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- This version of the game of Tetris uses a three-dimensional playing field as opposed to the traditional two dimensions more generally used. The player not only rotates the playing piece horizontally, but vertically as well which means that the piece has four possible directions in which to move. 3D Tetris includes three different ways to play: Center Fill, 3D Tetris, and Puzzle. In addition, each of the three allows players a choice of difficulty between easy, medium, and hard. Puzzle mode, in particular, broke with the traditional Tetris formula. It required players to build a certain shape using a diagram provided in the game. The game included an option to save high scores with names, along with progress in the puzzle mode, to a battery backup.
- Platformer, based on the laserdisc arcade game Dragon's Lair (1983), Dirk The Daring must rescue Princess Daphnie from the fire breathing dragon, Signe.
- A golf game for the Virtual Boy. The game featured 47 virtual opponents and used Virtual Boy's 3D capabilities. Player controls a few parameters before his/her shot such as the speed of the shot, direction, type of club to use. Complicating play, the environment featured obstacles such as trees and bunkers.
- Hover. has three mazes that resemble a medieval castle, a futuristic city, and a sewer. Each maze has its own unique texture maps, music theme, and spawn locations. For each level, Hover. will cycle through each of the three mazes, or randomly select one (if that option is set). The goal of each level is to capture all of the blue flags hidden throughout the level (playing as the red hovercraft), before the enemy (blue) team collects all of the red flags. A game starts with having 3 red flags and 3 blue flags in each level, but will go up to 5 flags of each color in higher levels. Higher levels are also have more enemy hover crafts and a more difficult AI. There are also orbs scattered throughout each maze that will give the player a collectible item or a status effect (such as increasing or decreasing the hovercraft's speed, or temporarily giving an invincibility shield). The collectible items are Wall (which can be placed to temporarily impede the enemy hovercraft), Spring (to make the player's hovercraft jump really high), and Cloak (to temporarily hide the player's hovercraft from the enemy team).
- A Japanese-exclusive video game released for the Virtual Boy in 1995. Innsmouth no Yakata is the only first-person shooter for the Virtual Boy and is based on a low-budget Japanese TV movie directed by Chiaki J. Konaka, which was in turn based on H. P. Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
- Play some 3D bowling as Nester, or his twin sister Hester.
- The player's spaceship has a ball for a weapon, which can be fired in eight directions; each direction corresponds to a different musical note. The note plays when the player presses the fire button, and is also quantized in time so that it matches the beat playing in the background. By using the weapon selectively the player can improvise music while playing.
- At the beginning of the 21st Century, a World War raged not stop for 70 devastating years. It wasn't until the creation of an advanced program called K.O.S (Killer Operating System) that the threat to the world was ended. The people rejoiced as the system eliminated the enemy and peace was restored. With a new government in place, the order was placed to destroy all weapons so as to protect the world from any future threat. KAOS, as it was later called, was also on the list of weapons to be destroyed. Unknown to the people, KAOS had a plan of its own. It had become a sentient being of its own, and it had one goal ... to survive. Unleashing it's weapons on the undefended world, true chaos erupted. It's up to you, in the last remaining fighter, to take to the sky and end the threat once and for all. This 3D fighter will have you flying through a host of evil and dangerous areas, where your only hope is to blast anything in sight.
- A Japanese-exclusive turn-based strategy game for the Virtual Boy based on the Gundam anime series. It is one of the rarest games for the Virtual Boy, sometimes reaching $1,400 on auction sites such as Ebay. Along with Virtual Bowling this game was the last video game officially released for the Virtual Boy in Japan.
- The original game posted by Obscure Horror Corner features walking down monochromatic corridors while various audio samples are played and looped over each other. Audio in the game leans heavily on recordings of interviews with various murderers, such as Charles Manson. The game also depends heavily on distorted or reversed audio of such interviews or musical clips. While the player controls their character through the hallways, images may intermittently display, taking up the entire screen and preventing the player from progressing any further until the image automatically closes a few seconds later. Most of the images seem to reference child abuse, especially people indicted in Operation Yewtree, such as images of Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris. Other images include people convicted or accused of murder, such as Japanese murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki and political figures such as former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The only other "characters" in the game are children who simply stand in one place and do not move or interact with the player at all. In the final video posted by Obscure Horror Corner, one of these children does begin to follow the player, causing "contact damage" to the player. Since the player has no means of self-defense or any ability to heal damage, the player will inevitably die at this point in the game.
