Virtual Boy Ebay 14,000.00

Must be a test device or something. The ONLY saving grace of the virtual boy is that the 3d effect is 'kind of' cool. Putting it on a tv would be torture.
 
I assume this is what was provided to magazines at the time to take screenshots for Virtual Boy coverage. The VB was a bad concept, but it had some fun games, particularly Warioland, Mario Clash, and Mario Tennis.
 
yeah ive seen this before too, i actually liked my VB bought it on it's launch date as i do with every nintendo system that comes out. i had all but 2 games, sadly had to sell it on ebay about 2 years ago 'cause i needed the $.
 
To his/her credit they do have "Make offer" enabled, so at least they're willing to consider something less than the 14K, hopefully a LOT less...

P.S. AlkalineJay I like to the W.C. Fields qoute, my favorite is "I love children... when they're cooked properly"
 
Virtual Boy was a fun creative system, it just didn't do well because nobody liked it. Which is more important than being fun and creative, lol.
 
The problem is trying to put a value on something like this, just like with prototypes, is that there is only one of them (or in this case only a handful), so you have nothing to go on. It's really just worth whatever anyone is willing to pay for it, and unless you find someone like DreamTR that collects all these super rarities, prototypes, and oddities, it's unlikely you'll find someone that will pay what you want.
 
Yeah looks like a dev box someone's trying to unload for the price of a car. Good luck, seller.
 
Based on what Nintendo collectors pay in general, I think the price is about right. That's around what I'd ask for it, if I were to guess.

But it's true that, for one-offs (or near one-offs) like these, it's tricky to set a $$.
 
That's not a development kit, but it's called a TV Boy... which just plays VB games on a TV (though PAL only IIRC). I think everyone agrees that it's priced WAY too high (and confirmed by the fact that it's been on ebay for a LONG time), and though he has best offer, I think that's near his selling price. I'm guessing he's not actually TRYING to sell it, though if someone wants to give a large amount for it, that he'd take it.

BTW, not exactly related to this, but I did make a VB TV/VGA adapter with a Spartan-3E dev board. One of these days I'll get around to actually making a PCB to put inside the VB to give it TV/VGA output (without the need for tons of wires and a dev board).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oco0rv93qd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04urRZjkEr4

DogP
 
It's a virtual waste of money on a game system with virtually no games.

The next time you have items up for sale I'll be sure to talk trash about them. And this has a best offer. This thing is practically impossible to find as it is.

Trickman: You have absolutely no idea what Nintendo items I have sold for that price. I've sold a box and a manual for Stadium Events for more than this only, and a Campus Challenge NES cart for more. This is one of the rarest items you can find out there.

Normally I'm not defensive on stuff like this but seriously, people posting in this thread :

A: Don't have any idea about the rarity of console items and collecting on this end, therefore don't understand what value can be because they are accustomed to arcade pricing

B: Don't realize for the umpteenth time this has a BEST OFFER option (how people just overlook that everytime I won't understand it) and that sometimes it's good traffic for my store, gets people in there for the other stuff, you know?

C: Exidy, I don't talk crap about your higher than normal prices so why talk about mine?

I have one of a kind items for many game consoles, games that didn't come out and aren't dumped. If you guys had arcade stuff like this, what would you ask for them? Probably around the same thing or more because well, you wouldn't want to sell the items.

Understand this the next time you try and talk trash about a member's item here with a denoted BEST OFFER option. Something that is one of a kind I put up and ask for a best offer, that can give me an idea but some people continually overlook this and just go nuts on the price yet when you have established arcade resellers on these forums sell collectable arcade games for more than their perceived value, you guys are ok with it? Wow. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
 
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developer box.

Looks like a developers box to me. My friends family company of game development has these of many different systems, what always peaks my interest is how their always bigger and dedicated use a lot of the time. Not the most common though.
interesting auction.
will browse here n there to see how the results end up
 
Try growing a sense of humor DreamTR, christ oh mighty, are we organizing lawsuits, boycotts or making deaths threats against you? I even mentioned the damn "make offer" option you enabled in another post. If that item gives somebody wood enough to spend $14K of their own money then they're welcome to spend it!
 
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Also, another thing to clarify, this did NOT come from a magazine. Trickman would have seen one because he worked at EGM but no magazine ended up with one of these. I worked for a video game magazine for 9 years and Nintendo did not send these puppies out. This was obtained from the company that did screenshots/strategies for the Nintendo Power strategy guides before they were all let go when Nintendo Power stopped being in-house. The only other time I have seen one was on Yahoo Japan Auctions.

There have been Virtual Boy Spaceworld items that have sold for upwards of this and I can 100% assure you $10,000-$15,000 could be had easily if Dragon Hopper or any other high end unreleased Virtual Boy game was found.

Tornadoboy: Did you completely look over the fact that this is my item? Where in this thread would I be laughing at people that obviously have no clue what they are talking about sans DogP and the guys that understand one offs are very hard to price?
 
NES collectors are hilariously over the top insane about collecting. This is just a devkit or rather a test unit for QA. They are usually sent back to Nintendo for destruction (or kept in archive warehouses) once the contracts run out. I guess its 'rare' because it survived the typical Nintendo end-of-cycle purge, and there's no real interest or demand for it except from extreme collectors

Nintendo is really hardcore about dev units in the wild, but i guess they dont care enough for the VB
 
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