#teleroboxer

[randomblognumberfuck]

This is very obvious lol

[pulstar-tb]

day 7 with raster as harry (teleroboxer)!!!!!!!

had to do two today because i forgot to do one yesterday ・∀・

[keepfronting]

#teleroboxer #virtualboy #keepfronting

[favoritenintendocharacterbracket]

Hello again. I it's alright with you, I had a "superlist" of Nintendo characters I wanted to suggest for the poll.

Kiwi (Pilotwings)

Goose (Pilotwings)

Ibis (Pilotwings)

Hawk (Pilotwings)

Robin [Hooter in Japan] (Pilotwings)

Ryota Hayami (Wave Race)

Akari Hayami (1080°)

Sakura Samurai

Trax

Monita (Nintendo Land)

Yuka (Rhythm Heaven)

Dr. Lobe (Big Brain Academy)

Dr. Kawashima (Brain Age)

Dr. Wright (SimCity)

Vince (Art Academy)

Harry (Teleroboxer)

Icarus (Glory of Heracles)

Frey and Freya (Zangeki no Reginleiv)

Raymond Bryce (Disaster: Day of Crisis)

Qbby (BOXBOY)

Eddy (Fluidity)

Nikki (Swapnote)

Wonder-Red (The Wonderful 101)

Zael (The Last Story)

Calista (The Last Story)

Aeron (Pandora's Tower)

Elena (Pandora's Tower)

Tamagon (Devil World)

Barbara the Bat (Jam with the Band)

Mallo (Pushmo)

Hunter (Fossil Fighters)

Dillon (Dillon's Rolling Western)

Mach Rider

F-Type (Stunt Race FX)

Kageshina Kurabe (Nintendouji)

Excitebiker

Balloon Fighter

Alice (Balloon Kid)

Bubbles (Clu Clu Land)

DeMille (Tomato Adventure)

Kururin (Kuru Kuru Kururin)

Hakkun (Sutte Hakkun)

Dion (Marvelous: Another Treasure Island)

Sheriff

Muddy Mole (Mole Mania)

Michael Anderson (Battle Clash)

Fighter Hayabusa (Pro Wrestling)

Ouendan (Ryuta Ippongi, Atsushi Saito, Ittetsu Suzuki)

Ouendan Cheerleaders (Sayaka Amemiya, Aoi Kanda, Anna Lindhurst

Elite Beat Divas (Starr, Missy, Foxx)

Mr. Stevenson (Gumshoe)

Ray (Custom Robo)

Alexandra Roivas (Eternal Darkness)

Jonathan Raimi (Geist)

Naomi Moriha (Jet Impulse)

Satoru (from Card Hero)

Satoru Amatsubo (Project H.A.C.K.E.R.)

Goku (Yuyuki)

Chao (Yuyuki)

Donbe (Shin Onigashima)

Hikari (Shin Onigashima)

Saki Amamiya (Sin & Punishment)

Ando Kensaku (And-Kensaku)

Arcade Bunny (Nintendo Badge Arcade)

Orville (Takt of Magic) Doshin (Doshin the Giant)

Jashin (Doshin the Giant)

Cupid (Sennen Kazoku)

Aisya (ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat)

Diskun

Jill (Drill Dozer)

Tempo (HarmoKnight)

Welt (Soma Bringer)

Idea (Soma Bringer)

Warrior Mech Gauss (Chōsōjū Mecha MG)

I could make a round 4 from this list alone. Plus some other suggestions. But I’ll wait until round 3 is done

EDIT: Wonderful 101 isn’t Nintendo, so It’ll be added to another idea I have (Non Nintendo Nintendo characters. Characters not owned by Nintendo but associated with them )

[chloebangbang]

today, i, in my never ending quest for Punch-Out But Good, spent a couple hours finagling steamvr and a desktop virtual boy emulator set up in such a way that I can play it through my VR headset for the Full Authentic Experience.

did I need to go through all the effort? absolutely not, this game would have been fully playable on a flatscreen. did I even know the game was going to be good before I did this? nope, I will go through any number of hoops for authenticity (within a price budget) for Any Thing

anyway, I started Teleroboxer! my hopes were not super high, obviously first and foremost because this is a virtual boy game, but also very much because most of the time when a game gets recommended online for being "like punch out", it's usually just because it's a sport boxing game that's kinda goofy, when punch out fundamentally isn't a sport game, it's an action puzzle game, so I'm generally wary of games branded like this

anyway, 4/7 fights in so far, and this game is good. everything I could ask for so far. this is the only game I've played that's actually on par with a punch out in terms of the very specific thing that the series was trying to do, and so far is doing it without being cartoonishly awful and racist to boot. yippee

[black-star-black-star]

Judgement - 20 -

little animation (185 frames :D) i made using the virtual boy palette and some references from teleroboxer hehehe

and jojo ofc

[liathepenguinologist]

teleroboxer end credits

[objectlovingobject]

Did u know u can play virtual boy games IN 3D on a 3ds??? I just found out lol and im stoked bc i get to play teleroboxer!

