This feels like something Nintendo made out of desperation to sell amiibo, but they were already selling like hotcakes around this time, so who knows what their thought process was. My guess is that somebody thought it'd be cool if amiibo unlocked Virtual Console games but Nintendo was too stingy to let it happen. Instead we got this weird compromise that nobody asked for. It gets a star for being a novelty from an era of Nintendo that I'm pretty fond of despite its problems.