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Vroom! Vroom! Virtual Boy!

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Frequency: 1 episode/26d. Total Eps: 14

A monthly game club podcast. Meet us in 1995, as we play through the entire Virtual Boy software library! Releases the first Monday of the month.

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Unreleased Games Grab Bag

Season 1 · Episode 12

Monday, February 2, 2026 • Duration 01:32:27

We thought we were done! But Nintendo had to go and announce two more Virtual Boy games coming 30 years late. We'll be back to play those later this year, but for now join us as we clean up some loose ends and bid farewell (for now). Thank you all for listening!

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Games Discussed:

Niko-Chan Battle (Unreleased)
Bound High! (Unreleased)
Virtual League Baseball 2 (Unreleased)

Next ???'s Games:

D-Hopper
Zero Racers

Additional Links:

Stop Skeletons From Fighting on Youtube: My 2 Year Journey to Solve the 30-Year Myth of Faceball 2000 | SSFF

Zarithya on Youtube: How I Fixed the Legendary 16-Player Game Boy Game

Slow Mo Guys on Youtube: The Virtual Boy in Slow Mo

List of cancelled Virtual Boy games on Wikipedia

Interview with Hideyuki Nakanishi, designer of Bound High! and Chameleon Twist: Archive

Red Viper, the great 3DS Virtual Boy emulator: Github

Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy by José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards on MIT Press

Ars Technica: "Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo's enigmatic red console"

Planet Virtual Boy

Virtual Boy Architecture: A practical analysis by Rodrigo Copetti

Podcast Art by @ohmandaz

Intro Song by Spaceport Johnson

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Mario Clash and Space Invaders Virtual Collection

Season 1 · Episode 11

Monday, January 5, 2026 • Duration 01:29:11

Happy New Year! It's been a fun journey through the full Virtual Boy library - thank you for listening! We take a trip to Clash Tower for one of Nintendo's forgotten classics.

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Games Discussed:

Virtual Boy Game Manuals:

Next Month's Games:

Niko-Chan Battle (Unreleased)
Bound High! (Unreleased)
Virtual League Baseball 2 (Unreleased)

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by José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards on MIT Press

The Virtual Boy Controller - Bonus

Season 1

Sunday, June 1, 2025 • Duration 25:31

We needed to push the Virutal Fishing/Golf leisure month episode out a week. In the meantime, Kevin's here to do some solo musing on the Virtual Boy controller and its relationship to other Nintendo controllers of the time.

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Songs in the Episode:

"Panic Bomber" by Shinichi Sakamoto and Jun Chikuma

Additional Links:

Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy by José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards on MIT Press

Ars Technica: "Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo's enigmatic red console"

Planet Virtual Boy

Virtual Boy Architecture: A practical analysis by Rodrigo Copetti

Podcast Art by @ohmandaz

Jack Bros. and Virtual Lab

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, May 5, 2025 • Duration 01:34:20

An absolute barnburner this month as Atlus brings SMT to America with the wonderful Jack Bros.! Then, a game many consider the worst on the system (though here on VVVB we see things differently).

Bad Game Hall of Fame - "Interview: 'Virtual Lab' Developer, Megu-tan" (Content Warning: sexual assault)

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Virtual Boy Game Manuals:

Next Month's Games:

Virtual Fishing

Space Squash and Panic Bomber

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, April 7, 2025 • Duration 01:01:42

We continue our journey deeper into the Virtual Boy library, and pose the question "Is Bomberman video games' greatest ambassador of fun?" (The answer is yes, of course). And Space Squash surprises us both!

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Mario's Tennis and Galactic Pinball

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, March 3, 2025 • Duration 55:40

We begin our monthly game club playthrough of the Virtual Boy library with two interesting Nintendo time capsules. Just look at those background layers! DK Junior is about to take a long nap after this one.

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Waterworld And SD Gundam: Dimension War

Season 1 · Episode 10

Monday, December 1, 2025 • Duration 01:19:15

The two licensed games on the Virtual Boy are a mixed bag this month. We are almost at the end here! Please remember to support your local library.

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Teleroboxer and V-Tetris

Season 1 · Episode 9

Monday, November 3, 2025 • Duration 01:31:51

Three more episodes to the end of our journey, we encounter a pretty basic Tetris port and a strange curio in Nintendo's history of boxing games. What would Edward Maki Jr. think of Arms? And where exactly did the tradition of beating up on the developers' names during the credits come from?

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Innsmouth no Yakata and Red Alarm

Season 1 · Episode 8

Monday, October 6, 2025 • Duration 01:38:14

We kick off October with one of the rare horror games on the platform, which really impressed us both. Red Alarm also proves to be a technical masterpiece. And I can't stop talking about the dual D-Pads - they're good!

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Games Discussed:

Virtual Boy Game Manuals:

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3D Tetris and Virtual Bowling

Season 1 · Episode 7

Saturday, September 6, 2025 • Duration 01:03:23

We play a much better bowling game this month, and discover that 3D Tetris might not actually be much of a Tetris game at all....

You can find past episodes at https://virtualboy.blog/.

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Games Discussed:

Virtual Boy Game Manuals:

Next Month's Games:

Additional Links:

Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy by José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards on MIT Press

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