We are VR (The Virtual Boy )

The Angry Nintendo Nerd video (The Virtual Boy)

Virtual Boy: Man, this was really a bad system. I remember playing this game system in a toy store and saying, “This sucks.” I didn't know it was considered a portable system. Really? Would you want to walk around with this thing?

The Wikki page states the Nintendo forced the VR Boy into the stores unfinished, which says a lot about the quality of games. Then they blamed the failure on the designer after its failure. Smooth move, Nintendo.

I'm so glad I never had the guts to buy this thing. And, for some reason, the Virtual Boy never seemed like an Nintendo product anyway. It felt like the shovel-ware that Sega put out to support their old systems. Nintendo dropped the system a year later like Microsoft dropped the HD DVD format.

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Anyway, here's a promotional ad for the launch of the VR Boy. You have to love that they hyped it up like it had groundbreaking 3D graphics. Someone should have asked why everything in the game is red and black?

How to put together your VR boy...

A Retrospective on the damn system:

Another ad, but this one is like a killer machine: Why is there a caveman-like guy being chased around by a walking VR Boy?

Wario Land ad: First he's real, then he's a cartoon character in the ad.

(Note: Wario Land seems to be the best game on the system and probably should have been released on the N64 or Super NES instead. )Hey, red and black are my favorite colors, but this is a bit much. You can't expect people to buy something like this with only two colors...wait a minute, people did buy something like this; The old Gameboy with its green and black colors. Damn it...