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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Aug 14, 2012 9:49:52 GMT -5
Contrary to what the 14-year-old kiddies claim, even though they've never even seen a Virtual Boy in person, the Virtual Boy does have good games, and it doesn't hurt everyone's eyes. But, of course, on the internet, instead of looking at the facts, it's more fun for people to be like "lol the virtual boy sux and makes ur eyes bleed!" Oh, come on, my write up wasn't that bad was it? I'm usually the contrarian who argues against idiots like the AVGN. I always try to see things from the other side. :( I played the VB at a retro convention for... about 45 minutes? The biggest problem wasn't eye strain, but batteries. After booting it died in a few minutes, leaving me to steal batteries from remotes. Lasted about 30 minutes before dying again. And it needs what, 8 batteries? Or is it 6? I guess they have to be BRAND NEW to get a decent time out of them. I played most of the "good" games. Red Alarm was so messy it was almost unplayable. I was completely disoriented throughout, despite trying persevere. I dislike it a lot. I'm pretty sure I calibrated the screen correctly, since none of the other games had the same problem - mainly it's because it uses wireframes. Teleroboxer and Tennis were fun. Most of the others weren't games which I'd even say required VR to play (like Wario World). It was alright, I guess. But I didn't feel the need to buy one. The crap includes this puzzler, Waterworld, plus the golf and baseball games. But I'm just biased against those genres. Oh, and SD Gundam, but only because it's impenetrable to non-native speakers. There were 22 games released, I believe. At least two were utterly terrible, and many were mediocre at best. Perhaps the word "several" should be changed to "a couple"? I suppose if we're mathematical about it, the crap to mediocre to good ratio is better than most. Maybe? I'm counting around 23% of its catalogue as being rubbish.
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Post by apachacha on Aug 14, 2012 10:54:16 GMT -5
Contrary to what the 14-year-old kiddies claim, even though they've never even seen a Virtual Boy in person, the Virtual Boy does have good games, and it doesn't hurt everyone's eyes. But, of course, on the internet, instead of looking at the facts, it's more fun for people to be like "lol the virtual boy sux and makes ur eyes bleed!" Oh, come on, my write up wasn't that bad was it? I'm usually the contrarian who argues against idiots like the AVGN. I always try to see things from the other side. :( I played the VB at a retro convention for... about 45 minutes? The biggest problem wasn't eye strain, but batteries. After booting it died in a few minutes, leaving me to steal batteries from remotes. Lasted about 30 minutes before dying again. And it needs what, 8 batteries? Or is it 6? I guess they have to be BRAND NEW to get a decent time out of them. I played most of the "good" games. Red Alarm was so messy it was almost unplayable. I was completely disoriented throughout, despite trying persevere. I dislike it a lot. I'm pretty sure I calibrated the screen correctly, since none of the other games had the same problem - mainly it's because it uses wireframes. Teleroboxer and Tennis were fun. Most of the others weren't games which I'd even say required VR to play (like Wario World). It was alright, I guess. But I didn't feel the need to buy one. The crap includes this puzzler, Waterworld, plus the golf and baseball games. But I'm just biased against those genres. Oh, and SD Gundam, but only because it's impenetrable to non-native speakers. There were 22 games released, I believe. At least two were utterly terrible, and many were mediocre at best. Perhaps the word "several" should be changed to "a couple"? I suppose if we're mathematical about it, the crap to mediocre to good ratio is better than most. Maybe? I'm counting around 23% of its catalogue as being rubbish. Have you tried Space Squash ? I'm not into sport type games and I actualy quite liked it, plus it seems to be pretty obscure.
