Yeah but to be fair i dont think it would have been viable to sell the whole support thing or anything close to it, maybe that was enough of a sign to not launch the damn thing back then either way
The local blockbuster actually gave the virtual boy they had for rental to my brother and I when I was a kid. Nobody ever rented it except for us and once it flopped they just gave it to us.
@@toxicavenger6172 Ah I see I never tried it my two complaints when I first saw it was that it wasn't virtual and despite being called portable I'm pretty sure nobody would want to play that thing in public, it just kinda shocks me that the geniuses who made the Switch, 3ds and Wii also made such a horrible console.
My dad brought our Virtual Boy to the beach one time because he was tired of chasing after me and my sister. He popped in the battery pack, laid down on a beach towel, and played Mario's Tennis until it was time to go home
I remember seeing this at a grocery store when I was a kid. It was the only time I played the thing. It was cool to see the 3D effects playing Mario Tennis, but it didn't make me want one...
I remember seeing this at Ultimate Electronics and Best Buy back in the day, there were people lined up waiting to try it, something u won't see nowadays. Good times!
Oh man, I can already feel the head aches coming on lol. I used to play on the demo unit at Blockbuster whenever I was in the store, and even back then as a kid, I wasn't a fan.
I got the Virtual Boy for $20 with a few games from the KB Toys clearance rack. I haven't played it in a long time, but Wario Land, Teleroboxer, and Nester's Funky Bowling were pretty solid games. Even my grandma liked Nester's Funky Bowling. She'd play for hours.
I wish I had. Walmart had the $20 markdown too and one was sitting on a rolling rack in an aisle and for some reason I didn't get it (I'm sure that would have been every dollar I had at 11 years old).
I remember playing it on that display in a store back in the day. Playing it on that display is probably more comfortable than just strapping it to your head.
I spent hours at this display at the mall while my parents shopped, probably in '96? Now and then some kid would tap me on the shoulder to take a turn, and I'd wait til they were done and get back to it. My eyes would be all f'd up by the time my parents came to get me. In retrospect, I have no idea why I was so obsessed with something so ill-conceived. The game was Starfox-esque, but just red polygon wirework.
@@mikematei Dude I’ll never forget the N64 display with Super Mario 64. Fall ‘96, senior HS year. Used to get weeded & head straight to the display in the mall 🤣 ended up getting hired in August ‘97 before college. That was Heaven signing 2 games out per night. My PC gobbled up a lot of games & my other systems ate extremely well 👍
Worked there all the way into December 2000 as an assistant manager. Left for Blockbuster Video down the road (even better job, dated many females there + all the free weekly rentals & candy) 😁
yeah. my friend and i were at some sports complex and they had them, at the time it only had 5 games. i liked it but my friend wasnt a fan of the red. we would walk away and see it leaving our site but then things would become blue and green
I had one...i should of kept it instead of selling it many years ago. If i would have kept all my toys amd consoles i would have a good bit of money saved up. I had so many consoles and crazy toys and rare toys. There's actually a sweet ass store in my city that buys and sells old Nintendo stuff and sega stuff amd just game stuff in general. I liked Wario tennis and the Jet plame game for virtual Boy.
The first time I ever came across a virtual boy was in the very early 2000s. It was at a pawn shop and I didn't know what it was or even understand what it was. The people in the pawn shop really didn't either. I played Teleroboxer on it for a minute. I didn't get it, thought it was weird and didn't even know it was a Nintendo system. Never saw advertisements for it or any promos in the 90s. It died extremely fast so most people weren't aware of it.
Of all the department stores to sell video games, JCPenny was always weird to me, I’m not really sure if they even had an electronics section? I think the JCPenny near me when I was a kid had a small GB section in the kids clothes.
this was the first and only time I would try this!! It was at a blockbuster store and u could play mario tennis on it. I would go to the store 2-3 times a week to play it 😅 it was soooo cool to see the depth- pretty much looked like a 3DS today with only red lines and huge goggles on 😂❤
My parents rented the VirtuaBoy from Blockbuster Video back in the mid 90s. What a great concept to help people make a decision and avoid bad investments in consoles and new tech. My initial uncontrollable excitement, of an 11 year old boy, lasted from the rental to the drive home, to throwing open the assassin-style rifle foam padded case that the VirtuaBoy came in, to hooking up the tangle of wires and then suddenly turned to scorn. My neck and back were aching, eyes burning, blurred and pulsing, a severe headache making everything multitudes worse. Not well executed but was a cool concept and idea. The games were (IIRC) the Mario tennis game, a Wario game and some kind of Mario themed golf game ⛳. Was futuristic feeling and interesting for the first few hours but after that it became nauseatingly annoying and boring. My neck probably has perm damage to this day 😂😂.
