I was wondering if anybody on here knows about how much a Travel Master carrying case for the Virtual Boy is worth or what the highest price was that anyone has ever seen one sell for. Also, if you don’t know the answers to these questions, you could simply state how much the case is worth to you.
I just recently found out about the case and its supposed rarity and then found out that a Virtual Boy itself along with the Travel Master case was up for auction on Ebay for only $40 U.S. Dollars, and it seems that it didn’t sell. I didn’t find out about the auction until it was already over, and I haven’t seen one for sale since, so I couldn’t get my hands on one.
Technically, the most I ever reset the game using the button method and tested that the starting position was shifted by a pixel each time was twice, so I personally saw that I had to move 2 more pixels to the right to get a strike after 2 soft resets. I’m assuming that it would keep going after that, but I haven’t personally seen it go beyond two.
I received my game in the mail from Chris today. The game came in excellent, collector’s status condition! Buy from Chris, people. You can’t go wrong! 🙂
I’m with John E Bravo. I would buy the Dragon Hopper cart and any reproduction carts of Virtual Lab, SD Gundam Dimension War, and Virtual Bowling. Plus, I missed out on the Bound High carts because I didn’t even notice the offer until it was already too late! I’d love to have a chance to get one. Price isn’t too much of an issue, either. I think the $100 price tag for a FlashBoy+ is very reasonable and could very well apply as a price for any reproduction cart, and by reproduction cart, I just mean a plain cart with the game on it. I can apply my own sticker and make my own box and manual later. 🙂
Unfortunately, everyone knows what could happen in the future, as a result of there being only 34 Bound High carts in existence. I just hope that all lucky persons who got a copy won’t succumb to that temptation.
Once again, a seller on Ebay is selling a lot of Virtual Boy games, Jack Bros. and its instruction manual are included in the lot, and the seller doesn’t seem to know the worth of Jack Bros. One cannot find this auction simply by searching for Jack Bros., so one must, instead, search for “Nintendo Virtual Boy Black Console 7 games and more”
Wow… I remember seeing one on Ebay at a price of around $12,000.00, so one was basically faced with the question, “Do I buy a car or a Virtual Boy stand?”
I hope some lucky person gets this one for much less than that, but it certainly won’t be me, ’cause my stand that I can place on my lap and use to play my Virtual Boy while in my reclining chair is good enough for me. 🙂
I’m rather surprised at how many copies of Jack Bros. (US Version) have appeared on Ebay recently. Nevertheless, ShinobiMan’s copy really stands out above all the rest because of its amazing condition/completeness. I think the sellers who are trying to sell the cartridge alone for $175 or more are trying to rip people off. Hopefully, they won’t succeed, and people will respond properly by refusing to pay that kind of money for just the cart. The seller who just recently put up a cartridge alone at a starting bid of $60, however, is being very fair and reasonable. Those who aren’t collectors and who just want a nice copy of the game should definitely keep an eye on that one!
I just used my FlashBoy+ for the first time last night and, consequently, finally got to play Virtual Bowling for the first time ever, so I can now be a part of this thread. 🙂
I’d have to say that bowling strikes in Virtual Bowling is MUCH easier than bowling strikes in Nester’s Funky Bowling, and I actually prefer the greater level of challenge found in Nester’s Funky Bowling. To be honest, I also prefer the physics of Nester’s Funky Bowling over the physics of Virtual Bowling. The pins in Virtual Bowling just don’t act very close to how real pins act in real life. The pins in Nester’s Funky bowling act much closer to actual pins, although the physics in Nester’s Funky Bowling also aren’t perfect. Hence, Nester’s Funky Bowling beats Virtual Bowling in the categories of realistic physics and level of challenge. Nevertheless, Virtual Bowling beats Nester’s Funky Bowling in the category of having a tournament mode. I so wish that Nester’s Funky Bowling had a tournament mode!
I’d also like to take this opportunity to give a shout out to Richard and DogP. Richard, you are so awesome for making the FlashBoy+! And DogP, you are awesome for making the Padder, which lets one play Virtual Boy games on the Virtual Boy! If it wasn’t for you two, I’d still be losing Ebay auctions for Athena Virtual Bowling and still wouldn’t have played this good game.
Even though I do prefer Nester’s Funky Bowling over Virtual Bowling in just about every category other than having a tournament mode, I still have to say that Virtual Bowling is a good bowling game and is fun to play, and I know I’ll be returning to it in the future.
The reason why I told you to put the starting bid at $180.00 is because you really shouldn’t accept any less money for it, especially given the amazing condition that it is in. I would run another auction for it with the same starting bid if it doesn’t sell in the current auction.
