Virtual Reality Stunt Master

[LucridMockery]

It's this crappy Nintendo/Sega Genesis 3rd party accessory from the 90s that the Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed and

it's also one of the rotting relics of 13 Branchland Court.

http://cinemassacre.com/2012/02/15/virtual-reality-stuntmaster/

 

[spaps]

... And?
I don't think this really needs it's own thread. Come on, it was the 90's. Every little kid probably wanted one of these, just because it made things 3-D (right? I don't actually know anything about the 90's, I just pretend to).
You might want to post this here: http://www.cwckiforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=627#p19313
Also, James didn't review it as the Nerd. He and Mike were just dicking around with it in a video.

 

[LucridMockery]

... And?
I don't think this really needs it's own thread. Come on, it was the 90's. Every little kid probably wanted one of these, just because it made things 3-D (right? I don't actually know anything about the 90's, I just pretend to).
You might want to post this here: http://www.cwckiforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=627#p19313
Also, James didn't review it as the Nerd. He and Mike were just dicking around with it in a video.

Well, excuse me.

I just thought it was funny to spot amongst his junk and that people might get a kick out of it. Just like the fact the Are You Being Served is on the TV in the background of the mother's underwear pic. Two things I didn't notice the first time looking at these pics that I think are pretty funny.

But I guess the CWCki forums have a myriad of nuances about which topics warrant threads and which don't that I was unaware of.

 

[spaps]

... And?
I don't think this really needs it's own thread. Come on, it was the 90's. Every little kid probably wanted one of these, just because it made things 3-D (right? I don't actually know anything about the 90's, I just pretend to).
You might want to post this here: http://www.cwckiforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=627#p19313
Also, James didn't review it as the Nerd. He and Mike were just dicking around with it in a video.

Well, excuse me.

I just thought it was funny to spot amongst his junk and that people might get a kick out of it. Just like the fact the Are You Being Served is on the TV in the background of the mother's underwear pic. Two things I didn't notice the first time looking at these pics that I think are pretty funny.

But I guess the CWCki forums have a myriad of nuances about which topics warrant threads and which don't that I was unaware of.

I'm sorry. It's funny and all, but why does this need a topic? What are we supposed to discuss?

 

[LucridMockery]

I don't know, just look at the funny AVGN video. Maybe not everyone on here has seen it yet. I wonder what Chris thought of that stupid resume that came with it? lol It probably game him confusion. Plus others are posting which games he bought recently, so.....

 

[Saney]

But I guess the CWCki forums have a myriad of nuances about which topics warrant threads and which don't that I was unaware of.

Uh, well... (no offence or anything).

 

[mobileunitone]

Insted of trophies, medals or plaques to hang on the wall, chris has video games. Way to go, lil' guy!

 

[GFYS]

That thing was terrible, but the intent behind it was good. I actually know someone at UofI's lab who worked on some of the base technology that Future Vision Technologies built off of for this, and their 3D "VR Cave" headset. It was really a proof of concept design that eventually got shoehorned into a commercial product, because one of the folks funding the project wanted faster returns on their investment. To say it was a commercial failure would be an understatement. The two versions of the "Stuntmaster" were just a single step above a kit bash, all of the circuit boards were a hot mess, and every component was absolute lowest-bidder garbage... Basically a beta in a box. If you could even get it to work (which was rare), the effect was like holding two Sega Game Gears a few inches from your face.

Despite this, most of the parties involved eventually profited when their research was bought up during Tomita Tatsuo's "3D Graphics Initiative" at Fujitsu (used in the FM Towns Marty, the first commercially available 32-bit 3D gaming system).

Chris owning one does hint at how spoiled Chris was, when it came to getting whatever stupid toy he wanted. Even at the peak of the VR hype storm, this was an overpriced and impractical novelty item (not unlike U-Force, Activator, and Power Glove) that got terrible reviews at CES and in game magazines. Chris obviously doesn't care. It's neat, and he wants it - whether or not it works, is any fun, or worth the immense price tag is entirely irrelevant. This was somewhat hard to get, on the consumer market (a whole bunch were later dumped by a wholesaler so they aren't rare to tech collectors) so they either lucked upon one or Bob and Barb had to go to some lengths to procure this. It's probably never even been used. They probably tried to hook it up, failed, and it ended up becoming part of Chris' hoard. I'd be shocked if there isn't a Sega Menacer, Activator, Power Base Converter, Sega Nomad, and a 32X - other (at one time) overpriced and barely functional novelties - cluttering Chris' room.