Its a robot boxing game uwu

[snowboyclarkov]

Everybody Is Dead...!

In the Metal Fight Beyblade verse, Rago is capable via Diablo Nemesis of absorbing the power of his opponent and gaining their abilities. He can also gain the abilities and power of everyone that opponent has fought from the beginning to the present.

Despite this, Pluto states that Nemesis has the power of every bey in the world by the time he and Rago do battle with the Legendary Bladers and company. It opens the door to a potential trickle down effect that would go on and on. It makes Rago's main ability one of the most horrifying in any verse.

This got me thinking about another potential trickle down that could be applied to another overpowered deity. This one being of light rather than destruction. Galeem. Due to the incredible amount of crossovers and cameos that can be traced via some path to someone within the Super Smash Bros verse, there's a disturbing amount of verses that are almost certainly reduced to non-existence alongside everyone that ever existed within that verse by the Lord of Light and it's "Everybody Is Dead" attack. That isn't counting restoring the verses back into existence and shuffling them while everyone in them become mindless slaves. Even the verses with stages, Mii outfits and music have potential to be completely screwed. A scenario like this would represent the absolute highest limit of Galeem's power...

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The Verses In Danger of Becoming Un-Made and Un-Alived

Section 1

Super Mario

Donkey Kong (verse)

The Legend of Zelda

Metroid

Yoshi's Island

Kirby (verse) - Kirby dies if either Galeem or Dharkon win in the end, having barely escaped Galeem's initial onslaught.

Star Fox

Pokémon

Mother

F-Zero

Ice Climber

Fire Emblem

Game & Watch

Kid Icarus

Wario (verse)

Metal Gear

Sonic the Hedgehog - Includes Frontiers, so Sage becomes un-alive. The End gets Galeem'd too.

Pikmin

R.O.B. (verse)

Animal Crossing

Mega Man (verse)

Wii - Includes Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Wii Party, et cetera. Part of the wider Mii verse.

Punch-Out!!

Pac-Man (verse)

Xenoblade Chronicles

Duck Hunt

Street Fighter

Final Fantasy

Bayonetta (verse)

Splatoon

Castlevania

Persona

Dragon Quest

Banjo-Kazooie

Fatal Fury

Arms

Minecraft

Tekken

Kingdom Hearts

The King of Fighters

Section 2

Paper Mario

Streetpass Mii Plaza - Part of the wider Mii verse.

Pilotwings - Part of the wider Mii verse.

Nintendo Land - Part of the wider Mii verse.

Sheriff (verse)

Baseball (verse)

Tennis (verse)

Devil World

Urban Champion

Clu Clu Land

Balloon Fight

Excite

Mach Rider

The Mysterious Murasame Castle

Famicom Mukashibanashi

Ice Hockey (verse)

Famicom Grand Prix

Famicom Wars

Advance Wars

Detective Club - Also known as Famicom Detective Club

Joy Mech

Yakuman

X (verse)

The Frog For Whom The Bell Tolls

Mole Mania

Card Hero

SimCity

Battle Clash

Stunt Race FX

Panel de Pon

Marvelous

Sutte Hakkun

Origin of the Forest

Teleroboxer

Wave Race

1080°

Custom Robo

Sin and Punishment

Kuru Kuru Kururin

Napoleon (verse)

Golden Sun

Magical Starsign

Tomato Adventure

The Legendary Starfy

Thousand Year Family

The Tower

Drill Dozer

Calciobit

Rhythm Heaven

Cubivore

Eternal Darkness

GiFTPiA

Baten Kaitos

Chibi Robo!

Jam With The Band

Another Code

Electroplankton

Brain Age

Big Brain Academy

Elite Beat Agents

Project Hacker

Chōsōjū Mecha MG

Hotel Dusk

Kurikin Nano Island Story

Number Battle

Slide Adventure MAGKID

Archaic Sealed Heat

Make 10

Soma Bringer

Fossil Fighters

Glory of Heracles

Personal Trainer: Cooking

Style Savvy

Art Academy

Looksley's Line Up

Tsukutte Utau: Saru Band

Fatal Frame

Captain Rainbow

Disaster: Day of Crisis

Takt of Magic

Zangeki no Reginliev

And-Kensaku

FlingSmash

The Last Story

Pandora's Tower

Nintendogs

Steel Diver

Pushmo

Sakura Samurai

Swapnote - Part of the wider Mii verse.

