From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
Athena’s Japan-only Virtual Bowling is a superb bowling game — and the most valuable cartridge in the entire library. The game behind the legend, reviewed.
A first-person horror shooter named for Lovecraft’s cursed town, released only in Japan: Innsmouth no Yakata is the Virtual Boy’s strangest and bravest game. Reviewed.
Tetris in a 3D well should have been the Virtual Boy’s killer app. Instead 3D Tetris is the library’s most argued-about puzzler — brilliant, punishing, reviewed.
Kemco’s baseball game puts the camera where the depth is and the fun mostly in the field. Virtual League Baseball — earnest, odd, reviewed.
Nintendo Power’s comic-strip gremlin headlines a bowling game with real lane physics and a funky streak. Nester’s Funky Bowling, reviewed.
Ocean’s licence tie-in cost a fortune to collect and very little to design. Waterworld on Virtual Boy is the system’s most notorious game — but is it its worst? Reviewed.
Hudson’s falling-block puzzler gives Bomberman a chain-reaction twist and the Virtual Boy a layer of strategy. Panic Bomber, reviewed.
T&E Soft’s Virtual Boy Golf does almost everything right except be exciting: a competent, thoughtful golf game that the hardware’s depth genuinely helps. Reviewed.
Hudson’s vertical shooter gives you two altitude layers and lets you dive between them — a small idea that makes Vertical Force the system’s smartest shmup. Reviewed.
Jack Frost, Jack Lantern and Jack the Ripper descend floor by floor through Atlus’s maze-action gem — the Virtual Boy’s best third-party game. Jack Bros., reviewed.