Benjamin Stevens wrote:
I just don’t remember there being much hype about the system among my friends or in the video game magazines, to which I was subscribed.

Yea I dont remember the hype either. I specifically remember first hearing about the Virtual Boy from a NBC/BlockBuster video “Must See 3-D Sweepstakes ” commercial, soon after that, I ran into a VB floor model display at a local Toys R Us and a platform display at a local Blockbuster video. Alot of my friends at the time didn’t know what a Virtual Boy was even months after its launch, and the ones who had heard about it didn’t like it. Even though I first played the VB around its launch date, it wasn’t until late 1997 when I first purchased one from a flea market along with a ac adapter set, Teleroboxer and Panic Bomber all for the low price of $35 brand new.

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
Just what exactly are all of the systems that you grew up and for which you collect now?

My first video game system was the Atari 2600 jr, it was purchased for me and my older brother by my parents from the same Toys R Us that introduced me to the Virtual Boy many years later. Mario bros for the 2600 holds a special place in my heart as thee first video game that I ever played. Systems after that, Nintendo NES, Action max, Gameboy original, Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Super Nintendo, Virtual Boy and the N64. I never cared much for video game systems after the N64, they made me pretty sad because the games were starting to not look like games. Even though I collect games and stuff for all these systems, im in no rush to complete any of them. Just the Virtual Boy. Sounds like we both had a awesome childhood.

speedyink wrote:
Hey, nice, I was born on a June 15th as well.

Cool, Happy belated Birthday Dude!

speedyink wrote:
Cool picture =P

Thanks, picture him walking down the street holding a Blockbuster rental case 🙂

vuefinder83 wrote:
Hi everbody,im a new member on this site and i cant wait
to share my stuff and thoughts with the cocommunity.
been lurking this site for years and im excited to now be
a part of it.I’ll post pics and stuff to my profile soon.

Please allow me to reintroduce myself, because my first introduction was straight pitiful!
(I must’ve been overly excited about joining the cocommunity😄)

My Name is Joseph Dacosta (JOEY D). I was born June 15th 1983 in Providence Rhode Island. I was 12 years old back in 1995 when the Virtual Boy was released, and ever since I first played one at my local Toys R us on a Floor Model Display, I knew it was something special.

Today, im a hardcore collector of pretty much all the Video Game Systems that I grew up with, but im “Extremely” passionate about the Virtual Boy. Im just Glad that I finally get to discuss the VB with people that actually share the same interest in it as I do, for my friends and family couldn’t care less.

Thank you for taking the time to read my reintroduction. I’ll see you guys around the community.

Attached is a recent Photo of myself 🙂

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Benjamin Stevens wrote:

vuefinder83 wrote:
Heres a nintendo order form for Game Pak Browser Systems. It mentions a VB “spin-page paddle” and a VB “flip-page paddle” for the browser systems. Store managers had to choose wich system would be suitable for their location and then order either a “spin-page” frame or a “flip-page” frame and then had to choose how they would’ve wanted to complete the browser system with 8 different options to choose from. Although none of this stuff mentioned was available at the time they received these order forms. Im not sure if any of this actually ever did become available.

So how do you suppose this was to work? Was it that a prospective Virtual Boy customer would have been able to walk up to such a Virtual Boy browser system, press a button or something to have the contraption flip through the pages of available games to play, and then the contraption would have inserted the chosen Virtual Boy game pak into a VB system by itself, all behind a protective glass or something, so that the cartridges could not have been stolen by customers?

Sounds pretty darn cool to me.

I believe that I found what seems to be a Game Pak Browser System for the NES and SNES. This should give a good idea of what a Browser System for the VB would’ve looked like.

1st pic- Flip-Page Browser System, where you flip through the Paddles like Pages of a Book.

2nd pic- Spin-Page Browser System, where you can spin the paddles around.

3rd pic- Close up of the Browser System Paddles.

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No problem Ben.

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That was me who won the entry form. I also own a NBC/BLOCKBUSTER “Must See 3-D Sweepstakes” Brochure that has an official entry form attached to the last page, but I never seen one just from NBC. I contacted the seller and he said it came from a store called eb games, said he purchased a few games and they just threw that in the bag.

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LOL😄. Looking back at my last post I made it seem like in order to see this effect you had to hold the shirt up pass your head (I must’ve been trippin’). Thats not what I meant. Here’s the best way to see and notice this “effect”.

Simply hold the shirt in front of you by its shoulders, now slowly extend one of the shoulders out like you were turning the shirt around then bring the shoulder back.

