this was a few years ago, but what better of a place to post about it than an NES forum:

I chose to walk from my friends house to my place (about 10 miles away)

I get about a mile from their house and see all of this sitting beside a trash can....

it's about 3am on trash day, I have about 9 miles til im near my place and I find all of that sitting in the grass beside a trash can.  I spend the next 2 miles debating if I should go back and get it, with what though?, I have a long way home, and walking with all that in my arms would look Real shady especially that early in the morning, then I find a brown paper bag, just chillin there waiting for me to grab it and B line for the NES spot.

that was a good day, except about half way home and 6 am rolls around, the sky turns gray and starts raining... but I got it all home safe and it worked like it was new

10 miles! Wouldn't that take like 4 hours to walk!?

something like that, I didn't actually walk all the way home that time (it started raining half way there), but I walked the whole thing once after that time

i'd take a good walk for some NES stuff! SweeT!

I'm just hoping this happens to me.

Does that Game Genie have any gold paint on it?

It looks different to me than the ones I have.

Al

nope, its the black version

Damn dude, talk about lucky. Nice.

Great Find and good for you but no way I would walk 10 miles for a NES.

Well, I guess if I was doing the walk anyway but that scenario doesn't work either because I wouldn't be walking 10 miles.

Congrats !damage! and much respect for your obvious excellent health and determination!

DUDE! I wonder where the rest of that guys games were? maybe he gave them away and noone wanted the two SMB/DH's

You lucky son of a female of the dog species!

I have the one pictured Al, it's just black plastic with a gold sticker. Yellow back label. I have a picture laying around somewhere with all 3 of the variants I've found (the others are gold with grape label, and black with violet label - back labels match in color to the front), they all seem pretty well equally common.

There may be a gold with gold label, but I haven't come across it passively yet.