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  1. Re:Not first. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March

    Hmm... portable in the broadest sense of the term, perhaps. Can't imagine getting in a quick game of toleroboxer while on the bus.

    Portable != handheld

  2. Re:Not first. by nobodyman · · Score: 1 · on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March

    Hmm... portable in the broadest sense of the term, perhaps. Can't imagine getting in a quick game of toleroboxer while on the bus.

  3. Old technology! by thecodeman · · Score: 1 · on Get Ready For The 20-inch Laptop

    Nintendo has actually already come up with this technology. Do you remember Virtual Boy http://www.virtual-boy.org/ and the Power Glove? http://www.rolandit.com/games/Peripherals/viewperi pheral.asp?GID=7 :-)

  4. Re:Two Words.... Light Saber by iamhassi · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Nintendo Revolution Controller Revealed
    " HELL. YES. I just watched the video off of IGN's website, in one part, there was a guy using it as a sword. "

    I agree, i read the article and really think this would work great and cant wait to try it.

    Did the other people posting even read the article? Because I admit, at first glace it looks stupid, but after reading the demos (flying a plane, basketball, race car, Metroid Prime FPS) it sounds like it'd be really cool.

    The FPS sounded especially cool, aim by moving the entire controller! Now all I need are VR googles so i'm not stuck staring at a screen across the room while my arm is pointed somewhere else.

    could this be it? could this be the VR system we've all been waiting for?? The controller's perfect for it.... tell u what, if it is then it'll SLAUGHTER the xbox and ps3. I dont care if it has N64 graphics a VR system would be AMAZING.

    just dont bring back the Virtual Boy. Anymore 2D red wire-frame graphics and i'll have to.... um, not buy it like i didnt the first time.

  5. Remember that Virtual Boy bombed by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Nintendo Revolution Details Emerge

    But if [the fake "Nintendo On" VR-toaster console] were real, who would NOT buy one?

    The same people who didn't buy Nintendo's last VR game system.

  6. Coming next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny · on SNES Audio Unit As Stand-Alone Player

    Coming next from this company is a tiny module that lets you get the blindness and headaches of an Nintendo Virtual Boy without actually having to lug the unit around.

  7. Re:Heaven or Hell? by dancingmad · · Score: 4, Informative · on Hiroshi Yamauchi On Nintendo's Future

    You mean Gunpei Yokoi, who not only pioneered the Gameboy and the Virtuay Boy, but created such series as Metroid and Kid Icarus. He died in a car accident after having to quit Nintendo in shame over the Virtual Boy debacle.

  8. The next Virtual Boy! by Bahumat · · Score: 1 · on Nintendo's Iwata On GameCube Sales, Future Plans

    "Neither a console nor a hand-held?" "Not expected to see rounds of applause?"

    Must be the next Virtual Boy!

  9. Re:Gameboy: The Destroyer by ronfar · · Score: 1 · on PSP Pricing, Competitiveness Analyzed
    True, but Game Boy's eating of the Virtual Boy was sort of cannibalistic, after all. No joy for Hiroshi Yamauchi in that.

    I feel sorry for Gunpei Yoko, he deserved better than that as his swan song. After all, he did create Metroid...

    Wow, hey, he was also responsible for the Wonderswan! So, Game Boy, Metroid, Virtual Boy (well, a low point obviously), and Wonderswan... what a career! If only he hadn't had his life tragically cut short.

  10. World's Best Virtual Boy Web Site by Renesis · · Score: 1 · on Dismal Console Failures

    All the info you ever need!

  11. Re:I did... by Chris+Canfield · · Score: 1 · on Dismal Console Failures
    In addition to the ones you mentioned there was also Teleroboxer, a truly AAA title that unfortunately was doomed to obscurity by being released on this platform. Still, if you can find a copy, that one game is worth buying a $15 Virtua Boy in and of itself.

    The aptly misnamed Virtual Boy . Net has a full list of all 22 distinct Virtual Boy games ever released.

  12. Re:I did... by Chris+Canfield · · Score: 1 · on Dismal Console Failures
    In addition to the ones you mentioned there was also Teleroboxer, a truly AAA title that unfortunately was doomed to obscurity by being released on this platform. Still, if you can find a copy, that one game is worth buying a $15 Virtua Boy in and of itself.

    The aptly misnamed Virtual Boy . Net has a full list of all 22 distinct Virtual Boy games ever released.

  13. looks like somebody else posted instructions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Dismal Console Failures

    sorry, here's another link

  14. Re:Virtual Boy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Dismal Console Failures

    it wouldn't be that hard to make a strap for it, i believe the tripod stand comes off easily.

    check http://www.virtual-boy.org/images/headset.jpg, some guy did it already (no building instructions, just this photo).