Japanese Magazine Virtual Boy Coverage

Dec 31, 2016 • 17:00

A two-page Virtual Boy article appeared on pages 28 and 29 of the August 1995 issue of the Japanese magazine titled “Elementary School Fourth Grade.”

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Jan 02, 2017 • 19:36

Vender

Mario’s tennis face is pretty great.

Jan 04, 2017 • 06:18

Virtual_Link

Vender wrote:
Mario’s tennis face is pretty great.

I’d say a little creepy.

Jan 04, 2017 • 07:53

vuefinder83

That Yoshi though…

Mar 30, 2017 • 01:59

Benjamin Stevens

From what I can determine, this magazine, if it were given an English title, would be called:

デジタリアン
Digitalian: TV-Game & Multi Media World Catalogue

And this particular issue is the:

’95夏季特集号
’95 Summer Special Issue

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Mar 31, 2017 • 19:53

KR155E

Cool, I haven’t seen these Vertical Force/Panic Bomber and Red Alarm/T&E Virtual Golf advertisements before, great find!

That magazine seems to be a Famitsu spin-off or something, as they share the same mascot?

Nice how they managed to mess up the colors of the Virtual Pro Baseball artwork and print the Jack Bros screenshot upside down. 😀

Apr 01, 2017 • 00:31

KGRAMR

Now that i remember, i have some Club Nintendo magazines with some Virtual Boy-related stuff. Might have to upload them somday 🙂

Apr 01, 2017 • 12:23

Benjamin Stevens

KR155E wrote:
Cool, I haven’t seen these Vertical Force/Panic Bomber and Red Alarm/T&E Virtual Golf advertisements before, great find!

That magazine seems to be a Famitsu spin-off or something, as they share the same mascot?

Nice how they managed to mess up the colors of the Virtual Pro Baseball artwork and print the Jack Bros screenshot upside down. 😀

Something I found amusing is that on Page 4, it shows that I’Max was going to release a game, whose title was yet to be determined, but then on page 28, it shows the title of Insmouse No Yakata.

Yeah, I really love the add for Vertical Force/Panic Bomber. That alone made the less than $30.00 purchase of the magazine (most of which comprised shipping costs from Japan) worthwhile.

Apr 10, 2017 • 06:43

vuefinder83

Page 32. is really awesome. Thanks for sharing!

May 14, 2017 • 20:16

Benjamin Stevens

In addition to the “Dengeki Super Famicom” and “Marushō Super Famicom” magazines, there was also “The Super Famicom” magazine. It’s interesting to note that “Mario’s Tennis” is listed as “Mario’s Vs. Tennis.”

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May 15, 2017 • 03:27

speedyink

It’s funny how they got the V Tetris and Red Alarm pics messed up on the right column =P

Also, very interesting to see Double Yakuman in this list where every other game was released. Maybe it was closer to releasing than originally thought. Or not, just a thought =P

May 15, 2017 • 13:34

Benjamin Stevens

speedyink wrote:
It’s funny how they got the V Tetris and Red Alarm pics messed up on the right column =P

Also, very interesting to see Double Yakuman in this list where every other game was released. Maybe it was closer to releasing than originally thought. Or not, just a thought =P

With Virtual Double Yakuman, I’m fully convinced that the game was completed except for the 2-player link option, and they were waiting for the commercial release of the link cable so that the game could be released with a 2-player option, but with the link cable ending up never getting a release, the whole release of Virtual Double Yakuman got canceled along with it.

May 16, 2017 • 01:53

speedyink

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
With Virtual Double Yakuman, I’m fully convinced that the game was completed except for the 2-player link option, and they were waiting for the commercial release of the link cable so that the game could be released with a 2-player option, but with the link cable ending up never getting a release, the whole release of Virtual Double Yakuman got canceled along with it.

That makes complete sense. It is definitely a game that would benefit from having the 2 player functioning.

Feb 20, 2018 • 01:09

Benjamin Stevens

There was some Virtual Boy coverage in the Game Boy Tsūshin (News) Tips Special issue from July of 1995.

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