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Why do we need to blow on the games and why do the games mess up?!?
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Why do we need to blow on the games and why do the games mess up?!?
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Topic: How did you lose your NES?

33 replies / Originally posted by chinster / Latest reply from soulforged / Topic is open

By chinster

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Seems like we all had these classic game systems, but for one reason or another we don't have them anymore. What happened to yours?

I used to have one, well it was my brother's. One day he decided that he wanted to be a hockey player and decided to trade our precious NES and our huge game collection for a bunch of used hockey equipment. Did he ever play hockey after that? No. I hate him.

Posted 8 months ago

By celticchrys

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I still have mine, battle scars and all. It still works as well.

Posted 8 months ago

By marit

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My condolences, fellow gadget fan. Although, I still have mine. It hasn't turned that ugly yellow that most NES consoles morph into, and after a little cartridge-blowing and jiggling, I can still play Super Mario Bros. just as well as I did the Christmas I got the console. I do admit, I play my SNES with Super Mario Bros. All-Stars a little more often just because it's a lot easier to pop in a collection of games on one cartridge versus Mario Bros. one, two, and three in all their original chunky glory.

Posted 8 months ago

By Gina

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My brother was also the cause of my NES. Although he as a difference story, my memory is that he was playing Super Mario Brothers with one of his friends and the friend put his drink on top. When the drink inevitably spilled, the system died. My brother maintains that it simply stopped working. Either way, he was in the room, so it's his fault.

Posted 8 months ago

By Steve2000

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I traded mine for an electronic organizer back in '92.

Posted 8 months ago

By jlarex

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I gave mine to one of my younger cousins. The part that I really regret is that I gave them my entire game collection as well. I kept all my other consoles, so it was weird not having the NES around. I ended up buying another one later from ebay with a new cartridge connector, which makes it much easier to get the games to work. Now I have most of the classics again (I also somehow ended up with about 6 copies of the Mario/Duck Hunt game). Emulators are much more convenient, but it's great to take out the old NES once in a while for some Mega Man, Mario 3, Zelda or Punch Out.

Posted 8 months ago

By ecks

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I have 2 at home! and my roommate has one to! One of mine have turned a funky yellow colour but I keep it as my backup. Both work quite well but I'm sad to see duckhunt as it was die with the invention of plasma TV's. Oh tube television, how you've given me many a great hour shooting ducks... Oh well! The rest still works and I still have a small library of games too!

Posted 8 months ago

By dneli

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I never was able to give it away, even though it was broken. I bought a new one on ebay with a few nice games(Slalom!!yeah!) and even Metal Gear.
I now have a collection all 'real' Consoles of Nintendo:
Nes, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii. I put them in a chronilogical order in my TV shelf, lokks really nice :-)
My next goals are: Virtual Boy (just to have it, I'm a collector nature) And the Super Scope, but to find those in a good condition you'll have to spend a lot of money...

Posted 8 months ago

By kevi

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I gave both my NES and SNES away to my younger cousins. Wish I had them back now, not sure if they even still have them. :(

Posted 8 months ago

By sawcat

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Mine is still alive and kicking. Replaced the pin connected a couple years back, which solved the games not starting issue. I really need to introduce my nephew to the joys of the Power Pad

Posted 8 months ago

By chinster

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Wow, it looks like more people still have this iconic system than I thought...I want mine back. Playing on the computer with an emulator just isn't the same.

Posted 8 months ago

By dannyrettig

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I still have mine, but it doesn't play anymore and continually flashes a black screen when the power is on. So instead I bought myself an FC Twin system which plays my old NES and SNES games beautifully.

Posted 8 months ago

By Kerensky97

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I sold mine when it didn't get much use. Then I bought a new one because of nostalgia. Then sold it again.

Its a great for nostalgia but its a crime to keep it locked up because I dont have enough time to use it. Better to let somebody else use it and I'll just use an emulator when I want to relive the glory days for a few hours.

Posted 8 months ago

By rattrayc

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My mother sold it at a garage sale along with my games without asking.

Posted 8 months ago

By jdplala

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Same with me! Oh, I was so mad!

Posted 8 months ago

By chuck07

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I probably bought it from one of them.

Got a NES, 4 controllers, 2 guns, the 4 controller adapter and about 20 games for 30 bucks.
Also the thing so that you could put it on channel 3 or 4.

The lady said that her son left it out too much and she didn't have the a/v cables.

I told her that it was worth more, and even offered 50. She didnt care, and I felt horrible, but I had to do what was necessary.

This was about 2 years ago.

Posted 8 months ago

By jdplala

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I visited my parents earlier this month and was helping them clean out their basement. In a box, buried in the darkest corner was my NES, 2 controllers, and most of my games! It turns out they sold our Atari 2600 (OK, still mad about that...) and my mom was generically referring to all game systems as "Nintendo"!

Posted 7 months ago

By JoelDashReed

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I still have mine too... it works not so perfectly, it has issues with the cartridge bay, so when I try to play on it I always try not to move it too much.

Ciao.

Posted 8 months ago

By mooney

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Brother-in-law *borrowed* it. In 1997.

Posted 8 months ago

By danhil2

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I still have mine. It was boxed up for many many years, but I finally got it back out last year and put a new pin connector in it and it works great.

Posted 8 months ago

By rdwagner

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I still have mine, and it works great, even after going through a fire. My son plays Super Mario 3 all the time. One sad problem is that duck hunt's gun controler doesn't work on new TVs.

Posted 8 months ago

By chinster

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You guys who still have their NES are really ruining my thread. I guess I was wrong in the first place.

Posted 8 months ago

By Turbo

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mine became a PC. NES pc.... mmmmmmmmm. (micro itx formfactor with working usb controllers that plug in through the regular controller ports).

Posted 8 months ago

By williamhartz

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Mine is still alive and kicking, and it is still awesome!

Posted 8 months ago

By Jagoex

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My brother sold mine while I was away at college. I had over 200 games for it, all of which were sold with the system. I was pissed, to say the least, but emulation has made coping easier.

Posted 8 months ago

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