So awesome. I remember playing this in toys r us and wanted it so badly the upcoming Christmas. I guess it’s good my parents didn’t get it for me though since it bombed.
I actually tried out one of those Virtual boy demo units back in the day, I was shopping in K mart with my parents and peered into the display. Didn’t like it one bit. The red and black visuals made my eyes hurt and I said simply “NOPE.”.
I don't think I saw one of these...the virtual boy seemed like this amazing rare Nintendo console that I never got to experience as a kid and when I finally did as an adult it was incredibly disappointing
I never saw the store display because I went in and got one on launch day. I was like totally brainwashed by Nintendo power propaganda. My concern that my mom had waited too late in the day to beat the masses turned to confusion when there was a big stack of them in the middle of Best Buy that looked like maybe 2 had been taken from its initial construction.
My cousin had it. I was excited and he said it's dumb but ok try it. I'm sitting at the kitchen table trying to play tennis. 5 minutes in my eyes were drying out and I quit. Plus straining to see. It was so disappointing.
More thought and consideration went into the store display than the actual unit.
Yeah but to be fair i dont think it would have been viable to sell the whole support thing or anything close to it, maybe that was enough of a sign to not launch the damn thing back then either way
thats marketing for ya
This looks like one of the only comfortable ways to use the virtual boy
The local blockbuster actually gave the virtual boy they had for rental to my brother and I when I was a kid. Nobody ever rented it except for us and once it flopped they just gave it to us.
Damn it was that bad ?
@@Mr.Malliquin666 it gave most people a headache to play. Between that, the weird controller and the lack of games, nobody wanted to play it.
@@toxicavenger6172 Ah I see I never tried it my two complaints when I first saw it was that it wasn't virtual and despite being called portable I'm pretty sure nobody would want to play that thing in public, it just kinda shocks me that the geniuses who made the Switch, 3ds and Wii also made such a horrible console.
A quick reminder that the Virtual Boy was advertised as a portable device.
Well, it was portable.
@@SkazellinoExactly.
Lol.
I actually had one.
@@PisceanDreams-je6vo Me too. I liked it. Wario and Tennis were tight.
@@Skazellino Tennis was the shit!
My dad brought our Virtual Boy to the beach one time because he was tired of chasing after me and my sister. He popped in the battery pack, laid down on a beach towel, and played Mario's Tennis until it was time to go home
I remember seeing this at a grocery store when I was a kid. It was the only time I played the thing. It was cool to see the 3D effects playing Mario Tennis, but it didn't make me want one...
They missed a massive opportunity when they didn't put all of those games on the 3DS virtual console. The 3D effect would have been perfect.
Begs the question: Will Mike ruin his eyes for us and do a Virtual Boy stream one day? LOL
Second person ever to go blind by playing virtual boy for 8 hours straight
I nearly got a virtual boy like 3 years ago and would have somehow found a way to fuck up my eyes even more than they are now
Saw one at Sears in 1995. Played on it next to a demo of Sonic & Knuckles. I recall Mario Tennis being the demo game on it I played.
I remember seeing this at Ultimate Electronics and Best Buy back in the day, there were people lined up waiting to try it, something u won't see nowadays. Good times!
Yeah i got ome for Christmas...lol
Yep. Saw that in Blockbuster. Was awesome.
Oh man, I can already feel the head aches coming on lol. I used to play on the demo unit at Blockbuster whenever I was in the store, and even back then as a kid, I wasn't a fan.
Yeah, this is how they were set up in major retailers. Only times I played one, in a Sears game area.