Edit: To be fair, as mentioned above, it became very easy to procure one in the late 90's and early 2000, because a wholesale liquidator dumped like a thousand of these into the collectible market. More recently, a few folks have been selling units that have been repaired to actually work. Someone who collects old computer tech and gaming memorabilia can get them cheap-ish, but I sincerely doubt this is how Chris got it. If he did; well, then, props to him for owning one of those odd curiosities of early console gaming.

 

[LucridMockery]

But I guess the CWCki forums have a myriad of nuances about which topics warrant threads and which don't that I was unaware of.

Uh, well... (no offence or anything).

So threads about Chris buying a Duke Nukem Game (who cares he buys a million games), a God of War Game (who cares), and a "Shewow" show (not Chris related as of yet as it's not even out yet so he's never seen it) are somehow so much more newsworthy than talking about a funny game product he conned his parents into dropping $200 for?

You people just don't like anyone new posting on here I guess.

Anyway, I figure Chris got it as a kid, unless he's still into collecting retro gaming stuff. I thought his old stuff just rots on the shelves and gets sold for pennies on the dollar to pawn shops. (wow GFYS knows alot about the VRST thing). If I got that thing for x-mas as a kid, I would have been so disappointed, but knowing Chris and his lack of taste he probably thought it was great.

 

[CatParty]

You people just don't like anyone new posting on here I guess.

Anyway, I figure Chris got it as a kid, unless he's still into collecting retro gaming stuff. I thought his old stuff just rots on the shelves and gets sold for pennies on the dollar to pawn shops. (wow GFYS knows alot about the VRST thing). If I got that thing for x-mas as a kid, I would have been so disappointed, but knowing Chris and his lack of taste he probably thought it was great.

naw (you just kinda worded it wrong in the title and original post)
you bring up a good point to talk about his game hoard. like why does he even still keep everything? i bet the only things in functioning order are the ps3 and the portables he carries around in his purse.

 

[LucridMockery]

You people just don't like anyone new posting on here I guess.

Anyway, I figure Chris got it as a kid, unless he's still into collecting retro gaming stuff. I thought his old stuff just rots on the shelves and gets sold for pennies on the dollar to pawn shops. (wow GFYS knows alot about the VRST thing). If I got that thing for x-mas as a kid, I would have been so disappointed, but knowing Chris and his lack of taste he probably thought it was great.

naw (you just kinda worded it wrong in the title and original post)
you bring up a good point to talk about his game hoard. like why does he even still keep everything? i bet the only things in functioning order are the ps3 and the portables he carries around in his purse.

The only thing I have from my childhood is the 1 stuffed cat I used to carry around pre-Kindergarten in a bag in the closet not on prominent display. But I'm female. It seems boys like to keep their childhood toys more so than girls. My brother, for example, couldn't believe how I gave away my remaining barbies and dolls at 12, like it was some shocking thing. Chris takes it to the hoarding extreme. I can't believe he actually sold any of those old games for Kacey I think it was? However, the Chandlers probably still have almost everything they have ever owned. Maybe Chris likes to relive his youth over and over because that's when his parents still thought he had potential?

 

[GFYS]

The only thing I have from my childhood is the 1 stuffed cat I used to carry around pre-Kindergarten in a bag in the closet not on prominent display. But I'm female. It seems boys like to keep their childhood toys more so than girls. My brother, for example, couldn't believe how I gave away my remaining barbies and dolls at 12, like it was some shocking thing. Chris takes it to the hoarding extreme. I can't believe he actually sold any of those old games for Kacey I think it was? However, the Chandlers probably still have almost everything they have ever owned. Maybe Chris likes to relive his youth over and over because that's when his parents still thought he had potential?

