Greetings folks. I've decided to revive what has been a failed tradition, but maybe this year we can finally accomplish the goal for this extremely small library of games?

​Can NA Beat Every Virtual Boy Game in a Year?

Rules:
​The same rules from the other Beat threads will apply here as well.

Cool! I just got a working Virtual Boy and I have the majority of the library, so I'd like to tackle a couple of these, especially Mario's Tennis.

Funny that someone who wants to avoid headaches would endorse the Virtual Boy, OP  

Already did Mario's Tennis. I like doubles, tournament, normal difficulty and 1 set. Sorry for the poor quality pics, the VB looks a million times better in person.

Damn, just looking at those pictures makes my eyes hurt

The Virtual Boy photographs very badly. In person, the pixels are incredibly crisp and clear, the red is soft and not harsh at all. I can play it for hours just fine. Pics were taken with an iPhone 4S.

The only VB games I have from the list are Mario's Tennis, Mario Clash, VB Wario Land, Galactic Pinball, Red Alarm, Teleroboxer, Vertical Force (JPN version) and Virtual League Baseball. Maybe some day I'll get more games.

If we finish the US retail library early, will Japanese games be added? The exclusives are:

Insmouse No Yakata
SD Gundam Dimension War
Space Invaders Virtual Collection
Space Squash
V-Tetris
Virtual Bowling
Virtual Fishing
Virtual Lab

One more thing, since the library is so small, what if the goal was also to see who can beat the most games? On top of just finishing them all.

Curiously, of the games I own, I really only suck at Teleroboxer and Mario Clash. I'm ok at Mike Tyson's Punch Out, but Teleroboxer is really hard with two independent fists. Mario Clash is hard because it's so tough judging where to stand when throwing shells into the foreground or background.

It took us like 6 months last year to get one game complete. Nice to see we got one clear on the board in only 2 days, haha.

I'd like to take a crack at Panic Bomber, I'll try to play it soon once I can get myself away from the Steam games I bought from the winter sale.


If anyone is looking for suggestions:


Waterworld - It's an easy beat, just play until you get game over. Nothing special but not terrible. By far the easiest game on the list.

Virtual Boy Wario Land - This is actually a pretty good Wario game. It's definitely worth a playthrough if you like the GB Wario Land games. Took me about 3 hours to get all the treasures and complete the game last year.

VB Wario Land is not just the best game on the console, I think it's one of the best Wario Land games, right up there with the original on Game Boy. That's a game everyone here should play through. Let's get a points system going or something.

Well we never made it past 3 game completions in the past so I decided to keep it just US releases right now. If we actually do beat them all then sure, we can add JP releases as well. We can even add unreleased games, which I think they did one year way back. I just want to focus on the US releases for now since we never accomplished it yet.

​Pretty sure Mario Clash is going to be the hardest game. I think we're going to have to consider it beat after beating stage 99 (that's the looping point) and the earliest stage you can start at is around 30 if I remember? I'm terrible at it so that doesn't help either, but it's such an oddball game to begin with like you were mentioning.
 

I suck at it too, I was under the impression Mario Clash had an end. The intro scene shows the Clash Tower being taken over by some unknown villains, you'd think there'd be a conclusion to that.

On an unrelated note, for some reason when I see "DOPLIC", I see Doopliss. You know, that enemy in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.



I need to play that game again soon...

I wish I had a Virtual Boy system to take part in this with but the lack of games and high price make it hard for me to justify a purchase. I feel like every year I seriously consider getting one for the hell of it, but then I stop myself because I know myself - I'll be excited about it for a few days, maybe even a few weeks, play the games I have them, put in a drawer and never touch it again or sell it shortly after.

I don't mind playing Waterworld if it's short.
I will give it a try this week.

Sounds good! Just play until you get a game over and report back. It loops forever and all the waves are randomized.
 

Bad news: I was going to play Waterworld tonight but my VB isn't turning on.
I think I'll have to send it to repair.

Gonna get down on some Vertical Force tonight! Havnt beaten it yet but i also havnt played with it enough!

Saw this thread. Was a good excuse to play Wario Land again. I dont think I got the best ending but i sure as hell beat it. Now if you'll all excuse me I'm off to regain my vision.

It's actually really hard to get a good image from one of these things 

The Virtual Boy didn't turn on so I downloaded an emulator and played Waterworld there.
The good thing (or bad, depending on your opinion) is that Waterworld wasn't the worst game that I played today.
That honor goes to the Powerpuff Girls game that I played on the N64 for the N64 thread here on NA.
Here is a screenshot I took of Waterworld:

That sucks to hear Gladius! You can always emulate if your curious enough!

Looks like we got another clear thanks to Jono. We are hauling! I think I'll try Panic Bomber tonight to get a clear on the board myself.

I'm also going to put up game completion requirements tonight, hopefully soon here once I figure out what we need to do for each game. Time to watch some longplays.

​Edit: ​Glad you emulated and got another clear for us Gladius! I'm updating the first post now.

Do you store your VB without a cartridge inserted? If not, dust can get in there and cause problems. The Virtual Boy will not power on unless it can detect a cartridge. Also check your AC tap, AC adapter and/or battery pack to make sure all the connections are clean.

Even though Wario Land is finished now, I think I'll do a 100% finish on it just because I love it.

I had the Vertical Force cart on the Virtual Boy since the last time I played it (I don't remember when it was). I checked the batteries and put six new ones. I will try cleaning it tomorrow or thursday. I hope it comes back to life soon. 

 

The battery pack is is highly susceptible to corrosion from leaky batteries, being that it holds six of them at once. It's very possible your battery pack has some oxidation or corrosion going on, give it a look over.

Thanks for your help.
I'm going to take a look tomorrow.

I added game completion requirements for all the games we have on the list. I couldn't find any good info on Golf or Virtual League Baseball but I just assumed we can do the tourment/season play for each game and consider them beaten.

One thing I noticed was that Mario's Tennis actually has credits if you beat it on hard on either singles or doubles, and a special screen after the credits if you beat it on super hard doubles (need a code to get that special difficulty.) I didn't think it had credits and since I didn't know till now, I will still consider it beat for this thread still.

Trying to do teleroboxer and this game is kicking my ass hard!

Alright, just took out Panic Bomber.

That was actually pretty disappointing. I didn't get how powerups worked at all, and it felt more luck based than actually making chains. Granted I wasn't making any great chains, but it's kind of hard to get a chain reaction going when they might get a powerup to screw you over completely at any point, so I felt rushed to pump out simple combos and get bombs on the board as fast as possible.

Well that turned me off puzzle games for a bit. I'll try to focus on Galactic Pinball or Red Alarm next.