Virtual League Baseball & Golf retrospective: Red red whine | Virtual Boy Works #05

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

I'm so glad you mentioned that ad. That ad has stuck with me since 1995 as one of the great examples of "what the hell were they thinking trying to sell a game with this?"

[@KGRAMR]

The one about two dudes with their ass cracks sticking out? Yeah...

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

@@fixedfunshow Had that been established by then? Either way, just saying that if Sumo Digital did it, I'd play the hell out of a Sonic Baseball game.

[@johnsimon8457]

Oh my god, a two page spread with two postage stamp sized pics in the corner. What were they thinking? “We got nothin.” Maybe cause it’s the mid 90’s and boogers and farts flew then.

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

@@johnsimon8457 Apparently, buttcracks > screenshots.

[@Doritomurderer]

On the Stick it's a decent life philosophy

[@HaitaniMasayuki]

"You have selected: No."

[@NORMALLYRETRO]

It's humorous that the baseball title goes for rotoscoped realness for the batter but silly expressions almost everywhere else. Nice vid as usual.

[@JoeBushOnline]

Having to hold your face up to the Virtual Boy over a full eighteen holes of red-tinted golf sounds purgatorial regardless of if the game's a solid depiction of the gentleman's game or not

[@openskiesmedia]

It’s really worth trying. It is a very impressive game. You will be amazed. I am not at all a golf addict and it really stands out as an impressive game among a group of games I like.

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

Well it's just really a shame that the virtual boy didn't last long enough for the head mount attachment to be released. Oh well. Even if it had been released, it would be one of those rare attachments that you can't get for under like $300...

[@FloatingSunfish]

That baseball ad scarred me for life.

[@QuestionBlockGaming]

I wanna point out that Virtual League Baseball is one of the most common virtual boy games that was ever made. I once found FOUR unopened, sealed cases of 12 copies of the game at a Goodwill store, for $2 a case. For clarity- that's 12 sealed, brand new copies of Virtual League baseball for $2. I bought all 4 cases, only cost me $8, figured I'd be able to at least sell them for $2 each on ebay. If I'd held onto them, I'm sure i'd be able to make at decent profit off my purchase, but at that time, the market was absolutely flooded. I sold them all to a friend of mine who had a giant games collection for $10 and lunch.

[@Poever]

When are they gonna get to the Wario Land factory?

[@retrospectrum]

Jeremy, this series is the best.

[@BlazeHedgehog]

I learned a new word today: "feculant."

[@JeremyParish]

It'll come in handy for your next wedding toast

[@arcadia1977]

Thank you for yet another great insight into a console that I only tried out in store demo displays but never actually owned. Note: Hawaiian vowels are pronounced the same way Japanese ones are in reference to "Waialae".

[@MrDancer1342]

More Jeremy. I want more glorious content.

[@mattmyers2863]

very clever subtitle to this video.

[@dawhelan]

I know it sounds like torture playing 18 holes on VB, and this might not work due to the capture, but back in the day I would take my VB off the stand, lay on my back, and have the unit rest on my face. Yes you will look like you wore a half face google mask once you remove the VB, but more comfortable then the sitting position for long game sessions.

[@mavrick45]

One of the few baseball games I dont own

[@trer24]

Best Kemco game since Superman

[@JeremyParish]

A ringing endorsement, akin to "best disease since carcinoma"

[@JeanBaptistePollien]

Kinda dig the Golf game's music.

[@THE_GIN_MASTER_]

Oh my god, I completely forgot about that print ad for VLB. Some of the most second hand embarrassing campaigns in gaming's history.

[@70smebbin]

love the channel jp

[@lwvmobile]

It's a miracle Nintendo even managed to sell anything back in the day, they had to have had the worst and strangest marketing campaigns I've ever seen for games. I think it must have caught up to them in the N64 era because they never could sell the N64 like the PlayStation sold.

[@SynthatronPrime]

Awesome video as always. Very informative, even on less interesting games. Will the Virtual Boy book make it out this year?

[@JeremyParish]

That is the intent.

[@SynthatronPrime]

Awesome! I've been watching all of your videos for the past week and am looking forward to grabbing the rest of your books in the next 2 weeks or so. Thanks for all of your research and effort!

[@rabiroden]

The unanimated baseball player slowly, stiffly bobbing across the screen during the home run sequence is a bit creepy in a way.

[@Lorfarius]

Hey Jeremy, do you think you will have enough content to do a book for the Virtual Boy?

[@bfish89ryuhayabusa]

Maybe a pamphlet.

[@JeremyParish]

Yes. Complete with 3D glasses.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

So glad to hear about AI cheating in single player competitive games. NES Baseball was hairpulling at times. Only one such game I found enjoyable were Quake 3's default bots.

[@fearanarchy]

I really liked the Unreal bots in the console versions I've played. I still play Quake Wars on PS3 and Unreal on DC still.

[@johnsimon8457]

At 2:04 That wide-angle static view of the baseball field with the itty bitty players is some real Intellivision grade shite. And the audience appears to be made entirely of black and gray beach balls, like it’d be a placeholder graphic in a better game. This game is something like “Here’s your VB dev kit, we need a baseball game in one month.”

[@METR0lD]

Never owned either of these games, but I did rent both of them back in the day. Golf was okay, but Virtual League Baseball was atrocious.

[@feitclub]

is it just me or is the golf music kind of...melancholy? almost sad? seems like a downer, not how I picture the inner thoughts of a golfer.

[@JeremyParish]

"Ah, I had to wear the bad pants again"

[@MapleMilk]

Golf has music like Cave Story

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

It's so sad that the red graphics look so horrid that people actually have to use the white graphics instead. What were they thinking?! Why not just use white instead of red? I also honestly don't think it should have increased the price too much if they had made it in color. They should have just made the graphics in color & released it with the head mount attachment that never ended up getting released. I think it would have done much better.

[@JeremyParish]

Red LEDs were the only affordable LEDS at the time. Alternate colors wouldn't become practical until a few years later.

[@dogeymon83]

Baseball on VB wasn’t that bad

[@bjornh1527]

Yeah, those digitised characters kind of take away any charm VLBaseball could have had... it just looks so dull.

[@gojira1980]

I had the Japanese version of Baseball and for whatever reason they had super deformed characters in that version. I always thought that was weird.

[@mattdgroves]

That Virtual Baseball music seems obnoxious.

[@JeremyParish]

Among other things

[@BanditTheCatRIP]

4:52: nsfw

[@l.marhault]

The advertising executives working on video game accounts during the 90's, in desperate, sweaty pursuit of "edgy" teenagers whose tastes they could not understand, produced some of the crudest, grossest and least appealing advertisements in the history of the medium.

[@KesorodaBlk]

"You have entered Power Drive!"

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

You have selected "No".

[@davidallinson8248]

Ball is in parking lot.

[@fearanarchy]

Iirc, Baseball is either the worst or bottom 3 of the VB games

[@zzco]

lol, it's Kemco's first foray into 32-bit game development; the game is going to suck. Just saying.

[@discordinc]

I'm a little surprised you had to go this far in to find a truly bad game (as opposed to a ambitious but flawed one). Everybody talking about how the virtual boy was doomed to fail makes you think that there was nothing good on there besides Wario Land. Of course, being good and being good enough to justify eye strain is a completely different matter