00:00Virtual Boy. What year did this originally come out, do you know?
00:0395. 95. Year I was born.
00:05I've never owned one of these. Nothing about it appealed to me, but we'll give it a shot.
00:10I've never tried anything like this before, so let's see.
00:13So I've never played this before. It looks kind of creepy.
00:17I know of the fate of the original Virtual Boy. I'm not expecting much, but you know, I guess they
00:24thought it was good enough to bring back, so I'm willing to give it a try.
00:27Oh, it works, I guess, relatively well with glasses. It's surprisingly good.
00:34Like, I feel like if I saw this in the early 90s, my mind would be blown. I probably would
00:39never go outside. I would be playing this all the time.
00:44So Wario Land, I felt like this was the Virtual Boy game, and I played it at my friends a
00:51couple times, and I was just like, why is it only red?
00:54But this actually is better than I remembered it looking. With a game like this one, Wario, it really feels
01:00like Nintendo was flexing a bit with this 3D even back then.
01:04I wonder how good all of the games were.
01:06Oh my gosh. No, the screen's not OLED, but it still looks like very realistic. I've tried like other headsets
01:15in the past, but this looks like very clear and crisp, but like if I put my face very, very
01:20close, like you could see the pixels.
01:22Oh, interesting. It's kind of cool. It's like everything, it's like 2D, but on layers. So it's got like quite
01:29a nice animation style. It's kind of cool. It's a little bit trippy.
01:32Like the 3Dness, feeling like it's a bunch of cardboard cutout layers. It's kind of like nice, a bit of
01:38a cool way of doing it.
01:39There's like a parallax effect going on in the background as you move and stuff. Yeah, it's a bit niche,
01:44and I guess it's kind of like, how quickly would you get tired of this?
01:49My initial thought is that this reminds me of like my old Game Boy games. The black and red is
01:55not really doing it for me.
01:57You know what? The black levels are actually pretty deep. I think there's something so much about the red that
02:02is so popular that I don't even think about the black.
02:05I know it's authentic, but like this is not comfortable. Like I need to go get a massage after this.
02:11Better than I expected. This is cool.
02:13To be honest, I had no idea what to expect and the red and black of it all was not
02:19it, but you know, it was kind of interesting.
02:22It's better than I expected, both in terms of how it looks and what's interesting about it.
02:26There are probably, if they wanted to release these in 2D, it would probably be a better way to play
02:31these games.
02:31Just curl up on the couch. I think with the Switch 2, I think that would be comfier.
02:35So this is better than I expected, and it's an easy 10 out of 10 for me.
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