Yesterday i bought a Virtual Boy in Akihabara, it’s not my first time in Japan nor the first time seeing a Virtual Boy for sale, the idea of getting one made it’s way since many years.
I’ve learned only recently that there was quite a cool homebrew scene on the VB so that might have hyped me up !
So here i am now, just saying hi to everybody.
I have five games at the moment:
-Red Alarm
-Teleroboxer
-Panic Bomber
-Galactic pinball
-Vertical Force
All complete in their boxes.
And i’m going to buy these ones before leaving Japan:
-Mario Clash
-Mario Tennis
-Warioland
Is there any titles you would recommend outside of these ones ? It seems these are the best ones.
Also, i have a line of pixels not showing on my right lens, and my VB is still in warranty for one week, do you think i should take it back ?
Hopefully they will exchange it with another one but at the moment it was the only one available, so i would prefer to keep it.
If i do keep it, would it be expensive to repair ? Because i don’t know if it’s related to the ribbon problem everybody seems to have.
Sorry for all the questions !
Hope i can contribute to the site in the future !
To end this story on a good note, a friend of mine was very interested in the VB so i’m bringing it back to France with me, so if there is a fix possibility on that LED trouble one day,my friend might be interested.
He’s a collector more than a gamer but he likes Nintendo systems and this one he is definitely not gonna play a lot 😉
At least it’s gonna be shown to and tried by many !
And i bought a boxed one at BEEP shop for the same price than the one i wanted to pick up (in a shop i woudn’t recommend but if you are in Tokyo looking for a hidden shop with a few gems at their retail prices from the 90’s just ask me) so thanks a lot to mawa for mentionning BEEP, i didn’t know about it 😉
That unit is PERFECT, i’m very happy about it, crisp picture and sound, no dead pixels 😀
