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Eomer · 01-06-2005, 06:56 AM

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I remember the good old days when consoles weren't just dumbed down computers and never crashed

Yeah, like the original NES, where you NEVER had to blow on the cartridges and pray to pagan gods to get a game more than a year old to work...

Kaxmax · 01-06-2005, 07:04 AM

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Originally posted by Eomer
Yeah, like the original NES, where you NEVER had to blow on the cartridges and pray to pagan gods to get a game more than a year old to work...

Lol, I was thinking the same thing. Getting a NES/SNES game to work is a lost art. I used to have q-tips and rubbing alcohol next to my nintendo to polish up the connectors. For a while I had the cover completely off my NES, as that seemed to make games work a little better.

The Bog · 01-06-2005, 07:06 AM

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Originally posted by Eomer
Yeah, like the original NES, where you NEVER had to blow on the cartridges and pray to pagan gods to get a game more than a year old to work...

Or tapes that could take half a fucking hour to load and then may not work.

Tancred · 01-06-2005, 07:25 AM

Or having to stand your Playstation on its side

Ahnkosis · 01-06-2005, 07:45 AM

Putting my playstation upside down usually worked. Also, my Atari 5200 is more reliable than my NES was, wtf is that?

Nevergone · 01-06-2005, 07:54 AM

My C64 never crashed.

Idyaar · 01-06-2005, 08:03 AM

My TRS80 never crashed either and the tape drive worked like a champ.

Khalikryst · 01-06-2005, 08:08 AM

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Originally posted by Kaxmax
Lol, I was thinking the same thing. Getting a NES/SNES game to work is a lost art. I used to have q-tips and rubbing alcohol next to my nintendo to polish up the connectors. For a while I had the cover completely off my NES, as that seemed to make games work a little better.

Actually, a good old pencil eraser is all ya need to clean up those contacts.

Interestingly enough, I think you could actually take a big horrible shit right in the cartridge plug of an Atari 2600, drop it off a 20 story building and it'd still work 30 years later.

If you wanna talk old school, let me know if you're old enough to remember this game.

I'm pretty sure this is where parents started freaking out about video games. You see when you played this game you had to bang the joystick back and forth left and right to make your guy run faster (each push to the side moved that foot forward so to run really fast you had to jerk the thing back and forth really fast). The beauty of it was that any parent walking up behind a kid playing this game was sure to think the kid was furiously jacking off to the video game because you had to hold the joystick firmly in your crotch to get the best leverage.

Fammaden · 01-06-2005, 08:17 AM

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Originally posted by Khalikryst
Actually, a good old pencil eraser is all ya need to clean up those contacts.

Interestingly enough, I think you could actually take a big horrible shit right in the cartridge plug of an Atari 2600, drop it off a 20 story building and it'd still work 30 years later.

If you wanna talk old school, let me know if you're old enough to remember this game.

I'm pretty sure this is where parents started freaking out about video games. You see when you played this game you had to bang the joystick back and forth left and right to make your guy run faster (each push to the side moved that foot forward so to run really fast you had to jerk the thing back and forth really fast). The beauty of it was that any parent walking up behind a kid playing this game was sure to think the kid was furiously jacking off to the video game because you had to hold the joystick firmly in your crotch to get the best leverage.

Yeah, I remember decathalon. It was fueled by the popularity of Bruce Jenner wasn't it? All my friends loved that shit but I couldn't stand the rapid, repetitive, blister inducing controls. I suppose you got callouses after a while, but I would take Pitfall or River Raid any day. I had to play by myself most of the time though so maybe I was more attracted to games that were strong for single player.

Mkopec1 · 01-06-2005, 08:52 AM

I remember the arcade version.

You used to hold a pencil between your 3 fingers, leveraging on the middle one, so when you hit the pencil on one side it automatically hit the other button on the other side. Kind of like a see-saw.

Brutul Tarew Marr · 01-06-2005, 09:05 AM

haha I was about to mention the upside down playstation. It's amazing how good kids can be at troubleshooting when their precious video games stop working.