- SimTunes involves painting a picture with dots (large pixels), where each color (unless it was part of the backdrop, which was black or a bitmap) represents a musical note. The player places up to four different-colored Bugz, which represent instruments or vocal syllables, on this picture, and can change their starting directions and relative speeds. The Bugz crawl over the picture, playing notes corresponding with the colors, and turning, moving randomly or jumping in response to function symbols that can be added to the dots.
- Space Squash is essentially a 3D version of Pong. You control a robot who moves up, down, left and right to intercept the ball as it moves towards you. The game play is similar to games such as Super Glove Ball for the NES or Cosmic Smash for the Dreamcast. The challenge lies in telling how close the ball is to you.
- A boxing simulator played in the first person view.
- In this update to Nintendo's classic adventure game, a young man named Link must gather the three Spiritual Stones and awaken the Seven Sages in order to overthrow Ganondorf, a tyrannical warlock terrorizing the land of Hyrule.
- Because of his financial trouble, Don Almeda (Noah Beery) promises his daughter, Maria (Barbara Bedford), to Don Alvarez (Albert Prisco). But Maria does not love Don Alvarez, and, in fact, she falls in love with Terry O'Neil (Elliott Sparling), a stranger who has been wounded by robbers associated with Alvarez. O'Neil takes Alvarez's place at a masked ball. Alvarez, in turn, robs the old Padre (John Herdman) of some pearls and stabs him to deal with O'Neil's knife. He then accuses O'Neil of the murder and tries to shoot him, but wounds Maria instead, because she has thrown herself in front of him. Maria recovers, and, after proving that Alvarez is a thief and a killer, weds O'Neil.
- Based on the 1939 film, Dorothy Gale is swept to oz in a tornado, where she must journey to the Emerald City, and along the way she teams up with the scarecrow, the tin man, and the cowardly lion. Together, they must defeat the Wicked Witch of The West and return Dorothy home.
- Japanese-exclusive. It is not to be confused with the similar Virtual Boy title 3D Tetris, as the two games are entirely different. V-Tetris is mostly the same as the original Tetris games, the only difference being the cylindrical puzzle mode in which blocks could be placed in a 3-D spiral. By using the L and R buttons, or the right D-pad, the screen shifts a block left or right respectively.
- The game takes place in "Space Era 210." The giant computer that takes care of a human colony planet named Odin suddenly malfunctions and decides to send an army of drone star fighters to destroy Earth. These drones emit a signal (an Electromagnetic pulse, perhaps?) that renders all Earth star fighters useless. Fortunately, an archaeology team has found an ancient starfighter on the planet Ragnarok that is fortuitously impervious to the drones' signal. Naturally, it is up to the player to command this starship and destroy all the alien drones.
- A Japanese-exclusive puzzle game for the Virtual Boy. Its working title was Chiki Chiki Labo. It is often thought of as being the worst Virtual Boy game released. It was the last Virtual Boy game released in Japan. Due to rushed production, the game is very incomplete. Each level gives a password after completion, yet the menu lacks a screen to input them, rendering the passwords completely useless. Nintendo is also incorrectly spelled twice, both on the game cartridge and the game box. The game speeds range from "Low" to "Mid" to "Hi", but "Mid" is the fastest.
- There are three modes of play in Virtual League Baseball: Player 1 vs. computer, all-star game, and pennant race. In player 1 vs. computer, one single match is played between the player and the computer. In the all-star game, the player plays against the computer using a team of all-stars from America, Asia, or Europe. In the pennant race, the player plays a series of games against the computer, using passwords to resume play after turning off the console, instead of saving.