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Some Virtual Boy games only came out in Japan, some never got released, and some were only rumored to come out. This part of this feature will be a basic overview of all of the games that fit into those three categories.
Not much is known about this game, except that it is supposed to be a first-person Doom-like game. I wonder why it was never released here in America, considering most Americans like those type of games.
Not much is known about this game, either. It's supposed to be a space war-strategy game, though.
I wonder why Nintendo didn't pick up this game for North America. I mean, Nintendo published both Space Invaders games for Game Boy and Super NES. It would have made a great action game, for the American Virtual Boy game library.
Why didn't developers pick more "normal" sports for Virtual Boy games? Well, this one isn't too strange, if you live in Great Britain. Squash is sort of a combination of tennis and racquetball. This squash game takes place in space, like a lot of other Virtual Boy games.
This game was going to be released by THQ in America in the summer of 1996, but never came out. It's basically fishing in 3-D.
It's a puzzle game. That's all that is known.
If you remember back in Part 1 of this feature, there was a game called V1-Tetris. Well, this is that game. V-Tetris is basically just Tetris with 3-D graphics. It's not in 3-D like 3-D Tetris, which was only released in North America, but is 2-D like Panic Bomber.
 The action was high on this game, very high. 
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From what I heard from Nintendo, this game was supposed to be very fun and challenging. Too bad it was never released, huh.
 Check out these very detailed pictures of Dragon Hopper. 
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This was going to be the biggest Virtual Boy game of 1996, especially since it was the very first adventure game (like Zelda). A lot of people were looking forward to this type of game on Virtual Boy.
I can see why BPS dropped this game: Nintendo never released the 2-player game link. Faceball would be pretty boring if you didn't have a friend to go against in the "deathmatch"-like mode.
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This was the only known Virtual Boy game that Rare was developing, although Nintendo stated that Rare was making other games, too.
This game was supposed to be released in North America in early 1997, but since Virtual Boy got cancelled, the game got cancelled, too.
Since it is by T&E Soft, could this game be a Virtual Boy version of the puzzle game that never came out for the Nintendo 64 (Cu On Pa)? Well, I don't know.
That wasn't the name for it, though. It was called Mario Clash. But since Mario Clash turned out to be an action/arcade game, instead of an action/adventure game, I gave this game a different title. This game, if it had been sold with Virtual Boy, would have probably sold more Virtual Boy systems than were sold. It was basically a mix between Super Mario World and Virtual Boy Wario Land.
This game was set for a release in Japan, but never made it. It was basically a Bomberman game in 3-D, but not like Bomberman 64.
Two companies, Nintendo and Athena, make bowling games, but only one is released. Can you guess which one?
This is a Virtual Boy version of Mahjong, a Chinese game that is played sort of like cards.
  Speeds could go over 800 km per hour. That's fast!  
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This was a spin-off of F-Zero (Super NES). But instead of driving cars, you fly planes. It was a game that a lot of people were looking forward to. It was supposed to be released in the fall of 1996. This game used the same vector graphics that Red Alarm used.
This rumor was found on a Virtual Boy web site on the internet. I don't think I found it anywhere else, so it remains a rumor. It would have been nice if Virtual Boy had a fighting game, though.
This rumor was given to me by an unknown person back in the early fall of 1996. Nintendo may have been making this game, but I guess we'll never know.
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