1/19/07: G4 Icons video In 2005, I put up a couple clips of seconds worth of the special on Gunpei Yokoi. Today, I managed to get the full video uploaded to youtube. http://youtube.com/watch?v=GJANQyfzQOE 1/18/07: VRZ v3 I have just finished updating the whole ENTIRE website. I have decided to delete the whole page that was connected to Geocities and start over by using a different webhost and frontpage. I'm very pleased with the change. The website URL is now www.virtualrealityzone.bravehost.com. I hope you guys like it. Leave your comments in the Guestbook or Messageboard. 9/1/06: First update in almost a year It's been almost a year since the last up date. I have been super busy and I had absolutely no time to update. The site was looking as if it was going to die... Well...ITS NOT! VRZ is back. Last year, this site suffered from shutting down every hour because of lack of available web space. That problem has now been fixed. Now you guys can look forward to more updates and all that good stuff =) Please leave your comments in the guestbook and the message board. 11/25/05: New Wario Platformer for the Nintendo DS Today I just received one of my weekly issues of Nintendo Power (NP). On pg. 16 of Issue v199 there is an article about upcoming DS games in Japan and the U.S. One was "Katio Wario". Katio means "Mysterious Theif" in Japanese. Katio Wario appears to be a Wario Platformer much like Virtual Boy Wario Land. Check it out! Now...is it just me or do these two games look a lot alike? They're both platformers, they both have the same "power ups" (the hats), and the life guages are very similar. What do you think? Leave your comments/opinions in the messageboard 9/27/05: USB Virtual Boy Controllers I found a very cool item today. It's a USB Virtual Boy Controller. It can plug into your PC and you can play your VB roms on your emulators with authentic/ original controller. It requires no drivers to install or update, and it can be used with an emulator or game that supports USB. RetroKit 9/21/05: Bound High article in Nintendo Power Issue Oct. 2005 / v196 Today I was looking through a Nintendo Power Issue I got yesterday in the mail. As I was flipping through the pages something red and black caught my eye. I saw a Bound High article written by a man by the name of Andy M. He managed to get a proto-type of Bound High from Nintendo and wrote a short article about it. He even described the opening sequence that nobody knows about. He said that in the opening, " the story mode begins in a movie theater (much like Viewtiful Joe) with an audience watching The Adventures of Chalvo. Soon after you're thrown into the action, controlling Chalvo". Pretty interesting huh? They even show a screenshot of a MINI game that has never been showed on the internet before. It is the bottom screenshot. The objective is to bounce certain objects into pockets within a specified time limit. 9/19/05: Galactic Pinball prototype ( Space Pinball) on eBay! Space Pinball, the Galactic Pinball prototype from Shoshinkai 1994 and CES 1995, was auctioned on eBay for $1,800! Click here to view it! 9/19/05: The website is back up! W00T! w00t! The website is back up with a whole new look and more information! I hope everybody likes it! Don't forget to leave your comments in the guestbook! 7/21/05: Happy Birthday Virtual Boy! Today, ten years ago, the Virtual Boy launched in Japan. Happy Birthday Virtual Boy! The US anniversary will be on August 14th. Geez VB, your turning into an old fart! 7/3/05: G4 Icons: Creator of the Game Boy and Virtual Boy Gunpei Yokoi Today I put up video clips of a G4 Icons special which was shown on G4techTv with some information on Gunpei Yokoi and the Virtual Boy. They talk about how and why the Virtual Boy system failed. Even though I disagree with some of the stuff they say, I think its cool so...check it out! If you have any problems getting the videos to work, please e-mail me at VRZone@comcast.net. Credit for the video goes to G4techTv. Edit: I'm going to try to host it on a putfile. 6/20/05: www.virtualrealityzone.cjb.net (reopened) Today I reopened the website. I hope you guys like the new look. Everything is up and running. I will be adding brand new stuff from time to time so check in. 4/2/05: PLEASE READ! I AM REBUILDING THE WEBSITE I have decided to rebuild the WHOLE website. So the website will not be up for awhile. When the site comes back up you will see many improvements and new options. I do not know exactly when the website will be back up so....just check in. I will leave a post on www.vgchat.com under the virtual boy forum when the new and improved website is up. If you have any suggestions or ideas for the "NEW" website please e-mail me at vrzone@comcast.net. Just so you all know, the website will have the same domain name (www.virtualrealityzone.cjb.net). Thank you for reading ~Jake (VRZone) 2/12/05: www.virtualrealityzone.cjb.net Today I moved www.geocities.com/virtualrealityzone 2/5/05: VB Emulators and 500 Visitors Today I added a Virtual Boy emulator to the website for you to download. RealityBoy 0.8 (In Development). Oh...and today this website got 500 hits! Just click the RealityBoy logo to download it. RealityBoy 0.8 2/1/05: VirtualRealityZone MessageBoard/Forum and VGChat link. Finally...I made a messageboard for the website! : ) Click here to visit the new VirtualRealityZone MessageBoard. In the MessageBoard you can ask questions, post some cool information or you can just hang in the messageboard and chat with some VB fans and collectors. Have fun! You can also chat in the VGChat Virtual Boy section. Click here to check out VGChat. Oh...and I am almost done with the unreleased game section so...that should give you something to look forward too. : ) 1/27/05: Virtual Boy Donkey Kong Country I personally think that this screen is fake. Notice it says "VIRTUAL BOY DONKEY KONG", the real title was going to be Donkey Kong Country 2 so...that should tell you right there that the title screen is fake. There is slight doubt though. Maybe it was taken early in the development stages. 1/23/05: Updates Updates Updates Today I worked on... everything that needed...work. The game section is pretty much done and now all I need to do to it is add the game reviews. I also worked on NINTENDO REALM a little bit. 1/2/05: NINTENDO REALM section launch Finaly! I opened the new section NINTENDO REALM, check it out. Just so you know its under slight construction at the moment. EDIT 6/23/05: Nintendo Realm no longer exists. 1/1/05: Happy New Year! Happy New Year everybody! I updated the website a little bit. I put IE page transitions on each page and I worked on the released game section some more. 12/27/04: Updates I updated the site today. I worked on the game section, and I worked on some other sections. 12/23/04: 100 Visitors! Wow! This website has 100 hits... in just a couple of days : ) Thanks for visiting www.geocities.com/virtualrealityzone 12/22/04: Updates I updated the site a little bit. All the sections that were not linked before are now linked. The following game sections have also been linked (3-D Tetris, Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash, and Mario's Tennis). 12/21/04: Unreleased VB game poster Virtual Jockey on ebay A Virtual Jockey poster just showed up on eBay! The poster tells a little bit about the game and it includes some screenshots. Ouch...look at the price... 12/20/04: www.geocities.com/virtualrealityzone is open! The website is open! Enjoy and don't forget to sign the guestbook before you leave. I will be frequently updating this website. As of right now, not all of the links are linked yet. This website is under slight construction.