Nintendo 3ds Ghost Eshop Review
Scroll down to "Virtual Console." See the Game Boy borders. See the Game Gear carts. See the NES titles. These were second-hand ghosts —emulations of dead systems sold on a dying system. You could buy Super Mario Land from 1989, a game that originally cost four AA batteries and a car trip to Toys "R" Us, for $3.99. That transaction was a small miracle: a compression of thirty years of technology into a three-second download.
Now, those links are just epitaphs.
The Ghost eShop is the last place where those potential futures still linger. Nintendo 3ds Ghost Eshop