Sega Almost Licensed The Technology That Went Into The Virtual Boy

[Hamister]

I agree that from a marketing perspective the name is good, but it requires that the product delivers what the  marketing promises. I can remember head lines in magazines back in 1994 and 1995 saying things like "Virtual Boy is the worst Virtual Reality system you can imagine!" and Nintendo couldn't recover from that. This was back when people had seen Lawnmover Man, they had seen the early 25 000 dollar Virtual Reality systems, they had seen arcade games such as Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter. And Virtual Boy was quickly associated to those products becuase of its name, and eventually also compared to them. A comparison Virtual Boy couldn't handle from a technical perspective. Even though I personally consider it far more entertaining to play Warioland and Mario Tennis than it was running around in the early true VR-systems :P