Nintendo Virtual Boy Demos feat. Mario Land VB & Starfox VB @ WCES 1995 - Las Vegas, NV

The camera work is pretty rough because Nintendo hosted the VB demos in a small dark enclosed mini-theatre filled with attendees. We stood in a pretty large line waiting to get our chance to see the VB games for the first-time in the U.S. Nintendo wasn't allowing photography inside but I was able to pretend my camera wasn't shooting by placing some dark wire tape over the recording light. So basically I went against their policy and I had to be very careful that the Reps didn't see me recording.

For more info on the featured Virtual Boy demos: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/news/

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[Mynameischriso]

15+ years ago.. I'm getting old.

What was the music at the intro/outro? It's kinda cool.

[Grooveraider]

@Mynameischriso - The music you heard in the intro/outro was from a Virtual Boy game called "Galactic Pinball". The song is titled "Gumpei's Voyage" ( ironically dedicated to the late Nintendo engineer Gumpei Yokoi ). The music is composed by Kenji Yamamoto of the Super Metroid and the Prime trilogy fame.

[GoldenPickaxe]

You deserve a medal for this!

[Spagettieater9000]

I think I heard Giygas!

[Awesom3Gamer]

"Advanced LED systems" yeah, because the hideous combination of red and black sure is advanced.

[starsoldier1]

Holy crap, it looks like they were planning a Star Fox game too from the demos.

[WiiWillRockU2]

@applerulez11 Alot of people complained about headachs, eye strain and also seizures. I have a Virtual boy and all I can say too is "why did it fail?" I played the thing for an hour and a half strait and didn't suffer any problems :P. The 3DS looks great Nintendo, but If I could of went to one of thier E3 confrences for the revealing of the 3DS I would of took my Virtual boy with me lol.

[XXISpade03]

@applerulez11 This is a very perfect example good sir that it was the future! It shows you that nintendo indeed was ahead of its time they had a good idea but it wasn't executed properly and now here 3ds has a second chance of life. Indeed the future my friend : D

[Snestastic]

Awesome vid dude, Ive been thinking about buying a VB and this vid has got me even more intrested :)

[CloakBass]

Thanks for uploading this! Don't suppose you managed to pull off such a trick with the N64 Mother 3 demo? Hahaha

:'(

[bliglum]

Thank you soo much for breaking the rules and recording this awesome footage!! and for sharing it!

[emilner5]

VB Mario Land looked sort of like New Super Mario Bros. Wii!