Kiki Trick

Dillon's Rolling Western

Shovel Knight

Culdcept

HarmoKnight

Fluidity

Nintendoji

Rusty's Real Deal Baseball

Nintendo Badge Arcade

BoxBoy!

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.

Ever Oasis

Sushi Striker

The Wonderful 101

Rayman (verse)

Snipperclips

Galaga

Bomberman (verse)

Virtua Fighter

Monster Hunter

Shantae (verse)

Nintendo Labo - Part of the real world.

Daemon X Machina

Tetris

Art of Fighting

Samurai Shodown

Psycho Soldier

Ikari Warriors

Resident Evil

Astral Chain

River City

Cuphead (verse)

Warframe

Ring Fit Adventure

Mana

Octopath Traveler

Bravely Default

Ghosts 'n Goblins

Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin

No More Heroes

Wrecking Crew

Section 3

Pictochat

Tomodachi - Also known as Tomodachi Life. Part of the wider Mii verse.

Miiverse - Part of the wider Mii verse.

Fallout

Doom

Babylonian Castle Saga

Goemon (verse)

Assassin's Creed

The Elder Scrolls

Devil May Cry

Shin Onigashima

Yūyūki

Nintendo Hardware - Includes Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, etc.

AR Games

Freakyforms

NES Remix

Tank Troopers

Undertale

Miitopia

Section 4

Soul [via The Legend of Zelda]

The Walking Dead [via Tekken]

Spawn (verse) [via Soul]

Mortal Kombat [via Spawn]

God of War [via Soul]

A Nightmare On Elm Street [via Mortal Kombat]

Friday The 13th [via Mortal Kombat]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre [via Mortal Kombat]

Predator [via Mortal Kombat]

Alien [via Mortal Kombat]

Terminator [via Mortal Kombat]

Robocop [via Mortal Kombat]

Rambo [via Mortal Kombat]

Injustice [via DC]

DC [via Mortal Kombat]

Hellboy [via Injustice]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [via Injustice]

Power Rangers [via Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]

Star Trek [via Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]

Masters of the Universe [via Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]

Star Wars [via Soul]

The Witcher [via Soul]

NieR [via Soul]

Drakengard [via NieR]

Indiana Jones [via Star Wars]

Dead By Daylight [via Alien]

Halloween [via Dead By Daylight]

Left 4 Dead [via Dead By Daylight]

Saw [via Dead By Daylight]

Scream [via Dead By Daylight]

Evil Dead [via Dead By Daylight]

Stranger Things [via Dead By Daylight]

Silent Hill [via Dead By Daylight]

World Wrestling Entertainment [via Mortal Kombat] - part of the real world.

Section 5

PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale [via Metal Gear]

Uncharted [via PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale]

LittleBig Planet [via PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale]

Ratchet & Clank [via PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale]

Jak & Daxter [via PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale]

Gravity Rush [via PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale]

BioShock [via PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale]

Dead Space [via PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale]

DreamMix TV World Fighters [via Castlevania]

Transformers [via DreamMix TV World Fighters]

Bakuten Shoot Beyblade [via DreamMix TV World Fighters] - Part of a wider Beyblade verse.

Beyblade X [via Bakuten Shoot Beyblade] - Part of a wider Beyblade verse.

Beyblade Burst [via Transformers] - Part of a wider Beyblade verse.

Metal Fight Beyblade [via Beyblade Burst] - Part of a wider Beyblade verse.

Section 6

Astro's Playroom [via Tekken]

The Last of Us [via Astro's Playroom]

Horizon Zero Dawn [via Astro's Playroom]

Ghost of Tsushima [via Astro's Playroom]

Resistance [via Astro's Playroom]

ICO [via Astro's Playroom] - Includes Shadow of the Colossus & The Last Guardian

Bloodborne [via Astro's Playroom]

Tomb Raider [via Astro's Playroom]

Crash Bandicoot [via Astro's Playroom]

Spyro the Dragon [via Astro's Playroom]

Legacy of Kain [via Astro's Playroom]

Brawlhalla [via Tomb Raider]

Ben 10 [via Brawlhalla]

Steven Universe [via Brawlhalla]

Section 7

Project x Zone [via Street Fighter]

Ace Attorney [via Project x Zone]

Professor Layton [via Ace Attorney]

