It's leisure month here on V!V!VB! And how better to celebrate the start of summer and the great outdoors than sticking your head in a dark black box. We discuss the fundamentally broken Golf from the prolific T&E Soft, and ponder nature's mysteries after catching the mighty Japanese Huchen.

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Games Discussed:

• Golf
• Virtual Fishing

Virtual Boy Game Manuals:

• Golf
• Virtual Fishing (english translated)

Next Month's Games:

• Vertical Force
• Nester's Funky Bowling

Songs in the Episode:

• Golf - "Main Menu" by Hideo Sugiyama
• Golf - "Course Theme" by Hideo Sugiyama
• Virtual Fishing - "Title Screen" by Akiko Hida and Takashi Kumegawa
• Virtual Fishing - "Course Select" by Akiko Hida and Takashi Kumegawa 

Additional Links:

Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy by José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards on MIT Press

Ars Technica: "Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo's enigmatic red console"

Planet Virtual Boy

Virtual Boy Architecture: A practical analysis by Rodrigo Copetti

Podcast Art by @ohmandaz