Lester Knight wrote:
It was here that I first tried a VB. I like to think it was Mario Tennis that they had running, but to be honest I can’t recall.
It very well could’ve been Mario’s Tennis that you played that day. Check out this cart only copy of MT that I own, it has the same warranty sticker on the back of it that one might expect to find on the back side of the Wario Land and Red Alarm store kiosk demo versions.
Lester Knight wrote:
I remember the clear pockets from back in the day. Every local Toys R Us had them. I miss flipping them up to read more about the game.
Yeah I remember them from Toys R Us too. I remember me and my cousin going around and mixing up all the slips that you use to redeem your item at the desk.
Apologies for blowing up the Noteworthy but I just need to say…
Ben, I was at work when I read your last post and sorta only scanned through it really quick. But being home now and actually taking the time to read the whole thing, I have to say that you make some really good points there, especially about the lack of wrappings and missing manual and such…
I honestly don’t know what to think of this unit now, but I’m now very curious to find out more. That being said…
Ben, I was judging that unit simply by the looks of that box, wich to me looks like extreme sunfade.
The best example of sunfade that I can find, is from a sunfaded VidPro card for WrestleMania Challenge for the Nes…
Check out the red colors on Hulk Hogans headband and on the Ljn rainbow and Nintendo logo, bleached to almost pure White, and that milky blue-ish color can be seen on the faded VidPro card and on that japan VB box.
But yeah I think the only way to know for sure would be to purchase the unit and give it a thorough examination…
Misprint? It could be. If so, then it’s a cool conversation piece.
If it is sunfade, then it would be fun to pull out some color pencils and color it in 🙂
Now had it been a japan mosaic demo unit with a “un”pixelated Virtual Boy on the box, then that would be something special. But the VB pictured on that box isn’t big enough to be one.
Here are all of the pages from the 1996 Annual Report that mentioned Virtual Boy. Yup, just one page. Just like the 1995 Annual Report this 1996 Annual Report only shows how much Nintendo makes Annually as a whole company, it doesn’t give you sale numbers for any system individually, they just show how much they made and lost in a fiscal year.
MasterOfPuppets wrote:
If there’s anything about the 64DD in them, that would be nice to see as well if you wouldn’t mind.
Just received the 1996 report in the mail today. I’ll take a little time to go through it and then post scans of any VB info found in it, along with scans of the 1995 report as well…