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SolRo - 2013-07-04

I rented a Virtual Boy from Blockbuster Video way back when, double obsolescence!


THA SUGAH RAIN - 2013-07-04

I still own a virtual boy. It is an eye bleeding mario tennis machine that could be played for 10 minute intervals.


Gmork - 2013-07-04

That tennis thing was the only game it came with. I rented it too.

Fuckin' blockbuster. They were renting 3D0's at the time as well. Didnt fall for that one.


Cena_mark - 2013-07-04

I bought one when it was super cheap for . Mario Clash and Wario were great games. Of course I could only play them 10 minutes at a time.


Kid Fenris - 2013-07-04

The sad thing is that Nintendo dropped the Virtual Boy right on the verge of releasing some pretty cool games. Bound High is damn fun.

The REALLY sad thing is that Virtual Boy was the work of Gunpei Yokoi, who created Metroid and the Game Boy and a lot of other things that made Nintendo money. As the story goes, he didn't even want to release the Virtual Boy as it was. After it bombed, he left the company and died in a car accident.


Walker - 2013-07-07

I got my Virtual Boy for at Wal Mart. NEW. Hooray for clearance.


Old_Zircon - 2013-07-04

I've been oddly fascinated with Gizmondo lately. You can get them for under on eBay these days, I'm half tempted to do it.

I'm pretty sure there are at least two Palm Treo's in my apartment right now, but they aren't mine.

I was on Google Wave. I never did figure out what it was actually good for.


Spaceman Africa - 2013-07-04

Gotta love the Gizmondo and how it was funded by organized crime money and had such genre-defining games like Sticky Balls.


cognitivedissonance - 2013-07-04

I know a guy who developed a game for the Gizmondo. He was something like 21-22 at the time, was actively encouraged to throw ALL of his ideas into the mix, and spent the happiest year of his life getting everything ready to go. Then he discovered the truth, discovered that he'd never be able to salvage any ownership of the game, had a minor breakdown, gained 100 pounds, and now lives on the dole in Yorkshire. He never recovered and probably never will in any meaningful sense.


Ocyrus - 2013-07-05

Wave was good for collaborating on projects.


Hugo Gorilla - 2013-07-04

Requesting "Ouya" and "Xbox One" tags.


Mr. Purple Cat Esq. - 2013-07-04

I reckon the xbone will be depressingly popular. Dont underestimate the # of willing loyal corporate subjects.


sosage - 2013-07-04

In a perfect world, the XBone will pull a 32X or a GameCom for MS trying to pull that DRM, privacy intrusion shit...but what Purple Cat said. It will take 1 killer app to get a significant amount of the market to forget what they were pissed at MS about and buy the thing.

Stars for a genuinely well done consumer product video. If this guy is doing this out of his apartment, someone get him a video/podcast editorial job at a tech site pronto!


RockBolt - 2013-07-04

The diehards who know if the DRM debacle are against Xbox and the casuals and parents will be seeing the price tag vs PS4. You'd think they would have learned over how hard it was for PS3 to get moving at a big price disadvantage


candyheadrobot - 2013-07-05

Dunno, xbone preorders did go up after they recanted all the drm stuff, but ps4 preorders have plateaued because they ran out of launch editions and are selling bundles. There may be hope for humanity yet....


Burnov - 2013-07-04

Still love my flip cam.

I'm rather disappointed that they've been completely discontinued.

For an inexpensive camera they had a fantastic built-in microphone.


Enjoy - 2013-07-04

Couldn't agree more. I still can't figure out why.


bias - 2013-07-04

Gotta love corporate logic

Buy out neat little company that produces a well designed moderately successful product + run that company into the ground = profit.

That being said flip cam devices might have run out of users by now anyways. These days any half decent smartphone comes with an ok quality digital camera with video recording capability.


spikestoyiu - 2013-07-04

I have a Vado, which is basically the same thing. The problem with using my iPhone to replace it is that my iPhone has other shit on it. I can record 2+ hours of HD video on my Vado, which I may or may not be able to do on my phone, depending on how much other bullshit I have on it at the time.


Seven Arts/H8 Red - 2013-07-04

I don't understand why Microsoft chases after the cellphone market. The market's basically iPhone vs. Android by now. All Microsoft does in that realm is play chicken with Blackberry, to see which company will pull out of that market sooner.

On a related note, I'm surprised Blackberry waited until last week to announce that it won't update the PlayBook OS to BB10. The one competent thing Research in Motion/Blackberry did to market the PlayBook was to slash its price, and even then, it followed HP TouchPad's lead.


kingarthur - 2013-07-05

It took him a minute and 20 seconds to get to the first thing on his list. In the future, all writing will be done in the style of incoherent lists of objects.


Sexy Duck Cop - 2013-07-05

Yeah, dude's a little to fond of overly literal transitions.


The God of Biscuits - 2013-07-07

That is a ton of honey nut cherrios.


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