Dreammary wrote:
… I am only wanting one because I currently quit using the VB because it’s so damned uncomfortable…

I think we all must admit that using the Virtual Boy in the way originally desired by Nintendo can be quite uncomfortable, especially for long gaming sessions, depending on how one positions him- or herself. When I determined to go for high score runs in VB games a couple of years ago, which was going to require 7 to 8-hour long gaming sessions at a time, I took some time to come up with a position for me that would be most comfortable, so that I could last so long without terrible discomfort. For me, trying to play a virtual boy at a table or desk while sitting upright in a chair, as Nintendo advertised, will just never be comfortable enough for me to last for several hours at a time. What I found to be the most comfortable, without requiring the addition of too many things, is to play the Virtual Boy in a slightly reclining position, so in a reclining chair or even a bean bag chair, etc. To do this, I have to place a platform of sorts on my lap, for the Virtual Boy’s stand to rest on. I actually have a sturdy, cube-shaped hard case for storing the Nintendo GameCube, which I bought many years ago at a Game Stop and which works great as a lap platform. With myself in the slightly reclining position and the Virtual Boy with its stand resting on the lap platform, so that the Virtual Boy is just slightly tilted towards me and lightly pressing against my face, I can play the Virtual Boy for hours and hours at a time, with hardly any discomfort to my face, neck, arms, back, etc. The slight discomfort I might feel during a several hour long session is probably about the same as any discomfort one might feel from playing any system for several hours at a time. The position I use might look a little ridiculous to somebody looking at me, but I usually play in a room alone, so nobody is usually there to mock me for it, and if a family member would happen to come in, then that person just needs to realize it’s Virtual Boy, so back off… 🙂

Thus, I don’t know how long you have tried to come up with a comfortable position for yourself besides using a head mount, but I must say rather cornily, “I found something that worked for me, and I believe you can find something that will work for you, so keep at it!” 🙂

vuefinder83 wrote:

I specifically remember first hearing about the Virtual Boy from a NBC/BlockBuster video “Must See 3-D Sweepstakes ” commercial…

Speaking of Blockbuster, that reminds me. My best friend of more than 20 years now remembers buying a Virtual Boy and some games at Blockbuster Video very shortly after the Virtual Boy’s commercial failure, so it was probably in 1996 or 1997. It wasn’t too long ago that I asked to see his Virtual Boy collection, and to my surprise, the VB rental case that was included with his purchase at Blockbuster was the extremely rare TravelMaster hard case. Little is known about it, but from what I gather, that case must have been received by Blockbuster stores before the more common one with the Virtual Boy logo. I don’t remember any store besides Blockbuster that would allow Virtual Boy units to be rented out at the time, so I can’t imagine that the TravelMaster case was actually intended for stores besides Blockbuster, but I’d be curious to know if anybody else remembers other stores besides Blockbuster having hard carrying cases for VB systems and/or renting out Virtual Boy systems and games.

I wish I had noticed the Virtual Boy more when it was originally released. I was 13 years old when the Virtual Boy launched, and since I didn’t get a paying job until I was 16 years old, that meant that I would have had to have relied on my parents buying me the system and its games at the time. Unfortunately, years before, I had made a promise to my parents, as I’m sure many kids desperate for a new video game system have, which was: “Mom, if you buy me a Nintendo, I promise I will never ask for another video game system ever again!” My mom had no problem ensuring that the promise was kept. Thus, I was on my own, with what little allowance I had, for new systems, and since I was already invested in the Super Nintendo and very much looking forward to the Nintendo 64, trying to afford any other system just didn’t seem within my means. I do remember Virtual Boy games being on the shelves at a local store named “Hills” at the time. Nevertheless, I just don’t remember there being much hype about the system among my friends or in the video game magazines, to which I was subscribed. Thus, it just never really caught my attention, and never would until about only 4 years ago.

I also very much enjoy collecting for all the systems I grew up with. Just what exactly are all of the systems that you grew up and for which you collect now? As for me, the very first system that my brother and I ever had was an Atari 2600, which my mom bought for us around the time that the NES was being released, so I’m guessing it was on clearance and the price attracted her to it more than anything else. Then, my brother and I begged my mom for an NES a couple of years later, thinking it would be the last system we’d ever need. After that, we were pretty much on our own for systems, aside for the fat gray Game Boy that my mom bought each of us. I can’t remember if we got that before the NES or not. Other systems that we ended up getting during childhood were the Super Nintendo, Atari Lynx, and the Panasonic 3DO. Those systems were shared between my brother and me. I then later got just about every Nintendo system, so Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, DS, 3DS, GameCube, and Wii. I still do not own a WiiU, and I actually don’t know if I ever will, since I now only have a passion for retro games, and my cutoff for what is considered “retro” is actually the Virtual Boy. Thus, all systems made after Virtual Boy just don’t grab my interest that much, and while I’m not opposed to buying and playing some of those games, I certainly have no desire to collect for any later system.

The biggest systems that I collect for are the Virtual Boy, which I now consider to be the best system ever made, the Atari 2600 and 7800, and the Atari Lynx. I pretty much have “fully complete” game collections for the 7800 and the Lynx, and my NTSC loose cart collection for the 2600 is embarrassingly close to being finished. My Virtual Boy game collection was complete at two different times, but I since got rid of the 2 copies of Virtual Bowling that used to be in my collection. One day, I will very likely acquire it again and probably hold onto it for good, at which time my Virtual Boy game collection will then be fully complete once more.

