More to come, but this is the first one I can contribute with:

– Hobby Consolas (the best-selling videogame magazine in Spain at the time) was surprised with the unexpected presentation of the “VR System” in their number 40, pages 20 and 21, from January 1995. The picture shows the early controller with the color buttons and their description is pretty accurate (I guess it is all based in the same press release). “Mario Bros VB”, “Punchout” and “Space Pinball” appear to be the first three games to be released.

If needed, I can translate further, but I guess this info was the same worldwide. These two are high quality scans.

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vuefinder83 wrote:
Awesome stuff, mmora. These were nice to see along with translations. Thanks a bunch for posting!

Have you ever come across any VB merchandise such as shirts, hats, pins/buttons, that were exclusive only to Mexico? (just curious)

Nope, but remember I’m from Spain (and these are Spanish magazines, not Mexican) so the Virtual Boy wasn’t ever launched here 🙁

mmora wrote:

vuefinder83 wrote:
Awesome stuff, mmora. These were nice to see along with translations. Thanks a bunch for posting!

Have you ever come across any VB merchandise such as shirts, hats, pins/buttons, that were exclusive only to Mexico? (just curious)

Nope, but remember I’m from Spain (and these are Spanish magazines, not Mexican) so the Virtual Boy wasn’t ever launched here 🙁

Apologies, good sir. You’ll have to excuse me, as it’s memorial day weekend here in the US, and it’s possibly all this rum n coke talking/thinking…

Carry on…😉

Wow! The pictures they used to advertise the VB in the Superjuegos 51 Julio 1996 15.png were from Bound High, and is that other one dragon hopper? And also, they were originally going to release Kirby’s Air Ride for the N64?!

Reel Big Fish wrote:
Wow! The pictures they used to advertise the VB in the Superjuegos 51 Julio 1996 15.png were from Bound High, and is that other one dragon hopper? And also, they were originally going to release Kirby’s Air Ride for the N64?!

I hadn’t noticed but you are right, that was a Game Cube game in the end. I’ve been able to find this video of the E3 (and apparently it was cancelled first and then restarted for the Cube).

Kirby’s Air Ride N64

Good eye!

Last but not least, Ultima Generación. This magazine had a really short run (12 numbers only, one year, from March 95 to March 96), but it’s particular in the way they tried to focus in last generation consoles, getting really accurate and technical. This might be the reason of their demise, but even the VB got a huge coverage in number 8. The VB was also covered in the first and the last numbers of the magazine. A lot of information but nothing new, though. The only interesting snippet is in the last number, 12, which states that Nintendo is planning to relaunch the VB together with a port of Mario RPG. A long shot, isn’t it?

mmora wrote:
The only interesting snippet is in the last number, 12, which states that Nintendo is planning to relaunch the VB together with a port of Mario RPG. A long shot, isn’t it?

Wow! That’s certainly very interesting… I’ve never heard that before. If that information is indeed verifiable, it’s at least really cool to know that Nintendo had some plans to make Mario RPG for the Virtual Boy. I know I would have loved to play that.

Hi there!
Can i help you with the translations?

Alex uwu wrote:
Hi there!
Can i help you with the translations?

Thank you for your offer 🙂 But no need, really, I’m Spanish!

mmora wrote:

Alex uwu wrote:
Hi there!
Can i help you with the translations?

Thank you for your offer 🙂 But no need, really, I’m Spanish!

I know, but if you don’t have time or something, i can help 😛
also im spanish too, well, umm, mexican.