Makes my head hurt trying to imagine how they could’ve produced multi-color images with LED raster scans on vibrating mirrors. Although, if VB had been a success, Nintendo would have figured out how.

Hafta disagree that it’s great satire. Is somewhat lame. No question Virtual Boy was disaster for Nintendo but was fun, had promise, and technologically was freakin’ amazing.

Red Alarm one of best examples of what you could do with 3D on the Virtual Boy. Wireframe may look kinda primitive but better than pretending to be 3D by playing 2D Tetris with things happening in background.

And yeah, it gets hard.

I have an extra Red Alarm, wireframe but one of best uses of 3-D in the original VB launch. Arguably best 3-D of all the games. Also fun. Let me know mailing address and will send it on, hey it’s Christmastime.

virtualboy@gmail.com

Have a sealed Golf in mint condition if you’re interested. $25 including Priority Mail (boxed, of course).

AliceSprings@comcast.net

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I have extra AC adapter, new unopened box in mint condition. Think I paid around $50 for it; does that plus postage seem like a fair price ?

Would be mailing from the Seattle area.

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That did it.

Thanks !

Yep, was one of the freebies that the reps handed out.

There are at least two more styles but that one definitely the coolest.

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You can get hung up early on the frequent breaks for tutorials (in Japanese). If you ignore them, can usually figure out what to do.

Let me know mailing address and I’ll send a scan of the U.S. version’s manual. It helps. CD also has scans of all the other U.S. manuals.

VirtualBoy@gmail.com

Anybody who’s worked for Nintendo in the past has to watch his ass for maybe 12 months, the term of the standard non-compete contract. After that they’re free agents and can talk all they want unless they signed up for some soft of special severance benefits.

Disagree! A dumb game for sure but certainly not the worst (how about Teleroboxer?). And a dumb game is only right for something based on a dumb movie.

Cartridge alone should be a WHOLE lot cheaper than boxed. Developer was just putting WaterWorld into production when Nintendo shut down Virtual Boy. Ocean cut their losses by selling off remaining loose carts cheap instead of spending the money to box them up.

It’s REALLY hard to find a Blockbuster VB Hard Case with a sticker in mint condition. Every one I’ve seen has wrinkles, I’m guessing that the minimum wage guys in Blockbuster back rooms got cases and stickers separately and stuck ’em on, not too carefully, in their spare time.

Let me know your email address and I’ll send a hi-res scan of my best-condition label (it’s a 1-meg file).

Case outside dimensions are 14.5 x 18.5 x 6.5 inches. Inside foam is 12.5 x 16.5 x 4, with 1/2 inch foam glued to top and bottom of case. I can get photos if you want ’em.

Saw one on eBay several months back, seller made a big deal about the Mosaic Box, sorry to say I don’t remember what it finally sold for. Think it was around US$300 but I could be wrong.