I remember getting a copy of Gradius III that wouldn't run at first, and a close look revealed the contacts to be stained entirely black. It worked after a cleaning, but I always wondered how it got that way.

That cart has lethal amounts of nicotine stuck to it, which is the Mahjong Official Seal of Quality

my grandparents on one side of the family smoked pall malls and drank a case of budweiser between the two of them every day by the time i was born. the walls of the house they lived in looked like this

Mahjong's strongest soldier

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That cart has a voice like a blender full of gravel.

I was like, "oh wow I didn't realise there were any non-Zelda gold carts!" and then the penny dropped.

It never got taken out of the console that it?

Or alternately it just experienced regular mahjong for like 3 hours in the world of Akagi.

Eh, these plastics are known for yellowing when exposed to sunlight.

Woah

My copy of Chrono Trigger all looks like this (not the label, thankfully). The game is sitting is in a drawer, not exposed to light, even!