To keep the flow going, I’ll post the two other references I’ve been able to find in Hobby Consolas so far.
– First is page 27 in number 41 (Feb 1995). In summary, the snippet at the bottom of the page talks about the Winter CES in Las Vegas, where the editor had the chance to test the VB. “Nintendo didn’t try to surprise with their games. This time they did so presenting a really revolutionary console: the Virtual Boy”. He really had difficulties explaining the concept; the VB is introduced as a “Game Boy but with faster graphics and in red and black […] all in 3D!”.
– Second is a deeper report in October 1995, number 49, p. 26-28, although in the last paragraph the editor warns the readers: “it is very possible that we won’t ever see this device in Spain”. The language used is interesting overall, but the most particular point is in the game list. If you look at the screenshots at the bottom of page 27, they don’t look at all like the games.
Galactic Pinball: the picture doesn’t look like a pinball table at all and the snippet suggests that the game is not played “as a pinball game”.
Mario Clash: the picture looks more like a concept than the real thing. It’s weird as the snippet reads that “first, [Mario] will appear in an adventure similar to Mario Bros. and later in a Tennis game full of surprises.”. Mario Clash was released in October, but Mario Tennis was a launch game a few months before.
Golf: it actually talks about Virtual League Baseball and an “untitled” golf game.
Vertical Force: ¿what’s that screenshot?
Jack Bros: the last one is almost a joke. Jack Bros is referenced with a ¿coliseum? touristic screenshot and is summarized as “an interactive adventures at the likes of Doom”. ¿What?
Wario images at page 28 are scary, too.
They all came from the tech demos for the Virtual Boy, I guess, but it’s kinda surprising that the editors took that as screenshots for the coming games – or, otherwise, it’s hard to believe that they actually tested the games.
More to come, please let me know how these could be added to the Magazine Scans section (to make it bigger),
m.
Same goes for the direct competition, SuperJuegos. In their number 33 from the same month (January 1995) a small announcement was included in page 9. Information provided is very similar but shorter, skipping the game names and many details.
Here’s a curiosity: the game on top of the page, Chiquito de la calzada challenge, is an April Fools’ joke. The equivalent of April Fools in Spain takes place on the 28th of December so it was natural to have it published in Jan’s number. Chiquito de la Calzada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiquito_de_la_Calzada) is a very particular and “folkloric” celebrity in Spain. Hard to explain, really, but particularly well-known in the crazy 90’s. All in all, many people believed that news and they had to clarify that all was a joke in February’s number.
