Video Game Inflation - Prices then and now - Minor Rant

[Moviefan2k4]

GameCubes are invulnerable! You can drop one from a 3-story building and the handle will probably break off! Not to mention the Panasonic Q, You could bomb that and it would survive!

The Nintendo World Store in NYC has an original Game Boy that was found in a soldier's bunker during the Persian Gulf war. The casing is all melted, but the circuitry still works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeTXPaewMo

[madrocsz]

GameCubes are invulnerable! You can drop one from a 3-story building and the handle will probably break off! Not to mention the Panasonic Q, You could bomb that and it would survive!

The Nintendo World Store in NYC has an original Game Boy that was found in a soldier's bunker during the Persian Gulf war. The casing is all melted, but the circuitry still works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBeTXPaewMo

yeah thats it, the one wiggy posted

[AO007]

I'd like to think the reason Genesis games are so cheap is because of Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. 

[larryinc64]

They were cheep before it.

[wiggy]

I swear, they purposely make console un-resistant as they are now. Oh man, the hell my cousins old NES went though before it crapped out. Years and years of abuse before I picked it up before they yard saled it. Still worked at the time, but eventually kicked the bucket on its own after pulling it out of the closet to test. Now days, you cant even play your consoles without them breaking. And thats without ever moving it from where it was placed the day it came out of the box.

3 words for ya; No Moving Parts.

The only cartridge console that craps out all the time is the only one with a moving part, the NES toaster :/

[Dan-Fu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLOxK6FpfA&list=PL5B469A5EB4DED9E7&index=9&feature=plcp

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmfVbzUmhNw&feature=BFa&list=PL5B469A5EB4DED9E7

[AO007]

Bullshit to the Genesis carts being superior. :/

[Dan-Fu]

The SNES cart was just in the wrong place at the wrong time! lol!

[JDavis]

THIS is a working SNES cartridge.

It was in a box of NES and SNES games I bought off a guy a few years back.

Apparently his brother came running into the house (chasing the dog?) and tripped over it while it was in the system.

[Dan-Fu]

You didn't replace the shell? 

[JDavis]

I have another copy of Gradius III that is perfectly intact.

[Dan-Fu]

But, still... 

Can I get it from you then?

[JDavis]

Sure, if you'll pay shipping.

... Actually, I've never shipped anything before, so that'll be a fun adventure.

[madrocsz]

Sure, if you'll pay shipping.

... Actually, I've never shipped anything before, so that'll be a fun adventure.

Paypal shipping. For a snes game in a bubble mailer its usually no more than $2.50 .

[wiggy]

Send it as media mail.  Even cheaper