advertised that I didn't know it existed.

My first interaction with it was finding it some rich kids house in a storage box a few years later. I was intreged, but never got to try it out.

These days, I still look back fondly on Jack Bros which is unironically a great game on the platform, but not worth the financial cost that a physical copy entails.