Yes! I finally got my virtual boy from a trade
today. I must say I am pretty impressed, this was the
first time I had ever tried it. My favourite game so
far is Mario Tennis(cause I'm a tennis fan) and 3d
tetris is great too! Nesters funky bowling reminds a lot
of a certain SNK bowling game...I think Nintendo
could have done much more with this system with the
right people. It really is a one-of-a-kind console, now
I can understand why it's Vince's fave system. I
can't believe they are so cheap for something of this
quality, I recommend to anyone who hasn't got one to get
one right now, you won't regret
it!<br><br>neological.

I'm starting a brand new VB petition. But it's
not to re-release the Virtual Boy--that'll never
happen. Nintendo has already said that the technology is
too old. Instead, PROJECT: VR-64 is a new campaign to
convince Nintendo to release a new, more advanced system
that employs 3-D virtual immersion technology. The
PROJECT: VR-64 website should be up withing the next
couple of weeks. I need EVERYONE'S help on this so
please e-mail me at ShokinMDM@... if you would like
to go ahead and put your name on the petition.
Please include your name, e-mail address and country
you're from. THANK YOU!

Anyone know how that petition is going?  Is it really going to make an impact on
Nintendo's decision to rerelease the system?<br>Jeff

I'll take a look and now your page is in the link
section #47. One reason I brought this up is because
there're so many VB site I've found and I would like to
share them with all members here.<br><br>Vince

Hi all, I got a new site, VB Lab <a href=http://vblab.8k.com
target=new>http://vblab.8k.com</a> and I need help with ideas for it. Just check
it out and post if you want to help here.

Jeff, welcome to my club. If you really like VB
games, you should get them now instead of PS2 or Game
Boy Color since you can get them anytime and the
prices will keep going down. I also collect Neo-Geo
games, stuff like these come way on top of my priority
because they won't be around for long and the values may
go up later, not to mention getting harder and
harder to find.<br><br>Since you're in the club, check
the links section for all VB related sites and have
fun.<br><br>Vince

Hey all.<br>I love the Virtual Boy, and I have
signed the petition. You might be surprised to know
that, due to very, very poor sight in my left eye, I
have (Don't all gasp at once) no depth perception. I
haven't found a game that required the depth to
play(tennis was a little hard at first-but so is the one for
NES, so go figure), but I feel all empty inside
whenever I see someone new play it and go, "Oooooooh."
*Sniff* I don't actually own a VB; it's on long-term loan
from a friend. He games we have are Mario Tennis(Fun,
but hard if you suck like me.), Golf(Hell yes. I own
NES Golf for, well, NES, Mario Golf for GBC, and
Mario Golf for N64. I love video golf. Anyone played
real golf? What's it like?), Galactic Pinball(My
fav.), Panic Bomber(Pretty crappy), Mario Clash(Okay.),
Red Alarm(Wierd.), Teleroboxer(HATE it.), and
Nester's Funky Bowling(Best bowling game I've ever played,
but did the mascot for Nintendo Power really deserve
a game? Can I get a show of hands?).<br>I'd like to
buy a VB, but with PS2 coming right around the
corner, and GBC games being released like mad, It's a
little low on the priority list.<br>Well, I guess I'll
try to check in every once in a while to see how
everything is goin'. Cool club Vince.<br>Jeff

Or perhaps both of his eyes don't work well?
There is some 3D effect to WW, but you're right, it's
not one of the top titles for that. <br><br>Certainly
Wario Land hits you over the head with it, but my
favorite for the 3D is Galactic Pinball.

Email me if you have one for sale. yang@...

Water World doesn't have that kind of 3D effect
like Teleboxer, I played the game and it's pretty much
2D. As far as the problem on the system (lack of
depth perception), did you check the system with other
games?<br><br>Vince

'I got WaterWorld (That movie ROCKED!!!!) and, I
finally got it into my GameBoy, (had to turn it
sideways...) but it doesn't look very 3D to me... It is in
red, but there's no depth!! :P<br> Did anyone else
have this problem? What's the fix? PLEASE don't tell
me I have to replace the LCD... I've already done it
THREE TIMES!!!!! Those suckers aren't cheap, you
know!<br><br> Anyways, PeAcE OuT!!!!!!'<br> vb_L8mr

Whoa! Those are some serious prices for a little
cart. It reminds me of my sports card collecting days,
it was ridiculous sometimes when I would see these
trades worth hundreds of dollars and this was for a
piece of card board!(or plastic/metal/wood these
days)<br><br>For the price of SD Gundam I could probably get a
Metal Slug(well, used to and if I could find one) or
that pc-engine duo r(w/games) I have been wanting to
get. Yeah, Nintendo should re-produce scarce virtual
boy games, after all, how much can it cost for such
little carts? They should do it like you said it should
be done with future SNK games- produce only what's
pre-ordered and that way the system can stay alive and they
can keep making money while we stay happy :-)
<br><br>John.

