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LevityNYC

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I rented one from Blockbuster when it first came out. I thought it was kinda neat, but it did give me some eye strain and back cramps as i could just never find a comfortable position to play it.

I rented Teleroboxer and Mario Tennis. I gotta say that I had fun with them both.

Im sure a lot of Gaffers never tried the system , but other than lousy games and being uncomfortable, it was really neat tech.

I notice that working systems on Ebay sell for a pretty penny and I wish I had bought one many years ago. I'm not going to pretend it was amazing and that I'll play it much, but i kinda feel a void as its the old Nintendo hardware that I don't own. It'd be pretty cool to show people who come by and have never played one before.

Talk me into it or talk me out of it Gaf.
 
I remember renting this from BB back in the day. I really liked Red Alarm. I think I probably just sucked, but I found Teleroboxer fucking haaard.
 
Still got mine and it works fine. Have every game in the US including Jack Bros, Wario, and yes, Waterworld

I'm convinced it's why I wear glasses today
 
It's really fun to mess around with for novelty's sake, but not as something to really play games on.
 
I've got one myself. If you buy one, be sure to check out the Warioland game. It's really a good title. I wonder why they didn't release it onto the 3DS Virtual Console...
 
I've still got mine and break it out every once in a while. It never gave me any eye problems.

I only have something like 3 games and the one that has gotten the most play is Galactic Pinball. Great game.
 
Gunloc said:
I still can't believe they haven't put the games on the 3DS eShop.
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Would it be hard to implement?

I really want a 3DS release/remake of VB Wario Land just to finally play it. Maybe a few other games, too. Red games would not be very appealing though...
 
Me too. I'm considering buying one on eBay plus a few games then reselling it back on there after a few months. I figure I can re-coup 80%+ of the total cost that way as they seem to maintain/go up in price over time.
 
VB Wario Land is one of my favorite platformers of all time. It personally justified VB ownership for me, but only you can decide whether it's worth spending that much cash for the system and the game.

There's not even really another game for the system that I'd describe as being outright "good", but Red Alarm and Teleroboxer can be fun distractions once in a great while.
 
Damn, I always wanted to play Teleroboxer again, that game was fucking awesome, very much in the spirit of Punch Out and probably just as hard from what I remember. Wario Land was pretty good too.



Olli said:
If you want to buy it for collector reasons go for it. Otherwise I would pass.
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Wait, are you saying he should only buy it if he doesn't plan on using it???????????????

LevityNYC said:
It was more than 15 years ago...it was probably total shit....
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Nice logic!
 
A family friend whom I used to visit occasionally had a VB, so I got to play it a bit. I only have good memories of it, although they were admittedly short and few.

I'd love to get one, but way outside my budget, sadly.

I still hope Nintendo follows through with their casual suggestion that they might release some VB games on 3DS.
 
Just go for it. I got one on eBay a couple years ago for about $60 with the box and three games complete. Played with it for about 15 minutes and haven't touched it since.

Highly recommend you get it.
 
If you want to buy one, try Yahoo Japan Auctions - even though you have to pay a deputy service, it's still likely to be cheaper than eBay - we got our MIB Japanese unit there for a fraction of the price the US version sells for on eBay (and it's not region locked ^_^)
 
Mad Pierrot said:
VB Wario Land is one of my favorite platformers of all time. It personally justified VB ownership for me, but only you can decide whether it's worth spending that much cash for the system and the game.

There's not even really another game for the system that I'd describe as being outright "good", but Red Alarm and Teleroboxer can be fun distractions once in a great while.
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I completely agree except that I absolutely loved panic bomber on that system. It's better than the arcade version since more bombs per combo speeds up the pace of the game considerably. I think wario more than makes it worth picking up if you have the good sense to turn out the lights when you play the vb. I never had any eye strain issues with the VB probably because turning it off wasn't akin to exiting a movie theatre and walking into the summer sun...
 
I remember these being demoed inside my local Toys R Us and I wasn't really all that impressed. It was pretty expensive and was like staring into a barcode scanner.
 
LevityNYC said:
The eyestrain from this system is way way way worse than the 3DS.
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Personally, the first few times I used the 3DS gave me way worse eyestrain than my virtual boy ever did.

I've been working my way through the stages of Mario Clash recently actually. Never really gave it much of curiosity play before now. Its a really clever take on arcade Mario Bros. I love the 3D effect on this system. Its more impressive than the 3D in films and on the 3DS.
 
I will be disappointed if Nintendo doesn't ultimately release the Virtual Boy library on the 3DS VC. Wario Land needs to see the light of day on a system that wasn't stillborn.
 
Makes for an interesting display and conversation piece.


But I'd rather nail things into my dick than play the bloody thing.
 
I'm in the exact same position as the OP. I rented the system twice from Blockbuster back in day. First time was with Mario Tennis and Red Alarm (hated the latter) and the second with Mario Tennis and Teleroboxer.

I regret not picking one up when they were going for $79 at Sears... and here I am, many years later trying to score one from ebay which it will be mission impossible since the prices are outrageous.
 
I tried it at Costco, way back when, it was side to side the Crash Bandicoot kiosk.

Crash won.
 
olimpia84 said:
I regret not picking one up when they were going for $79 at Sears... and here I am, many years later trying to score one from ebay which it will be mission impossible since the prices are outrageous.
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I checked out some of the prices and jesus fucking christ at the asking price for this crummy hat
 
I've played Galactic Pinball and Wario Land on my Virtual Boy for multiple hours straight without any bodily strain of any kind. Honestly, I think the Virtual Boy was a very worthy system and have never had a bad experience while playing it.
 
MasterSheen said:
How would it work without a second dpad?
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I think the only game that used the second dpad was Teleroboxer and even then I guess they could map the ABXY buttons to reflect the dpad and use the triggers for the other functions.

Then again, I've read somewhere that porting VB games to the 3DS seems to be a complicated process and so we will probably never see them on the eshop :(
 
olimpia84 said:
I think the only game that used the second dpad was Teleroboxer and even then I guess they could map the ABXY buttons to reflect the dpad and use the triggers for the other functions.
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There was also a first person survival horror that only came out in Japan that I believe made use of the two dads. The left dpad was for movement, and the right one moved your aiming reticle
 
Lijik said:
There was also a first person survival horror that only came out in Japan that I believe made use of the two dads. The left dpad was for movement, and the right one moved your aiming reticle
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Innsmouth Mansion?

Back when I first got my VB I made it my goal to get the complete library, but that crashed and burned in a hurry. Pretty much the only Japan-only VB game that's affordable is V-Tetris, everything else is $100-1k. It's insanity. Even a couple of the US games are stupid expensive like Jack Bros. and 3D Tetris.
 
As a collectable it's really cool, but the actual system really is all kinds of awkward. The games are nothing special too. If you can afford though and you want it then I don't see why not.
 
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