It stood for "Visual Memory Unit," and they were little memory cards you could save game data onto. Unlike other memory cards, these ones plug into your controller and have a little screen on them ...

Modders give the Visual Memory Unit a second life as a portable that plays classic games on Atari, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, and more. Raymond Wong. June 2, 2020. Sega Week.

The Visual Memory Unit, or VMU, is a small, Gameboy-like device that slots into your controller. Whenever you play a game, different designs show up on the screen: ...

A used Sega Dreamcast with a portable Visual Memory Unit may just be the lifehack you need! As spotted on Instagram (via Ars Techina ), a VMU coder by the online name guacasaurus_mex is behind the ...

Watch on YouTube. For those of you who aren’t rapidly hurtling towards their forties or indeed already there, the VMU (Visual Memory Unit) was a fascinating take on the memory cards of the time ...

Sony’s PocketStation had its first outing at the 1998 Tokyo Game Show – three months after SEGA's unit went on sale – and it was officially released shortly afterwards in January the next year.

If you miss the Sega Dreamcast’s visual memory unit, a recently published patent from Sony brings potentially good news.The next iteration of the Playstation’s DualShock controller may come ...

Sep 28, 2023: New perovskite technology merges light sensing with visual memory storage and retrieval (Nanowerk Spotlight) Human vision provides a model for advanced artificial intelligence systems ...