It seems Santa was uber-busy this year and came to us with a little delay, as a ROM dump of the Shoshinkai 1994 "Space Pinball" prototype has just been put up for download on our forum by TheForce81. This highly interesting prototype of Galactic Pinball offers completely different tables than the final version. With 5 in total, it even has one more than the finished product. It is complete and perfectly playable, only missing the highscore functionality. This little gem has therefore fittingly been described as a quasi predecessor to Galactic Pinball. You can check out our coverage of the Space Pinball prototype here. The actual dump can be found in this thread. Happy nostalgia!

Here's a christmas little present for you, in case you pulled your good ol' Virtual Boy out of the closet to play through Virtual Boy Wario Land again over the holidays. A complete graphical game guide, for which I combined level maps made by Trebor Almasy with the walkthrough found in Brian Hodges' GameFAQ, both used with kind permission. Click here for the guide.

anikiii has released several rips of soundtracks for Virtual Boy games. These are high quality stereo mp3 rips taken from the games running in the Mednafen emulator.

VB - Galactic Pinball OST.zip (59 MB)
VB - Jack Bros. OST.zip (92 MB)
VB - Mario Clash OST.zip (49 MB)
VB - Mario's Tennis OST.zip (74 MB)
VB - Teleroboxer OST.zip (41 MB)

The soundtracks for Galactic Pinball, Mario's Tennis and Teleroboxer have already been released in early November. Apologies for being late on these.

You will soon be able to download these as well as other soundtracks from the Multimedia sections of the respective game pages as well as listen to the individual tracks of these soundtracks directly.

Read on for complete track listings.

Retromags have uploaded even more issues of Game Players magazine from 1995 featuring Virtual Boy articles:

Game Players #56 09/95
Game Players #59 12/95
Game Players #60 Holiday 1995

From our user mawa we got scans from Famitsu 250 (1995-04-14) plus photos of a Virtual Boy key chain, a black Virtual Boy cap and of the Japanese Teleroboxer demo. Thanks!

In addition, we got two new article scans from Game Player issues 06/95 and 08/95. Thanks to Retromags for scanning these!

Here's scans of the Japanese "Tobidase! Panibon Virtual Boy 3D Book", a stereo Virtual Boy themed comic book. This was a supplement for the 1995 September issue of (Monthly) CoroCoro Comic.

Click here to view the magazine online, or navigate to the magazine overview page and download a ZIP file containing the full res scans.

Here's scans of the Japanese 3D Virtual Boy Magazine for you. Even for non-Japanese, this magazine contains some interesting stuff, like original full color renders of Virtual League Baseball, 3D "cross-eye" images of VB games and a stereogram on the cover. When you hold it very close to your eyes and stare right through it for a while, and then slowly take it away from your eyes, something like a large 3D-"V" becomes visible.

Click here to view the magazine online, or navigate to the magazine overview page and download a ZIP file containing the full res scans.

Have you ever heard of Game Expo '95? No? Well, that's not surprising given the fact that this one time event that was held in March 1995 in Tokyo was neither well announced, not well attended or even well visited. Since Nintendo was one of the few attending companies and featured a huge Virtual Boy booth, this odd little show should still of interest for Virtual Boy fans, so I have compiled a little article with all the known info about Game Expo '95. Be sure to also check out the additional material you can find on the report page like article scans or a two minute video from the show floor!

Game Expo '95 Coverage

The fine guys over at Retromags have released a new bunch of scans of old videogame magazines. I have gone through them and picked out anything related to the Virtual Boy.

- Videogames 3/95
- Videogames 8/95
- Videogames 11/95
- Videogames 2/96
- Edge 06/95
- Edge 07/96

Here's a report from Austrian television channel ORF2 from 1996 that talks about the then-current situation and future developments of video games and also takes a look at the Virtual Boy.

Thanks and credits go to MrTRIFORCE666 for originally recording and ripping the report! Below you'll find our mirror of the video with added english subtitles. Enjoy!