Darkstalkers [via Project x Zone]

Resonance of Fate [via Project x Zone]

Marvel vs. Capcom [via Street Fighter]

Marvel [via Marvel vs. Capcom]

Disney [via Marvel]

Pixar [via Disney]

Fortnite [via Street Fighter]

Unreal [via Fortnite]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit [via Disney]

Looney Tunes [via Who Framed Roger Rabbit]

Betty Boop [via Who Framed Roger Rabbit]

Woody Woodpecker [via Who Framed Roger Rabbit]

Droopy [via Who Framed Roger Rabbit]

Space Jam [via Looney Tunes]

Ōkami [via Marvel vs. Capcom]

Dead Rising [via Marvel vs. Capcom]

Section 8

Blazblue [via Persona] - Includes Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle

Under Night In-Birth [via Blazblue]

RWBY [via Blazblue]

Vocaloid [via Persona] - Specifically, through Hatsune Miku. Crypton Vocaloids and Internet Co. Ltd. Vocaloids all affected. Includes Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA.

Arcana Heart [via Blazblue]

Senran Kagura [via Blazblue]

Akatsuki Blitzkampf [via Blazblue]

Dead or Alive [via Senran Kagura]

Super Sonico [via Senran Kagura]

Neptunia [via Senran Kagura]

Just Dance [via Vocaloid]

Like A Dragon [via Vocaloid] - Also known as Yakuza.

The Idolmaster [via Vocaloid]

Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion [via Vocaloid]

Neon Genesis Evangelion [via Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion]

Godzilla [via Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion]

Lucky Star [via Vocaloid]

Haruhi Suzumiya [via Lucky Star]

Groove Coaster [via Vocaloid]

Hololive [via Groove Coaster]

Kizuna AI [via Groove Coaster]

Aikatsu! [via Vocaloid]

Pretty Series [via Aikatsu!]

Ace Combat [via The Idolmaster]

God Eater [via The Idolmaster]

Granblue Fantasy [via The Idolmaster]

Katamari Damacy [via The Idolmaster]

Taiko no Tatsujin [via The Idolmaster]

Ridge Racer [via The Idolmaster]

Tales [via The Idolmaster]

Super Robot Wars [via The Idolmaster]

Smite [via RWBY]

Avatar: The Last Airbender [via Smite]

Nicktoons Unite! [via Avatar: The Last Airbender]

SpongeBob SquarePants [via Nicktoons Unite!]

The Fairly OddParents! [via Nicktoons Unite!]

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius [via Nicktoons Unite!]

Invader Zim [via Nicktoons Unite!]

Danny Phantom [via Nicktoons Unite!]

Rugrats [via Nicktoons Unite!]

My Life As A Teenage Robot [via Nicktoons Unite!]

Ren & Stimpy [via Nicktoons Unite!]

Halo [via Dead or Alive]

Forza [via Halo]

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE [via Fire Emblem]

Shin Megami Tensei [via Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE]

The Loud House [via Nicktoons Unite!]

You And Me And Her [via Super Sonico]

Touhou Project [via Groove Coaster]

Jeremy Clarkson/Richard Hammond/James May [via Forza]

Katawa Shoujo [via Haruhi Suzumiya] - Galeem's whole thing seems like something out of Rin Tezuka's worst nightmares.

Section 9

Lego Dimensions [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

The Lord of the Rings [via Lego Dimensions]

Harry Potter [via Lego Dimensions]

Back to the Future [via Lego Dimensions]

The Lego Movie [via Lego Dimensions]

Jurassic Park [via Lego Dimensions]

Adventure Time [via Lego Dimensions]

Ghostbusters [via Lego Dimensions]

Mission: Impossible [via Lego Dimensions]

The Powerpuff Girls [via Lego Dimensions]

Knight Rider [via Lego Dimensions]

Gremlins [via Lego Dimensions]

The Goonies [via Lego Dimensions]

The Wizard of Oz [via Lego Dimensions]

Portal [via Lego Dimensions] - Includes Half-Life

Legends of Chima [via Lego Dimensions]

The A-Team [via Lego Dimensions]

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial [via Lego Dimensions]

Beetlejuice [via Lego Dimensions]

Scooby Doo [via Lego Dimensions]

Ninjago [via Lego Dimensions]

Doctor Who [via Lego Dimensions]

O.K. K.O.! Let's Be Heroes [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

RPG World [via O.K. K.O.! Let's Be Heroes]

Captain Planet [via O.K. K.O.! Let's Be Heroes]

Wacky Races [via O.K. K.O.! Let's Be Heroes]

