How Nintendo took a gamble on a new kind of gaming experience in the '90s.
  • @[email protected]English
    17•7 months ago

    If you’ve got a modded 3ds, Red Viper works extremely well to emulate Virtual Boy games, if you’re curious about them. Arguably it’s a better experience than playing them on a Virtual Boy.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•7 months ago

        The Wario game is pretty good if you liked the original Game Boy Wario games.

        Mario Clash is a fun take on the original Mario Bros game which didn’t need to be 3D, so I’m a little disappointed they haven’t revisited it.

        Jack Bros. is notable for being Atlus’ first release in the West, and I remember having some fun with that one.

        Mario Tennis was also pretty good, but there are probably better Mario Tennis games by now.

        How many consoles can say that ~28% of their library is worth checking out? Haha

  • Zorque
    16•7 months ago

    Pretty sure I still have a headache from using one in a Blockbuster in the 90s.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•7 months ago

    I loved my virtual boy when I was a kid. It felt like the future or something. It didn’t have a lot of great games, but I did get most of the best ones when blockbuster video started clearing out their inventory and sold games for like $5 each.

  • @ReallyActuallyFrankensteinEnglish
    4•7 months ago

    I remember seeing these for $30 in Toys R Us clearance bins and I still kick my kid self for not picking one up.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•7 months ago

    you can now play nintendo virtual boy games on iphone using retroarch, from the app store today.

    and it supports vision pro. is this a killer app?

  • Nate CoxEnglish
    3•7 months ago

    Ugh I wanted one of these so fucking badly when I was a kid.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•7 months ago

        I think this is kind of a thing for a lot of stereoscopic 3d technology.

        I could play the virtual boy, 3ds, watch 3d movies, etc. for hours without issue, and other people can’t take it at all.

        I don’t know what factors play into that, maybe it’s genetic, maybe there’s some kind of skill/technique/habits about how you focus your eyes, or how often you blink, maybe it’s just luck of the draw that your pupil distance is just right or wrong. Maybe it comes down to something ridiculous like how many hours you spent trying to make sense of Magic Eye books when you were a kid.