NES vs... NES?

[Dark Jaguar]

Which was better?

[alien space marine]

How can it be better then itself?

[Dark Jaguar]

ASM, not getting it since 2003.

[etoven]

Frankly, I don't get it either...
~alone and frustrated, goes to whack off.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, I don't get it either... the NES is obviously better.

[Weltall]

My NES was nicknamed "Mr. President".

[Great Rumbler]

My NES was nicknamed "Donald Escabar".

[Unreadphilosophy]

Since mine has been going strong since the early nineties, I think it's only fair to nickname mine "survivor."

[Dark Jaguar]

Mine's nicknamed "I NEED SCISSORS"...

...What? I need frickin' scissors!

[Weltall]

My name was purposeful, although it is also a lie: my NES was long dead by the time anyone ever heard of Monica Lewinsky.

The NES really was the shittiest piece of videogame hardware ever made. Mine lived a healthy life of about three years, and lasted another two or so in a state of terminal decline.

My Intellivision, on the other hand, turns 30 this year and remains working as well as ever.

[Dark Jaguar]

My NES works just fine, and I think I can safely say your's probably would too, if not for the biggest design flaw of the NES, the "Zero insertion force" system. Seriously, they came up with it because it would make it look like a VCR and not look so much like a toy. That's it! Pfft. Still, if you know a good regimen of cleaning for it, it'll work forever. Heck I barely need to bother. Every couple of years at most, I'll open it up and straigten out and clean the connecting pins on it.

You want a system with a horrid design flaw? The PS1's plastic molding for their PS1's, that was aweful. I don't think a single one of those first-generation models has lasted intact to this day. Yes, I'm talking about the original model, and the later ones are far more rigid, however that's also the case with the NES. It's remodel really will last you decades since they eliminated that one flaw. They took out the A/V on it though, which is why I'm perfectly fine with my old model.

(Actually, I should add something I found out recently. It seems if you complained to Nintendo about the missing A/V plugs, you could actually send in the "new NES" for a repair that basically replaced the whole thing with one that DOES have the A/V port (SNES style connector, so it's stereo too). I guess they had a limited stock of these models just for such calls? Anyway, good luck ever finding a remodelled NES out there that got this little repair treatment, but if you do, you've got the best possible solution out there.)

[Unreadphilosophy]

The NES really was the shittiest piece of videogame hardware ever made. Mine lived a healthy life of about three years, and lasted another two or so in a state of terminal decline.

Odd. As I said, mine has been going strong since its beginnings. Hell, I don't think I ever needed to bring it to a repair shop.

I think it's pretty epic that you still have a workable Intellivision, Ryan. What games do you have?

[lazyfatbum]

I had a friend when I was 10 years old named Nick who named my NES the Booty Butter after a lengthy discussion about how girls have butt sex.

Also, I believe this is a biased opinion poll.

That I approve of.

[alien space marine]

ASM, not getting it since 2003.

[ACTION]Go fuck yourself [/ACTION]

[lazyfatbum]

*SUDDENLY HUGE BIRDS*

[Dark Jaguar]

Or small shadows.

My hair is a bird, your argument is invalid.