Imagine heading out to a market, picking up some copies of classic retro games to add to your growing collection, and accidentally coming home with a small stash of illegal drugs at the same time. It seems almost unimaginable, yet this was a recent reality for one unlucky gentleman.
Retro game collector Julian Turner recently uploaded a video to YouTube (thanks Kotaku!), sharing the amazing moment in which he discovered the illegal goods. The two games containing the drugs, Rollergames and Golf, caught the attention of Turner thanks to an increase in weight over other cartridges. Luckily, he had other copies of both games available to weigh for comparison.
The YouTube channel in question is host to a number of videos showing the opening of cartridges, so this no doubt seemed like a perfect opportunity to open them up for a very different reason. You can watch the action unfold in the video below (he starts to examine the cartridges at around the 7:40 mark).
Not content with only seeing the suspicious looking packaging inside the cartridges, Turner went on to open up the little bags, too. After confirming that the product inside was indeed an illegal substance, the police were called to deal with the situation.
Amazingly, this isn't the only time that a copy of Golf has been found hiding suspicious items, as one copy was once found containing $5000 in bills. This money dated back to 1985, and with no evidence being found to suggest that the drug transaction was a recent thing, the products found may well be over 30 years old.
If you have any copies of Golf for the NES lying around your house, erm, have fun with that!
[source kotaku.com]
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Fun filled
I wonder if this one and the $5000 one are connected somehow... that’s just me putting my tin foil hat on though.
Now you're playing with Power!
Nintendo Power!......
Drugs...it was drugs the whole time...
@Banjos_Backpack lol
My Atari Lynx games used to have an FBI seal on them and a statement that "Winners don't use drugs"
Cool find.
The lame kids blow on the cartridges, the cool kids snort them!
he is unlucky ..... why?
What's unlucky about that? And why would you call the police?
Makes me want to start collecting old games
Now you're like... totally like... playing with power, man...
Well, I see the connection there, of why the smuggler chose these particular cartridges:
Golf - green, grass, putting little balls in holes...
Rollergames - high roller, speed, white lines...
There was a story in a huge dutch newspaper last month (de telegraaf) that a lot of the cartridges filled with drugs are manufactured in the netherlands.
@Yorumi Just a visual inspection we believe!
Nintendo Golf - 'Special' Edition
“Unlucky gentleman.” Unlucky, right, yeah, awfully unlucky that. Poor guy.
Winners don't use Drugs
@LaytonPuzzle27 They banned drugs from sports with a reason though: because you will keep winning.
OMG !!! 😱😱😱
Winners don't do drugs.™
Gives a new meaning to "blow on the cartridge."
@Zuljaras Funny!! 😅
I bet 30 year old heroin would get you crazy high.
"...yet this was a recent reality for one unlucky gentleman." — or lucky, depending on how you look at it.
Though personally, I’d rather have that $5,000 in cash.
@BigKing @Ubik I can give a few good reasons, and more that the obvious "it's the lawful thing to do".
1. he doesn't do drugs
2. he couldn't post the video otherwise
3. he makes money from the channel, and this video earns him views and subs
It's debatable whether he's unlucky or lucky though, due to the viral potential of the video. I'd say he's lucky.
The legend says that if you put them in the console it will play Super Mario Bros 2.
New high score.
You can keep the drug filled one but if someone wants to accidentally send the money filled one to me I won't be upset.
If he paid $2.10 for each one, I'll lose it. XD
"Please for to using blow into end of the cartridge."
Darned bad 80's Japanese translations... You're supposed to BLOW on the cartridge, not PUT blow in the cartridge!
REMEMBER KIDS! JUST SAY NO
to golf
Doesn't make sense. Why would the guy receive his mail and then trade the games in to sell? Wouldn't you remove the drugs first?
Contra-band! I tip my hat to your sirs great heading!
I agree with Ryu_Niiyama's sentiments: send me the money-filled one, after the money's been cleaned, I don't want, or have anything to do with the drugs. Also, as many are saying, I too, noticed the great tagline, when I clicked the article.
@Biff_ARMStrong a possible scenario:
drug dealer receives package with drug-cartridges while not at home, so it gets left in front of his door.
a thief walks by, and grabs the package hoping for something valuable.
thief finds games, and sells them not realizing their valuable contents.
Video games. Not just for nerds.
Golf. Not just for company executives.
Can you imagine hiding your money inside a Nintendo cartridge, and then your mom gives away? I kind of had a similar story of storing something in something and then my mother throwing that something away.
Would've been funnier if it was inside a NARC cartridge. Nice going drug dudes!
@BigKing exactly. If I couldn't figure out what it was and that I didn't want it, I'd just flush it. Why the hell would you want to deal with the police. lol
@NEStalgia loooove
Dude's got digital scales yet doesn't know what that stuff is. I don't believe that for a second lol
They’re PAL copies and someone was trying to increase the game’s speed by, you know, putting speed into them.
@TheTetrisGuy lol, that crossed my mind too, it would looks like a regular game exchange, no suspicious at all.
Uh... Iwata's spirit lives on?
Lol, this was big news a few weeks back in Dutch newspapers and newsshows. There are also fake Switches and Switch-gamecards, with dubious contents. No joking (I really am not joking, those cartridges didn't contain games. Only drugs)!
WTH?? Man that must really suck! On the other hand, its kinda funny. Sure wish I could find 5,000 smackaroos in one of my game cartridges.
@Haywired
More like playing with powder. XD
@JHDK
Or crazy dead
Well i guess i have to finally get a bit-tool. You know, for investigation purposes only.
Huge mistakes in how those guys first handled the discovery:
-Don't ever touch those things with your bare hands. In fact, don't ever touch them, period.
-Don't ever try to open them yourself in any way.
Just leave the suspicious items untouched and call the police.
@the_shpydar
wait until you open that panic restaurant
I'm surprised they didn't use a NARC cartridge for irony.
Well, just sell them!
(the carts)
Drugs are for Losers !
@Dizzy_Boy
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