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7/16/2025, 6:02:16 AM
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7/14/2025, 5:18:11 PM
It started with a garage sale.
I was out on a humid Saturday morning, just poking through old junk in my neighborhood. I wasn’t expecting anything special, maybe a scratched DVD or a dusty action figure, but as I was about to leave one particular sale, something caught my eye in a cardboard box of video games.
It was a black Game Boy Advance cartridge. Not the standard gray, but pitch black, like obsidian. It didn’t have a proper label, just a piece of peeling tape with "Mega Man: Shadow Network" scrawled across it in red Sharpie. The handwriting was jittery, almost panicked. I picked it up and turned it over. No Nintendo logo. Just "BN-000" etched into the plastic back, faintly.
I asked the seller, an older man with sunken eyes and a raspy voice, how much he wanted for it.
He just looked at me for a moment and said, "Take it. Just… don’t play it at night."
I thought he was joking. I wish he had been.
I was out on a humid Saturday morning, just poking through old junk in my neighborhood. I wasn’t expecting anything special, maybe a scratched DVD or a dusty action figure, but as I was about to leave one particular sale, something caught my eye in a cardboard box of video games.
It was a black Game Boy Advance cartridge. Not the standard gray, but pitch black, like obsidian. It didn’t have a proper label, just a piece of peeling tape with "Mega Man: Shadow Network" scrawled across it in red Sharpie. The handwriting was jittery, almost panicked. I picked it up and turned it over. No Nintendo logo. Just "BN-000" etched into the plastic back, faintly.
I asked the seller, an older man with sunken eyes and a raspy voice, how much he wanted for it.
He just looked at me for a moment and said, "Take it. Just… don’t play it at night."
I thought he was joking. I wish he had been.
6/25/2025, 2:26:56 AM
It started with a garage sale.
I was out on a humid Saturday morning, just poking through old junk in my neighborhood. I wasn’t expecting anything special, maybe a scratched DVD or a dusty action figure, but as I was about to leave one particular sale, something caught my eye in a cardboard box of video games.
It was a black Game Boy Advance cartridge. Not the standard gray, but pitch black, like obsidian. It didn’t have a proper label, just a piece of peeling tape with "Mega Man: Shadow Network" scrawled across it in red Sharpie. The handwriting was jittery, almost panicked. I picked it up and turned it over. No Nintendo logo. Just "BN-000" etched into the plastic back, faintly.
I asked the seller, an older man with sunken eyes and a raspy voice, how much he wanted for it.
He just looked at me for a moment and said, "Take it. Just… don’t play it at night."
I thought he was joking. I wish he had been.
I was out on a humid Saturday morning, just poking through old junk in my neighborhood. I wasn’t expecting anything special, maybe a scratched DVD or a dusty action figure, but as I was about to leave one particular sale, something caught my eye in a cardboard box of video games.
It was a black Game Boy Advance cartridge. Not the standard gray, but pitch black, like obsidian. It didn’t have a proper label, just a piece of peeling tape with "Mega Man: Shadow Network" scrawled across it in red Sharpie. The handwriting was jittery, almost panicked. I picked it up and turned it over. No Nintendo logo. Just "BN-000" etched into the plastic back, faintly.
I asked the seller, an older man with sunken eyes and a raspy voice, how much he wanted for it.
He just looked at me for a moment and said, "Take it. Just… don’t play it at night."
I thought he was joking. I wish he had been.
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