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"Flights of Fantasy" was a TV show dedicated to video games that was created in the mid-1990s and hosted by George Wood. Due to being broadcasted on a small Maryland public-access channel, the show was not widely known, until in the 2006, the NAViGaTR association archived the entire series, edited each episode and put it onto YouTube as renamed "Gaming in the Clinton Years".

Wood seems to have been a fan of the Virtual Boy as it was featured numerous times on the show. In episode #50 it was even predicted that the Virtual Boy would be more successful than the Playstation or the Saturn...

The team attended a few tradeshows, recording precious footage of Virtual Boy booths and demos at E3 and WCES in 1995, while most other publications did not care much about it. You can see Wood walking around the E3 show with a Nintendo spokesman while wearing a Virtual Boy cap in one episode.

You can either view the videos directly (requires Macromedia Flash), or download them in better quality (second link).

E3 1995 Length: 0:00:15 Info: Video footage from E3 1995. Shows VB demo displays and the Dolphin Demo. Download (1,470 KB, DivX 6.5.2 (no sound), 320x240 Pixels)

Flights of Fantasy - VB Hardware Review Length: 0:02:38 Info: Flights of Fantasy's VB Hardware Review from 1995 with George Wood sitting in front of a large VB banner introducing the VB hardware plus some cam footage from E3 1995. Download (27,793 KB, , 640x480 Pixels)

Flights of Fantasy - VB Games Review Length: 0:02:14 Info: Flights of Fantasy's VB game reviews from 1995. Download (26,889 KB, , 640x480 Pixels)

Flights of Fantasy - E3 1995 Virtual Boy retrospective Length: 0:00:32 Info: Flights of Fantasy taking a look back at E3 1995, having to admit that they thought wrong about the bright future they predicted for the Nintendo Virtual Boy... Download (6,992 KB, , 640x480 Pixels)

Flights of Fantasy - E3 1995 World of Nintendo dome Length: 0:01:16 Info: Flights of Fantasy's footage of the World of Nintendo dome at E3 1995. Download (16,309 KB, , 640x480 Pixels)

Flights of Fantasy - E3 1995 Virtual Boy interview Length: 0:02:50 Info: George Wood of Flights of Fantasy doing an interview with Nintendo Game chancellor Alan Belardinelli at E3 1995 about the Nintendo Virtual Boy. Including a glimpse of the Virtual Boy show floor at the show. Download (36,254 KB, , 640x480 Pixels)

Flights of Fantasy - Winter '95 video game system sales prediction Length: 0:00:24 Info: Spot-on prediction for the Winter '95 video game system sales from Flights of Fantasy episode 50. ;-) Download (4,643 KB, , 640x480 Pixels)