I got the Virtual Boy for $20 with a few games from the KB Toys clearance rack. I haven't played it in a long time, but Wario Land, Teleroboxer, and Nester's Funky Bowling were pretty solid games. Even my grandma liked Nester's Funky Bowling. She'd play for hours.
I wish I had. Walmart had the $20 markdown too and one was sitting on a rolling rack in an aisle and for some reason I didn't get it (I'm sure that would have been every dollar I had at 11 years old).
I remember playing it on that display in a store back in the day. Playing it on that display is probably more comfortable than just strapping it to your head.
I spent hours at this display at the mall while my parents shopped, probably in '96? Now and then some kid would tap me on the shoulder to take a turn, and I'd wait til they were done and get back to it. My eyes would be all f'd up by the time my parents came to get me. In retrospect, I have no idea why I was so obsessed with something so ill-conceived. The game was Starfox-esque, but just red polygon wirework.
And that’s the only real way to play Virtual Boy. Without the Kiosk, it’s too difficult to play it.
Only time I played virtual boy was at toys r us. Same kiosk. Very cool.
Wow the Electronics Boutique I worked at had this same display (didn’t work there when they had it I was still a kid). Memories…
loved that place back in the early 90s
@@mikematei Dude I’ll never forget the N64 display with Super Mario 64. Fall ‘96, senior HS year. Used to get weeded & head straight to the display in the mall 🤣 ended up getting hired in August ‘97 before college. That was Heaven signing 2 games out per night. My PC gobbled up a lot of games & my other systems ate extremely well 👍
Worked there all the way into December 2000 as an assistant manager. Left for Blockbuster Video down the road (even better job, dated many females there + all the free weekly rentals & candy) 😁
This was the only way I (and probably many others) ever played a virtual boy
Yea, this is how I saw the virtual boy. It was in a Sears or Dillard's or something.
I'm sure that the Virtualboy definitely contributed to multiple cases of childhood blindness.
I never have but I've seen the robot r.o.b. at a friend's house playing gyromite,and the power glove,and cordless nes controllers.
Yup, i played these in the late 90s
yeah. my friend and i were at some sports complex and they had them, at the time it only had 5 games. i liked it but my friend wasnt a fan of the red. we would walk away and see it leaving our site but then things would become blue and green
Awesome looking display piece
Pink eye for everyone!
I had one...i should of kept it instead of selling it many years ago.
If i would have kept all my toys amd consoles i would have a good bit of money saved up.
I had so many consoles and crazy toys and rare toys.
There's actually a sweet ass store in my city that buys and sells old Nintendo stuff and sega stuff amd just game stuff in general.
I liked Wario tennis and the Jet plame game for virtual Boy.
Nice display, What a time capsule!
The first time I ever came across a virtual boy was in the very early 2000s. It was at a pawn shop and I didn't know what it was or even understand what it was. The people in the pawn shop really didn't either. I played Teleroboxer on it for a minute. I didn't get it, thought it was weird and didn't even know it was a Nintendo system. Never saw advertisements for it or any promos in the 90s. It died extremely fast so most people weren't aware of it.
I used to play this at the Sears in Lake Forest mall
Pretty sure the one I saw back then was JC Penny. Might have been sears. Was long ago
Wow, that's a trip. Kmart for me. Red Alarm. It was enough to convince me not to get one lol. Though, I have one today.
I used to go Blockbuster video playing Mario Tennis on the Virtual Boy
Of all the department stores to sell video games, JCPenny was always weird to me, I’m not really sure if they even had an electronics section? I think the JCPenny near me when I was a kid had a small GB section in the kids clothes.
This is my only memory of the VirtualBoy. Similar story. I think it was some Wario game at a store we use to have called Media Play
Oooo the first virtual reality
That is so cool! I never did see one of these, but that is awesome.
How is it cool or awesome?....it was a waste.
@@panagiotischristo how was it a waste? That's complete nonsense.
this was the first and only time I would try this!! It was at a blockbuster store and u could play mario tennis on it. I would go to the store 2-3 times a week to play it 😅 it was soooo cool to see the depth- pretty much looked like a 3DS today with only red lines and huge goggles on 😂❤
I never saw one of those in a store back in the day. I only knew one kid that had one and he was a d bag 😀😀👍👍
My parents rented the VirtuaBoy from Blockbuster Video back in the mid 90s. What a great concept to help people make a decision and avoid bad investments in consoles and new tech.
