Game Collector Discovers Drugs Inside NES Cartridges

A videogame collector got way more than he bargained for after picking up a couple of NES cartridges at a Georgia flea market, as first pointed out by Kotaku. On the surface, Julian Turner thought he had snagged a copy of Golf and a PAL version of Rollergames from the West Georgia Flea Market, but, after further investigation, he discovered that two carts housed an amount of drugs valued at “easily five figures” by the Newnan Police Department.

Suspicion first arose when the two cartridges felt heavier than Turner’s others. During a YouTube video depicting Turner running through his latest additions to his collection, Turner weighed both games against other copies of the same games. Both cartridges weighed roughly 50 percent more than they should. Turner subsequently removed the casing of each game, while jokingly mentioning rumors of Famicom cartridges being used to smuggle items in the past, revealing four square, silver packages within.

Using a boxcutter, Turner cut into one of the packages, revealing a brown substance inside. Turner revealed in the video that “anonymous experts” informed him that the contents appeared to be heroin and the police stated it was “synthetic.” Turner immediately called the Newnan Police Department, who questioned both Turner and the flea market vendor before confirming that the drugs had been inside the cartridges for an extended amount of time. The police have yet to identify the substance.