I'm writing something about the Virtual Boy and I just wanted a quick survey of people's thoughts on the system. So this is me asking for opinions on it. Yoho.

It was the kinect of it's time.

I owned one when I was younger. A couple of the games, especially Wario, weren't bad, but the combination of the weird red and black 3D visuals and the awkward lean-forward "goggles" you had to peer in, it was a headache inducing nightmare. It's actually one of my favorite Christmas morning opening presents memory though. We thought it was going to be the coolest thing ever before we actually played the thing.

I got it for ten bucks a year after it came out, so I managed to like it for what it was. Didn't hurt that the only games I had for it were Red Alarm and Mario Tennis, both standouts in the VB library.

I should get around to that thing.

Red Alarm was cool

I thought it was crap. Even back then.

Neat idea, poor execution

It was awesome. Also, gave you really bad headaches.

Teleroboxer was amazing.

Like Rock Band, it is a great thing to try for 5 minutes at a demo kiosk in a local big-box retail store.

Seeing Red

I only played it once, when I was very, very young. There was a stand for it at a Toys "R" Us, and I got to play a few minutes of Wario on it. I don't think I really recognized how awful it was at the time, but, looking back on it, it was pretty bad. It singed your eyes and made it literally painful to play. I don't know how this thing shipped to market. The idea? Great. The look of the thing? Stupid, but passable. The feel? Unforgivable.