Nintendo Cartridges FTW

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Watch the video to find out. Can the games survive alcohol, drills, high falls, washing machine, explosions, outside and more

 
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Wow. o_O And I thought they were really touchy...half of the time my NES games have to be pushed in time and time again before the game would actually start properly, if it did at all.

But that...that's impressive. :gasp: Quite an extensive video, interesting that she went through all these tests just for a video.
 
That's quite interesting really. Never thought they were so tough. Makes me wonder why some of my old NES games are acting up. Hell knows what my sister done to them to make them act like that, but it was probably exposure to certain temperatures for all that time, like, not over night, but like, years on end. xD

Thanks for posting!
 
Damn, I was thinking this thread was about the difficulty of the games, which they throttled to keep the games from getting old and boring so quickly. That's why many NES games are ridiculously hard.

Anyways, the technology then was simple and less fragile. I threw my Zelda: Link to the Past cartridge out the window into a mud puddle when I was 10 and it still workeed nicely after drying up lol.
So it doesn't surprise me that those Neanderthal NES cartidges can withstand some brutality.
The basic circuitry of those games are really tough. There's not much room for damage except for long-term exposure and abrasion.
 
I thought this was about how hard they were to beat to, but this was a lot more interesting.
My favorite part was experiment 6.
*fire blows all over the place, cartridge flies in the air, falls down* It works! :D
It doesn't take a lot to just bend a disk and break it in half, so why not still use cartridges?
 
Cecil Strife said:
I thought this was about how hard they were to beat to, but this was a lot more interesting.
My favorite part was experiment 6.
*fire blows all over the place, cartridge flies in the air, falls down* It works! :D
It doesn't take a lot to just bend a disk and break it in half, so why not still use cartridges?
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Hmm yeah the title is a bit misleading, so I asked a mod to change the thread title XD When I first found the video that is what I thought it was going to be about too.
 
Dude they did something like this on the mind of mencia. He took like i wanna say a 10 pound sledgehammer and hit the Nintendo g4 3 times and nothing broke on it, it took him like 2 more hits before it started to break, damn Nintendo, or just any old school games. Built tough.
 
You can put several times more data on a cd that you can a cartridge.
I assumed that was well known by now.
Still Nintendo resisted for along time until they wised up.

I still have a few cartridges.They were tough, tougher than cds.
 
BALLOON FIGHT. LITTLE NEMO

Little Nemo was fucking haaaaard -__-

Also this doesn't surprise me. All our old NES games went through shit loads (including having pop spilt on the console and controllers). One had something rattling inside it when you shook it, but it still worked perfectly fine.
 
Funny story...

Me and my friend would drop my Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island game from about 5 feet high and do that continuously while testing the game to see if it worked. We didn't do this for fun or to see how tough (physically lol) these games were but just to get it to work lol. Yeah i know lol, doesnt make sense but me and my friend were like 6 years old. Anyways, It worked out and we actually played the game afterall. They're such amazing pieces of plastic.
 
Ehhhh unless you are my brotehr and repeatedly take games out of the console without TURNING THE FUCKER OFF
 
We used to do this ^ Had no problem with them.

I miss my NES.. :c but I have all the games I'd like to play on it, on my Wii so I don't need it anymore.
 
He wiped Ghouls and Ghosts ]:

s'ok now though, i have it on my Wii, talk about a nostalgia attack when i played it for the first timein years the other day :8F:
 
Obviously a fake vid

sorry but the video has got to be a fake.

reasons

1) the scenes where the grl puts the game in the system and starts it up, its the same start scene people!!!!!!!!!!!

2) my NES does not freakin work anymore........had it for 15 years and it sat on the freakin shelf with no water or other damage to it(just dust) and the damn thing dont work for me

3) my friend's got a NES and we tried the "experiments" (thank god he is smart and got 2 copies of his games exept contra(did not use)) THEY DID NOT WORK!!!! I repeat THEY DID NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
DarkLordSephiroth66 said:
1) the scenes where the grl puts the game in the system and starts it up, its the same start scene people!!!!!!!!!!!
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I felt like I was noticing this too. It seemed to be the exact same shot every time she tested a "different" cartridge.

I'm not totally sure on that though, and I think the tests were all pretty reasonable for the oldschool toughness of NES games.

Cartridges will always hold a special place in my heart.,
 
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