All Virtual Boy Games #10: Mario Clash

If there was a game that should have been a pack-in title instead of Mario’s Tennis, then Mario Clash is definitely the perfect title for the job.

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All Virtual Boy Games #9: V-Tetris

Like other Tetris games published by Bullet-Proof Software, this was a Japanese exclusive Virtual Boy game, although entirely in English.

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All Virtual Boy Games #8: Vertical Force

You can’t tell from the screenshots, but Vertical Force is a visually stunning game.

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All Virtual Boy Games #7: Virtual League Baseball

This is one of the Virtual Boy games where you don’t really realise how well it uses the 3D until you look at screenshots afterwards.

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All Virtual Boy Games #6: Golf

If you were wondering as to why Red Alarm went for a wireframe look instead of having some simple textures, then Golf for the Virtual Boy shows how the system is not suited for that kind of thing.

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All Virtual Boy Games #5: Teleroboxer

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All Virtual Boy Games #4: Red Alarm

When it comes to mocking the Virtual Boy, Red Alarm is a game that comes up a lot due to how the wireframe graphics mean that its impossible to tell apart walls from gaps.

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All Virtual Boy Games #3: Panic Bomber

A port of a flat puzzle game may seem like a strange choice for a company’s first Virtual Boy game, but Panic Bomber actually looks absolutely stunning in 3D.

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All Virtual Boy Games #2: Galactic Pinball

A pinball game with four sci-fi themed machines. The 3D effect in this one is neat

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All Virtual Boy Games #1: Mario’s Tennis

As the pack-in title for the Virtual Boy, Mario’s Tennis is a really strange choice.

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All Virtual Boy Games

The Virtual Boy was a sort of "portable" games console released somewhere between the SNES and N64. Despite the name and the "headset" design of the console both making it sound and look like a Virtual Reality machine, the Virtual Boy is not an attempt at Virtual Reality.

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All N64 Games Bonus: Portal 64

I wanted to end things on a high note, so I looked at more recent unofficial releases.

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All N64 Games #430: Hi Pai Paradise 2

The final Aleck 64 game is unfortunately a fairly boring one: another sexy anime Mahjong game

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All N64 Games #429: Aleck Bordon Adventure: Tower & Shaft

This is the second Aleck 64 game that got a Game Boy Advance release.

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All N64 Games #428: Kuru Kuru Fever

Out of all the Aleck 64 games, I enjoyed this one the most. It’s a colour matching puzzle game using fruit

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All N64 Games #427: Hi Pai Paradise

Hi Pai Paradise is an Aleck 64 arcade game that is a spin-off of the Super Real Mahjong series.

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All N64 Games #426: Don-Chan Puzzle: Hanabi de Don

While the N64 stopped receiving retail games, the Aleck 64 arcade hardware still had a few more games to go.

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All N64 Games #425: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3

The final official retail release for the N64 is strange, due to how late it was. Not only was the previous retail game in America released 9 months earlier, but Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 came out on the PS1 and PS2 before that.

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All N64 Games #424: Bomberman 64: Arcade Edition

In Japan, the Bomberman 64 games were called “Baku Bomberman”, so when this compilation of Bomberman games was released in Japan, it was simply called Bomberman 64

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All N64 Games #423: X’Treme Roller

X’Treme Roller was an European-exclusive PS1 Tony Hawk’s clone that had so little fanfare.

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