Angry Birds [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Hello Kitty [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Gundam [via Hello Kitty]

Super Monkey Ball [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Jet Set Radio [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Crazy Taxi [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

House of the Dead [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Billy Hatcher & the Giant Egg [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Shenmue [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Space Channel 5 [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Skies of Arcadia [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

NiGHTS Into Dreams [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Team Fortress 2 [via Sonic the Hedgehog]

Fall Guys [via Team Fortress 2]

Poker Night At The Inventory [via Team Fortress 2]

Sam & Max [via Poker Night At The Inventory]

Homestar Runner [via Poker Night At The Inventory]

Penny Arcade [via Poker Night At The Inventory]

Borderlands [via Poker Night At The Inventory]

The Venture Brothers [via Poker Night At The Inventory]

Section 10

The Simpsons [via Super Mario]

Futurama [via The Simpsons]

Family Guy [via The Simpsons] - Includes American Dad!.

Bob's Burgers [via The Simpsons]

Rick & Morty [via The Simpsons]

Cheers [via The Simpsons] - Includes Frasier.

The X-Files [via The Simpsons]

Archer [via The Simpsons]

King of the Hill [via The Simpsons]

South Park [via The Simpsons]

Tamagotchi [via Super Mario]

Shaun The Sheep [via Super Mario Maker] - Includes Wallace & Gromit.

Nisekoi [via Super Mario Maker]

Monogatari [via Nisekoi]

Puella Magi Madoka Magica [via Monogatari]

Onegai My Melody [via Super Mario Maker]

Shinya Arino [via Super Mario Maker] - Part of the real world.

Babymetal [via Super Mario Maker] - Part of the real world.

Section 11

Naruto [via Tekken]

One Piece [via Naruto]

Bleach [via Naruto]

Dragon Ball [via Naruto]

Yu-Gi-Oh! [via Naruto]

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure [via Naruto]

My Hero Academia [via Naruto]

Digimon [via Tekken]

Fist of the North Star [via Naruto]

Urusei Yatsura [via Fist of the North Star]

Ranma 1/2 [via Urusei Yatsura]

InuYasha [via Urusei Yatsura]

Section 12

DuckTales [via Minecraft] - Includes Quack Pack and Darkwing Duck.

Toy Story [via Minecraft]

Pirates of the Caribbean [via Minecraft]

Quake [via Doom]

Wolfenstein [via Doom]

Commander Keen [via Doom]

Yooka-Laylee [via Shovel Knight]

Creepy Castle [via Shovel Knight]

Super Meat Boy [via Shovel Knight]

Cave Story [via Shovel Knight]

Five Night's At Freddy's [via Shovel Knight]

Enter The Gungeon [via Super Meat Boy]

The Binding of Isaac [via Super Meat Boy]

...and this list isn't even all of them. By far.

Here's a full chart that someone that isn't me made. It includes Warhammer, so the Emperor of Mankind was murdered or possibly deleted from existence. I doubt that would be allowed to stand. Ever.

[yusuke-of-valla]

If you are interested in good Virtual boy games, here are some good ones:

Jack Bros: A top down shooter where you travel through mage-like stages and fight various monsters. There are also cute cutscenes and an unlockable character. Probably the best part is it takes place in the SMT universe.

Virtual Boy Wario Land: Considered the best of the best of Virtual boy. It follows the same formula as Wario Land 1, so its a platformer with puzzle elements where you make useage of magical hats and with Wario's bizarre sense of humor.

Teleroboxer: A first person boxing game with giant robots that makes good useage of the console's 3d effect and controls. It has a strong sense of humor.

I've played a bit of Wario Land on a Virtual Boy actually! It was for a class on Virtual Reality and it's evolution it was very fun! (both the game and the class)

My complaint was more like in terms of ease of accessibility of older games + the 3DS was perfect for pretty much more or less really capturing how they looked since it had the same... idk what you call it isometric 3D or something?

Like I know I can just pirate them I'm saying Nintendo could have made them more available instead of largely pretending the Virtual Boy doesn't exist

But thank you for the reccommendations!

[dragontheytummy]

There's now a very much working Virtual Boy emulator on 3DS, with fully working 3D! Thank goodness for Sailing the High Seas, because otherwise I'd never get to try out good games like VB Wario Land or Teleroboxer. Go watch this video and see how he shares his experiences with it. Trust me, it's a good time.

