I was browsing imgur today like I do everyday and came across this post: http://imgur.com/gallery/uxk6j

A man acquired a safe and opened it to find a stamp book, nazi memorabilia and Faceball for the virtual boy. I read a comment about how Faceball was never actually released and that led to two hours of reading online about the history of Virtual Boy. It was a neat little journey through history and I am amazed this site exists.

From my understanding there were only a few copies made of Faceball and given to donors, so I guess we can play the “Guess who owned the nazi safe” game. I thought you guys might get a kick out of seeing this.

Oh and good luck finding Dragon Hopper someday

Well..almost 70 were sent out..but fairly recently. ‘Acquired’ a safe…so someone stole it ?

hehe, this is so funny.

That lucky guy found a can of Kroger brand mushrooms 🙂

Now that’s some random loot.

That has to be a repro. It’s got a mint condition label on it, a dust cover, and an ESRB rating. None of that screams prototype to me. Not to mention, although it’s illegible but it sure looks like the “prototype edition” text is there in it’s spot. That safe must have been locked up fairly recently…

Sounds to me like the poster is trying to have a little reality show of his own. Throw a bunch of random stuff in a safe and “break into it”, LIVE ON TEH INTERWEBZ.

The problem is that the cart is only a few months old, which kills any credibility of this safe being anything other than staged. 😛 Though not much less believable than the staged lockers on storage wars (and who knows… maybe this guy has connections, and we’ll see this Faceball show up on Pawn Stars, to go along with the broken VB they bought 😉 ).

DogP

DogP wrote:
Sounds to me like the poster is trying to have a little reality show of his own. Throw a bunch of random stuff in a safe and “break into it”, LIVE ON TEH INTERWEBZ.

That seems like the most logical answer.

Haha, just googled the pawn stars episode. Yeah…looks like some glitchy displays to me. Pretty sure those lines aren’t supposed to be there =P

to go along with the broken VB they bought 😉 ).

DogP

i remember they listed it on ebay and it sold for a lot. i can’t recall the exact amount. they listed it by stating that it was on the world famous pawn stars tv show.