GuyDudeman

testing

Any advice?

I took my NES down from the attic. It was in a box for probably a good 20 years. Easy. Plugged it in and it lit up, but games wouldn't play - gray screen.

Anyway, I took it apart, cleaned everything I could (according to youtube guides), cleaned my TMNT 2 cartridge and popped it in... after a few in/outs... it worked!!

So I played some of my old cartridges. Had to clean them all up and insert/take out/insert/take out etc. quite a few times with most of them. But they all worked! Game Genie even worked!

Anyway, I decided to get an EverDrive because ROMs are a thing now, and you can just pop in a card into the cartridge and have all the games ever created for NES playing on your original hardware.

I also got some wireless controllers. So I'm all set. This is such a fun world we live in.

I'm old, what can I say? I used to love dropping quarters into Metal Slug 2 or whatever and playing that thing in the arcades when I was growing up. Do arcade machines with Metal Slug still exist?

I have an 8 year old and a 6 year old. I made the choice to show them "Sherlock Jr." and they laughed their asses off. Then I showed them "The General" and they laughed their asses off again. It was amazing. Show your kids some silent movies, folks!