# what the heck happened to my nes games

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 12, 2012, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-happened-to-my-nes-games/643808 "2012-12-12T06:35:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-happened-to-my-nes-games/643808/1 "2012-12-12T06:35:07Z")

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I’ve got like a container with 3 shelves i keep my NES games in

they’ve been sitting in my room and it’s probably been a couple months since I opened it

but I looked at it today and there’s this weird brown sticky stuff over the sames and and this white stuff

wtf is this mold or something

how did it grow onto my nes games (and only on the 2nd shelf; the first and third shelves are ok  
what’s going on here mang

[![](https://i.imgur.com/removed.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/removed.png)  
[![](https://i.imgur.com/removed.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/removed.png)  
[![](https://i.imgur.com/removed.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/removed.png)

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-happened-to-my-nes-games/643808/2 "2012-12-12T08:16:53Z")

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Honestly, it looks like someone dumped a bunch of crap all over your games. _You_ might not have opened that box in a few months, but someone did.

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-happened-to-my-nes-games/643808/3 "2012-12-12T08:23:29Z")

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Honestly, it looks like someone dumped a bunch of crap all over your games. _You_ might not have opened that box in a few months, but someone did.

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**Author:** ![eddyg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9e5f3/32.png) [@eddyg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eddyg)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-happened-to-my-nes-games/643808/4 "2012-12-25T06:52:16Z")

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My first guess going by the pictures would be mold, but it might depend on how exactly the games were kept (temperature and humidity of the room, condition of the container, etc.).

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-happened-to-my-nes-games/643808/5 "2012-12-25T07:15:40Z")

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It doesn’t smell like cat pee, does it?