The great thing about Jack Bros. is that not only does it have high sentimental value for being such a rare game, but it is also a very GOOD game in itself and very fun to play. I haven’t read too many good things about the extremely rare Japanese games: Virtual Lab and SD Gundam Dimension War. Chances are, those who own these games have seen a lot of shelf time and hardly any play time because the games just aren’t that good to merit playing them again and again. Jack Bros., however, is actually one of the highest rated games for the Virtual Boy, and I myself can attest that it is well made and very fun to play.
I definitely expect that you will get a couple competitive max bids around the very last second on this one. I’d be very surprised if you didn’t.
My favorite part is when he falls into the dumpster from a fairly high height. I was watching the video at work, and when I saw that part, I laughed so much, for about 15 minutes, that tears filled my eyes. It’s a good thing that nobody walked by my office during those 15 minutes, or they surely would have questioned what I was “working on.”
I think that if you put the starting bid for Jack Bros. at $180.00, you will get at least a few bidders, and the bidding will go up from there.
I am a huge Virtual Boy fan, and I was willing to pay $300 for the game that came with its box and manual. Thankfully, I didn’t have to pay quite that much when I won the auction. I plan to keep the game, in order to play it and enjoy it, and I have no plans to resell it or to try to buy another copy of it for any purposes. Nevertheless, I’m sure that there are others out there who put as much worth on the game as I do.
Congratulations to the lucky bidder on Ebay, who got Jack Bros. with its box and manual, along with 9 other Virtual Boy games, 7 of which include their boxes and manuals, all for only $180.05!
I recently e-mailed Richard about a FlashBoy+ and asked him where to mail a donor cart to. He informed me that I didn’t have to send him a donor cart at all because he recently got a whole box of them.
Thus, if you are looking to get a FlashBoy+, make sure that you e-mail Richard to see if you need to send a donor cart first, before assuming that you have to and buying a cheap game to mail to him.
I definitely see a correlation between the 3DS and the Virtual Boy. To me, the 3DS is Nintendo’s way of saying, “Hey, maybe this is how the 3D approach that we first tried with the Virtual Boy will actually see commercial success, so let’s take a risk again.” Because of that, I support Nintendo in its attempt and will probably get a 3DS in the next several months.
So far, I’ve only seen Street Fighter IV on it at Game Stop, and I was rather impressed with the 3D effects. I prefer Virtual Boy’s 3D effects over the 3DS’s though, since the Virtual Boy’s 3D is right in your face, while the 3DS’s 3D is sorta way out there.
Either way, I don’t want the 3DS to go the way of the Virtual Boy. I don’t want to be looking for some rare 3DS game 15 years down the road, which I can only find used from a seller for $1,000.00, which certainly applies to the Virtual Boy at present. Thus, I want to jump on the 3DS bandwagon sooner rather than later and support Nintendo in its cause.
Well, in that case, I’m glad I snagged an English version of the game when I did. I was upset when I saw written information from a Virtual Boy collector, which revealed what I wrote about the English and Japanese versions above. I definitely would have payed for a cheaper “Japanese” version if the whole game was nevertheless in English. But it looks like the Virtual Boy collector whom I read was mistaken in his remark, so I’m glad I didn’t follow it. Thanks for the clarification, KoNeko! 🙂
There is actually another US version of Jack Bros. that was recently posted on Ebay. As of now, at 9:07 AM Eastern Time in the USA on 5/10/11, the highest bid is $53.00.
Speaking of which, I read something recently that caught my attention, and I’m hoping that someone with a better Virtual Boy collection can verify this.
I heard that for each video game for the Virtual Boy where there is both an English version and Japanese version, the game itself is entirely the same game, regardless of whether you buy the English or the Japanese version; only the boxes and the instruction manuals for each game are different. The only exception to this rule is for Virtual Baseball, where I guess the Japanese version of the game is different than the English version.
Does this mean that if one buys the Japanese Version of Jack Bros., one will get the exact same game as the English version, meaning all of the text in the game itself will be the exact same English text as in the English version? If this is so, then this needs to be made known to people who want Jack Bros. but who are afraid to buy the Japanese version, in fear that they won’t be able to understand the game. The Japanese version is much easier to find on Ebay and certainly much cheaper, and unless one is a collector, I’m sure that one would be fine with simply getting the Japanese version which is all in English and just reading the free Jack Bros. instruction manual that is posted on this website if one needs to.
If someone has the Japanese version of Jack Bros. and can either verify that what I say is correct or refute it, please do so. I think it would be very beneficial to many who are new to the Virtual Boy scene.
