Is there a console that's been memory-holed harder than the Virtual Boy? Obviously there's plenty of obscure and forgotten consoles with non-existent libraries that bombed in one way or another, but those were pretty much all one-offs. Meanwhile, this was an actual serious console/portable hybrid from the biggest player at the time, and not only have none of its games ever been ported (huge missed opportunity with the 3DS, of course), but it is effectively that-console-that-must-not-be-named-or-referenced, probably because it was such a huge loss of face for Nintendo. Seriously, has it ever been referenced in any way other than making a brief appearance in Melee's trophy room, and that only in the Jap version (or by setting the language to Japanese)? If there are more, I'd like to know.
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There's a warioware game based on Mario Clash.
I was disappointed when I realized no one has developed emulation to use modern vr headsets
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Nintendo made a promo video for their E3 2015 presentation where Reggie "trains" with it. That's about the only reference I can think of.
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Yeah, looking into it a bit, it seems around this time they began to pepper in a few references here and there, mostly as gags of some kind. It's obscure enough and far enough removed that millenials will appreciate the reference, while zoomers won't immediately recognize it as that one failed Nintendo device.
I remember George Costanza having one in his apartment.
Apple Pippin
This, despite being CD-i tier, absolutely no one has ever talked about the Pippin to any major degree despite being from a major company. Even though SEGA doesn't acknowledge it's failures, people still dunk on it. No one even dunks on the Pippin, it's just historical curiosity.
Bonus answer, the Sega microcomputer.
I still can't believe they never did a Virtual Console on 3DS, what the frick was their problem
SEGA CD, 32X, Panasonic 3DO, probably CD-i as well
PC-FX
NEC went full circle with the "anime waifu" shit that permeated the pc engine's library near the end of its life-cycle
Probably this. Virtual Boy is pretty well known, especially including people who know it as that one Nintendo console which flopped horribly. Even as a kid I remember seeing it in stores and thinking it looked neat.
Outside of Japan, the PCFX is minimally known at best.
The GBA Micro is more forgotten then the Virtual Boy
anon it just doesn't have a big library and there's like maybe 3 games worth playing
>Teleroboxer
>Mario Tennis
>Vertical Force
>Galactic Pinball
>Mario Clash
>Wario Land
Just from my incomplete collection those are all worth playing, I'm sure there's more.
Would also give an honorable mention to Red Alarm - terrible game but worth a play just because of how unique it was. Would be awesome if some homebrew wizard could speed it up a little and replace the wireframe with solid polygons.
jack bros is supposed to be good too
>speed it up a little and replace the wireframe with solid polygons
wonder what level of 3d could've been achieved with the hardware specs if it stayed around a while longer... the cpu seemed pretty decent, 3d doom or at least wolfenstein games might've been a possibility. a real jrpg would've been cool too, a lot of effects they could've pulled off with maps and combat
You can start a Virtual Boy worshiping cult in the Tomadachi Life games.
that's just a dream the miis can have, with the virtual boy being one of many items. that said it's definitely not memory holed op, i mean maybe after it came out but nintendo's been referencing it every now and then for a little over the past decade.
Weird how dead the VB homebrew scene is
I just can't believe they never released a VB collection for the 3DS
they were saving it for the switchVR
I need to fix the video on mine but I heard that you could potentially perma-frick it up if you don't know what you're doing so I don't know what I should do.
Luigi's Mansion 3 has the Virtual Boo. It's been long enough that Nintendo isn't afraid of referencing it. There was also this Iwata Asks about the VB that's interesting.
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-Nintendo-3DS/Vol-1-And-That-s-How-the-Nintendo-3DS-Was-Made/2-Shigeru-Miyamoto-Talks-Virtual-Boy/2-Shigeru-Miyamoto-Talks-Virtual-Boy-229419.html
The VB didn't have a particularly interesting library to begin with but there are a couple of games they could've easily brought back with very little effort.
It had like 11 games and none of them were really that notable outside of Wario Land. Maybe Virtual Lab for just how bad it is and rushed to retail to the point where they didn't spell Nintendo's name correctly on the box.
You must be smoking something potent, the VB is probably the most famous "flop" console in existence.
Fricking Vectrex is more memory holed.
Memory-holed isn't a synonym for forgotten or lost to obscurity. It refers to something that has been forcefully and purposely "forgotten" because its one-time existence is inconvenient to someone with power.
You realize you're talking to people who think boomer unironically means anybody over 21, right?
Wario fans like it due to wario land being excellent
Yeah, Colecovision. Outside of a single reference in a Kid Rock song from the 90’s, it was memoryholed fast even though it sold well and had good games.
>I'm the J-O-E to the C ho
>Call me Joe C ,got more game than Coleco
>I'm a freak ho call me sick
>Three foot nine with a ten foot dick
I think the problem is today that it has almost no exclusive games of note
Virtual Boy was basically the most revolutionary console of all time. Peasants just couldn't understand its greatness and feared it.