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$5000 cash in a NES game

Sep 6, 2012 at 12:16:24 AM

Rengozu (54)

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Found lots of crazy things in the back ports of the big PS2's in my day, but never in a cartridge. Good find man.

Sep 6, 2012 at 9:57:21 AM

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Very nice find! I would be interested in what you ended up doing with the money (Like did you buy an expensive title with it?).

Sep 6, 2012 at 2:27:41 PM

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Wow. Make sure to spend all of the money on drugs....thats what it was intended for.

Great find.

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Sep 6, 2012 at 10:28:42 PM

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what the hell.. that's unreal.. The best thing i found in a heavy nes cart is a famicom converter not worth 5k yet

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Sep 7, 2012 at 12:39:05 AM

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My fiancee showed me one of the pictures on 9Gag maybe around a week ago. the one with the bills in the cart, not laid out. Was that you, or someone reposted it?

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Sep 8, 2012 at 3:22:50 AM

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this will be in the back of my mind every time i open a cart that is new to me now.

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Sep 8, 2012 at 10:33:25 AM

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Originally posted by: NESCloneGuy

My fiancee showed me one of the pictures on 9Gag maybe around a week ago. the one with the bills in the cart, not laid out. Was that you, or someone reposted it?

DUN DUn dun... /qeue music.

Am I the only one who doesn't believe this at all? If it seems too good to be true...

Sep 8, 2012 at 12:09:16 PM

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It's real, I know who it is and it's real PERIOD.

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Sep 8, 2012 at 1:19:04 PM

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Amazing Find.

I think I will start putting in $5000 woth of Monopoly money in random game lots i sell. Sort of like the Rick Rolled Cart.

Sep 19, 2012 at 5:43:29 PM

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Holy crap....i can't believe I missed this story. Congrats on the find. That's awesome!

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Sep 19, 2012 at 7:07:35 PM

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this has reached all over the internet. i was at half price books the other day and seen a kid picking up all the Nes games. I asked him what the deal was and he mentioned he had read a story online about this and that drug dealers in Mexico were using NES carts for smuggling drugs and money into the US and since we were in texas that he might have a good chance of finding games with money in it.

I started laughing and he didn't even know about NA so this story has become an urban legend now

Sep 19, 2012 at 7:12:37 PM

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Originally posted by: sadikyo

That was probably smart - making an anonymous account - lotsa crazies out there. And WOW! This is incredible. I saw the thread and was immediately skeptical, but the pictures helped. And I don't know why anyone would go through the trouble to get $5,000 in $100 bills to pull off a stunt like this, so it seems legit. Wow...

What a great hiding place for money!!! But apparently, too good of a hiding place, since I'm guessing it was accidentally sold - probably for like $1, haha.

I hope they're not traceable bills, or stolen $$$ from some kind of police sting - it is pretty crazy.

EDIT: You lucky jerk you! I'm so jealous...

For sure. If I found this I wouldn't have posted it. Least the person who put it there read about it years later or who knows.

That being said. Nice find man. Whoever you are. lol

Sep 19, 2012 at 7:12:47 PM

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Originally posted by: jeffg

this has reached all over the internet. i was at half price books the other day and seen a kid picking up all the Nes games. I asked him what the deal was and he mentioned he had read a story online about this and that drug dealers in Mexico were using NES carts for smuggling drugs and money into the US and since we were in texas that he might have a good chance of finding games with money in it.

I started laughing and he didn't even know about NA so this story has become an urban legend now

awesome lol

Oct 1, 2012 at 9:51:43 PM

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Originally posted by: SsPpAaMm

Wow. Make sure to spend all of the money on drugs....thats what it was intended for.

Great find.

Damn right!

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Oct 2, 2012 at 4:51:09 AM

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Thats is the funniest thing ive heard all month. Good shit!

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Oct 2, 2012 at 5:32:32 AM

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hahahahaha this made my night.

Oct 2, 2012 at 6:29:01 AM

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Pretty amazing. I'm just going to pretend it's not true. It hurts too much otherwise.

And all this talk of the 80's, drug money and leenio's is making me jones.

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Oct 2, 2012 at 10:04:35 AM

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You need to go buy some lottery tickets man Congrats man, that's just amazing.

May 1, 2013 at 2:24:09 PM

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What if Golf made money if you played it correctly?

May 1, 2013 at 2:26:17 PM

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Mentioned this on my podcast. Co hosts are still in shock.

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May 1, 2013 at 2:33:28 PM

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Can you guys just imagine maybe one of us has held a money-filled game in the recent past and didn't even know!

May 1, 2013 at 2:44:09 PM

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gravediggers here^

Mar 10, 2014 at 2:55:26 PM

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Bump to this thread for the new people who saw what the one member found in a Deadly Towers box, as opposed to what this guy found.

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Awesome and for those that are wondering...yes this was legit.

Mar 10, 2014 at 4:00:23 PM

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Originally posted by: Quack

Bump to this thread for the new people who saw what the one member found in a Deadly Towers box, as opposed to what this guy found.

Never mind..found it.....

I think if I was to find something like this I wouldnt post it. Look what happened with those folks who found all those gold coins on their property...Feds trying to find a way to confiscate it.

Edited: 03/10/2014 at 04:02 PM by RiverCityRansom2