I didn’t watch the episode but I heard that just recently, History Channel’s show “Pawn Stars” featured a Virtual Boy in it… did anyone here watch this? (I hear some guy on the show complained about it but it still is interesting the VB makes small appearances on TV that aren’t related to the 3DS)
I was watching and was flipping out. It was in-box with the stand, controller, Mario’s Tennis, and the AC adapter. They talked about how it was short-lived and how it was the first “3D video game console”. The guy asked for $200 for it, but they offered him $80 and he took the deal. They probably looked up what it was worth before they saw it because $80 is near the going price.
They showed some of the graphics from the console, and it obviously had the lens issue, but I guess it wasn’t so bad that it wasn’t worth buying.
At the end of the episode, they had the old man play Mario’s Tennis, and he actually thought it was kind of cool.
Is the bit where he mentions that 500 brand new ones were found in a shipping container true? I don’t remember hearing about that and I’d imagine that would have been on kotaku or a similar site. Or did he just screw up the numbers and was infact talking about the 100 that where found in a warehouse in Dubai a few years back?
Heh, a friend at work told me about this today as well… that’s pretty funny that they paid $80 for a broken VB :-P. It definitely has at least one bad display from watching the video. Of course it all depends how much you believe “reality” shows.
DogP wrote:
Heh, a friend at work told me about this today as well… that’s pretty funny that they paid $80 for a broken VB :-P. It definitely has at least one bad display from watching the video. Of course it all depends how much you believe “reality” shows.
DogP
Y’mean, no you can’t be right, tv wouldn’t lie to us, would it? Surly its ‘as honest as a governement’, I think you will find thats a very common saying, especially here in the UK. 😀
The best moment by far is when Taylor (the boy who is selling the VB) says who wants to play hours on the machine, Chumlee is like “I do” haha and then awkward silence
Yeah, the only one that says something true about the system is Chumlee that he wants to play the Virtual Boy. Hurts your eyes? Not mine. Can’t play it for more than 20 minutes? I can play it for 3 hours, haven’t tried longer 😛
The best moment by far is when Taylor (the boy who is selling the VB) says who wants to play hours on the machine, Chumlee is like “I do” haha and then awkward silence
Could not find the edit button so anyways not to be rude but the person who uploaded it on megauploads did not add the last part when the old man is playing the vb so after I found the video with the extra ending I decided to upload the whole thing to youtube
Enjoy 🙂
The best moment by far is when Taylor (the boy who is selling the VB) says who wants to play hours on the machine, Chumlee is like “I do” haha and then awkward silence
Could not find the edit button so anyways not to be rude but the person who uploaded it on megauploads did not add the last part when the old man is playing the vb so after I found the video with the extra ending I decided to upload the whole thing to youtube
Enjoy 🙂
