Kotaku (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Video game retailers cleaning out an old warehouse in the Rashidia area of Dubai stumbled across video gaming's Pandora's Box - a sealed crate containing 100 Nintendo Virtual Boy systems, intact in...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
(((Vaporware deserves its own book.))) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9083058 Link: The Top 15 Vaporware Products of All Time. 12. Sega VR Before the madness of the dot-com boom really got under way, the serious buzz was all about virtual reality. Aside from the...
videogamesblogger.com: (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Before Nintendo was famous with their mustachioed plumber known as Mario, they released little handheld systems called Game & Watch that were hugely successful in Japan as well as the U.S. Each had a single game built into them (you couldn't change the game that was on it) that used rudimentary graphics on it's LCD [...]
Playpen (Free subscription) | 29/03/2008
From the old, beloved Atari 2600 joystick to the Wiimote, how did we get from there to here? The “Sock Master’s” family tree of controllers has the goods. There are some classics and some real stinkers like the The Nintendo Virtual Boy Controller. What were they thinking? controllers, Culture, design, games, hardware, interactivity, play, technology, videogames
übergizmo (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The iPhone is definitely one pint sized dynamite, and Box Fab has come up with what could revolutionize the iPhone movement even further with its 3D Virtual Reality head-mount for the handset. While Nintendo's Virtual Boy was a real flop, inducing headaches for users with its outdated technology while having an extremely limited library of games, this 3D VR head-mounted concept will use the iPhone...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
This cool project shows you how to hook up a Game Boy Color Rumble Pack by Nyko to the Nintendo Virtual Boy. If you are still lucky enough to have a Virtual Boy (or can find one on eBay) this hack is a nice way to add some more reality to the "virtual reality" promised by the Virtual Boy. VB Rumble Pack - Link [ Read this article ] [ Comment on this article ]
videogamesblogger.com: (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008
This is the fortieth in a series of bad video game reviews by the Angry Video Game Nerd. Watch as the Angry Video Game Nerd starts getting a red head playing the Nintendo Virtual Boy and the games released for the system in its 1995-1996 lifetime. There are a couple of games he actually likes, [...]
videogamesblogger.com: (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Nintendo has registered a number of new Wii patents that go into some strange territory. Of course, strange Wii peripherals are a dime a dozen as companies cash in on the Wii craze, but so far this hasn't come from Nintendo themselves . . . well, unless you count the Wii Fit Balance Board. Some of [...]
Techzi (Free subscription) | 11/11/2007
I’m taking this rather well considering the seriousness of the situation. The Thunderbird e-mail client just tried to self-update and… well… pooped itself. My whole “last-update.log” file hidden in my AppData/Local/Thunderbird/Mozilla Thunderbird/updates folder was (or should I say IS) full of error messages and I’ve conveniently lost 25,000 stored e-mails along with about 30 e-mails [...]
Aeropause (Free subscription) | 08/11/2007
Once in a while an absolutely massive collection of games and consoles will land on Ebay for a decent price. They don't last long, but it's worth the time just looking at the behemoth stack of over sized plastic...
