Ran across an article about that controversial game Night Trap on the Sega cd and it reminded me of middle school when I got straight A’s (a rarity for me) because my parents said if I did I could get a gaming system so I picked the Sega cd since it was the newest thing. We get to the checkout and my dad sees on the box that it can’t run unless it’s connected to the Genesis. So we got that too. Sega cd flopped and I ended up playing the Genesis until I got a job in high school and got the PS1.
Any of y’all ever have a Sega cd, Neo geo, turbo Grafix, lynx, CD-I, etc?
Virtual Boy. And what is probably the most broken game of the era, Mario Tennis. Dogshit start to finish lol.
Also had a Virtual Boy. Picked up from the clearance bin at Kay Bee for $20 plus a one copy of each game they had for $15 each to get a collection of 8 games.
I still have it, it still works, and Wario Land is still my favorite. It's an excellent game. You're right about Mario Tennis, though.
I paid full price on launch for it, by mowing lawns, and it stopped working within eight months lol. What a dichotomy.
Did you get a chance to play Lawn Mower Simulator before it broke
I did not.
I remember how hard they pushed the Virtual Boy in Nintendo Power.
I also recall trying the demo unit at ?Kmart.
They really used Mario Tennis in their marketing as proof of concept.
The "don't play Virtual Boy for more than 30 minutes or you'll go all googley-eyed" warning probably didn't help.