Niz

Science is for everyone, even the feet weirdos!

It is one of the best games on the OG xbox

The silly Pokémon Jukebox Gameboy just turned up. A nice little thing with so many cartridges.

If only it were playable

Busy start to the week!

Furry track day yesterday morning
Paddington stage show last night
Zoo today

Now excuse me while I go collapse for a bit 😴

Thanks. To be honest, they gave me the final reason to get me to leave and paid me to go

So really, they have done me a favour 😁

Yeah I was one foot out of the door at that place anyway; they just ended up having to pay me to leave 🙂

Yeah we had been asking the exec team what they were trying to achieve with AI for a couple of years but the answer was always either vague or non-existent 🤷‍♂️

As of today, I can now talk about my entire team being made redundant towards the end of last year.

The reason? Yep, that's right.

AI

Not that out roles were being replaced by the slop factory, but just because the company needed to free up more budget for AI. Nothing specific, just "AI"

I mean, I wasn't exactly expecting a new main line Zelda game....

But literally anything would have been nice 🤷‍♂️

A couple of weeks ago I got to meet @therealkrystlfox.bsky.social who many of you will know as Krystal from Star Fox Adventures! She was lovely so go give her a follow if you don't already

I got a signed copy of the game too 😁

#FursuitFriday #Furry #RetroGaming

We celebrate this particular occasion in a very similar way

bsky.app/profile/niz....

I know that one. I really struggle to partial and would far rather full suit or just not bother 😂

Can't believe that Zelda is 40 years old today!

I am lucky enough to have many Zelda games in my collection but I figured few would mark the occasion by posting this one 🤣

#retrogaming #zelda

Guilty 😊

A bit of wind-swept skunk for you this week 🦨

#FursuitFriday #Fursuit #Furry

🪡 @bunnypaws.bsky.social

Genuinely impressed that people have the time and energy to do both!

Hope you have a good time 👍

Merry pancake day to those who observe!

Finally a Feb holiday I can get behind 😁

The sheer number of you crazy people that are able to do Scotia and NFC is incredible!

How do you do it?! 😂

I can't say I've tried but I don't suspect it will be possible. Even if it was, you would lose a lot running most VB games in 2D

As a result, the light shields are very different. Shame as it would have been nice to have had an official replacement for the original but can't really imagine there's a huge demand for that 😂

Anyway, that's about all I can spot.

Happy to answer any other questions about them!

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Another big difference is the lenses (or the lack of in the case of the original). Obviously needed on the new one for the short focal distance to the OLED/LCD screens.

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While we have the stands off, here's a look at the underside of the consoles. Obviously no physical volume dial, headphone jack, controller port or ext port on the Switch version.

Also, this angle does show that the Switch version is ever so slightly bigger than the original Virtual Boy

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And here's why - the OG stand has a couple of posts on it whereas the stand on the Switch version is flat.

The clamp and angle adjust feel near enough identical however

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Here's a closer look at the stand and the attachment to the main unit.

Interestingly, you can use the new stand with the OG console, but not the other way around (not that I imagine anyone would even try)

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Another obvious difference is that the focus slider and IPD dial are non-moving on the Switch version

The fact the original has these was pretty forward thinking for 1995!

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From the back, you can see the extra height on the Switch version comes from the length of the stalk on the unit itself rather than the stand.

Shame as it would have been nice having a taller stand for the OG one 🙂

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Overall design looks very close! The Switch version is actually noticeably taller and slightly larger.

The plastic of the new one looks less glossy also, but that may just be down to the age of my Virtual Boy

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The Virtual Boy for Nintendo Switch turned up yesterday.

Let's have a look to see how it compares to an original Virtual Boy shall we?

#Nintendo #VirtualBoy #NintendoSwitch

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