It looks like it was sitting submerged in liquid for awhile.

Maybe a homeless/differently-sheltered human person found the games
in the trash or a ditch somewhere and sold them for whatever cash
they could get.






--- In turbografxnetwork@y..., mjsbbs <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I never thought I would find a cartridge game that wouldn't work.
CDs
> get scratched easily, but you can always clean off cartridges I
> thought. Now I know better. I bought a few N64 games a week or two
ago,
> then when I got home I noticed the connectors were badly corroded/
> rusted. Today my game bits arrived (stage 1 of adding that switch
to a
> turbo grafx), so I opened up the cartridges. I can't believe how
> trashed they are. Here's a peek at the worst:
> http://www.redshift.com/~mjsbbs/images/trashed.jpg
>
> I can't believe someone would let that happen to a game, and worse
yet,
> then proceed to sell it.
>
> - Mike