Hey all. Decided that I would create a thread for discussion of all things related to the games released by VTG Interactive, a pretty nebulous company with very little in the way of documentation, in the event that anyone reading is even remotely interested in the subject. For those who are unaware, VTG Interactive was an American company that to our knowledge, only released three interactive sports games for a proprietary TV game console they also sold. The games in question are: Virtual Baseball (or Live! Baseball), Virtual Tennis, and Virtual Boxing. The games would later be ported to various generic Wii clones based on Sunplus SPG hardware that included games developed by Waixing (yes, the people who developed the Famicom games), such as the Zone 40 and Reactor 32. I go more in-depth about Waixing's connection to the VTG Interactive games as well as the little information on VTG Interactive themselves that I could find in
this thread. I've also created a page for the company on the
BootlegGames Wiki considering that their games and the versions that were released on the 16-bit Waixing Wii clones are closely connected (down to the tennis and boxing games being sold on Waixing's Alibaba store
a year before VTG Interactive was founded in 2006, as well as some versions of the baseball game for the Wii clones still having a partially visible VTG Interactive logo present in one of the stadiums).
To start things off, I'd like to mention that I managed to secure a VTG Interactive console about a week ago from an auction site. Compared to the eBay price for the console (currently going for $50 as I write this), I was able to buy it for less than half of that price. It's currently going through shipping and will likely take a while to get to me as it's coming from California and I reside on the east coast. The listing I bought the console from didn't come with any games sadly, and I currently can't buy the games anyway because the gift card I used to purchase the console doesn't have enough money on it for that to be possible anymore (although I was pretty close to owning both the console and a game on another site before finding out it already sold...). Once the console arrives, though, hopefully I'll be able to document the hardware with what little hardware skills I possess without glob tops getting in the way. I'm particularly eager in finding out if the cartridge slot is more than a glorified jumper, which I'm hoping is the case personally speaking.
