What's more bizarre to me is not what was in them, but why the person who first obtained them in that state didn't remove what was inside. The fact that it was in a vacuum sealed Mylar bag shows some level of professionalism.

Not to sound ridiculous but it is a pretty clever means of smuggling. I mean now I'm sure it's on the radar but I usually wouldn't have thought that nes carts was a way to smuggle drugs in and out of the country. Gotta be some potent stuff if you're using such a small storage space

Next we'll see fentanyl in hollowed out mask ROMs in the chinese Earthbound repros.  

This is why peoples sealed games get cut open in customs.

One thing is for sure: Neither the flea market vendor nor the person who sold/traded it to him knew what was inside. It’s very possible that the intended recipient never got it. It could have been misdelivered, stolen off the doorstep, or received by someone else in the household while the intended recipient wasn’t around (Jail? Hospital? Vacay?). If the intended recipient was not a NES fan then even housemates might not know what it is or to do with it. So many ways it could have been lost without being opened that it’s probably the easiest question about this whole thing to theorize answers for.  
 

Lol I’d Be pissed if i got that cart because I’d wanna play that hot Chinese bootleg action. 

You made the big time; you were mentioned in a list article on Cracked. http://www.cracked.com/article_25...

Thats great 😂🤣😂🤣😂 especially that part wheee you need drugs to enjoy NES GOLF

LOL! I linked to half of those other examples in the main video’s description so the rest of that part practically wrote itself for them.   Thanks for letting us know!

 

I totally know this famous journalist, you guys.  

One-year anniversary.  

I recently started working with several off-duty NPD officers and have more information as of a couple weeks ago. One of the officers I work with said he hadn’t heard of it before I showed him the video but he could tell me it would have been sent to GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) instead of Carrollton. It seems that’s protocol for a more serious drug find like this. That’s consistent with Carrollton/Carroll County never questioning the vendor.

One of the original responders, officer Krause, now works for GBI in some position where he deals with this kind of stuff. Another officer I work with, SGT Robinson, reached out to Krause to ask what he determined it to be. His answer was "Knowing what I know now, I'd say it was Fentanyl." Doesn't sound 100% sure but, in his new role, he’s the expert!

I really wish they would've used a copy of Narc instead.

Well good thing you handled the situation the way you did, a lethal dose of Fentanyl equates to something about the size of 2-3 grains of salt. Here in Vancouver, Fentanyl has been the cause of a public health emergency since 2015, whereby people are dying of overdoses in record numbers, including several people close to me (two of my friends and my former landlord have all been accidentally exposed, and all three of them died). Glad to hear you handled it correctly and didn't get curious, that diligence may have potentially saved your life.

...or Dr. Mario:
This’ll cure what ails ya.  

https://i.imgur.com/UeEUfnn.jpg


Thanks. I never shared this publicly before, but this was on the porch when they were done. They had joked about it making the neighborhood cats act funny, but this could have killed them. Definitely dropped by them and not us.  

It’s a lot smaller than it looks in this macro shot. Lens makes it look like crystaline chunks of meth or something but it’s more like a grains of sand.

If it was fentanyl, does that mean those drugs were hidden inside those carts within the last couple of years? I assumed those drugs were sitting inside those carts since the 80s, unless fentanyl was popular back then too.

Definitely not ‘80s, since Roller Games and Isolated Warrior are ‘90s games.  

More seriously: Yeah. It was almost certainly much more recent. There’s never been any reason to think it’s been in there decades despite reports suggesting that the police confirmed this (they didn’t). It’s very possible that a package containing these had been stolen off someone’s front porch the day before it ended up at the flea market.

I’ve always assumed it was more likely some time in the last 10 years with the rise of international cryptocurrency markets for all kinds of illegal stuff on the dark web (Silk Road, et al). It had only been two weeks since the report of smugglers in The Netherlands using fake 3D printed NES games to smuggle drugs... and about a year after Mexican authorities intercepted those bootleg Famicom games with exotic spiders being smuggled inside. I’d say NES smuggling seems to be a more recent thing and not something from the time when the games were still in stores for $30-$60 a pop. Heck, the Mylar bags they were in had that clear rubbery coating that you just didn’t see often decades ago.