I must say this is quite an interesting find indeed. Nintendo’s infamous failed experiment known as the Virtual Boy has turned up in Dubai. In August of 2008, a group of persons were merely cleaning out a warehouse when they stumbled upon 100 Virtual Boy consoles sealed away in boxes for over a decade. It’s appearance now is almost as baffling as how it wound up in Dubai in the first place.

Vijay Chandrabota, the purchasing manager for Geekay Games spoke with The National about the find saying he didn’t even know the Virtual Boy even existed until he and his colleagues found the boxes…

I love when big companies do something to help out those less fortunate. Nintendo Canada was doing some spring cleaning and found a warehouse filled with old Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Virtual Boy paraphernalia (mainly games). So the division made an eBay account (nocl604) and decided to auction off all the items in 33 separate lots for the United Way.

If you’re suspicious, because it is a new eBay account and you figure anyone can go online and pretend to be from anywhere – you need to be a little more trusting. Plus the members of the NintendoAge forum did quite a bit of extensive research to make sure the sale was legit. Link at gameSniped.com even posts the complete message explaining the sale, left by a Nintendo representative at the NintendoAge forum.