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yeah, my sega and my SNES came out of the flood of '97 with flying colours, and Sega replaced my burned out Dungeons and Dragons + my burned out shadowrun (the save function didn't survive the flood) The only SNES title that was killed by the flood was elevator action.

Hotfoot wrote:

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Really shows how much build quality has dropped that it's considered impressive for a launch console to still work. A friend of mine has an Atari 2600 that still works. In fact, I bet most of those older consoles that weren't completely abused or neglected still work.

Yeah! What's with that? Stupid console designers! Why aren't more consoles cart-based bricks?! I demand carts that you have to blow on to make sure the contacts still worked! The games were so much better than the stupid laser-read spinning discs! Who needs spinning disks? God that's stupid!

Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm just saying that if a disc-based system were built with the same kind of build quality, they would last longer than just a few years like a lot of the more recent ones seem to. I bet most of the Gamecubes will still be working in 15 years. Can't say the same for PS2's or 360's.

remember the torture test video. The brick is a brick, as in bullet proof fucking system.

My gamecube survived being taken outside by my dad and thrown onto the ground. It works perfectly and it was a very old one too, they're built to last

I've seen video of it being crocetted by a sledgehammer and it still worked...