yes. lets bring back the red eye sockets of death :D

O.O teh lazor sentry :3

get out >8U

hey that's what it would be if it was real, btw, I had to sell mine to get into college, was hard as fuck to let go

"teh" and "lazor" are not real words then >8U

ugh, the and lazer then?

Almost got it.

Okay then

It's a common mistake. The acronym is "laser" which stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation."

huh, I learned something today :3 btw, doesn't this thing look like it should be the engie's laser sentry?

XP nobody told me that it was capitalized XP

XXXDDD

I still have mine upstairs!

I used to have one of these, thing was hilarious. I had like half its game library too (a grand total of six games).

FUCK


YES

Meeeemorieeees.

This is actually a pretty cool painting. Great composition. Reminds me of TF2, for some reason..

Based the whole thing off one of Valve's promotional prints for the game, actually. http://store.valvesoftware.com/product.php?i=P0109

Which is also the cover for the "TF2 manual" http://cdn.steampowered.com/Manuals/440/

OH SHIT AWESOME! I had no idea they made an actual manual for it! =D

Link is broken for anyone who looking at this but

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/s.....f?t=1450396235 should work now.

this thing was ahead of its time and people don't understand to this day, It was the first stereoscopic 3d game system and display, the new nintendo 3ds is using this tech for the display.

I think it actually could have done well if it had been more ergonomic (the Angry Video Game Nerd review shows him struggling to find a position where it is comfortable to play) and if they had splurged and gone full color. I know that the GBC came out three years later, so that indicates the technology wasn't quite there during the 1995 release of the VB... But it should have been apparent to everyone involved in the VB project that red/black was NOT going to work.

well at the time they couldn't do a full color lcd screen that size plus the tech it s using was basicly alpha nintendo ds but with the stereoscopic 3d, also it was never said to be a portable system.

I wish they would remake this system but as a next gen console with head motion tracking and hd small lcd's, racing, flight and fps would just be amazing then.

Uhhh, what LCDs? Virtual Boy has mechanically (!) scanned red LED arrays, it was impossible to make them full colour, because there wasn't such thing as usable blue LED in 1995 (greens were available but best ones were reds)

That is the reason for eye wrenching red display.

They could, however, have used red-orange, orange, orange-yellow, and yellow lights to add softness and contrast to the graphics on the virtualboy. But that could have increased the cost by two or three times it's original value...also, red makes it go faster.

Actually, a very big part of the reason for this was that Nintendo wanted everyone in their R&D working on the N64; as such, they rushed out the VB before the team was done with it. Also, as mentioned by a later poster, the LEDs necessary to make a full-color screen were non-existent at the time. Red/black was pretty much what you got.

My understanding of it was that the project was essentially left up to the guy who spearheaded and developed the Game Boy. And when it became apparent that the Virtual Boy wasn't a success he was promoted into a part of the company where he "couldn't do more harm", but made him practically useless. Unfortunately he was killed in a car accident a short while after leaving Nintendo and developing the WonderSwan.

Also, I was unaware that there weren't any LEDs other than red at the time. But that doesn't excuse them for using such a horrid color combination. If the technology wasn't there, then they shouldn't have done it. I think it's pretty apparent to anyone playing the Virtual Boy for more than a few minutes that the red/black mix is just too much of a contrast and is too hard on the eyes. I understand the "they were pioneers!" attitude that some people get with the Virtual Boy, but part of R&D is knowing what technology to keep under patent until it is more easily usable and marketable.

Gunpei Yokoi, the guy also in charge of creating the Metroid franchise and for a while the CEO of Nintendo, was the head of the VB project, yes. He was also trying to get other color LEDs produced; however, again, the rest of Nintendo saw the N64 as the big thing everyone needed to be put on, and forced him to rush to production. The size, ergonomics, colors, etc. were all problems he was trying to fix. And then, yeah, he got hit by a car. Though I didn't think he left Nintendo before that; I'll have to look it up.

*got called away for something >_> *

Additionally, as an astronomer, I can tell you that red/black is actually a pretty kind contrast; many people didn't have a problem with it so much as the focus (which very few wanted to bother dealing with). I completely agree that they shouldn't have come out with an unfinished project, but that seems to be the norm in this day and age anyway.

I'm getting a headache just thinking about it :D

I own a recently-broken one. VB Wario Land was amazing fun. Everything else... not so much.

I actually own two broken and one working one. I may want to buy your broken one, note me if you're willing.

I don't have it to hand... it's in storage in another country, currently.
Besides: I like having it as an ornament, almost. I don't think I could bear to sell it.

Wario Land was fun. And Mario Tennis.

I wish they'd figure out emulation for this system, I always wanted to play Wario Land for it. Well, more than the two minutes I got at the Toys R' Us when I was a kid.

I do believe the system is emulated, but the 3D effect is flat or simulated so it's kinda like playing a black and red Gameboy game.

My friend complained about that joke with TF2 haha. He was actually trying to read the manual for that game.

All I can say this is amazing. I love the picture but I hated the game system so much :[

Wrangler 2.0. >:3

you got the style pretty much spot on there.

Gunpeis eternal shame

Seph smashed his on the sidewalk. He got more enjoyment out of it that way.

See this is fantastic.

I have exorcised the demons from my head. I can sleep now, free from their ceaseless taunting.


Hurf durf =B

Oh man Bax is gonna love this too.

FUCK




YES

I bought two and neither one worked.