Okay. I think I figured out most of the proper tags now, but I’m not sure if this site does some of the other effects.

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[Benjamin Stevens]

I’m actually curious to see if all of the tags in the table I referenced will work on this site, since the webpage I referenced said that some of the tags on the list are less likely to be supported than the others, though they are popular. Thus, here goes my experiment:

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• This reply was modified 11 years ago by Benjamin Stevens.
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Just out of curiosity, does this site only allow the standard bbcode tags to be used, so all of the tags found here:

Or does it allow any additional tags and effects to be used?

vuefinder83 wrote:
I believe that I found what seems to be a Game Pak Browser System for the NES and SNES. This should give a good idea of what a Browser System for the VB would’ve looked like.

1st pic- Flip-Page Browser System, where you flip through the Paddles like Pages of a Book.

2nd pic- Spin-Page Browser System, where you can spin the paddles around.

3rd pic- Close up of the Browser System Paddles.

Nice find! That explains it very clearly then.

If they did truly make these for the Virtual Boy, it would sure make a nice display for one’s VB collection! 🙂

speedyink wrote:
This article doesn’t exactly put the system in a good light, lol. I don’t understand his gripes for any of the games. Its easy to hit the ball in tennis, red alarm is easy to see what’s what, and what the heck is so shaky about teleroboxer? The last one really doesn’t make any sense..

The top picture is kind of cool though.

I am constantly reminded of just how much of a VB fanboy I am, every time I read people’s ignorant criticisms of the Virtual Boy.

Marioguy wrote:
It’s a shame that the second, third and fifth box of the Virtual Boy’s is a bit damaged/scratched on the top.

Especially since it looks like the person who opened the shipping box was the one who cut and damaged the system boxes inside when he was cutting open the main shipping box.

I find this auction to be noteworthy because one almost never finds for sale an original shipping box, into which Virtual Boy systems were originally packed.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Virtual-Boy-5-system-Set-with-Original-Master-Carton-Nintendo-Japan-/301329480017?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_71&hash=item4628a2f951

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pinmagic wrote:
It’s heavy and solid. The guy in Japan just wrapped it in some brown craft paper, and dropped it in the mail. Survived just fine.

Very nice! Thanks for sharing the photos!

Yes, it is found on this site under the Merchandise section and is simply referred to as the “Jeans Shirt.”

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/advertising/?m05

Here is a link to photos of mine:

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=23918#forumpost23918

pinmagic wrote:
Nice piece, but it didn’t appear to have the Japan-only (AFAIK) floor plate – a large, heavy metal plate you stand on while playing. The plate hooks over the bottom legs of the display unit, but isn’t physically attached to it. Fortunately, I was in Japan a number of years ago, and met a guy who had the foot plate on his display. I was able to work a deal for the foot plate, so now it’s on my US display unit.

I’m told that, when the VB died, Nintendo reps went around tossing these units. Shame.

Neat! Could you please provide us a pic of the floor plate on your display unit?

mawa wrote:
i whas bidding on it bud have stopt beacouse price gets to high i think
what will this be worth you think benjamin in usa / europa

I personally think that it is worth over 1,000 US Dollars or over 900 Euros.

Recently, a Japanese Virtual Boy Store Display (Floor Model) sold on Yahoo! Auctions Japan for 194,200 Japanese Yen = 1,016.11 British Pounds = 1,386.40 Euros = 2,027.74 Australian Dollars = 1,560.92 US Dollars

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h202636153

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jumpman wrote:
… As you can see in the videos, un-du can remove just about anything, from anything…

I must say that the duct tape being removed from the toilet paper is by far the most impressive…

I’m not sure if I would actually use toilet paper that had duct tape removed from it… but impressive nonetheless. 😉

Have you ever used it to remove stickers that were actually on the seal of a game box, or have you only used it to remove stickers on unsealed game boxes?

I’ve seen several videos of people using such substances to remove stickers on game boxes, cartridges, etc., but game boxes and cartridges are certainly much stronger and able to withstand such better than the plastic seals that originally came on some old game boxes, especially the plastic seals on Virtual Boy games, which are quite fragile compared to plastic seals that are used on some modern games.

I would think that using any kind of substance, even water, on the original Virtual Boy seals would give a risk of warping the seal, etc.

If your main concern is preserving the condition of the seal, then I would highly recommend not even attempting to remove any stickers from it. You just never know how much adhesion a sticker might have until you go to remove it.

Plus, if the sticker to be removed identifies the original retail store from which the game came, then the sticker itself has some good historical value to it.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. 😀

Lester Knight wrote:
…Thanks Ben, Chris, and Richard!

You’re welcome. Glad I could be of help.

Lester Knight wrote:
It would take me a few pages of writing to explain to everyone what this number means to me and my family. Let me just say that it has been an incredibly lucky number. Many important events have fallen on the 13th of the month, happened 13 days late, and so forth…

In my case, 13 has definitely been a very unlucky number for me at various times in my life. For instance, on June 13th of the year 1995 – yep, the year of the Virtual Boy’s release – I got sick and remained sick until June 26th. I was so sick, in fact, that I spent June 22nd through June 26th in a hospital far away from home, sick with pneumonia, so during the warm summertime when people don’t usually come down with pneumonia. Oh yeah, and my birthday is June 25, 1982, so that year I spent my 13th birthday sick with pneumonia in a hospital far away from home. So I got sick on the 13th day of the month, was sick for a total of 13 days, and my 13th birthday fell within that time period.

Perhaps it is best, therefore, that I let that particular copy of the FlashBoy go. 🙂