Figured it would be nice to see everyone’s systems and game/accessory collections. I’m quite curious to see how many of the VBs on these forums are in good condition, and how many Blockbuster, retail display, japanese, etc kits there are among us.

Regrettably I sold the VB in my avatar many years ago after I first joined. I think I sold it to then fund the purchase of a new phat DS. Bad move.

I’ve just gotten back into the VB scene after missing it so much. I just purchased a Japanese console in mint condition, boxed. Can’t wait to share with everyone. I also bought a secondary head unit only because I thought I was going to be buying a VB set that had a defective head unit (I got out of that deal). I think I’ll be taking the spare apart and using it as parts for my Japanese model. Maybe have the ribbon cables soldered for when the Japanese model’s go bad.

So I’ll be posting my pictures soon. I have quite a few games already, which I’ll show when I get the console pics up.

But everyone else can start ahead of me. Let’s see those VBs!

Some games you all posted got an orange stickers on them. what is that? please let me know thanks

JoePassive wrote:
Some games you all posted got an orange stickers on them. what is that? please let me know thanks

In Japan, unlike in North America, there was never a rental program during the commercial life of the Virtual Boy, whereby prospective customers could rent a Virtual Boy unit and/or games before buying them outright. Therefore, prospective customers had to play the VB games inside a retail store using the VB demo unit in the store, if they wanted to try them out before making a purchase. Six of the Japanese Virtual Boy games were sent to stores specifically for this purpose, and they each included a “Sample for Demonstration” sticker on their game boxes, which let the store know that these specific copies of the games were not to be sold to customers but were only to be used for the VB demo unit. The six Japanese Virtual Boy games that came in this “demo-only” form were Mario’s Tennis, Red Alarm, Teleroboxer, Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash, and Wario Land. On each orange sticker on the game boxes for these games, it reads “この商品は実演用サンプルとしてご使用ください”, which translates to “This product should be used as a sample for demonstration.” Finding copies of these Japanese demo games is extremely difficult these days for a few of them, especially Mario’s Tennis and Teleroboxer. Hope this info helps.

Here are some updated pictures of my stuff. It’s nothing huge but it’s my own lol

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Benjamin Stevens wrote:

JoePassive wrote:
Some games you all posted got an orange stickers on them. what is that? please let me know thanks

In Japan, unlike in North America, there was never a rental program during the commercial life of the Virtual Boy, whereby prospective customers could rent a Virtual Boy unit and/or games before buying them outright. Therefore, prospective customers had to play the VB games inside a retail store using the VB demo unit in the store, if they wanted to try them out before making a purchase. Six of the Japanese Virtual Boy games were sent to stores specifically for this purpose, and they each included a “Sample for Demonstration” sticker on their game boxes, which let the store know that these specific copies of the games were not to be sold to customers but were only to be used for the VB demo unit. The six Japanese Virtual Boy games that came in this “demo-only” form were Mario’s Tennis, Red Alarm, Teleroboxer, Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash, and Wario Land. On each orange sticker on the game boxes for these games, it reads “この商品は実演用サンプルとしてご使用ください”, which translates to “This product should be used as a sample for demonstration.” Finding copies of these Japanese demo games is extremely difficult these days for a few of them, especially Mario’s Tennis and Teleroboxer. Hope this info helps.

I have found in my years of VB collecting that Red Alarm and Mario’s Tennis are the hardest Japanese demos to find. I have looked for them religiously even after acquiring all 6 in the set, and to this day I’ve only ever seen 1 copy of Mario’s Tennis demo for sale, and I’ve actually seen 0 copies of Red Alarm japan demo for sale, but I was lucky enough to talk another collector into selling their copy. Perhaps I just got really lucky with Teleroboxer, I found a copy the very first time I ever looked for one, and really haven’t seen them for sale since either.

Also worthy of note is that the Red Alarm sticker looks different from the other 5 Japanese demos. 5 of the demos have an orange sticker on the upper right side of the box, while Red Alarm has a red sticker on the upper left side of the box.

retronintendonerd wrote:
Here are some updated pictures of my stuff. It’s nothing huge but it’s my own lol

Are you….bathing in Virtual Boy stuff?

haha nice collection 😀

speedyink wrote:

retronintendonerd wrote:
Here are some updated pictures of my stuff. It’s nothing huge but it’s my own lol

Are you….bathing in Virtual Boy stuff?

LMAO yes. I just got the last game I needed for my collection so I figured it was an appropriate thing to do. I couldn’t get my husband to stop laughing the entire time I had him take the pictures. I had to get him a tripod because he laughed to hard to hold it steady lol

Minggus wrote:
haha nice collection 😀

Haha thanks 😀

Ha, congrats! It does look like you had fun taking the pictures! I agree, that’s an entirely appropriate way to celebrate =P I only wish I thought of it first!

speedyink wrote:
Ha, congrats! It does look like you had fun taking the pictures! I agree, that’s an entirely appropriate way to celebrate =P I only wish I thought of it first!

Haha yeah it was fun. All the animals tried to jump in with me lol Now you just need to top my picture with something even more silly 😉

Oooooh, is that a challenge??

I got some brain storming to do =P

speedyink wrote:
Oooooh, is that a challenge??

I got some brain storming to do =P

*throws down the gauntlet* hehe

I may have to be more creative with how I show off my VB stuff now. This could be fun.

Dreammary wrote:
I may have to be more creative with how I show off my VB stuff now. This could be fun.

I am so excited to see if this idea kicks off lol.

Here is my little collection so far. 🙂

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That’s a nice collection 😀

I still need to find a way to put my games up.

What are those plastic cases you have your US games in? They look translucent, so no 3DS cases, I presume.

Patrik wrote:
Here is my little collection so far. 🙂

Wowza. That’s a lot of duplicates. :O
Looking good man!

astro187 wrote:
What are those plastic cases you have your US games in? They look translucent, so no 3DS cases, I presume.

Pretty sure those are PAL DS cases.

VirtuousRage wrote:

Pretty sure those are PAL DS cases.

Thanks for the tip. I did not know that, but I Googled it and it looks like PAL DS games come in translucent cases. Learn something new everyday!

Dang that’s a nice display setup! I really need to get on it for my VB games. I leave them all loose right now as I like the cart look of them.

Updated collection pic for 2018 🙂

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