My Virtual Boy collection also lacks those 4 games, I call them the Big Four. But luckily I have a Flashboy, because I will never buy any game for as much as even the cheapest one of those, Space Invaders, goes for. The most expensive game I’ve ever bought was Gimmick for Famicom, which I bought cartridge only for a little less than 200$. The next-most expensive one was 130. But 500? 1000? Nooo way. Just no. Collecting is not that important to me. And emulation does exist in various forms.
I lived in Japan for a year and I didn’t see too many Virtual Boy games, certainly not at Book Off / Hard Off. Mandarake has some, and I did see Virtual Bowling once in Surugaya in Tokyo. I saw SD Gundam cart only once in Osaka, it might still be there but it was 60000 yen or something I think. There’s not cheap there either.
Couldn’t they at least have made it red? If I get this I will have to get a red film-thing to put in front of the goggles to create a better experience
speedyink wrote:
VB Wario Land is by far my favorite Wario game.
Wario Land 2 and 3 just didn’t grab me, it deviated too far from the ‘Mario’ formula for me. Having to collect/do certain things to progress? No thanks. VB Wario Land absolutely nailed the balance of collecting vs standard get to the goal. I like how collecting isn’t mandatory to finish, but more of an incentive to play again and explore.
Dreammary wrote:
Oh; the answer is none, Nintendo has yet to even come close to what they did with VB Wario Land in the rest of the series.
I agree! The Wario series went the way of Castlevania and found it’s way of doing things and never went back. A Wario Land Virtual Boy remake would be nice…
matthwq wrote:
Kind of a lighthearted topic maybe, but I’m playing through WLVB for the first time ever, and I am amazed at how good it is and how well it holds up. All of the powerups, the level designs, the fluidity of the controls, of course the 3D — it hangs so so well together, and it’s got me desperately wanting to play another one of these after I finish this one. Do any if his few platforming adventures equal this one (or better) in your opinion?
Actually I think VB Wario Land is the best game in the series. With Wario Land 2 the Wario series changed from “beat the stage while finding secrets and coins” to “run around a bigger stage looking for secrets and coins and you can’t die, just get inconvenienced” which I didn’t think was as good as before. The next best game in the series is Super Mario Land 3 Wario Land on Gameboy, which is still a regular platformer.
Of the later more exploration-based games, Wario Land 4 on GBA and Wario Land Shake Dimension on Wii are both pretty good though, but not close to Virtual Boy Wario Land in my opinion.
The hardest games I’ve ever beaten are Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden. The hardest I ever played would either be Super Mario Bros 2 or any of the Ghosts n Goblins games.
Marioguy wrote:
Was finally in the mood to pack everything out of the box to take some pictures. Only missing 2 items; Bowling and Soft Case US.
And yeah, why that many VB’s, the bottom ones are brand new. 🙂
Why do you have two copies of SD Gundam and Space Invaders, you hoarder you? Share the fun >:(
(I’m not really angry, I know I’ll never be able to afford them anyway)
speedyink wrote:
AVGN is a character just for the ‘show’, nothing wrong with that. It’s the dumb ass people that think that’s actually who James is that are the problem.
I don’t believe he makes up all his opinions for AVGN, I think what AVGN says is what James Rolfe thinks and believes, only exaggerated for comedic effect. Of course people tend to remember the bad words and bad stuff he says more because they stand out more and often are funny. When he said most of the VB games are okay, that’s not what people remember, they remember how it’s a “piece of shit” etc.
Since he’s so huge and a lot of people listen to him and just take his opinion without checking for themselves I think he’s done some unwitting damage to the VB’s reputation which I don’t like. But I blame the people who just take his (swear-)word on it instead of checking out the VB themselves more.
When it comes to research he does have a problem, I mean remember the Power Glove episode? I own one and from his video it was quite apparent he didn’t calibrate it correctly, either for comedic effect or because he didn’t know how to do it, but the result was people watch that and go “oh my god the power glove is worthless and doesn’t work in the slightest” when that’s just not true (although it’s not a good controller by any means, it CAN work almost decently if handled right).
RCAstudioII wrote:
The only reason that people think the virtual boy is bad is because it was nintendo’s only failure. If it wasn’t made by nintendo, it would be thought of like the vectrex (a failed game console but a good one).
An interesting development, the head editor of the magazine/website replied to my comment defending the Virtual Boy. And guess what he said?
(paraphrasing)
“Haha. You haven’t played it. We have one at the office and it’s completely terrible.”
Of course he doesn’t know me, but still… -I- haven’t played the Virtual Boy? Me, who owns all the games physically except the big four, me who reviews ALL the games including the unreleased and homebrew.
The kicker to his reply though is the implication that I can’t have played it if I like it, because he dislikes it and can’t believe anyone likes it probably.
