Vroom! Vroom! Virtual Boy!
@vroomvroomvb.bsky.social
A Virtual Boy library play-though podcast.
Releases the first Monday of the month.
https://virtualboy.blog/
Podcast Art by @ohmandaz.bsky.social
Releases the first Monday of the month.
https://virtualboy.blog/
Podcast Art by @ohmandaz.bsky.social
Interesting lineup for that NSO announcement. They threw Nester in the dust bin and picked the better bowling game. And a NA release of Innsmouth No Yakata is wild
September 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Interesting lineup for that NSO announcement. They threw Nester in the dust bin and picked the better bowling game. And a NA release of Innsmouth No Yakata is wild
New episode is out! virtualboy.blog/posts/2025-0...
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September 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
New episode is out! virtualboy.blog/posts/2025-0...
They should make a third bowling game on the Virtual Boy. Give a venerable Japanese dev a shot. We need another one. Nester can't be the second best bowling game on any system.
August 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
They should make a third bowling game on the Virtual Boy. Give a venerable Japanese dev a shot. We need another one. Nester can't be the second best bowling game on any system.
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I did not attempt to rehabilitate the Virtual Boy in my latest for Endless Mode, but I did lament that the limits of the technology and disinterest in exploring it further kept us from ever seeing what developers would eventually be capable of with it, as happens with every platform given time.
Nintendo's Virtual Boy came out in America 30 years ago this month. No, it's not underrated, but who knows what developers could've made for it if they had had more time to learn the hardware?
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Nintendo's Virtual Boy Isn't Underrated—But Who Knows What It Could've Turned Into?
Nintendo's biggest gaming failure, the table-bound portable known as the Virtual Boy, came out in America 30 years ago this month.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I did not attempt to rehabilitate the Virtual Boy in my latest for Endless Mode, but I did lament that the limits of the technology and disinterest in exploring it further kept us from ever seeing what developers would eventually be capable of with it, as happens with every platform given time.
also the new episode has a new theme by spaceportjohnson.bandcamp.com
Spaceport Johnson
vibes.
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August 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
also the new episode has a new theme by spaceportjohnson.bandcamp.com
New episode! The highs and lows of the VB library in full force this month with a kinda-bad baseball game and one of Nintendo's finest moments. virtualboy.blog/posts/2025-0...
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August 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
New episode! The highs and lows of the VB library in full force this month with a kinda-bad baseball game and one of Nintendo's finest moments. virtualboy.blog/posts/2025-0...
Happy 30th, Virtual Boy
July 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy 30th, Virtual Boy
Would Wario say this?
July 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Would Wario say this?
Don't listen to this episode expecting any funk. You won't find any. Ep. 5 - Vertical Force and Nester's Funky Bowling drops tomorrow. Here's a link to listen early.
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July 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Don't listen to this episode expecting any funk. You won't find any. Ep. 5 - Vertical Force and Nester's Funky Bowling drops tomorrow. Here's a link to listen early.
virtualboy.blog/posts/2025-0...
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It would be unusual, as the game was never released in Japan.
June 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It would be unusual, as the game was never released in Japan.
Does anyone have information on Nintendo R&D3's involvement on Nester's Funky Bowling? It's cited on wikis and in Virtual Boy Works, but not listed in-game or on Moby Games.
June 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Does anyone have information on Nintendo R&D3's involvement on Nester's Funky Bowling? It's cited on wikis and in Virtual Boy Works, but not listed in-game or on Moby Games.
Sorry to report....Nester's Funky Bowling does not respect the funk
June 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sorry to report....Nester's Funky Bowling does not respect the funk
Having an okay time with Vertical Force so far. But then you see the transition into Stage 5 from the Stage 4 boss and your love of video games and the bespoke technology they're built on is re-ignited.
June 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Having an okay time with Vertical Force so far. But then you see the transition into Stage 5 from the Stage 4 boss and your love of video games and the bespoke technology they're built on is re-ignited.
Next month we will be playing Nester’s Funky Bowling and Vertical Force.
Praying for a Hudson Soft classic here.
Praying for a Hudson Soft classic here.
June 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Next month we will be playing Nester’s Funky Bowling and Vertical Force.
Praying for a Hudson Soft classic here.
Praying for a Hudson Soft classic here.
Leisure Month comes to a close tomorrow with the release of our episode on Golf / Virtual Fishing! Join us as inaccurate emulation crushes our Golf dreams and Virtual Fishing poses big questions about the Japanese Huchen. Listen early here:
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June 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Leisure Month comes to a close tomorrow with the release of our episode on Golf / Virtual Fishing! Join us as inaccurate emulation crushes our Golf dreams and Virtual Fishing poses big questions about the Japanese Huchen. Listen early here:
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Our leisure month episode on Virtual Fishing and Golf will be out Monday! In the meantime, here’s some bonus solo musing on the Virtual Boy controller:
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The Virtual Boy Controller - Bonus
Podcast Episode · Vroom! Vroom! Virtual Boy! · S1 Bonus · 26m
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June 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Our leisure month episode on Virtual Fishing and Golf will be out Monday! In the meantime, here’s some bonus solo musing on the Virtual Boy controller:
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Due to sickness we are pushing back the release of our Golf/Virtual Fishing episode 1 week! In the meantime I picked up a Virtual Boy controller and will be dropping a mini episode Monday with some thoughts on it and the lineage or Nintendo controllers
May 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Due to sickness we are pushing back the release of our Golf/Virtual Fishing episode 1 week! In the meantime I picked up a Virtual Boy controller and will be dropping a mini episode Monday with some thoughts on it and the lineage or Nintendo controllers
One of the lovely discoveries in undertaking this project - finding that the Virtual Boy fishing game would end on a note of quiet mystery and camaraderie in the graceful embrace of mother nature
May 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
One of the lovely discoveries in undertaking this project - finding that the Virtual Boy fishing game would end on a note of quiet mystery and camaraderie in the graceful embrace of mother nature
The melancholic and evocative finale to Virtual Fishing - continued
May 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The melancholic and evocative finale to Virtual Fishing - continued
The melancholic and evocative finale to Virtual Fishing
May 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The melancholic and evocative finale to Virtual Fishing
Red Viper is the only emulator I’ve used so far that emulates the speed of Golf correctly. If anyone knows of a PC/Linux emulator that handles the shot execution sequence slow enough to actually hit anything with intention let me know!!!
May 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Red Viper is the only emulator I’ve used so far that emulates the speed of Golf correctly. If anyone knows of a PC/Linux emulator that handles the shot execution sequence slow enough to actually hit anything with intention let me know!!!
Break screen after finishing the 9th hole in Golf (1995).
May 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Break screen after finishing the 9th hole in Golf (1995).
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@professorashley.bsky.social is launching a Twitch livestream where game scholars share stories about their research and the half-baked ideas left on the cutting room floor. The series starts tomorrow with "Seeing Red" author @jzagal.bsky.social! twitch.tv/professor_ashley
May 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
@professorashley.bsky.social is launching a Twitch livestream where game scholars share stories about their research and the half-baked ideas left on the cutting room floor. The series starts tomorrow with "Seeing Red" author @jzagal.bsky.social! twitch.tv/professor_ashley
1995 controller cord length comparison from left to right:
- JPN Saturn
- PS1 Digital
- Super Famicom
- Virtual Boy
- JPN Saturn
- PS1 Digital
- Super Famicom
- Virtual Boy
May 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1995 controller cord length comparison from left to right:
- JPN Saturn
- PS1 Digital
- Super Famicom
- Virtual Boy
- JPN Saturn
- PS1 Digital
- Super Famicom
- Virtual Boy