I can relate to folks who like to collect certain things, but Chris definitely seems to lean more towards the impulse buyer / hoarder end of the spectrum. The abysmal conditions of the games he tried to trade in, and some of his room photos, suggest he doesn't take care of many of the things he buys. There are a few gems, but a majority seems to either get mistreated, neglected, and/or buried. If anything survives, it's only because it can weather the neglect and somehow manages to stay on top of his pile. Many folks seem to agree that he buys most of his stuff for the instant gratification of acquiring something, but often neglects that acquisition after the initial high wears off. The few things he cherishes, he desecrates with his initials and paintings of Sonicu's limp dick. Shame, too, because he's managed to acquire a few things that collectors might actually want. Ironically, bad games and hardware are very collectible, because the general public wasn't interested in it. Chris doesn't necessarily march to the beat of the general public, which is probably what lead to some of his rarer items. At one point, I would have paid him handsomely for his entire Sega Saturn hardware and software collection - if only it wasn't all covered in semen, feces, grease, grime, scratches, and garish yellow and blue painted-on idiocy.

 

[CatParty]

The only thing I have from my childhood is the 1 stuffed cat I used to carry around pre-Kindergarten in a bag in the closet not on prominent display. But I'm female. It seems boys like to keep their childhood toys more so than girls. My brother, for example, couldn't believe how I gave away my remaining barbies and dolls at 12, like it was some shocking thing. Chris takes it to the hoarding extreme. I can't believe he actually sold any of those old games for Kacey I think it was? However, the Chandlers probably still have almost everything they have ever owned. Maybe Chris likes to relive his youth over and over because that's when his parents still thought he had potential?

I can relate to folks who like to collect certain things, but Chris definitely seems to lean more towards the impulse buyer / hoarder end of the spectrum. The abysmal conditions of the games he tried to trade in, and some of his room photos, suggest he doesn't take care of many of the things he buys. There are a few gems, but a majority seems to either get mistreated, neglected, and/or buried. If anything survives, it's only because it can weather the neglect and somehow manages to stay on top of his pile. Many folks seem to agree that he buys most of his stuff for the instant gratification of acquiring something, but often neglects that acquisition after the initial high wears off. The few things he cherishes, he desecrates with his initials and paintings of Sonicu's limp dick. Shame, too, because he's managed to acquire a few things that collectors might actually want. Ironically, bad games and hardware are very collectible, because the general public wasn't interested in it. Chris doesn't necessarily march to the beat of the general public, which is probably what lead to some of his rarer items. At one point, I would have paid him handsomely for his entire Sega Saturn hardware and software collection - if only it wasn't all covered in semen, feces, grease, grime, scratches, and garish yellow and blue painted-on idiocy.

"just to have" seems to be his motive. never the quality, just the quantity. he believes others are jealous of him because he has so much crap. but that is exactly what it is (or what it becomes once it steps foot into 14 branchland).

i know marvin will contend that chris will sell stuff or is not a full on hoarder, but there is definitely something there. it can get worse. especially if it gets treated as well as his autism was treated.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

But I guess the CWCki forums have a myriad of nuances about which topics warrant threads and which don't that I was unaware of.

Uh, well... (no offence or anything).

So threads about Chris buying a Duke Nukem Game (who cares he buys a million games), a God of War Game (who cares), and a "Shewow" show (not Chris related as of yet as it's not even out yet so he's never seen it) are somehow so much more newsworthy than talking about a funny game product he conned his parents into dropping $200 for?

You people just don't like anyone new posting on here I guess.

Anyway, I figure Chris got it as a kid, unless he's still into collecting retro gaming stuff. I thought his old stuff just rots on the shelves and gets sold for pennies on the dollar to pawn shops. (wow GFYS knows alot about the VRST thing). If I got that thing for x-mas as a kid, I would have been so disappointed, but knowing Chris and his lack of taste he probably thought it was great.

I personally didn't think that Chris buying Duke Nukem Forever or God of War warranted their own threads either. I've already said that some people make too big a deal out of some of the games he buys, He bought a high profile Playstation exclusive? Who the fuck cares? I suppose we could look at it from the angle of him pissing away his social security money, but then that's true for virtually everything he buys.
Personally I find his reactions to things more worthy of discussion. For example, a normal person may purchase DNF and make a small post on facebook about how crap it is. Classic Chris would post a Youtube video moaning about some insignificant thing about the game, then call upon his personal army to flood Gearbox with complaints.

Maybe it's just due to lack of Chris related news that some people jump on the slightest thing he does, but we really shouldn't try and turn everything into some lulz worthy saga. Lets face it, buying computer games and playing them alone in his room is probably the most normal thing Chris does.

 

[Shadow Fox]

If I got that thing for x-mas as a kid, I would have been so disappointed, but knowing Chris and his lack of taste he probably thought it was great.

