Duke Nukem Forever

Mega Man X7

Most Virtual Boy games, especially Waterworld

speedyink wrote:
AVGN is a character just for the ‘show’, nothing wrong with that. It’s the dumb ass people that think that’s actually who James is that are the problem.

I don’t believe he makes up all his opinions for AVGN, I think what AVGN says is what James Rolfe thinks and believes, only exaggerated for comedic effect. Of course people tend to remember the bad words and bad stuff he says more because they stand out more and often are funny. When he said most of the VB games are okay, that’s not what people remember, they remember how it’s a “piece of shit” etc.

Since he’s so huge and a lot of people listen to him and just take his opinion without checking for themselves I think he’s done some unwitting damage to the VB’s reputation which I don’t like. But I blame the people who just take his (swear-)word on it instead of checking out the VB themselves more.

When it comes to research he does have a problem, I mean remember the Power Glove episode? I own one and from his video it was quite apparent he didn’t calibrate it correctly, either for comedic effect or because he didn’t know how to do it, but the result was people watch that and go “oh my god the power glove is worthless and doesn’t work in the slightest” when that’s just not true (although it’s not a good controller by any means, it CAN work almost decently if handled right).

RCAstudioII wrote:
The only reason that people think the virtual boy is bad is because it was nintendo’s only failure. If it wasn’t made by nintendo, it would be thought of like the vectrex (a failed game console but a good one).

Excellent point. It’s a juicy target.

An interesting development, the head editor of the magazine/website replied to my comment defending the Virtual Boy. And guess what he said?

(paraphrasing)
“Haha. You haven’t played it. We have one at the office and it’s completely terrible.”

Of course he doesn’t know me, but still… -I- haven’t played the Virtual Boy? Me, who owns all the games physically except the big four, me who reviews ALL the games including the unreleased and homebrew.

The kicker to his reply though is the implication that I can’t have played it if I like it, because he dislikes it and can’t believe anyone likes it probably.

It’s ON~

I’m just so sick of the willful ignorance. I can accept it being on a top 10 worst consoles list somewhere, but NOT, NOT, NOT at number 1.

This is not going to help for me making a fishing game fun, but in any case, GOOD JOB.

Benjamin Stevens wrote:

tetris911 wrote:
Nice to see kotaku giving the Virtual boy some attention today!

Too bad the only attention given is basically, “It’s true that the Virtual Boy sucked, but at least it didn’t cause Nintendo to stop trying new things.”

Oh well…

Happy Birthday Virtual Boy!

I don’t think it’s possible for people to say anything about things like the Virtual Boy, Star Wars prequels or Duke Nukem Forever without taking jabs at it at the same time :/

Thanks! You’re one of the few who say positive things about my voice too

Looks like yet again we’ve been… *doh* *dah*

THUNDERSTRUCK!

Thank you, man

I think he might mean when will there be a full game like how Jack Bros, Wario Land or Red Alarm were full games. With intro, stages, ending, high scores, modes and so on. And that is probably still a ways off, but come on! Homebrews are made by enthusiastic people programming on their spare time, probably without extensive games development education etc. Personally I think it will happen in the future.

(on a related note, I’m making a second Homebrew Showcase video)

Interesting. I certainly don’t think companies should throw away all the traces of cancelled projects. Posterity needs it!

This might be cheating, but Dragon Hopper. It looked really good!

Welcome to the bright red world of Virtual Boy!

If you need information on the games for this lovely console, check out my reviews.

Wario Land
Bound High(if it counts)
V-Tetris
Red Alarm
Space Squash

The Virtual Boy and precaution parts look like they were filmed in a VB like how I do it but the Mario part looks just like how NES footage looks, doesn’t look filmed and doesn’t look as crisp as it should on a real VB either, I say fake.

Sorry, I didn’t know.

Any of the Metal Slug games are good bets

a bit frustrating to put effort into something which nobody wants to watch in the end.

I sure know how you feel!

[Protoman85]

I think I remember this guy. he askes permission to use footage from my reviews or something a good while ago, months at least… it’ll be interesting to see what he came up with.

EDIT: Okay, it was pretty good but a bit of a shame he didn’t like most of the games very much and sounded pretty AVGN-ish with panic bomber, water world and red alarm.

• This reply was modified 11 years, 9 months ago by Protoman85.

Very good video and thanks a lot for the shoutout!

I also really hate the simple “the Virtual Boy gives you headaches” argument people say even when they haven’t even played it.