Not sure if this is something that everyone has seen before or if its something thats not already posted to this site but I figured now would be a good time to share this.
(Hopefully everyone can zoom in and read it pretty clearly)
20 years ago sometime in 1995, stores were getting ready for the AUGUST release of the VIRTUAL BOY. Pictured below is a set of VB DISPLAY ORDER FORMS consisting of four different colored pages. The first page is white and is the NOA MERCHANDISING copy, the second page is yellow and is the NOA REGIONAL MANAGER copy, third is pink and is the SALES REP copy and the fourth page is orange and is the CUSTOMER copy. All pages have a NINTENDO warranty on the back of them and all pages have the same information.
Notice how it doesn’t mention the VB FLOOR MODEL DISPLAY, is this because stores had to order the COUNTER DISPLAY and the mentioned PEDESTAL DISPLAY BASE to form a FLOOR MODEL? It doesn’t mention the small VB PLATFORM DISPLAY either, is this because it was only a BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO exclusive? Also has anyone ever seen the mentioned VB POSTER?
Thanks for looking and HAPPY 20TH
Now, surely Nintendo didn’t just send these order forms out to store managers and expected them to know what everything on them was, these 2nd half of 1995 order forms were supposed to come with a fully colored picture catalog showing everything that was in these forms. Unfortunately, the seller of these forms did not have the 2nd half 1995 catalog, but, he did have the catalog for the 1st half of 1995 wich contained what Im pretty sure is the first Virtual Boy ad that store managers seen before the 2nd half of 1995 arrived.(I do not have this catalog in my collection, so the best picture of this ad that i have is just a screenshot from the sellers auction)
Thanks to everyone who found my first PVB thread interesting.
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Benjamin Stevens wrote:
vuefinder83 wrote:
Heres a nintendo order form for Game Pak Browser Systems. It mentions a VB “spin-page paddle” and a VB “flip-page paddle” for the browser systems. Store managers had to choose wich system would be suitable for their location and then order either a “spin-page” frame or a “flip-page” frame and then had to choose how they would’ve wanted to complete the browser system with 8 different options to choose from. Although none of this stuff mentioned was available at the time they received these order forms. Im not sure if any of this actually ever did become available.So how do you suppose this was to work? Was it that a prospective Virtual Boy customer would have been able to walk up to such a Virtual Boy browser system, press a button or something to have the contraption flip through the pages of available games to play, and then the contraption would have inserted the chosen Virtual Boy game pak into a VB system by itself, all behind a protective glass or something, so that the cartridges could not have been stolen by customers?
Sounds pretty darn cool to me.
I believe that I found what seems to be a Game Pak Browser System for the NES and SNES. This should give a good idea of what a Browser System for the VB would’ve looked like.
1st pic- Flip-Page Browser System, where you flip through the Paddles like Pages of a Book.
2nd pic- Spin-Page Browser System, where you can spin the paddles around.
3rd pic- Close up of the Browser System Paddles.
Benjamin Stevens wrote:
If they did truly make these for the Virtual Boy, it would sure make a nice display for one’s VB collection! 🙂
Yea definitely! But I doubt that a Browser System that has more than 1 or 2 Virtual Boy Paddles on it exist. It would definitely be a epic way to display all official and homebrew Game Paks though.
Anyway, just realized that I never posted a picture of the back of the Display Forms.
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Some scans of the Display Forms…
