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donathos on 17 December 2008
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Kasz216 said:
twesterm said:
Kasz216 said:
twesterm said:
matt247 said:
PS1, NES

 

I wouldn't say the NES had a high failure rate, it was just finicky. 


I don't know anyone with a broken NES.... to this day.  I had a friend with a poor temper who threw the thing a couple times...

Yeah, but how many people do you know that has an NES that doesn't have to have some sort of trick to get the game to run? 

Mine is hold down the game for a second and then turn it on.  :-p

 

True.  Though every NES i played had the same trick... don't push the game in completly.  Instead push it in so the cartridge slightly grazes the system.

I was a master at it.

 

 

It's weird... I don't remember anyone ever showing me how to do that, but I did it that way too.  Like some gigantic NES collective unconscious.

The NES was absolutely finicky -- twesterm's right -- but otherwise rock-solid.  I don't know how many times the thing was hit, kicked, dropped, but it just kept on working.  I didn't even believe in "console failure" till the PS2s started going belly-up.