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The King Nintendo Fanboy remembers the launch of the Virtual Boy for the 20th anniversary of the platform.
Twenty years ago, much like today, I was a huge Nintendo fan. I remember scouring the pages of Nintendo Power magazine and coming across some early concept screenshots for what would be possible with the Virtual Boy. Back then virtual reality was a thing of childhood dreams, so the Virtual Boy had my attention from the start.
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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