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30-03-2016, 12:15
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNH0GKHZ7PPTjpxL-yEj6k1EPWuc8g&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779072967998&ei=YsP7VpGXPIjC1AaJuKsY&url=http://qz.com/649337/the-last-time-a-massively-hyped-vr-console-launched-in-the-us-was-in-1995-and-it-completely-flopped/"><img src="//t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTcGIgUVbeSnPD9mixxKTr5yQ5Hw_H_4 rFcV2sXuf3C9ZPAQAjo9544OOFwK05q59gIhNBY0x4" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">Quartz</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNH0GKHZ7PPTjpxL-yEj6k1EPWuc8g&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779072967998&ei=YsP7VpGXPIjC1AaJuKsY&url=http://qz.com/649337/the-last-time-a-massively-hyped-vr-console-launched-in-the-us-was-in-1995-and-it-completely-flopped/"><b>Facebook has a lesson to learn from Nintendo&#39;s massive 1990s virtual reality failure</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">Quartz</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">In the 1990s, Nintendo&#39;s <b>Virtual Boy</b> console promised gaming in virtual reality, and failed to deliver on just about every count. Nintendo wasn&#39;t immediately available to confirm to Quartz how many <b>Virtual Boy</b> consoles it sold since launching in 1995 <b>...</b></font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dwYYFc0EgZR_gSM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b>and more&nbsp;&raquo;</b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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