This week's RetroNuts comes to you in Stereoscopic 3D.

Please rest your eyes after 30 minutes of listening.

Classic Nintendo game prices are through the roof on the aftermarket these days.

That even includes the company's least popular and least successful console ever, the Virtual

Boy.

All that may seem a little strange, given Virtual Boy's reputation and short life, it does

make a certain amount of sense.

Collectors love to be able to buy complete sets, and this is a system by a popular manufacturer

whose library topped out at about 2,000 games.

You can conceivably own the entire Virtual Boy library without too much trouble, as only

a few of those games are exceedingly rare or expensive.

Nestors funky bowling and SD Gundam dimension wars might set you back a pretty penny,

but locking down the entire Virtual Boy collection is a far more appealing prospect than trying

to hunt down, say, all 2,000 gameboy releases.

Virtual Boy also enjoyed the benefit of an uplift to its reputation of years back when Nintendo

wanted to make a case for the 3DS's legacy.

As the most direct antecedent of the 3DS, the Virtual Boy suddenly had marketing value.

Nintendo changed its messaging overnight from, what Virtual Boy, to, I guess, that proud

moment of our history.

Even more interesting was the exact line of revisionism that the company adopted in order

to ease the Virtual Boy back into its official timeline.

It wasn't really a game system you see, it was always more of a toy, a gadget that just

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