The virtual boy was ahead of its time, too. Teleroboxer is still my favorite game that no one played.
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hunterirving@lemmy.world 5 days agoLooking back, it almost feels like a Switch prototype. It’s a goofy little thing, but I love it. That said, I also love the Nintendo Virtual Boy, so my judgement might be questionable.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 days ago
hunterirving@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s one of my favorites, too! Almost like a Punch Out!! spinoff. VB Wario Land is worthy of the praise it receives, but I also really like the Virtual Boy’s StarFox-like, Red Alarm.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Red Alarm is definitely my Number 2 on VB, Followed by Wario. I need to search my basement and see if I still have them…
Teleroboxer reminds me of a cross between Punch Out & Metal Combat for the Super Scope, another underrated gem.
At least that one got a sequel!
hunterirving@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Super deep cut (this might be my most obscure bit of Nintendo trivia as I couldn’t find any images of it online), but have you ever seen the hidden wireframe models in Red Alarm? If you shoot very specific places in game, you can reveal low-poly 3D models of a Virtual Boy, Game Boy, and even a girl in a bikini… for some reason. I wonder if Nintendo’s top brass were aware of that one when it shipped :-)
TeddE@lemmy.world 4 days ago
At the time, Microsoft and Sony were playing this “more graphics = more better” game and Nintendo decided it couldn’t compete on that front. You can see a bit of the “compete on anything but graphics” mentality in the Wii and Wii U, then they took what worked and refined it into the Switch and Switch 2.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Yeah, it did so many things wrong and had so many little annoyances regarding the gamepad.
Still, great games and a wonderful charm to it.