[nintendometro]

Spokong 'Teleroboxer' Virtual Boy

[keepfronting]

#teleroboxer #harry #virtualboy #gameartwork #keepfronting https://www.instagram.com/p/CVy9kiLI-Ja/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kinsie]

England’s descent into chaos truly began when the rapidly-decreasing cost of cybernetics enabled the rise of the CyberChavs... able to leap tall buildings, outrun double decker busses, and slap the flipphone out of a grown man’s hands at 100 yards.

[daleisgreat]

25 Years of Sega Saturn & Virtual Boy - Flashback Special!

After the deluge of wrestling-themed entries for WrestleMania month this past 30 days, I have been pining to do another videogame anniversary special. Looking up which platforms have major milestone anniversaries this year, I noted six that stuck out. Four of the platforms (NES, Xbox 360, PSone, PS2) I have an extensive history with and they will get their own respective flashback treatment from me when their anniversaries draw nearer later this year. The other two platforms have all had lackluster or outright abysmal degrees of retail success and both I have only had limited histories with and never played on a consistent basis. Nevertheless, the time I did have with them I considered unique and I do have some fond memories of my experiences with each platform. So let us get on with this flashback special as I celebrate the 25th anniversaries of two consoles that each hit in 1995: Sega’s Saturn and Nintendo’s Virtual Boy.

I want to begin with the platform I have played the least of these two, the Saturn. Yes, I played my Virtual Boy and its daunting 14 game library more than the Saturn. In 1995 I was still lagging a generation behind on the latest consoles. All my family had was an NES at this point and I recently got a GameBoy for Christmas of 1993 so in 1995 I was getting a lot of mileage out of my GameBoy and my parents were still hitting up garage sales for bargain price NES game for me. By the time the Saturn and PSone hit in mid-1995, I was a year away from getting a SNES which I desired more so the Saturn and PSone were not even close to making my wish list. I read about them looming in magazines like Game Players and Electronic Gaming Monthly, but truth be told I was not all that excited for the future of disc-based platforms and the advent of polygonal graphics that were about to come into fruition with 32-bit consoles. As a naïve 12-year old, the first major 3D polygonal games that hit on SNES and Genesis in the early 90s like Star Fox and Virtua Racer looked butt-ugly to me, and from trying out demo kiosks of PSone and Saturn at stores the impatient kid I was back then was furious at this newfound ‘feature’ of the latest systems having loading times. Combine that with my family having no desire to chunk down several hundred dollars for another gaming system and I was left with no cravings for the Saturn and PSone when they both hit in 1995. I had no clue of Sega’s surprise Saturn launch announced at the first E3 in May of 1995. For the unfamiliar, it was when going into that E3 it was known that both the Saturn and PSone were slated to launch within days of each other in September of 1995, but at Sega’s press conference they said right then and there the Saturn is out right now at a handful of select retailers. In 1995 the Internet was only around for a few years and not even the slightest bit ubiquitous. Computers were still a couple years away from coming down to more reasonable family friendly prices, so at this time I got all my gaming news from my monthly subscription to Game Players.

Here is the podcast special on the Saturn I originally recorded way back in 2008. Check it out if you want to know even more about the history of the Saturn and its games. I wound up largely ignoring both the Saturn and PSone for the first few years they were out, maybe occasionally trying out an occasional store kiosk demo and that was about it. I remember the magazines at the time putting a lot of hype into Sega’s arcade ports, and console exclusives like Panzer Dragoon getting cover stories of having mind-shattering graphics, but I was not buying it at the time and stubbornly remained loyal to my 2D sprites. For the Saturn, I finally got my first real experience with it in April of 1997. I remember shortly before this time the Saturn was being pushed aggressively on TV with a special 1996 holiday bundle packaging it with Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Cop for $199. I had no idea at the time why this ridiculous deal happened was because Sega was getting killed in sales at this point in the PSone/Saturn/N64 era and they were desperately trying to play catch-up with a hell of a value considering several months earlier in 1996 it was clinging onto its dooming launch price of $399.

Flash forward a few months later in April of 1997 and my hometown got hit with a huge flood that forced a mandatory evacuation of the entire town for a couple weeks until the waters receded. For a couple days our family stayed at a nearby air base hangar. I believe we were planning on hunkering down there for several days until a couple days in my uncle from St. Paul surprised us and showed up and ‘volunteered’ on taking us in and refused to leave without us coming with him. My siblings and I were delighted to get out of the crowded hangar and spend time with our cousins for what ended up being a week before we were able to get back home. My cousin Royce, who was within a year of my age at the time wound up getting that Saturn three game bundle for Christmas a few months earlier and we played those three games along with the demo disc that came with the system almost every day. We must have played through Virtua Cop at least a few times, and I remember finding it a big step up from previous light gun games I was accustomed to. Daytona USA at the time did not really click with me, and while I was impressed with the graphics at the time I did not come around to checkpoint-racing games yet and was more turned off by their enforced time limits back then. On the demo disc our family got a lot of fun competing against each other in the home run derby mode available in World Series Baseball. The standout game of the pack was easily Virtua Fighter 2. It blew me away and for me it was the first game that proved not only for fighting games, but for games all together that 3D polygonal graphics and gameplay could be viable and damn fun. I knew I was a couple years late to the party by this point, but by 1997 polygonal graphics were no longer the crude, non-textured blocks and rectangles on the SNES and Genesis, but actually had some depth and style to them. I loved Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat at this point, but Virtua Fighter 2 proved to me that 3D fighters could coexist with 2D ones.

