Have you ever thrown away a game or system only to realize now you probably could have fixed it?
Have you ever thrown away a game or system only to realize now you probably could have fixed it? I don't want to imagine how NES games or systems were thrown away simply because people thought they didn't work when all they needed was a little bit of cleaning.
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Fortunately we didn't throw anything else away. My father came up with some really wacky solution when our Atari controllers stopped working -- I think he may have soldered the bare wires of the cable to the pins of the console, or something like that. I don't remember the details, just a nest of wires that kept us in business for a month or two until we got a new console.
Have you ever thrown away a game or system only to realize now you probably could have fixed it? I don't want to imagine how NES games or systems were thrown away simply because people thought they didn't work when all they needed was a little bit of cleaning.
Around 2003 I tossed a Playstation because I lost the AC adapter during a move and didn't want to bother with replacing it. In hindsight it would have been easy to replace.
Usually I sell off systems or give them away because I get bored with them, not because they've stopped working. I used to have a N64, Dreamcast and XBOX. I eventually gave away the N64 to a relative and sold the other two. I recently sold my Playstation 2 because I no longer play it. Now my only consoles are a NES, SNES and Genesis.
.... To actually answer the question, no. I have a hard time "throwing away" most electronics, so NES stuff stays with me forever.
It's interesting to think about what sort of percentages we're talking about ... how many games WERE thrown away? What a terrible thing to think about, I agree... but it would be interesting to know how many were, as impossible as that would be.
My parents threw out my original NES back in the early 90s, because of the infamous blinking screen or blue screen or whatever. It happened so often and we had no idea how to fix it so they threw it out. Then they bought me another one at a garage sale maybe a year or two later, it worked for a while but then the same thing happened and they threw it out eventually too.