My initial uncontrollable excitement, of an 11 year old boy, lasted from the rental to the drive home, to throwing open the assassin-style rifle foam padded case that the VirtuaBoy came in, to hooking up the tangle of wires and then suddenly turned to scorn. My neck and back were aching, eyes burning, blurred and pulsing, a severe headache making everything multitudes worse.
Not well executed but was a cool concept and idea. The games were (IIRC) the Mario tennis game, a Wario game and some kind of Mario themed golf game ⛳. Was futuristic feeling and interesting for the first few hours but after that it became nauseatingly annoying and boring. My neck probably has perm damage to this day 😂😂.
I remember this in K-Mart
Awesome find!
Looks similar to the one I've played at a local Blockbuster when I was a kid 👀
Much better than any i phone 📱 way more realistic
I remember trying this out at a convention and it had the robo boxing game loaded
So awesome. I remember playing this in toys r us and wanted it so badly the upcoming Christmas. I guess it’s good my parents didn’t get it for me though since it bombed.
Basically the only way this should ever be played.
I love this!!
Had one setup in Blockbuster Video I used to play every time I went in. Was also the only time I ever saw one.
This is awesome
The sign looks like gym equipment
I actually tried out one of those Virtual boy demo units back in the day, I was shopping in K mart with my parents and peered into the display. Didn’t like it one bit. The red and black visuals made my eyes hurt and I said simply “NOPE.”.
They had that squirt gun headset that when you talk it shoots water
I'm sure plenty of kids back in the day got pink eye from this kiosk
I don't think I saw one of these...the virtual boy seemed like this amazing rare Nintendo console that I never got to experience as a kid and when I finally did as an adult it was incredibly disappointing
Had one at a Block buster
I played this once in a Walmart I think but it camel and went just as fast I had forgot about this
I saw one at a theme park arcade in Vancouver BC back in the day
Damn it, I didn't know you could adjust it on the display 🤣
You don't even need duct tape!
Had one at the lechmere I worked at.
There's no way they'd call a system "Virtual Boy" in 2022
I want to buy one of these
My cousin had one and we played it for like 15 minutes each until it gave us vertigo headaches so we stopped haha
Mike this is Josh that looks really they might have to see if I can find me one I love your channel
I remember this at Toys R Us, I pretty quickly decided I did not want a virtual boy after trying the demo
Then came r zone display
Migraines and eyeball burn that's all I got from the virtual boy
Saw one at Target when they hit the shelves. I knew it was a turd within seconds.
I never saw the store display because I went in and got one on launch day. I was like totally brainwashed by Nintendo power propaganda. My concern that my mom had waited too late in the day to beat the masses turned to confusion when there was a big stack of them in the middle of Best Buy that looked like maybe 2 had been taken from its initial construction.
Its because of VB that I use glasses
Seen one in a K-mart my Aunt worked at
My cousin had it. I was excited and he said it's dumb but ok try it. I'm sitting at the kitchen table trying to play tennis. 5 minutes in my eyes were drying out and I quit. Plus straining to see. It was so disappointing.
Just a headache maker lol
I totally forgot I subbed to you earlier this week
They had one of those at my local Walmart. It smelled so bad.
Lol everyone remembers the virtual boy smelled like straight day old diarrhea with corn in it
I played the store display V boy
I played this at Target in Anahiem California right after college classes, I though it was a piece of 💩
My friend had one
Would you consider selling this?
É o game mais bonito de todos.
Can i ask. HOW DID YOU GET THAT!?
WHAT!!!
I highly recommend you try Virtual Boy Wario Land, easily the best game on the system
That's crazy.. Is this yours?
I never saw it before, i was only alive in the early 2000s.
Lol avgn will just ducktap it on face haha
Is there a Virtual Boy emulator?
I remember seeing the displays for this in a sears or JC pennys at the mall.
I still think Red Zone is better than Star Fox, I don’t care what anyone says.
Walmart display looks better
Would you be willing to sell it?