Keep doing this wile looking at the lines and hexagons and you will see this shirts “effect”.
(make shure your in a bright room, fluorescent lights work best)

Ben. Ok, now try it like this.
With your back facing the mirror, Hold the shirt about 12-15 inches in front of you(the blue side works best), now hold it up pass your head a little bit and rock each shoulder of the shirt back and forth like you just won a round of Panic Bomber and the shoulders were the win or lose symbles, only much slower, now pay attention to the lines during the transitions from faded to unfaded and i bet you’ll see exactly what im seeing.

This effect seems to be a sort of “microfiber process” thats not present anywhere else on the shirt but the Red and Blue, not even the black of the VB logo on the front or the Black of the VB eyeshade and lenses on the back, turn the shirt upside down and do this and you’ll notice very clearly that the Black does not have this “microfiber process” effect, very well likely making it a genuine characteristic of the shirt.

I imagine this shirt to look pretty trippy actually seeing someone moving around in it.

No problem KR155E. Sorry I couldn’t provide some High-Res scans for you.

I also just want to say that I still have two more order forms left, ones for the Game Boy Original and the other is for Super Nintendo, they dont mention the Virtual Boy but I would still post these in this thread if anyone is interested in seeing them. I know the SNES one mentions a couple of EarthBound items, Im not sure if there is anything significant on the Game Boy one.

Now, surely Nintendo didn’t just send these order forms out to store managers and expected them to know what everything on them was, these 2nd half of 1995 order forms were supposed to come with a fully colored picture catalog showing everything that was in these forms. Unfortunately, the seller of these forms did not have the 2nd half 1995 catalog, but, he did have the catalog for the 1st half of 1995 wich contained what Im pretty sure is the first Virtual Boy ad that store managers seen before the 2nd half of 1995 arrived.(I do not have this catalog in my collection, so the best picture of this ad that i have is just a screenshot from the sellers auction)

Thanks to everyone who found my first PVB thread interesting.

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I actually own the Panic Bomber VidPro title card, the only one I have ever seen for sale, its also the very one pictured on this site in the VidPro section with all the other cards. I def agree that these cards are practically nonexistent. I got my eyes open for that Dragon Hopper one myself 🙂

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Here’s a Nintendo order form from VidPro International for a 5×7″ VidPro Pocket Plak System. It mentions a Hardware and Accessory Pak for the Nes, Game Boy, Super Nes and Virtual Boy. It also mentions a Virtual Boy 1995 New Release Subscription.

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Here’s a Nintendo order form for mostly advertising items. It mentions a bunch of really cool Nintendo memorabilia. It also mentions an adjustable Game Pak “push system” organizer (for all systems to include Virtual Boy) and a adjustable Game Pak showcase organizer (for all systems to include Virtual Boy).

Check out the 2nd to last item on the list for a Video Wall with Housing Frame, only $17,500.00 THAT’S CRAZY! what kind of store would order such a piece?

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Here’s a P-O-P GAMEPLAY PROMO VIDEO TAPE/LASER DISC ORDER FORM. It doesn’t mention the Virtual Boy, but these order forms are dated 5/95 so im pretty sure both the VHS and the LASER DISC must have contained some sort of VB footage.

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the paper is about 11 inches high about 8.5 inches wide. Just measured it.

Runnerpack, im not sure what kind of paper their printed on but the pages are very thin. I think its that kind of receipt paper if i was to write on the first page it would transfer my writing onto the other pages.

Ben, that sounds way cooler than what it probably actually does. Your guess is as good as mine, I think its just something you walk up to then either spin or flip threw pages of the VB titles that were available at launch.

Heres a nintendo order form for Game Pak Browser Systems. It mentions a VB “spin-page paddle” and a VB “flip-page paddle” for the browser systems. Store managers had to choose wich system would be suitable for their location and then order either a “spin-page” frame or a “flip-page” frame and then had to choose how they would’ve wanted to complete the browser system with 8 different options to choose from. Although none of this stuff mentioned was available at the time they received these order forms. Im not sure if any of this actually ever did become available.

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I actually got these forms from a online auction a few months ago. The story on them is they came from a collection closely associated with nintendo, it came with a set of other order forms for different systems like SNES and GAME BOY. It also came with other forms that mentioned more VB stuff wich I’ll be posting in this thread in the near future.

Dont know why it came out side ways and i only meant to send 1 pic… sorry guys but im still getting use to this 😝

Amazing work done here. The 3d looks awsome on the virtual boy.