Tetris Anyone

[Silver R/T]

its fun but if you like to challenge yourself try chess, very addicting and fun game

yeah but you need to have someone who knows how to play chess to play with....Hubby sucks at it...along with scrabble.....

I didnt know crap until dad taught me when I was 14...been playing since then once in a while and I still got the "skills" Only way to get good at it is to play it a lot

[Bob]

Seeing that collection reminds me of good o'l duck hunt. How about Doom and Doom1?

[BlueSS454]

Holy crap dude, that's a ton of NES stuff.  I see BTTF and BTTF 2 & 3 on the list.  I never could beat the latter of the 2.

I wish you could shoot the dog on Duck Hunt when he laughs at you for missing.

[HEMIMAN 94]

Thats a lot of games man!!!!!

[Charger1973]

Funny thing is my count jumped to about 240 in the last week.  Thats not counting doubles or games I have for sale.  Its a great hobby and something everyone can have fun with.  I wont be bored this winter.   

[Charger1973]

And how about this.  My mom took out the trash last night and someone had tossed this stuff in the dumpster where she lives.  Good thing my brother was willing to "dive" in and get it for me.   

[68chrgrwife]

nice score dude!

[Bob]

And how about this.  My mom took out the trash last night and someone had tossed this stuff in the dumpster where she lives.  Good thing my brother was willing to "dive" in and get it for me.   

Was it just my games or did half the games have to be blown into to work properly? And if you did, why did they work after you blew in the?

[Charger1973]

The contacts on the game and system would get dirty over time because most people didnt clean their games.  That dirt then transferred to the contacts of the 72 pin connector inside the control deck.  That combined with the "zero insertion force" (spring loaded) design that bent the connectors when you push the game down, and they didnt make good contact after a while.  Then there was the lockout chip (its possible to disable it) that makes the machine blink off and on when the games dont make good contact.  Blowing on them really didnt do much but we all thought it did back in the day.  Now they say the moisture on your breath will eventually destroy the games contacts.  Its best to just replace it with a new connector and clean your games with alcohol and a q-tip before putting them in your machine.  I replace the 72 pins in all the Nintendos I get and they all work great.   Occasionally you might have to clean a game again or wiggle it a bit, but thats just the way Nintendo is.  You cant really fix the spring loaded design of the machine unless you buy one of the later released top loader models.  They werent spring loaded and didnt have the lockout chip, but they were made cheaper and the AV hookups were left out.  Also the replacement parts for those are pretty much non existant.  No one seems to need them yet but I think in time they will.  So its really a toss up as to which set of problems you want to deal with.  Basically though, if you take care of the system it will work like new for a long time.

[Orange_Crush]

OR, you could ust go to www.virtualnes.com and play one of 666 games.

[Charger1973]

Thats true but its not the same, I have more problems with emulators than I do with the actual system.  If you go that route though, get one of those NES controllers that have been converted to USB.  Makes things much easier. 

[Bob]

The contacts on the game and system would get dirty over time because most people didnt clean their games.  That dirt then transferred to the contacts of the 72 pin connector inside the control deck.  That combined with the "zero insertion force" (spring loaded) design that bent the connectors when you push the game down, and they didnt make good contact after a while.  Then there was the lockout chip (its possible to disable it) that makes the machine blink off and on when the games dont make good contact.  Blowing on them really didnt do much but we all thought it did back in the day.  Now they say the moisture on your breath will eventually destroy the games contacts.  Its best to just replace it with a new connector and clean your games with alcohol and a q-tip before putting them in your machine.  I replace the 72 pins in all the Nintendos I get and they all work great.   Occasionally you might have to clean a game again or wiggle it a bit, but thats just the way Nintendo is.  You cant really fix the spring loaded design of the machine unless you buy one of the later released top loader models.  They werent spring loaded and didnt have the lockout chip, but they were made cheaper and the AV hookups were left out.  Also the replacement parts for those are pretty much non existant.  No one seems to need them yet but I think in time they will.  So its really a toss up as to which set of problems you want to deal with.  Basically though, if you take care of the system it will work like new for a long time.

I had 3 kids and 2 adults on it constanly. It's wonder it survived at all. I sold 3 complete systems with about 30 games for 10 bucks at our yard sale.

[Charger1973]

Im at around 450 games now.  Pretty soon I will need new shelves.   


Cant forget the Super Nintendo.  Started buying them too...

[Mike DC]

   
Human Tetris:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84_QL1kEmH4