pinmagic schrieb:
“Virtual & Boy”? That’s a dealbreaker.
“Virtual & Boy” looks like a smart way to get around any copyright problems, but I agree. It’s a dealbreaker for me too.
Maybe the shirt designer would agree to privately “sell licenses” (aka hand out the vector graphic) to interested people, who could then remove the ampersand and print a copyright infringing shirt on their own responsibility. 😀
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Nice find, Ben! A lot of the artwork got reused. I wonder how the actual races would have looked on the Virtual Boy.
I have found the game on ebay, have a look at the artwork on the inside. Looks familar. 🙂
Cool find, Ben! Two new screenshots and quite a bit of information as it seems. 🙂
There’s a few more Virtual Boy related posts to be found in this channel, including a paragraph about Virtual Double Yakuman. Here’s the complete list of what I could spot. There’s probably more.
空とぶヘンリーが発売されていれば、この寒い冬も暖かくしてくれたのに。 pic.twitter.com/8hm7grmo5I
— ゲーム探偵団 (@game_tanteidan) February 15, 2015
サードパーティー以外にも売ってくれていれば…！ pic.twitter.com/zy1SdW3fsX
— ゲーム探偵団 (@game_tanteidan) February 15, 2015
バーチャルボーイは携帯できるハードだから･･･！ pic.twitter.com/VDLv5A1EO1
— ゲーム探偵団 (@game_tanteidan) January 23, 2015
あっ…。 pic.twitter.com/QwxMdKCEzR
— ゲーム探偵団 (@game_tanteidan) December 21, 2014
こんなに誌面を赤黒くしやがって…興奮してきたじゃないか。 pic.twitter.com/qsCdNgGz5Q
— ゲーム探偵団 (@game_tanteidan) October 3, 2014
ステキな世界線。 pic.twitter.com/AQtaJ20TcT
— ゲーム探偵団 (@game_tanteidan) October 3, 2014
レッドアラームをプレイした人はみんなまずこの一言しか出てこないということを見事に表した広告である。 pic.twitter.com/SHJXj6Cidb
— ゲーム探偵団 (@game_tanteidan) October 3, 2014
After VVVBBB, here’s a more original game idea I want to share with you guys:
Mach 7
A futuristic top-down racing game, think F-Zero meets Micro Machines. It would support a PlayLink-to-USB cable in combination with a little PC client to allow for several online modes.
* Grand Prix: 4 ships compete in 4 races in different cups
* Quick Race: a single race against 3 opponents
* Time Challenge: race against the clock, trying to beat the fastest time for each track
* Best Times: a scoreboard of your best times for each track, features online sync to a community scoreboard hosted on PVB
* Multiplayer: Local or online 2-4 player quick races or grand prix
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thunderstruck wrote:
I’m not sure if money is the right way to keep a project going. I actually do appreciate it allot when people show interest in what I’m doing and of course when they like the final result. When I spent too much time on making a game I tend to burn out quite fast. Seeing that others actually care about what I’m doing makes a big difference.
I totally agree with you that other people’s interest plays an important role in keeping up motivation to continue with a project beyond your own initial incentive. It has always been a driving force in the homebrew scene, while money is a totally new player in the game. It hasn’t played a role at all before Hyper Fighting. At least not to my knowledge. It has always been about the fun of creating something.
I don’t know the story beyond what Ben told us (thanks by the way for the very interesting read!), but I think it’s absolutely OK that quite a bit of money was involved in the making of Hyper Fighing. It helped Mr. Anon through a time of financial shortage and led him to create what is arguably the most incredibly homebrew effort for the Virtual Boy to date. Ben got his dream game for his favorite console and eventually the community got a great demo to play on their FlashBoys plus a few full copies out in the wild. A win-win-win situation.
There is of course a slight risk that money might ruin everything in case people eventually don’t consider creating homebrews to be worth their time anymore when there’s no money to be earned with it. But I am sure that this will not happen. To the contrary, if enough financial support could be gathered in the future for individuals or little teams to really put lots of time and effort in a game, without having to worry about paying the rent, we might see more commercial-grade titles like Hyper Fighting in the future. I think it’s a chance. I know I would definitely consider quitting my day job and putting all my time into a VB game if my expenses could be covered through crowd-funding for two years or so. That much (like, Kickstarter-much) money will most likely never be on the table for a Virtual Boy game, though. 😉
L___E___T schrieb:
While I think of it – there’s an unfinished VB mock-up on this guy’s unpublished WIPs – saw it on Pixel Joint:http://www.pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/dumpofpeace.png
Apologies for double post, couldn’t go back to edit the previous.
Nice, looks like GTA. Cut it out and attached it.
