As if Nintendo games weren't addictive enough already, sheesh!
You never invite
me over to play Nintendo, oniisan.
That was before we had enough to share. Come on down!
That's crazy! Are the cops following up with the guy at the flea market to find where he obtained the carts or if there are more of them? Seems like something they might be interested in checking out. I'd be paranoid as heck if I was him. Probably close shop until I could confirm there weren't any more of them. Double checking all trade-ins.
Do the games work? I'll assume the broken one doesn't. Satisfying your curiosity is one thing, but if the game doesn't work, are you getting a refund for it?
That’s exactly why Ichinisan wasn’t supposed to publicly mention calling the cops yet. Cat’s out of the bag here, I guess, but please don’t bring it up yet if you see this in other social media.
The police don’t want anyone there getting wind of the almost-certain visit so we can’t tell him we’ve contacted the police. The thing is, he knows we wouldn’t make it disappear any other way, so he’s either expecting it anyway or thinks we stopped talking about it after April 1st because it was an April Fools joke.
A different department will be investigating and our PD said they’ll likely bring a dog to the shop. Being a flea market vendor, the next business day is Saturday but I wouldn’t doubt it if they paid him or the shop a visit already.
I flipped through all the NES games on the customer-accessible shelves but anything worth $10 or more goes behind the glass. It’s very possible that those two were traded in with some $10+ titles too.
The vendor is a friend and he was the first to know what we found. He knows we shared the find publicly so he’s probably expecting them anyway. I know he was unaware as would anyone who traded it in, so I’m more concerned with disrupting his business. The only reason we didn’t discover it right there in his shop is because searching for his special gamebit screwdriver (required) was causing a disruption (I called the search off).
I never got to try the games while I had them. The excitement was worth it though.
The flea market is only open on weekends. The police from that other county / city have not contacted me, so I still have to wonder if they are looking into it.
They might assume it’s an April Fools joke.
If it didnt pass any of their tests then it isnt any of the usual suspects.
They said it was “clearly synthetic” and that it wouldn’t make sense to even bother putting a synthetic on the field testing kit since they will be chemically engineered to circumvent it. They mentioned synthetic heroin at one point and others who would know have chimed in to confirm for us that it is, indeed, some kind of heroin. Value has been described as “easily five-figures.” One officer described fentanyl/carfentanyl as a being “a synthetic heroin” but he didn’t directly suggest it was one of those.
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