John, while most games are very affordable,
there're a few games that will cost you arm and legs, even
a diehard Neo-Geo collector like myself will think
twice about it, for example:<br><br>SD Gundam: Current
market price is about $500 in Japan, that is, if you can
locate one.<br><br>Space Invader: $400.<br><br>Even a VB
fan like myself will not pay that much for it, I can
do a lot of things with $500. That's why it's
important for Nintendo to realize the acual demand of VB
games.<br><br>Vince

Hi Vince, I think I now fall in this category :-)
Thanks for the invitation. Well, it looks like I will be
getting my virtual boy soon, so I will be able to know
what everyone will be talking about here. I have never
seen or touched one apart from seeing it in a magazine
but it's so afforfable now and i have heard such
great comments from you about it that I think there is
no way I can lose. I hope that everyone that has a
virtual boy will join this club and share their thoughts,
i'm sure there are many out
there...<br><br>Regards,<br>John.

I would like to extend my welcome to everyone
who've just joined the club, please feel free to look
around. I've actually started this club a while ago but
it took me a while to find all the cool links and
retailers.<br><br>I encourage everyone to read my intro posts (#1 to
#15) and look through he link section. To maximize the
chance of finding the game you want, check with the
vendors on a routine basis (#71 to #100). You can also
find a lot of codes and game info from all the VB
gaming sites (#1 to #55). Oh, any questions, just ask,
there's no such thing as stupid questions, and let's lay
some support for way2poor for VB game development,
this happened to Atari Jaguar and Lynx after the
company's demise.<br><br>Vince

I won't be able to participate the project, but
if you make games for it, I'll be the first to jump
in and buy those games. Don't worry, I'll be
inviting more people in so this club will get a lot more
traffic. BTW, please give us your email so we can contact
you about it, it sounds like a lot of
fun.<br><br>Vince

I wanna bring the VB (and stereoscopic
entertainment in general) into the new millenium!<br><br>Who's
with me?!?!<br><br>We have to make it powerful, cheap
(!), easy to use and both easy to write good game and
hard to write crappy games (Is this a
paradox?!)<br><br>We should use a parallel processor architecture,
that uses lots of cheap and widely available
processors. (I'm thinking 680x0 or even 6502) (Not Motorolla
biased, hate Apples and don't own a Genesis
;^)<br><br>Also, some processors should be specifically assigned
to certain tasks. Ie. instead of 10 general purpose
machines, 5 gen. purps and:<br> * a 3D sound proc.<br> * 1
3D graph. proc. per eye<br> * 1 2D graph. proc. per
eye<br><br>Maybe we could make it scalable by allowing an
indefinite no. of (gen. purp.) procs be paralleled. Whaddaya
think?<br><br>I don't want to go overboard with the 3D. I can't
stand the cheesy light-mapped, 5-polygon-per-level, no
depth perception, FPS crap that game companies are
pumping out.<br><br>I do, however, like the possibilities
of 3D rendering hardware. Yoshi's Story and Mischief
Makers are both awesome games! If you were to add
stereoscopic capabilities to either, you would have the best
game in the universe!<br><br>Now that I'm done
ranting, who wants to take on this project with
me?<br><br>BTW, I don't think it's logical to shoot for
'portable' like Nintendo did. I'm thinkin' desktop, with the
CPU and 'user interface' separated by a
cable.<br><br>I await the flood of replies, hopefully by e-mail,
too. I don't think I'll be able to check this 'board
that often. But, feel free to talk amongst yourselves
;^)<br><br> - way2poor

Hi Y'all, <br>I am also a proud owner of a
virtual boy. I have the AC adapter and 5 or 6 games since
a friend of mine also has a VB and lets me borrow
his. The games I have are:<br><br>Mario
Tennis<br>Teleroboxer<br>Red Alarm (my favorite)<br>Golf<br>Mario Clash<br>and
my friend has Galactic pinball

Hello all, great another new Virtual Boy YahooClub!<br><br>Oh and Vince, I use
i_m_virtual_boy mostly for on my page, I always chat at Yahoo with FerryGoeD
:)<br><br>Well... see ya later!<br>Ferry.

thanks

Well, you can get almost all of VB accessory from
Nintendo themselves, here's the
URL:<br><br><a href=http://store.nintendo.com
target=new>http://store.nintendo.com</a><br><br>If you have an AC adaptor from
Super NES, you can
just purchase the adaptor tap from Nintendo, which
costs $5.00 plus shipping. Otherwise you'll need to get
the entire AC Adaptor Set.<br><br>Vince

just wondering.  do you happen to know of a place where i can purchase an ac
adapter.....fromall the sites youve been....if you see or know of anything
please let me know...thanks inadvance

Hi Jon:<br><br>Welcome to my club, feel free to
look around the links I've set up, I still have man
more links to set up, once done, I'll be inviting a
lot of people in.<br><br>Yes, one purpose of my club
is to raise awareness of VB and get enough people to
petition to Nintendo.<br><br>Vince

