Wow, that’s like something I might day dream about; walking into a game store in 2010 and finding brand-spanking-new Virtual Boys for sale!
Ever since I missed out on buying a new VB at Toys R Us back in 1996 for $20 I’ve had this burning regret that’s been with me ever since. I don’t collect games any more but I would still love to make up for that mistake by purchasing a brand new Virtual Boy and that is why I still have not purchased a Virtual Boy: I won’t accept anything less than brand new. But then again, even though I say that I’m not exactly willing to part with $500+ for one. 😛
That article mentions that this forgotten shipment was nearly thrown out!! What a close call!
But even though this shipment got lucky, you think this is the only forgotten shipment of VB’s that was just sitting around to be discovered? Somehow I don’t think so. I’m very certain that somewhere out there was another shipment or two of however many Virtual Boys that were not lucky enough to be discovered and that have probably been disposed of by store owners that didn’t know what they had. 🙁
Well, you can’t make up for that but you could try and buy current stuff at good prices. I have been thinking about getting a brand new PS2 now that they’ll probably stop making them soon… What’s more out there, old versions of the Nintendo DS perhaps (are there three or four versions now?). The GameBoy Micro perhaps… What more?
