8CN: With Coca-Cola’s epic limited-edition relaunch of Surge, there’s one thing that is more apparent than ever before; retro is in! While the gaming industry is bigger than it has ever been and players everywhere debate the HD graphics and flawless gameplay of the Wii-U, the Xbox One and the PS4, I harken back to a different time.
Yan's World is an upcoming difficult platform game homebrew being released for, of all things, the Nintendo Virtual Boy.
Virtual Boy, Sega Nomad, Ouya and the other troubled game systems that nobody bought.
How has this article missed out Sega's Dreamcast and Nintendo's Wii U, two consoles that were actually superb devices in their own right, but were seen as failed due to lacklustre sales at the time of release?
Wonder how long before Stadia appears on the list surprised the Ngage is not on that list
Talk about a blast to the past.......I remember trying the virtual boy at Toy R Us and it was cool but I did feel slightly disoriented afterwards......good article.
A rift, if you will, between two futures of gaming is forming: one for those with VR and one for those without. Catch up on the state of the VR industry with 1Pvs2P.com's longform editorial feature about this month's Oculus Rift preorder buzz.
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