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Virtual Boy Pro for Nintendo Switch - Announcement Trailer (2024) (youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago

I can't believe they acknowledged the Virtual Boy ever existed. Why they never ported the games to 3DS is mind boggling.

[-] atocci@kbin.social 38 points 7 months ago

Don't worry, they still haven't acknowledged it! This is IGN's video!

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Oh shit! That makes more sense then. Thanks

[-] Link@rentadrunk.org 15 points 7 months ago

The homebrew community has ported the games to 3DS with an emulator.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, it's called Red Viper and it's great! I'm just surprised Nintendo didn't do it themselves.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Yeah the fact that this already exists and it is pretty much perfect just makes me think that it is a lame move from Nintendo, even if it was meant to be a joke lol.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

There's also an emulator for the oculus quest, the moment you launch a game you understand why it wasn't that successful and why VR was abandoned for a while.

Monochrome games are all good and fun when the screen is not a few cm from your eyes and that's the only color you can see hahahah

[-] statue7559@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 7 months ago

April Fools.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Obviously. Even for April fools I'm surprised they acknowledged the Virtual Boy ever existed.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

Luigis Mansion 3 has a pretty overt acknowledgement of the Virtual Boys existance. The entire in game menu is in one.

[-] kraynyan@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 7 months ago

I'll admit I showed my wife before realizing what date it is

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I thought Virtual Boy Pro was what Ben Shapiro's famously dry wife called him until he paid her to stop?

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Stop putting the onus of wetness on the poor woman. She's dry when she's with him, but you can't blame her for that, the man is a human silica packet

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You're right and I'm sorry for any confusion as I very much intended to blame the human silica packet for his sexual ineptitude and general repulsiveness lol

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

In case anyone actually wants one, that headset is real because Mario Odyssey has a VR mode.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Wait, what? How do we even know it has a VR mode if no Nintendo hardware exists that renders anything but the Labo kit in VR?

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The VR mode was added to work with the Labo kit. But these headsets also exist now… because…? I don’t think the Labo was head-mounted, but maybe I’m wrong because I never had Labo.