What are some fitting slogans for the Virtual Boy? I looked to see if there were any Nintendo used but I couldn’t find anything “exciting.” I always imagine some cheesy 90s Nintendo Power ad that says, “Virtual reality has never been so RAD!” (rad/red close enough lol)

What are some of yours? What do you think would have made a great marketing slogan?

“Virtual Boy: Welcome To Reality.”

You know what they say, once you’ve had red and black, you never go back. 🙂

HoMenace wrote:
You know what they say, once you’ve had red and black, you never go back. 🙂

If I had the ability to do so on this site, I would totally up-vote this one. 🙂

Here’s a more serious one, which I thought of:

“Virtual Boy: Go ahead, immerse yourself!”

“Virtual Boy, Into the game!”

An official one that they sorta used was “It needs your eyes”.

Mine would be something like “Virtual Boy – It’s not an R-Zone”.

DogP

Virtual Boy: Totally Red, to the Max!

(Anybody else remember using rad to the max?)

DogP wrote:
An official one that they sorta used was “It needs your eyes”.

Mine would be something like “Virtual Boy – It’s not an R-Zone”.

DogP

Hey, it’s not nice to diss on R-Zone… It’s like Game & Watch mixed with Virtual Boy and I really like it a whole lot.

Dreammary wrote:
Hey, it’s not nice to diss on R-Zone… It’s like Game & Watch mixed with Virtual Boy and I really like it a whole lot.

Heh, well I wasn’t exactly dissing the R-Zone… I was more referring to how they both came out around the same time, both were red, and both sorta trying to be “virtual reality”. When I talk to people about the Virtual Boy, quite a few say “Oh yeah, that was the one that was like those old handheld games strapped to your head, right?” Argh…

That said, I’m not really a fan of the R-Zone… IMO, they seemed to be pushing it as something it wasn’t (a real video game console). I played a LOT of handheld Tiger LCD games growing up, but from what I remember of the R-Zone (haven’t played one since ’98 or so), they had a lot of games that weren’t really suitable for that style (fighting games like Virtua Fighter and Mortal Kombat, racing games like Indy 500 and Daytona, etc). And why did they even try a head mounted version? It was FAR from an immersive experience.

If they would have just done games like some of my favorite handheld LCD games (Mouse Maze, Mini Golf, TMNT, etc), I would have been much more accepting of it. But even those had backgrounds. And I had those games in the late 80’s… I would have expected something better by the mid 90’s.

DogP

speedyink wrote:
Virtual Boy: Totally Red, to the Max!

(Anybody else remember using rad to the max?)

Oh yes… I remember that one.

Very ’90s appropriate.