The_Popo posted...
Yeah, but that wasnt really just a simple Oops heres the problem and well fix the issue very soon sorta deal. The NES 101 came out 8 years after the original western NES. So you were just stuck with the horizontal loader for most of the consoles life cycle.
When our NES first started acting up, my dad took it back to Toys R Us and complained that it was broken. They somehow gave us a new one, and said we could keep the old one. So we actually had two NESes (and both eventually had the same issues that all did).
Yeah I wouldn't even know where to get the resources at for a home fix at that time period. Every other NES game we were playing we was doing the blow on the cart or in the NES song and dance trying to get various games to work so it kind of sucked. I remember my dad rending that G.I. joe NES game and we never could get that one to work with our NES because of the cart slot.
I also sent in my xbox 360 like twice before I finally got that revised model that wouldn't RROD (eventually sold this to get a slim xbox 360 for the 250 GB HDD), but for me personally the phat model PS3 gave me the most problems out of any console or portable I ever owned. That son of a bitch YLOD'd on me like 4 times. Like I got one more NA 60GB full BC model back from sony right before sony stopped offereing to send those models back and I'm too afraid to cut the damn thing on anymore. Thats how bad those phat model PS3 failures were.
On one hand I like to keep it since its the model with actual PS2 hardware BC in it, but on the other it would cost mad money just to pay someone else to fix it up if it ever failed again.