It was just the cartridge, with the plastic dust cover.

Today’s game manuals are black & white/grayscale probably because it’s cheaper to print them. I think that the same thing happened to PC game packages: the old games had a big, colorful box with nicely drawn art with floppies, a manual, a registration card, technical support info and sometimes even more stuff inside. Nowadays, they’re just sold in DVD boxes. But I have never found game manuals to be helpful.

Oddly enough, I just turned on my Virtual Boy and noticed that for some reason, the right display now works again, but it’s still a bit darker than the left one (and occasionally shows some garbage).
So, should I even bother opening my VB?

[HorvatM]

How did you know I have Red Alarm? Anyway, I got to level 5, but then I shut it off.
There’s a cheat in Red Alarm to skip levels (and do other funky things):
At the title screen, press Select as fast as you can until you hear an explosion. You have to do it before the demo starts playing, otherwise you have to press Start and do it again. Next, start a new game. Then, you can press L, R, Select and A at the same time to bring up a hidden menu which should be pretty self-explanatory to use.

Also, I saw several cheap copies of Virtual League Baseball on eBay once, is it a good game?

• This reply was modified 17 years, 6 months ago by HorvatM.

I have a Virtual Boy from eBay. I don’t know when it was bought originally as it didn’t have the box, but the serial number is:

VN103970064

It’s the US version.

I’m too young to have a first-hand VB – I was born in 1995 😉

Also, it would be cool to know the pattern in which serial numbers are written – maybe they include the manufacturing date, or maybe they are just random numbers.

What is that pen called? Have you got a higher resolution image?