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Jul 09, 2012 • 16:12 Profile Photo Super Bros.

Hello everyone,

My name is JC; I just recently purchased a Virtual Boy bundle on eBay. And thought I’d join a community based around this wonderful system.
When I was growing up I remember seeing the TV commercials and begging my parents for one but they wouldn’t buy one for me (I was 8.); even when it went on clearance their argument was “Obviously it’s junk, if it’s already discounted… You don’t need one of those”. Thankfully I had a friend whom owned one so I did get to play one as a child and I always enjoyed playing Wario Land. I just recently within the last 8 months began to recall VB because of people comparing it to 3DS, so I continually checked eBay for a reasonable deal and 4 days ago I found one; now I will finally have one in a few days according to the tracking number.
I am so excited, the collection is a complete boxed VB with five games (Wario Land, Mario’s Tennis, Golf, Red Alarm and Vertical Force.); I am still needing to purchase Teleroboxer, Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash and hopefully a FlashBoy+.

Well, thanks for reading my story!

-JC

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Jul 09, 2012 • 22:58 Profile Photo jrronimo

Greetings and welcome! I’m not exactly a regular around here but it’s always good to see new faces.

Good luck in acquiring the games you’re missing — I’m personally down to two or three games from a complete collection. I still need 3D Tetris, Panic Bomber and Jack Bros. I’d also like to add in a copy of Innsmouth no Yakata from the J-only side.

Enjoy your new purchase!

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Jul 10, 2012 • 01:23 Profile Photo Super Bros.

Thank you, I am very excited to have finally bought one; I can’t wait to see all that I have missed out on since childhood.

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Jul 11, 2012 • 09:29 Profile Photo Protoman85

Feel free to watch my Virtual Boy reviews, it might help you decide which games to get for it.

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4153&forum=1

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Jul 11, 2012 • 15:50 Profile Photo Super Bros.

Awesome, thanks for the invitation and also I decided just to purchase a FlashBoy+ to complete my collection.
But I am still buying Teleroboxer and Mario Clash as I need those physical copies for my happiness. 🙂

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Dec 25, 2012 • 15:43 Profile Photo Super Bros.

I just wanted to bring my origin thread back as its funny how far I expanded my cart interest since then.

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Dec 25, 2012 • 15:55 Profile Photo Benjamin Stevens

Nice. That reminds me of how quickly I altered my interest in the Virtual Boy. There was actually a time just a little over a year ago when I said to myself, “there is no way that I am going to pay over $100.00 for just one video game.”

To those who know the cost of Virtual Boy stuff, my current collection shows how drastically the Virtual Boy has changed my mindset on that. 😉

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Jan 03, 2013 • 15:33 Profile Photo Gookanheimer

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
There was actually a time just a little over a year ago when I said to myself, “there is no way that I am going to pay over $100.00 for just one video game.”

Haha, I know that feeling. It’s still more or less the same for me though – the most I’ve paid for a game was $114 for Conker’s Bad Fur Day, back when it was brand new. I think the next priciest was RE4 Collector’s Edition, which was $105.

Kinda handy living where I do, nowadays. Basically makes all these things half-price in my mindset compared to the equivalent for an American 😛 Definitely can’t see myself buying a ~15yo game for more than the price of two brand new games…

 

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