This is sounds pretty ridiculous to me. It's a pretty known case that your memory plays tricks on you. How old are you? If you were much younger at the time(at least up to 12~14 maybe) I can see that supporting this even more. 

Not to pick on you but if you were fully aware of what this was, yet you completely ignored it and didn't buy it, you can't convince anyone(though I guess you couldn't expect that to begin with). You remember more details than I'd imagine you would too.

No offense meant. I've heard of a Virtual Boy sold in Hong Kong that had protos built into it before though, which also seems unlikely. Either we've all been overlooking HK as some sort of proto bootleg heaven or this is just misinformation...

Edit: And unless I'm misreading, you first claim "I didn&#8217;t play it I just glanced over" only to later start going on about actually playing it. Am I lost here?