It occurs to me that Chris has never once refused to patronize a certain product because it's of poor quality. (Aside from Asperchu, which we know he was shitting on because it was making fun of him.) He's given other reasons for not wanting to engage with something - it confused him or made him uncomfortable or whatever - but he's never, to my knowledge, lambasted anything for just being shitty, or given a poor opinion of anything he's consumed at all. Some of it has to do with his brand loyalty, like when he refused to admit Sonic 2006 was a wretched, unplayable mess and claimed that it was just fine because it was SANIC!!!!, but I wonder why otherwise his reviews of various products, when he's bothered to sound off on them, have all been mildly positive.

I want to say it's because he's too stupid to form opinions on things and recognize when he's watching/reading/playing something that could kill birds in midair from the force of its sheer awfulness, and is one of those consumers that just mindlessly laps up whatever offal is presented to him because he lacks the critical thinking skills to apply any sort of value judgment, but something about his opinions feels like he's either trying to suck up to someone to gain their approval (such as his glomming on to Celtic Woman and Ghost Hunters for the Wallflower) or save face, like he doesn't want people to make fun of him for spending time on something he wound up hating.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

If I got that thing for x-mas as a kid, I would have been so disappointed, but knowing Chris and his lack of taste he probably thought it was great.

It occurs to me that Chris has never once refused to patronize a certain product because it's of poor quality. (Aside from Asperchu, which we know he was shitting on because it was making fun of him.) He's given other reasons for not wanting to engage with something - it confused him or made him uncomfortable or whatever - but he's never, to my knowledge, lambasted anything for just being shitty, or given a poor opinion of anything he's consumed at all. Some of it has to do with his brand loyalty, like when he refused to admit Sonic 2006 was a wretched, unplayable mess and claimed that it was just fine because it was SANIC!!!!, but I wonder why otherwise his reviews of various products, when he's bothered to sound off on them, have all been mildly positive.

I want to say it's because he's too stupid to form opinions on things and recognize when he's watching/reading/playing something that could kill birds in midair from the force of its sheer awfulness, and is one of those consumers that just mindlessly laps up whatever offal is presented to him because he lacks the critical thinking skills to apply any sort of value judgment, but something about his opinions feels like he's either trying to suck up to someone to gain their approval (such as his glomming on to Celtic Woman and Ghost Hunters for the Wallflower) or save face, like he doesn't want people to make fun of him for spending time on something he wound up hating.

Chris' world is really quite simple. If he likes something, it's brilliant, if he dislikes something, it's worthy of scorn. If he decides to like something a gal-pal likes, then he's entitled to sex. If she denies him sex, she's a troll.

Such is the world of Christian Weston Chandler.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Well, he said the HEXbox sucked for various reasons, but he'd never actually tried one so that doesn't count.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

Well, he said the HEXbox sucked for various reasons, but he'd never actually tried one so that doesn't count.

He dislikes it because it's the competitor to his beloved "life upgrade" That's reason enough in his books. But then he's hardly alone in with this type of nonsensical thinking.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

You people just don't like anyone new posting on here I guess.

Oh, BAAAWWW. If that's the conclusion you've reached, go find another forum. Jesus...

 

[GFYS]

It occurs to me that Chris has never once refused to patronize a certain product because it's of poor quality. (Aside from Asperchu, which we know he was shitting on because it was making fun of him.) He's given other reasons for not wanting to engage with something - it confused him or made him uncomfortable or whatever - but he's never, to my knowledge, lambasted anything for just being shitty, or given a poor opinion of anything he's consumed at all. Some of it has to do with his brand loyalty, like when he refused to admit Sonic 2006 was a wretched, unplayable mess and claimed that it was just fine because it was SANIC!!!!, but I wonder why otherwise his reviews of various products, when he's bothered to sound off on them, have all been mildly positive.

Hmm, here's something I've considered in the past... What if he's one of those people who define themselves by the items they buy? If they bought it, they're going to defend it. To not defend it would be to admit some level of defeat or expose a character flaw in themselves.

I know some people... Shit, I was like this for the first few years after I started earning a nice salary, trying to define myself by wearing certain designers or carrying certain accessories. In hindsight, a lot of that stuff was overpriced crap that made me look fat, and held me back. What if Chris' blind devotion to certain brands is an extension of this, coupled with his lack of introspection and critical thinking? Y'know, it doesn't sound all that implausible, now that I've put it to words.