mmmm VLB
I'm in two minds about VLB (VESA Local Bus).
Personally, I never bothered, for two reasons. Firstly, it put quite a bit of mechanical stress on motherboards if you were inserting them inside a case, even with all the stand-offs fitted. These days, I'd be *very* wary about shoving one of these cards into a slot on old boards, you'll be sure to fracture a solder joint or two.
Secondly, you wouldn't think of using VLB on anything other than a 486 machine (as long as it had a front-side bus of more than 33MHz). VLB ran at whatever speed the FSB of the CPU was, while PCI initially came in at 33 MHz. Also, conflicts between VLB cards and other I/O cards weren't uncommon.
That being said if all you had was VLB (no PCI) and your 486 processor was decent, yes it had its advantages but bigger was not always better.