I got mine in today! Really pro work – I can tell whoever did the die cutting and scoring knew exactly what they were doing… and I should know – I own Young’s Printing and Bindery. We do this sort of stuff all the time. 😉
UncleTusker wrote:
I’m just making sure I didn’t screw anything up that I don’t know about VB games. I’m an NES collector. I’m very confident in this design. The world is what was designed by someone else. I’m not sure who. But I touched up the color a little bit and used it.
That’s all. Small grammar errors and what not.
I was the original designer.
Does that mean I get a free box?
My original box shape was based on an actual Virtual Boy game box that I had at my desk at the time. Your cut/fold paths are different from what I had — did you use a Gameboy Advance box as your starting point?
Benjamin Stevens wrote:
That is most excellent. I am definitely all for sticking it to 83Skillz, especially given all the lies and distortions contained in his listing, which were deliberate attempts to deceive those who aren’t familiar with Planet Virtual Boy.
Too bad nobody knows Sean Killingbeck’s e-mail address, because if people knew seankillingbeck@ymail.com was his e-mail they would be lighting up his inbox letting him know how much of a dick-move that was.
BTW – do NOT harass the Sean Killingbeck on Facebook, who has a deceptively similar username. They are not the same person.
It’s okay, though, because in about 4 days the name of the buyer will be available through eBay’s API, at which point we can figure out who bought it and then just tell them they could have gotten it for free here, and also implore them to return it for a full refund.
If they file a NAD dispute with Paypal the seller will have *no choice* but to take the item back, no matter what caveats or warnings skillz boy put in the listing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/180946711217
A US Release Virtual Boy BOX in great condition with cardboard insert and battery offer… $50.00 BUY IT NOW with free shipping.
The Virtual Boy did not sport 32-bit graphics… It had 32 bit processing power and 2 bit monochrome graphics – meaning a total of 4 shades of red… one of which was *black*
Also, the Game Boy Advance had twin 8-bit audio channels, thus giving you *stereo* sound.
The Virtual Boy was not a powerhouse, but it was also not an inferior product.
The main reasons it failed were :
Clunkiness
Eyestrain
Lack of amazing games
4 shades of red.
If you take a Ferrari and made the body huge and plasticky, the instrument panel difficult to read, make the car boring to drive, and only offer it in 4 shades of red, you’ll see the same commercial failure. It won’t matter to die-hard Ferrari fanboys, though.
in3D wrote:
… we could remake the vb? I’ve seen all the posts about custom manufacturing, pcbs and custom carts! So why not make more virtual boys! And then we could also make it better too, like replacing the led scanners with modern lcds (Zero Power LCDs would be easy on the eyes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal_display) or maybe giving it wireless link.
I know this is kind of a dreamy idea and it’s probably not possible, but what do you guys think?
Just about any commercial print shop (like Pip Printing, or Sir Speedy) can do this… You don’t have to get someone who specializes in making repro boxes. All you need is a printer with a die cutter. It should cost you somewhere around $150 for the die, and probably about 2-3 bucks per box.
Ask for 110lb white cover stock, which they will have (don’t go with 80lb, it is too thin) I’d have done it all myself for you guys, but I sold all my die cutting equipment last year. 🙁
If you are handy with an Xacto knife and don’t need to die cut it, just go to Kinkos or Staples, or even OfficeMax and ask them to print it out for you on the right paper. That’s the critical part – the heavyweight 110lb cover stock. It will look good, trust me, and you don’t have to mess with a commercial printer.
GEZ wrote:
Ditto from a VB collector in Canada.
Thank you Eric for your offer to send internationally, I may take you up on that.
It’s so easy to ship to Canada from the US, I never understand why people wouldn’t (I ship tons of stuff to the States), but that’s not the point here, hopefully things work out well for you in your current situation.
The reason I don’t ship internationally is due to the incredibly massively hugely disturbingly high level of fraud. If I ship 10 packages internationally only 8 of them will make it. This is fine if I’m shipping something that I make, or can replace, but on rare stuff or collectibles I just can’t take those kind of hits.
No, everything that is published on Wikipedia is *not* public domain. The original authors of the articles hold the copyright and license Wikipedia to display them. There are several licenses typically used, the most common being called “Creative Commons.” Creative Commons, for instance, allows you to use the stuff so long as you attribute the original authors. Public Domain means it is free for all to use without restriction… stuff from Wikipedia has restrictions.
