This seems like a strange question but I had this conversation with another friend of mine and figured I’d ask this. How do you use your Virtual Boy, by this I mean how do you position it. Do you sit it on a table or desk and use it on the stand? Do you drape it over your head while reclined on a chair, bed, or futon? Are you using some sort of home-made strap or headset attachment? I’m kind of curious how everyone here uses theirs.

I *mostly* used mine under the covers laying in bed at night while I was growing up. So I would be laying on a bed with the unit laying on my chest. This worked really well and I never had fatigue problems for many, many hours of Galactic Pinball and Mario Tennis. Plus the positioning for the eyes was really good.

I recently tried to use mine on a table “as recommended” and found it to be a pretty uncomfortable experience. Maybe I need a taller table or a smaller chair to really spread out, but I preferred my laying down position.

jrronimo schrieb:
I *mostly* used mine under the covers laying in bed at night while I was growing up.

I always use the “standard” position. But I´m tempted to try your approach 😉

jrronimo wrote:
I *mostly* used mine under the covers laying in bed at night while I was growing up. So I would be laying on a bed with the unit laying on my chest. This worked really well and I never had fatigue problems for many, many hours of Galactic Pinball and Mario Tennis. Plus the positioning for the eyes was really good.

I love this method. I always use it too. 32-bit 3D console gaming in bed? Why not? 😀

I play mine the classic way. The VB looks way too fragile to me to be played any other way.

Most of the time I use the stand, but if I’m on a bed I may either lie on my back and rest the system on my face.

WoLfMaN wrote:

jrronimo schrieb:
I *mostly* used mine under the covers laying in bed at night while I was growing up.

I always use the “standard” position. But I´m tempted to try your approach 😉

I recommend it! The trick is to use the legs to prop the system up so that it rests on your forehead, not your nose. Extended comfort! 😀

jrronimo schrieb:

WoLfMaN wrote:

jrronimo schrieb:
I *mostly* used mine under the covers laying in bed at night while I was growing up.

I always use the “standard” position. But I´m tempted to try your approach 😉

I recommend it! The trick is to use the legs to prop the system up so that it rests on your forehead, not your nose. Extended comfort! 😀

Don´t know exactly what you mean by “prop the system up”…how can it rest on my forehead?

Can you post a pic?

WoLfMaN wrote:

jrronimo schrieb:

WoLfMaN wrote:

jrronimo schrieb:
I *mostly* used mine under the covers laying in bed at night while I was growing up.

I always use the “standard” position. But I´m tempted to try your approach 😉

I recommend it! The trick is to use the legs to prop the system up so that it rests on your forehead, not your nose. Extended comfort! 😀

Don´t know exactly what you mean by “prop the system up”…how can it rest on my forehead?

Can you post a pic?

I’ll try to get one later. Here’s a horrible MS Paint version. In reality, your head would be on a pillow, so the angle for the VB stand isn’t as severe as the picture. The red-brown is the visor, with the top of the Virtual Boy visor resting on your forehead, keeping the system off the bridge of your nose. The green is the controller and the light brown is the cable. The grey is the VB stand. — the colors were chosen so I could reference them, haha.

It works much better in practice than it does in MSPaint. :p

In the end, you’ll figure out what works best for you. But in a dark room on a bed keeps light from leaking in around the edges of the visor. 🙂

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hmmm…interesting. Aren´t you scared that it will tip over when you move your body a bit during gameplay, or is that position on your chest stable enough?

jrronimo wrote:
I *mostly* used mine under the covers laying in bed at night while I was growing up. So I would be laying on a bed with the unit laying on my chest. This worked really well and I never had fatigue problems for many, many hours of Galactic Pinball and Mario Tennis.

Hah hah hah! 😀

No wonder you were always falling asleep in class!!!

That’s how I’ve always played it, just like the very artistic pic above. Sadly, I’ve broken two stands, had to repair* them; well, one now has its CLIP broken, but that’ll be easy to fix. I just balance the legs on my chest; gets a bit sore after awhile…

* Repair — removed the plastic hub (it was in pieces anyway), bent the leg rods more into a circle (to hold onto a screw), tapped the hole that the plastic hub used to use, then added screw & a lock nut. I used a shallow & wide headed screw, but a washer would work fine. Had to cut two slots in the stand’s hub-plate (one on each side), then bend up the resulting two tabs to provide STOPS for the legs. Works great.

(Bending the legs into more of a circle is hard.)

I used to do the put on face method but what stopps me is the stress it places on the visor. I’m afraid w all that pressure on it it could rip early.

I generally lean back on a recliner or a bed with a bunch of pillows and place the VB over my face at a slight angel. It’s more comfortable than any sort of hunch or lean required to use the stand.

I always just used the stand on a desk, but you’re all making me curious to try out other setups!

The “VB-playing” shoulder hunch is pretty much symmetrical to my day job “wtf is this code doing?” shoulder hunch, so I’ve never found it very uncomfortable or unnatural. 🙂

vb-fan wrote:

jrronimo wrote:
I *mostly* used mine under the covers laying in bed at night while I was growing up. So I would be laying on a bed with the unit laying on my chest. This worked really well and I never had fatigue problems for many, many hours of Galactic Pinball and Mario Tennis.

Hah hah hah! 😀

No wonder you were always falling asleep in class!!!

Hilariously enough, I *did* sleep a lot in classes, but it wasn’t always just VB related, heh.

WoLfMaN wrote:
hmmm…interesting. Aren´t you scared that it will tip over when you move your body a bit during gameplay, or is that position on your chest stable enough?

I’ve always found it stable enough. Or maybe the blankets helped stabilize it as well? Plus I usually have a pillow under my head (not pictured) that changes the angle a little bit…