Julian Turner, a collector of retro video games, went to a market earlier this month and bought some old NES games. When he got home, he discovered that he’d got more than he paid for: two of the cartridges were packed with illegal drugs.
The two games in question were
Rollergames and
Golf. Alarm bells started ringing when Julian realised that the copy of
Rollergames was a PAL (Europe/Australian) version, which isn’t something you’d see every day at a flea market in Georgia.
After then noticing the cartridges felt heavier in the hand, Turner weighed them on digital scales and found both games were around 50% heavier than they should have been (he had other copies of both games on-hand to compare).
So he unscrewed the backs of both games to investigate, opened them up and found four shiny plastic bags. After opening
those, he...called the cops.
(I’ve asked the attending officer for information on exactly what kind of drugs were in the bags, but am waiting to hear back).