Fluffya · 01-06-2005, 11:00 AM

Here's an anecdote about the old SNES cartridges.

You probably remember cartridges shapes differ between north american SNES and European Super Nintendo. Back in the days, a lot of games used not to be released or used to be really delayed in the EU due to a smaller video game market (it hasn't changed much, WoW is a good example).
This was the case with Secret of Mana which hit the european shelves months after the US version. Well, a friend of mine did not wait the european release and ordered a US copy. He didn't posess the US/EU SNES adapter so he ended up melting the edges of the cartridge so he could insert it into the cartridge plug. The game worked fine.

FoghornDeadhorn · 01-06-2005, 11:16 AM

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Originally posted by Brutul Tarew Marr
haha I was about to mention the upside down playstation. It's amazing how good kids can be at troubleshooting when their precious video games stop working.

Haha, no doubt. I believe I found the optimal position to be diagonal.

Magnum PI · 01-06-2005, 12:42 PM

I remember Atari Decathalon well. I was 12 and I got it for my birthday as the Olympics was going on. I used to imagine I was taking on Daley Thompson the guy who won the gold for England at the time. Great game.

Dintorr · 01-06-2005, 12:54 PM

I had a Sun Solaris (a type of UNIX) server once that ran continoulsy for 2.5 years.

Of course i never patched it, it just sat there happily running it's application. And the damndest thing, it was just plugged straight into standard wall power, not into a UPS. wtf is up with that?!

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Ahnkosis Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Bothell, WA Posts: 680 +0 Internets	Putting my playstation upside down usually worked. Also, my Atari 5200 is more reliable than my NES was, wtf is that? __________________ bloodninja: Hello? bloodninja: Say it! bloodninja: HAARRRRRR!!!!!

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Mkopec1 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Detroit Posts: 5,091	I remember the arcade version. You used to hold a pencil between your 3 fingers, leveraging on the middle one, so when you hit the pencil on one side it automatically hit the other button on the other side. Kind of like a see-saw. __________________ When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

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Magnum PI Closing in on Makata Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: USA Posts: 1,180 -28 Internets	I remember Atari Decathalon well. I was 12 and I got it for my birthday as the Olympics was going on. I used to imagine I was taking on Daley Thompson the guy who won the gold for England at the time. Great game. __________________

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01-06-2005, 07:25 AM	#19 (permalink)
Tancred Aieee my precious internetz >< Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: UK Posts: 586 -19 Internets	Or having to stand your Playstation on its side

01-06-2005, 07:54 AM	#21 (permalink)
Nevergone Is Not A Happy Bunny Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 566 +0 Internets	My C64 never crashed.

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Idyaar I'm not as think as you drunk I am Join Date: May 2004 Location: Houston Posts: 212 +0 Internets	My TRS80 never crashed either and the tape drive worked like a champ.

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Brutul Tarew Marr Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun. Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 946 -2 Internets	haha I was about to mention the upside down playstation. It's amazing how good kids can be at troubleshooting when their precious video games stop working.

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Fluffya Verified 4th best poster of these boards. Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Paradise City where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Posts: 661 -1 Internets	Here's an anecdote about the old SNES cartridges. You probably remember cartridges shapes differ between north american SNES and European Super Nintendo. Back in the days, a lot of games used not to be released or used to be really delayed in the EU due to a smaller video game market (it hasn't changed much, WoW is a good example). This was the case with Secret of Mana which hit the european shelves months after the US version. Well, a friend of mine did not wait the european release and ordered a US copy. He didn't posess the US/EU SNES adapter so he ended up melting the edges of the cartridge so he could insert it into the cartridge plug. The game worked fine.

01-06-2005, 12:54 PM	#30 (permalink)
Dintorr space accountant Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Atlanta, Chocolate City, USA Posts: 771 -2 Internets	I had a Sun Solaris (a type of UNIX) server once that ran continoulsy for 2.5 years. Of course i never patched it, it just sat there happily running it's application. And the damndest thing, it was just plugged straight into standard wall power, not into a UPS. wtf is up with that?!