Or at the very least find it fun and enjoyable. I searched and didn’t find a similar thread to this.

One thing I consistently find online is an irrational fear and hatred of the Virtual Boy. It is Nintendo’s most wrongly persecuted console, but is a common reality online. It’s easy to believe the common word and ignore the Virtual Boy.

A friend of mine offered to trade his few VB things for the last of my Sega Saturn stuff, I accepted. Even though the Virtual Boy I got from him had display issues and only one game (Mario’s Tennis), I felt that this console was worth investing some time and money in. There was something unique about it, which I liked.

Eventually I got myself two solder-fixed VB units (in case one suddenly dies) and a decent assortment of carts (thank you MineStorm or whoever for Bound High, it’s jaw droppingly awesome). After having played a lot of VB, I came to the conclusion that most people are wrong about the VB and most likely have never played one. It’s entirely different to play the real thing, with the IPD and Focus configured correctly. It’s one of my favorite Nintendo consoles, its only true flaw is how few games it has.

I’d like to hear everyone else’s backstories on the matter. I’m sure some of you have interesting things to say.

I first got to know about the Virtual Boy when I was 12 years old reading bout it in a magazine.
I couldn’t believe that it would be released as 3D was such an “out there” technology at that time! So I was super hyped until I couldn’t find any articles about it for more than a year and got super disappointed (the horror of the time that internet wasn’t our friend yet 😉 )!

Until I discovered the Virtual Boy a few years ago and decided to import one to the Netherlands and ever since I got one to work I am in love with the console.
Then came the glitchy display problem which I dared to try and (eventually succeed) to permanently fix with the soldering method, which only made me love the console even more!

I now have two working Virtual Boys with a few games, original, homebrew and a Flashboy which really gives me the opportunity to play every game that is available for the masses (hoping for some old proto’s to still surface).

Repairing these things is something cool as well, knowing you make such a rare piece of gaming history to work as it should for many years to come. That really makes it the most special console for me.

i really enjoy playing with it, but i am in no means in love with it. it is very unique and i’m happy that it exists. i have a lot of fun with it. i like showing it to people who have never experienced it. the 22 game library gets old after awhile. i don’t find i have a need to play those games as often as games for other systems. for me it is something i leave in the box and pull it out ever so often to remind myself how much i do enjoy it.