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S.T.A.G.E. on 26 April 2015
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TheSting said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

I once had to use the towel trick on my Xbox 360.



......the towel trick.


When you're forced to do this you know you've played the worst engineered console of all time. It forces you to resort to ghetto tactics just to play for an hour or two.

Here is a video of the towel trick. Look it up on youtube. The videos are in the hundreds of thousands of views to millions. Its insane how bad it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31tvXu34T8Q


Well starting with the NES i had to blow into the cartridge till i was blue in the face. My parents kept alcohol afloat in the 80s from trying to clean and get the games to work.

PS1 and 2 each had problems where ppl I know were turning the fuckers upside down and sideways to get the disc to read. Lots of people rebought the PS2 because of. Lawsuit against also.

No if he's talking about the 360 and including RROD. I didn't do any towel trick just sent two consoles back and my 3rd was back within 4 days and been working ever since. 

The other consoles had failure rates that werent over the average. Blowing the Nintendo cartridge is now a big joke to most people. Its like a cultural thing you had to go through that kids today will never understand. LOL The inside jokes of 24+ year olds. 

I literally had to suffocate the 360 system with a towel to get it to turn on. You had to overheat it. I admit that the 360 had the best OS though, no doubt, but it was just unbearable. There was a time when the 360 was all I had and sometimes it was just so unreliable. I had to keep bringing it back. Once I actually bought it all over again, which is why many people theorized a some of Microsofts 360 sales were repurchases for people who were not covered.