I am one of the few proud owner of a Virtual Boy.
<br>Sadly I only bought the system near its demise, since i
was strapped for cash. I own but a few games. These
are<br><br>Mario's Tennis<br>Wario Land<br>Nester's Funky
Bowling<br>Telero Boxer<br><br>I find that outlet malls carry a few
VB games. The next time i visit one, I am cleaning
them out. <br>They only carry so much though.<br>I
totally enjoy the VB. The was it immerses you into the
game. Even though its only 2 colors, it pulls it off in
a good way. You are right about the bad publicity
that the VB got prior to its release and during its
short lived availabilty. People these days dont care
about innovoation or out of the norm I should say. VB
was a very innovative system. I was a bit
apprehensive when I first saw it, but was also curious. Now I
only wish that Ihad purchased the machine at the
height of its popularity, wich was also short lived.
Hopefully with the petition, Nintendo will release the
games that were not released and also I hope they will
make games for it in the near future. LONG LIVE
VB!!!<br><br>Jon

With the demise of Virtual Boy, many wonder if
there'll be any virtual reality home system. My thought
over this is, it's unlikely. First, it'll cost a
fortune to develop a system, which would carry on to
consumers who want it. Remember, during development of
Virtual Boy, Nintendo had conidered putting a few colors
on the system, but the cost factor along was a major
deterrant. Yes, it'd cost $75 to put an extra color on a
single Virtual Boy system, if we want basic 6 colors on
VB, that would cost over $500. Hey, Sega had tried to
bring out such system but it was simply impossible to
bring it out at mass market prices.<br><br>Second,
virtual reality games are designed for short period of
playing time, anything over 15 min may induce headache,
that's why Nintendo had put automatic pause on all the
games for every 15 min. I've heard a VR software
developer passing out after 36 hours of programming on
VR.<br><br>For now, we'll see VR gaming strictly at arcade and
for the rest of us, get a Virtual Boy before it's too
late.<br><br>Vince

I have spent a great deal of time looking for
Virtual Boy related sites, and I would like to share it
with everyone.<br><br>Link #1 to #55 are Virtual Boy
related gaming/fan sites. I chose to direct people to the
main page so we can look around the rest of the
club.<br><br>#56 to #70 are emulation sites, these are useful, but
I don't think you can really emulate VB games, it's
probably the only system which games can't be emulated,
but it'd be worth checking them out.<br><br>#71 to
#100 are Virtual Boy retailers/vendors, I've searched
around and I don't think you'll find anything more
comprehesive than this. If you're looking for certain games,
make sure you check with them on a routine basis and
they normally don't update the stock
immediately.<br><br>I'll check all links on a routine basis and make sure
they all work, else I can sub a different site should
one page gets shut down.

Virtual Boy is by far the most unique system, not
only is it a stand alone system (not connected to TV),
it requires people to look inside, isolating
yourself from the real world completely. IMO, only Vectrex
comes close in similarity but it has a regular
monitor.<br><br>Vince

While I've done my best to provide info about
Virtual Boy, I would like our members to contribute
photos of the Virtual Boy games, systems, or any related
items in the photo section.<br><br>Feel free to create
a new album and scan everything you have so all of
us can view them.<br><br>Vince

This is what broke me down, there're so many
games developed but never released, one of the reasons
I want people petitioning Nintendo for this, go to
this
URL<br><br><a href=http://www2.gol.com/users/geopal/vb011.htm
target=new>http://www2.gol.com/users/geopal/vb011.htm</a><br><br>and here're the
list of games with planned release
dates (if available):<br><br>Bound High - Feb 23,
1996<br>Doraemon - March 1996<br>Face Ball - Sept
1995<br>Interceptor - ??<br>J League 3D Stage - March 20,
1996<br>Night Landing - ??<br>Niko-Chan Battle - March
1996<br>Out of the Deathmount - March 1, 1996<br>Polygo Block
- Feb 1996<br>Protious Zone - March 1996<br>Shin
Nihon Pro Wrestling - Dec 1995<br>Sunday Point -
??<br>Virtual Battle Ball - ??<br>Virtual Block - Dec
1995<br>Virtual Bomberman - Feb 1996<br>Virtual Double - Feb 2,
1996<br>Virtual Gunman - March 1996<br>Virtual Pro Yakyu 96 -
March 1996

Regardless of rarity, most of us just want to
play the games, right? So that reason I'll list the
games Virtual Boy owners shouldn't be
without<br><br>Jack Bros<br>Wario Land<br>Mario Tennis<br>3D
Tetris<br>Space Squash<br>Virtual Golf<br>Nester's Funky
Bowling<br>SD Gundan (if you can find it)<br>Galatic
Pinball<br><br>If you have those, you'll get the best out of
Virtual Boy.<br><br>Vince