Re: OT - Does anyone remember when gaming consoles were durable?


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Posted by Clok on 25, 2001 at 3:04 AM:

In Reply to: OT - Does anyone remember when gaming consoles were durable? posted by Joshua on 24, 2001 at 6:29 PM:

Funny you should say 2600 I STILL HAVE my orig 2600 with 3 switchs per side ( not the later 2 switches per side ones) and after haveing it for ( you tell me how long) it still works...I did have to tear one of the switches apart and put it back together..but it took no parts..just some no how)... Im thinking maybe that now days we dont relize what spending a few bucks really means.... when i got my 2600 i was ready to give up all free time to work for my folks if i could "JUST' get one for Christmas ((it was $250 if i remotly rember right) back then..maybe $299)and i got it and INDY 500 ( with the driving controls) and i was in heaven...no Space Invaders, no Asteriods, just ATARI games ( i go the others later)..but i was in Heaven...I think we treat stuff differently now days..back then (78?) $250 for a game system woud be like paying $600 now days ( yep..that was a guess)... Dreamcast is pretty sweet for the price...but i still play MoonPatrol more then Soul Caliber :)


Clok

: The other day in preparing my DC joystick hack, I plugged a controller into my DC while it was still on (I guess I wasn't paying attention... oops!) and the controller port stopped working on me - I mean no joysticks at all would work, in any socket.

: So I paid 12 bucks and got a new joystick port PCB from www.ncsx.com and now it's fine, but this is silly... The same thing happened to my friends N64. And I've heard of DC GD-ROM drives burning out, and playstations overheating after playing for X hours or whatever, and you have to worry about scratching CDs, and not setting them on a carpet, and not plugging things in when they're on...

: I remember when I had an NES, a game didn't work, and we'd blow in the cartridge. My friend's NES had the TV shelf break, and the TV fell down on top of it. So what did they do? Open it up, bend the metal bits back and it worked fine! We used to step on the controllers all the time. And why is it with every next-gen console, the gamepad cords seem to keep getting shorter?

: And damn it, I want another faux-wood-grain finish like my old Atari.

:
: Sorry, this was a silly rant, I'm just annoyed.




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