It looks amazing! Hope to see more.
I also felt after reading through it that I wish more info had been included about the unreleased games and the homebrew scene. Nevertheless, it is evident that he put a lot of time and thought into his writeups and evaluations for all of the released games. I like the professional look overall and am glad that he published this.
Speaking of the collector version, I did not manage to place my order in time to get the extra stuff. If anybody here did get the extra collector materials, and you’d be willing to take nice photos of them and post them for us, that’d be great! I doubt you’d have to worry about complaints from the creator. I’d mainly just like to see what I missed.
I got my copy of the book today. Concerning the 4 pages of unreleased games, it mentions that Bound High got released by fans onto bootleg cartridges, making it available for sale in a decidedly grey-market fashion, as well as Faceball (it mentions thunderstruck’s remastered version, too). It briefly talks about Dragon Hopper, Zero Racers, and Virtual Boy Mario Land. Those are all the unreleased games mentioned, with no never-before-seen screenshots or other information that isn’t readily available online.
That’s a nice page with some nice shots that you got there!
I do have that instruction card with the chain, and I remember VUEFinder posting about this type of “display” before. I don’t recall seeing the bracket with it before, though. It is certainly about as basic of a display system as they come!
I have not been following the market very closely lately, and I am wondering if anybody has ever managed to add this gray virtual boy shirt to their collection:
I know Mawa, at least at one point, had the matching gray cap that goes along with it, but I don’t know if he ever got the shirt:
T&E Virtual Golf Instruction Booklet Scans
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Speaking of “yet another Pacman,” I got to go to Pinball PA last week, which claims to have the largest collection of classic arcade games in the USA (and they may very well be right). For the first time ever, I got to play “Baby Pacman,” which I previously never knew existed. It was a hybrid game, where part of the time you play Pacman on a screen, and the other part of the time you play a real pinball game that is located beneath the screen, which earns you bonus items in the screen portion of the game. It was actually one of my most favorite versions of Pacman I’ve ever played.
The word “Individual” is very unique and interesting indeed. It must have been a rejected idea, though, as I don’t think I’ve seen it on anything else. It could be a reference to the Virtual Boy’s “Individual Adjustability,” but that is certainly debatable. I definitely can’t see how the red and black motif doesn’t point to the Virtual Boy.
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I see that they actually had a print of the incredibly rare VB poster up in the World of Nintendo! Very nice.
Thanks for sharing! You’ll find images of that cardboard headset under the “Images” tab here:
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This is a truly awesome find!
Well, since the image of the box contains “Box Layout (c) 2011 Jesse L. Willis,” I’d be surprised if anybody fell for it.
If you click on the one bid of the auction, it shows that the seller had accepted a best offer price that someone had sent him. Thus, it appears that the seller was not aware of how much he could have gotten for everything.
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After watching a video of the PC Engine version, it certainly seems that it would have been an appropriate game to release on the Virtual Boy. They probably would have had to censor some things for a North American release, though, not sure about in Japan.
I would really like to hear a response from the developer on this. I supported the project for several months, but then backed out once I feared that it had been completely abandoned, as there were no updates for many months during my support period.
Yeah, it does look like a case that Blockbuster could have used for other consoles/systems.
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… The seller states it is “brand new” which it clearly isn’t…
Heh… well, technically it is likely very brand new, as in all contents could have been made within the last couple of months or so. 😉
A similar deceit has been posted before, but I want to post another case here.
A “brand new” allegedly complete-in-box copy of Space Invaders Virtual Collection is listed here:
Both the listing’s price for the game as well as the description in the listing would lend one to think that everything about it is genuine. Nevertheless, the pics in the auction clearly show visible folded flaps on the bottom of the box, similar to what the North American Virtual Boy games had (pics attached).
A genuine Japanese Space Invaders Virtual Collection box has no such folded flaps, as shown here:
https://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/?r012ibj