I had one and it was horrendous, they're nothing more than eye searing migraine factories -it's a fact!

it'd be fun to see a second with all the warnings or various images showing exaggerations of what could happen if you don't follow them

1. plug in
2. have seizure
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!

Seriously though, *ahem* Holy Fucking shit this is awesome. This is on par with both Valve and that J. Axer guy.

http://www.overclock.net/attachment.....-fast-clap.gif <--- mfw I saw this piece of work

Erecting a nostalgia.

Spy's sappin' mah Virtual Boy!

SPY SAPPIN' MAH NINTENDO

Amazing! For some reason this reminds me of AVGN's review of the product x3

I think the perspective for the controller is a little off...

Other than that, I really think this is super awesome! You did a great job at emulating the Valve painted 1950s style!

The controller was definitely the hardest part during sketching. All kinds of subtle shapes and proportions.

I have mine in the closet. Still works and everything but I only have two games for it. Mario Tennis and some golf game :P

<TF2/Nintendo pun goes here>

( May I use this as my new TF2 spray? c.c; )

Hey, feel free!

Thanks! :)

Shit man, I'd totally buy a poster of this. o.o

It's a martian tripod! We gonna die.

Virtual Roboxer was where it was at.

Wasn't it Teleroboxer?

probably

I got two of these bad boys and I love the everloving fuck out of them.

Jesus, does EVERYONE here own one? The only time I've even SEEN one outside of photos was at a demo kiosk at a WalMart.

Yeah, I never got to own one myself. I played it at... Meijer, Target, uhh... I forget which one... but I got to fiddle with Teleroboxer and Wario... heh, I still want one.

Erectin' eye problems and seizures to little kids!

SPAH SAPPIN MAH BATTERIES

This was the best worst-video-game-console-ever!

Oh Wario!

NEED A BUCKET HERE.



man. Those things.......SO GODDAM RED.


I wish i could find one of them on the street and just take it home. Puke with joy :D

I'm going to say a few things here. One, you don't get to say your art is bad after posting this. It's great.
And two, the virtual boy was awesome. Totally worth the eye searing pain.

*hits it with a wrench*

I think they should've named the Wii 'Virtual Boy 2'

I took mine out just yesterday to play Teleroboxer, then spent the next two hours after that playing mario tennis and wario land. I really dont get peoples complaints about it. I thought it was awesome.

i used to own one of these things Wario Land and Red Alert were my two favorites. Played Red Alert while riding in the backseat of my parents car....my head hurt so much afterward.

I have many reasons to be happy today and this is one of them. Talk about a blast from the past, and the TF2 "vintage" look makes it all the better.

This is the reason Cyclops from X-men got his powers.

My brother owns one of these. Great games, obvious defects -- quite an underrated piece of equipment!

And a little TF2 here and there never hurt either

Sir, I believe you have created art!

ART! At last! Something I'm not ashamed to show to normal people!

Nothing but normal people 'round these parts.

Delightfully old school

A million times yes to this.

Dude, I just dragged mine back from the depths of my parents' house. :D

I know what to say about it.....MY EYE!!! AAAAAHHHHHH THE REEEEEEDDDDD!!! :O

I can still remember when this came out. A friend bought one, and I tried it out one time I was over. Once I regained my vision several days later, I then decided that maybe Virtual Boy was not that great of a console.

This is my background now, and gonna be for a while, this is stunning man, this is so awesome!

Lord, it DOES look like a sentry, doesn't it?
Now if only you could get one in BLU...

Hey. Pretty slick of you.

This is wonderful :)

COOL!! Its an ingame tf2 game!

I remember that thing!

I can almost SMELL the capital wasteland!

:D i still have mineh

You should check angry nintendo nerd's review about VB

Nintendo sappin' mah eyesight!

The Virtual Boy looks like it should be an item in Team Fortress 2.

BWAHAHAHAHA! Back in '96 we got a hold of one of the to sell in the electronics shop I worked in. After 2 months of it being in the same display case, untouched, we unboxed it and set it up with Mario Tennis3D as a demo, took 25% off as an "open box" item. A year later we had to toss it away, the mirror motor in the visor burned out. :D Utter, Nintendo fail, that.

FUCK THIS BRINGS ME BACK!
I remember playing with this back when I was a kid.
...fuck that shit was heavy! xD

I have one of those and I still enjoy using it.

Since this is TF2 related, mind if I turn this into a spray?

Hey, go ahead! Feel free to do whatever you like with it.

The old fashioned poster style of this makes me wonder how the Virtual Boy would have fared in the 1920s.

I need to pull that sucker out some time
and play it like the good times

Ah the true failure of Nintendo....

I lol'ed
this is rather beautiful actually

Haha awesome take on this.

I was going to buy that poster but then my bro said "that's a huge manual..." which ruined it for me. :C

Virtual Boy, enjoy your eyerape.

With your permission, I'd like to turn this into a spray.

Nah I'm just kiddin.

I'm going to use it whether you like it or not.

Sure, I don't care, but uh ... thanks for pretending to ask? \=D

OH, great idea!
I won't distribute it on any spray sites either :3

SUCH A FUN WAY TO BLIND!

I played a warrio game on this was awesome but I always noticed I'd play for so long that when I pulled back my eyes had to fix and my vision was a bit blurry xD

It's goin' up, alright. In flames.
No, but seriously, I love that thing.

I don't condone using that thing, but it's always worked for me, in the same way Hunter S. Thompson didn't condone drugs, alcohol, violence, and insanity, but they've always worked for him.