MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: As a card-carrying germaphobe who collects retro games...

> > I can't seem to find many cartridges that don't have to be cleaned. Everything from
> > Game Boy cartridges to Nintendo 64 cartridges seem to need cleaned, but when you
> get
> > good games you don't care about the hassle involved in cleaning them.
>
> I had a buddy who had an incredible NES collection back when the NES was still
> current. At one point, he started renting them out through a local video store, and
> he used to tell horror stories of the condition of the games when they would come
> back - soda and popcorn crumbs *inside* the cartridge.

I let some kids, 2 of 'em, brothers, that were the sons of a co-worker of my father, borrow a Sega Master System game... Shanghai I think it was. I never did get to meet them...

Typically, it took a long time to get the game back. When I finally did - the instruction manual pages were bent/folded

, and there was -what seemed to be- a bit of cat crap on either the cart or the manual -one.

Needless to say that was the LAST game I would ever let them borrow.

Side story... This co-worker of my dad - he sold me a tandy(?) computer. I wanted to get it to get familiar with computers or some "simple" programming (never did catch on to it -seemed boring as hell). Yet, at the time, I also had a Sega Genesis. He seen some of the games for it, and later he told my Dad that he was embarrassed because of how good the graphics were.

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