1001 Video Games: Virtual Boy Wario Land

Developer(s): Nintendo R&D1 / Year: 1995 / Console: Virtual Boy / Genre: 2D Platformer

Beat Goal: Collect all the treasures and best the game in under two hours, provided you don't go blind first / 100% Goal: Play this an entire for as long as possible UNTIL you go blind! Be sure to have good medical eye insurance


I usually don't review games I haven't actually played myself, but I think this is worth talking about for what I've seen. The Virtual Boy was the end-all fuck-all for Nintendo at the time where they we're trying to give the public something in anticipation for the N64. It boasted the capabilities of 3D rendering and virtual reality, but more often than not it caused headaches and sometimes even seizures to those who played this thing long enough. Add to that only two of its less than 20 game library were in first-person to give the illusion of 3D virtual reality! I'd much rather sit in a dark room and watch the most seizure-inducing anime than play this system! But with that said it had some games that were amazing in their own right.


The Virtual Boy Wario Land game is something I think deserves to be ported to the 3DS now that the technology for 3D has caught up. Given how much I loved Wario Land 4 if I could actually get my hands on one of these things and this game, going blind would be WELL WORTH THE RISK especially if it had Telroboxer with it! The game itself is relatively short even compared to Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 but it's still jus as fun. Plus much like Donkey Kong Country Returns you can travel to the back of the level to make decent use of the 3D effects.


Even when their systems fail Nintendo always manages to churn out at least one good game on them to at least try to justify the price or any horrible after-effects of playing them. So many people hate on the Wii U but it has a lot of game stuff I really love; actually I'm willing to give The Switch a chance for its games despite Nintendo's horrible marketing of it. If you can somehow track this game down I'd play it at least once before you have to go to the hospital.


Wario Land is owned by Nintendo.

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