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Post by Scylla on Aug 14, 2012 16:09:04 GMT -5
Basicly, alot of this is either sports or tetris. I want to try the other ones one day. I'm not sure where you're seeing a lot of sports games. Out of what I listed, what are you considering sports? I can only count Mario's Tennis, Teleroboxer, and Nester's Funky Bowling, but even that's a stretch. Nintendo-developed sports games usually aren't anything like traditional sports games. Mario tennis games have way more widespread appeal than, say, EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis. As for Teleroboxer, that's more robot combat than actual boxing. If you add the stuff that I left out, there's one golf game and one baseball game. If you add Japan-exclusives, there's another bowling game, a fishing game, and Space Squash, if that counts. Not a lot of sports games all together, not a lot in the way of traditional sports, and the majority of the library can't remotely be considered sports. Oh, come on, my write up wasn't that bad was it? I'm usually the contrarian who argues against idiots like the AVGN. I always try to see things from the other side. :( Sorry if my post was confusing. I wasn't saying that about your write-up, but rather of the general outlook on the Virtual Boy as a whole online. I think the piece on Virtual Lab was great, and the only thing I disagree with at all is the part about "several stinkers". That's weird that the convention would have the Virtual Boy running on batteries. I've only ever had it going on an AC adapter. Can't say I'm surprised at all if it guzzles batteries, like most "portables" of the time (I put "portables" in quotes because the Virtual Boy barely qualifies as one in my book). I actually think Wario Land is one of the most impressive uses of the system's 3D capabilities. I think it's a fantastic concept how you can leap back and forth between the foreground and the background. The boss battles look so good too. On this subject, that's another area where the online impression of the Virtual Boy is skewed, since of the rare few who have played some Virtual Boy games, many just emulated, so they completely missed out on the impressive 3D effects. I think shoving your face into the dark confines of the eye shade and seeing the crazy mirror-produced 3D is pretty intrinsic to the Virtual Boy experience, haha. I can't say I'm that big on sports games in general either, but I wouldn't automatically write them or text-heavy Japanese games off as crap just for the nature of what they are. That'd be like saying Chrono Trigger is a bad game if it had never been available in English. Not that I'm saying the Gundam game is a Chrono Trigger, haha (actually, I have heard that it's pretty lousy). And Golf and Virtual League Baseball get pretty decent ratings usually. I've yet to add them to my collection, but I at least have high hopes for Golf. I like golf games from time to time, as long as they aren't way too sim-y, and T&E Soft knows how to make pretty good golf games.
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Post by Wildcat on Aug 14, 2012 16:12:51 GMT -5
I was considering writing up something for the NES Home Alone 2. Would that be fair game as a kusoge? It's a damn lousy game, especially since the first was actually pretty decent.
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Post by apachacha on Aug 14, 2012 17:30:16 GMT -5
I was considering writing up something for the NES Home Alone 2. Would that be fair game as a kusoge? It's a damn lousy game, especially since the first was actually pretty decent. I remember the first one confusing the hell out of me but from what I hear the second one is definitely bad, so I think you should go for it
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Post by muteKi on Aug 15, 2012 3:18:24 GMT -5
Did the Virtual Boy seriously not have some sort of a wall adaptor?
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Aug 15, 2012 3:52:35 GMT -5
It might have, but whoever brought the VB to convention didn't leave one next to the machine. Or maybe I just missed it - but I don't think so. There was a stack of games and plenty of plug sockets around. No adaptor...? here's a photo I took:
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Post by Scylla on Aug 15, 2012 5:02:41 GMT -5
It does. Like I said, I always use an AC adapter with mine. Actually, when I got my Virtual Boy, it came with a modded controller with the plug's cord going straight into the controller. I guess the original owner didn't want the extra bulky block attached to the controller or something. I think I have an unmodded controller and AC adapter somewhere around here too, though. Anyway, the system was only sold with the battery pack, so an AC adapter set had to be bought separately.
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Post by apachacha on Aug 15, 2012 6:29:56 GMT -5
It does. Like I said, I always use an AC adapter with mine. Actually, when I got my Virtual Boy, it came with a modded controller with the plug's cord going straight into the controller. I guess the original owner didn't want the extra bulky block attached to the controller or something. I think I have an unmodded controller and AC adapter somewhere around here too, though. Anyway, the system was only sold with the battery pack, so an AC adapter set had to be bought separately. Is the set interchangable with regular AC adapters ?
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Post by CRV on Aug 15, 2012 6:57:14 GMT -5
Actually, when I got my Virtual Boy, it came with a modded controller with the plug's cord going straight into the controller. I guess the original owner didn't want the extra bulky block attached to the controller or something. The AC adapter pack slips off the controller very easily. I still have a piece of tape stuck to mine.
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Post by Scylla on Aug 15, 2012 19:17:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I know, but as it's in use, the block has to be in place.
I'm pretty sure the Virtual Boy uses the same plug as the SNES, but it needs an extra piece to hook up to the controller. Sort of like the N64 RF set. Those use the same RF switch as the NES and SNES, but the N64 doesn't have an RF jack so it needs an extra piece in order to use the jack that is normally designed for a composite or s-video cable.
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Post by apachacha on Aug 20, 2012 13:43:53 GMT -5
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Post by Malev on Aug 27, 2012 16:24:31 GMT -5
According to a few internet reviewers, Charlie's Angels on the Gamecube based off the movie franchise is laughably bad enough to warrant an article.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on Aug 27, 2012 16:38:55 GMT -5
JonTron's review of it was absolutely hilarious.
DANCE, LUCY, DANCE!
Also GameSpot's video "review" of it.
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Post by Malev on Aug 27, 2012 17:14:48 GMT -5
JonTron's review of it was absolutely hilarious. DANCE, LUCY, DANCE! Also GameSpot's video "review" of it. Not to mention Happy Video Game Nerd's "Is It Really That Bad?" playthrough where he states it's bad, but not super-bad due to the sillier aspects. In other words, a lovable kusoge.
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