April, week 1 pick-ups ft. drugs/police!

[EDIT - Picked up by Kotaku! https://kotaku.com/game-collector-finds-drugs-hidden-inside-nes-cartridge-1825193456 Their article was published while I was on my way to Zero Gravity Games in Fayetteville where I found something else inside an NES game: https://youtu.be/Gat0t0jVrbw Not nearly as exciting, of course (hard to top this).] [EDIT - NY Post obtains police report for independent verification: https://nypost.com/2018/04/13/video-game-collector-finds-drugs-in-old-nintendo-cartridges/ If you STILL think this is staged after that and the full police visit linked below (unlisted), I feel sorry for you.] Yes, I’m rolling the update into a pick-up video. ;) Skip around if you only care about the big one but that wasn’t the only (cool?) thing I got that day. If you’re interested in the full police visit including a second officer, see this unlisted video: https://youtu.be/NrBN509-jKo [audio fixed] This isn’t the first time where filming myself disassembling an NES cartridge proved to be prudent: https://youtu.be/neUTZNb2CV4 (Xexyz prototype discovery on my old YouTube ID) Some expressed doubts that I routinely document disassembly of my games. Only the night before I disassembled Crossed Swords for Neo Geo AES, which I accidentally left out of the March pickups along with Bust-A-Move MVS and a second Neo Geo AES console. As you see in the video, I took apart Goldeneye 007 only a couple night later. Here are pics of the Crossed Swords unboxing and legitimacy check: https://imgur.com/gallery/7EqEd The video wasn’t useful so I deleted it but the roller-coaster ride was still worth sharing for those who understand why that reused box was relevant. Similar reported incidents of smuggling inside NES/FC carts: $5K in NES Golf (sound familiar?): https://imgur.com/gallery/1oXvy https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/z52pp/5000_found_in_a_nes_game_updated_pic/ http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1&catid=10&threadid=82952 Nintendo cartridges used for smuggling illicit substances: http://www.konbini.com/us/lifestyle/drug-dealers-nintendo-game-cartridges/ Live spiders smuggled in Famicom (Japanese NES) games: https://kotaku.com/live-spiders-found-smuggled-inside-bootleg-nintendo-car-1795113221 More drugs hidden inside Nintendo games reported on only days earlier: https://kotaku.com/suspected-drug-dealers-arrested-hiding-cocaine-lsd-ins-1823875295 It seems that the combination of lots of empty space, tamper-resistant screws, and enough intrinsic value to be worth mailing around without arousing suspicion makes NES games a popular mule for this stuff. It looks like North American Golf was used to smuggle payment and then it was returned with drugs inside alongside a locally-obtained European hybrid of Rollergames and Isolated Warrior (also containing drugs). Golf made a round-trip. No, that’s not “a drug dealer scale” as some have suggested. It’s used for determining ink levels in Epson T58 ink cartridges after the chips have been reset. https://youtu.be/ALahTXu2rSY Yes, I have a compatible printer (Epson 3880): https://youtu.be/lInPCHhxSVY No, it’s not an excuse (ordered with a chip resetter): https://i.imgur.com/Jm92wQB.png