That week with my cousin was my proper introduction to the 32/64-bit era. It would be over a decade though before I got more serious hand-on time with the Saturn. Not many friends of mine had the Saturn back home, or if they did we rarely busted it out. My friend and former podcast co-host, Matt has a mammoth collection, and I only recall us turning to the system once or twice all these years to play the charming platformer SCUD. Another friend and podcast co-host of mine, Chris also has a Saturn in his equally mammoth game collection, and until 2008 I only recall us powering it on a couple of times to play the fun co-op action platformer, Three Dirty Dwarves, which had a nonsensical, grungy vibe to its destruction. In 2008, we were a couple years into doing our videogame podcast and we loved doing console retrospectives, so we decided it was time to do one on the Saturn. I just uploaded it to YouTube and integrated it into this article for your listening pleasure! Chris knew about my limited Saturn hands-on time at this point so we decided to spend literally a whole afternoon, about four to five hours of ‘research’ playing a good chunk of his Saturn collection. About 10-15 minutes for each game for a quick refresher for what each game brought to the table. There was one though we played for about two hours straight. That was the rare Panzer Dragoon Saga Chris had a copy of. I knew about it being a collectible at this point and heard the acclaim for it being an ahead of its time RPG and professed to Chris to hope to spend a little more time with it to see what the hype was all about. I remember digging its rail-shooter action the first two games established while simultaneously mixing in RPG style mechanics and exploration. I think we both got wrapped up in it, and stuck with it a bit longer than anticipated. Suffice it to say, those opening hours stood out to me all these years later and I can see why Panzer Dragoon Saga became a hot commodity.

Jeremy Parish did an excellent line of videos with deep dives on every individual Virtual Boy game released, including Japanese exclusives. Here is his take on the Wario's exclusive Virtual Boy game as of yet to be re-released, Wario Land. In my TurboGrafX-16 flashback, I wrote about how I procured the system at a gaming community meet-up event. At that same event there were several gaming systems hooked up for play throughout the night, and one of them was the Saturn. One of the highlights of that night was someone bringing enough multi-taps and controllers that we were able to get plenty of rounds of eight player Saturn Bomberman in. I am a fan of classic multiplayer Bomberman, but never played more than four players before, and was surprised to see the Saturn pull off an eight player version with a micro-sized map and characters in order to fit everyone on screen. It was a Bomberman experience that nothing will likely ever stack up to. I dug up a photo from the event of all of us gathered around the TV so you call can see the tech in action!

Sadly, I never got anymore hands on time with the Saturn after this. It is one of the few major consoles that I do not own. For years I remember seeing the system for sale at our local retro games shop for around $30, but I always hesitated on it. The games I enjoyed on there Sega released better sequels on other systems, and I later got to check out some of its top ranked games like the Capcom fighting games, Guardian Heroes, Nights Into Dreams... and acclaimed shmups like Radiant Silvergun on enhanced re-releases on the Xbox 360 and PS3. There remains games exclusive to the Saturn that I always wanted to try like Die Hard Arcade, World Series Baseball ‘98, Fighters MegaMix, Burning Rangers and Shining Force III, but with retro game prices continuously going up, the time to start a Saturn collection has come and gone in my book unless I happen to stumble upon a steal of a deal. I do have one Saturn game in my collection however, and I will give props to Matt once again who gifted me his extra copy of Bug!. While Sega pulled the plug early in America on the Saturn, it comparatively fared much better than Nintendo with the Virtual Boy. It launched in America in August of 1995, and sold so poor right out of the gate that Nintendo could not have abandoned the platform any faster. Its last game, 3D Tetris, hit North America in March of 1996, only seven months after it launched and with a total of a meager 14 games officially releasing stateside. I remember seeing the hype leading up to the Virtual Boy’s launch in the magazines, and like with the initial wave of polygonal graphics, I was not sold on the concept of virtual reality. However, a couple months after that same flood hit in 1997 our local Wal-Mart had unsold Virtual Boy inventory it was desperate to get rid of by selling the system itself for $20, and games for $5 each. This was one of the first times as a kid I recall my dad abstaining from his garage sales-only videogame rule and realized the steal the system was going for. We walked out of that Wal-Mart with the system and the copy of Mario’s Tennis it came bundled with, along with copies of Golf, Mario Clash and Nester’s Funky Bowling.

