• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    6 months ago

    That’s literally how I got mine, though from Babbages when they were still a thing. I think I paid like $35 + tax for the unit (which came with Mario Tennis) and Wario Land.

    Loved it, but I can see why it failed. Still, 3D Mario Tennis was amazing.

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      6 months ago

      AND warioland!!!

      The virtual boy is Nintendos coolest console that deserved to fail. It had some good games in it’s tiny library. It brought some cool concepts to the project. But the virtual console deserved to die.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, it was a cool concept, but the execution was terrible. For all its faults, the one I can’t overlook is the fact that it required 6xAA batteries (that it would chew through in 2-3 hours). LIke, WTF? Its design literally required you to use it on a table/stationary location. They sold an AC adapter for it, but it was a separate purchase.

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          6 months ago

          If you had a super nintendo it was the same cord. Just like the game gear used the genesis cord.

          But they never designed AC cords with the regular game boy. Which still makes me mad. NES or SNES power cord, and I’d have been happy as a kid…

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          6 months ago

          Yeah I remember a friend got one for Christmas and we all went over to play with it at a sleepover and it just sucked down all the batteries in the house.