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Re: Trashed games

--- 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

Dear god, what in the name of hades did they do to that thing? Piss
in it and then proceed to play it? I wonder if that happened while
the machine was on-in which case I'd hate to see the machine.




Tue Jun 18, 2002 1:35 am

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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...
mjsbbs
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Jun 16, 2002
10:12 am

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...
kabuki_danjiro
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Jun 16, 2002
5:22 pm

... Dear god, what in the name of hades did they do to that thing? Piss in it and then proceed to play it? I wonder if that happened while the machine was...
mamachop
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Jun 18, 2002
1:35 am

... Dear god, what in the name of hades did they do to that thing? Piss in it and then proceed to play it? I wonder if that happened while the machine was...
mamachop
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Jun 18, 2002
1:36 am
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