VT-Vincent Posted December 1, 2009 Posted December 1, 2009 As of late, I've found myself wanting to buy a lot of retro hardware and as such, I've been browsing around eBay to see what is still out there. I have to admit, I am amazed at what I've seen... sealed copies of classics like Earthbound and Chrono Trigger, sealed consoles of virtually every generation and even some obscure peripherals I thought would've died off a long time ago. Just a few days ago I actually found a brand-new first party Sega Saturn S-Video cable. Up till now, I've been using the cheap generics that fall apart after a couple of uses. If I had the money though, there is so much more I would buy. So what has everyone else been buying/eying up?
emsley Posted December 2, 2009 Posted December 2, 2009 If cash was not an issue a kick ass neo=geo arcade machine MVS!!
VT-Vincent Posted December 2, 2009 Author Posted December 2, 2009 I think I might pick up a Virtual Boy soon. I really miss that system.
Agozer Posted December 2, 2009 Posted December 2, 2009 No sane person would want to play games on the actual Virtual Boy, unless he's some collector and just wants the system in his collection.
Inky Posted December 2, 2009 Posted December 2, 2009 I remember playing a virtual boy display unit for like 5 minutes in Target before I got a screaming headache.
VT-Vincent Posted December 2, 2009 Author Posted December 2, 2009 No sane person would want to play games on the actual Virtual Boy, unless he's some collector and just wants the system in his collection. When did I ever say I was sane?
Agozer Posted December 2, 2009 Posted December 2, 2009 No sane person would want to play games on the actual Virtual Boy, unless he's some collector and just wants the system in his collection. When did I ever say I was sane? My post was intended as a general remark, not a direct response to you even though I quoted. Anyway, I prefer people who are at least a little insane. Be too sane, and you start being boring.
VT-Vincent Posted December 2, 2009 Author Posted December 2, 2009 (edited) Heh, in all honesty though the Virtual Boy never bothered me... way back in the day, I could play it for over an hour without any issues. The two things I found that helped the most were playing it in a dark room and ensuring it was calibrated as accurately as possible. Just about everyone I know hated the thing though and had similar experiences to Inky. I remember when it was released, NoA hyped it up way too much... borderline false advertising. They hailed it as their first 32-bit, 3D portable. In the very early material, they even tried to claim it was in color! While these things may be true if you stretched the definitions as far as humanly possible most gamers didn't see it this way and felt cheated. Edited December 2, 2009 by VT-Vincent
Shibathedog Posted December 2, 2009 Posted December 2, 2009 There are only like 6 games on it though. Is it really worth it? I buy a lot of old school gameboy/NES stuff. I only buy games that I really really like though because you can emulate them on almost anything.
ken_cinder Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 No sane person would want to play games on the actual Virtual Boy, unless he's some collector and just wants the system in his collection. When did I ever say I was sane? My post was intended as a general remark, not a direct response to you even though I quoted. Anyway, I prefer people who are at least a little insane. Be too sane, and you start being boring. Please, anyone that claims to be "Normal" needs put in a straight jacket. If you're not at least a little fucked up, there's something wrong with you...
VT-Vincent Posted December 3, 2009 Author Posted December 3, 2009 There are only like 6 games on it though. Is it really worth it? I buy a lot of old school gameboy/NES stuff. I only buy games that I really really like though because you can emulate them on almost anything. Honestly, it's more for the novelty than anything else... but I do have to say, Wario Land on the VB is one of the better side-scrolling platforms I've played. I would love the chance to go back and play it again. Just thinking of that era though... isn't it amazing how many failures hit the market at about that same time? The VB had an embarrassingly small game library but so did Tiger's ill-fated Game.Com (I actually used to own one) and the 32X (owned that too).
Shibathedog Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 The 32X was pretty cool though, I had one as well. Some of those games where massively improved for the 32X. I remember the gamecom. I always thought it was weird that it was supposed to be this portable online system yet you needed to buy this bigass modem bigger than the already huge handheld to go online. I never ended up getting one because even when it was new I thought it looked like a glorified pocket organizer. (Where we calling them PDAs yet?) Although I remember seeing Duke Nukem on it and being like HOLY CRAP, DUKE NUKEM IN MY POCKET! As far as wario games go though, you need to play the gameboy versions. They are some of my favorite gameboy games.
emsley Posted December 3, 2009 Posted December 3, 2009 I just wanted a 32x for doom some of the flagship games I saw over the years pissed me off cause i could never have them, untill I saw power stone on the dreamcast thats right I got a job got my dreamcast then quit! win!
Hawq Posted December 4, 2009 Posted December 4, 2009 No sane person would want to play games on the actual Virtual Boy, unless he's some collector and just wants the system in his collection.I resemble that remark! both parts come to think about it
VT-Vincent Posted December 6, 2009 Author Posted December 6, 2009 The 32X was pretty cool though, I had one as well. Some of those games where massively improved for the 32X. I remember the gamecom. I always thought it was weird that it was supposed to be this portable online system yet you needed to buy this bigass modem bigger than the already huge handheld to go online. I never ended up getting one because even when it was new I thought it looked like a glorified pocket organizer. (Where we calling them PDAs yet?) Although I remember seeing Duke Nukem on it and being like HOLY CRAP, DUKE NUKEM IN MY POCKET!Yeah, I thought the whole idea of trying to put the thing online was bizarre. As I recall, it only supported their official modem as well as ancient v14.4k modems as well (which even by that time, were far, far behind the curve) via a parallel connection to their dial up kit. If you could manage to get the thing online, you could look forward to text-based browsing and extremely crippled email. I remember the biggest disappointment I had with it though was the screen - the used the cheapest calculator screen they could which had an awful refresh rate. In retrospect though, it's kind of interesting to see that all of the Game.Com's ideas did eventually come to fruition. To the best of my knowledge, it was the first online-capable touchscreen portable. Now, we have the Nintendo DS doing exactly what Tiger tried except in a much more refined form. As far as wario games go though, you need to play the gameboy versions. They are some of my favorite gameboy games.I actually liked Wario Land 1 (Super Mario Land 3) a lot as well as the GBA Wario Land 4, but for some reason I could never really get into 2 and 3. The Virtual Boy game was really one of my highlights for the platform though, if I were to buy one back I think that is the one game I'd look forward to the most.
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