I was in the midst of spending summers on a farm at this point in my childhood for several years, and that was the summer of Virtual Boy with my siblings. I played the crap out of all four of those games. I abided by the recommended break alerts that popped up every 15-30 minutes seriously because I recall the gaming mags at the time reporting on the Virtual Boy causing eye strain after consistent use. Even with all that heavy duty play of the Virtual Boy that summer, somehow I am the only one in my family that does not have glasses. All four games we had were solid, but not mind blowing. Mario Clash I thought was a nice, fully-featured take on the classic original Mario Bros. arcade game that fleshed out that style of gameplay with about 100 stages and got so difficult early on I did not come close to finishing it. Golf was a good simulation of the sport, but it only had one course so I did not revisit it that often. I remember enjoying Mario’s Tennis a lot, but this being the debut version of that game it was more of a tennis sim with Mario characters, and had less of the wacky mini-games and power-up attacks associated with the franchise today. My siblings and I played a ton of competitive Nester’s Funky Bowling. There was not anything that funky about it other than the occasional cheerful animation from Nester and his twin sister Hester whenever you scored a strike or spare, but it was a functional enough bowling game that we had plenty of fierce rounds of over that summer. After that summer we and I got our fill of those four games and the Virtual Boy found itself in the closet for many years. Eventually I randomly dug it out and found the tripod busted, and the pack that hooked up to the back of the controller that contained the plug-in for the AC adaptor was missing. With no means of powering on the Virtual Boy, it sat in a bag forgotten in my closet for well over a decade. I will thank one Jeremy Parish for renewing my interest in Virtual Boy with his excellent line of Virtual Boy Works videos. For those that are unfamiliar with him, Parish is one of most credible members of the retro gaming press, with him hosting the renowned retro-game podcast, Retronauts since 2006 and going on to write countless books and producing chronological video series on nearly every 20th century Nintendo platform. He averages one video a week, which usually highlights one or two games and does a deep dive into its development history and then proceeds to review the game. A few years in he has already covered almost all the games released from the first years of the SNES and the first two years of NES and GameBoy.

Throughout 2019 Parish took a detour from those three systems to focus on going through the entire VirtualBoy library, including its several Japanese exclusives. His surprise love for the platform shined through his thorough coverage for each game. It is a well-produced series and fantastic history lesson for this blink-and-miss-it platform that I highly recommend checking out by click or pressing here, especially now to learn about the first major attempt at a virtual reality platform with VR now having a modicum of success with the PlayStation VR and the Oculus Rift having made legit waves these past few years. Virtual Boy Works inspired me to track down a few more Virtual Boy games to my collection which were surprisingly going for not that much on eBay. I wound up getting Galactic Pinball, TeleroBoxer, Virtual League Baseball, Vertical Force and Wario Land. I also tracked down a replacement AC Adaptor hub and tripod stand which resulted in my Virtual Boy powering on once again! I tested out all these games briefly. I love me some videogame pinball, and Galactic Pinball has some nifty 3D tricks up its sleeve. TeleroBoxer is like Punch-Out meets Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots or Real Steel for the younger readers who need a more contemporary reference. Vertical Force is a competent shmup, and I wish I put more than a few minutes into Wario Land because it is a legit top notch platformer and went down as one of the few highly rated games on the system. I swear to one day make it through Wario Land! Thank you for joining me on this two part 25th anniversary special for the Saturn and Virtual Boy! Got a favorite Virtual Boy or Saturn memory of your own? I would like to hear how it compares to my tale so shoot me a line on Twitter over @Gruel. If you enjoyed this journal-style flashback special, than I encourage you to check out the links below to the specials I wrote for the Dreamcast, GameBoy, Genesis, TurboGrafX-16 and yes, even the 32-X. Thank you all once again for indulging me!

My Other Gaming Flashbacks Dreamcast 20th Anniversary GameBoy 30th Anniversary Genesis 30th Anniversary TurboGrafX-16 30th Anniversary and 32-X 25th Anniversary

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Someone asked me to try coloring in a virtual boy screenshot, so thats what this might look like if it could do color.