In the summer of 2020, my now ex managed to throw me out of the house and then had some "friends" help go through a bunch of stuff. A LOT of my stuff just got piled up in the yard. It was almost a month before I got back in the house... My Nintendo 64, games, controllers, everything, just sat in the yard. I think back then, we didn't care. Seriously, 2020.
Sometime in the last year, my son collected bits of it and had them lying on our back deck. Still, it all just sat out in the weather. The games and controllers were on the ground for years.
Sometime in the last month, my son begged me to let him clean it up and try it out.
It still works.
We've taken apart the controllers and cleaned out rust and dirt and mud, etc... The games, we mostly wiped them down. The system itself, I'm not sure, we didn't do anything to it.
Today, I played Mario Golf for a little bit. Played 18 holes of mini golf... then one of my girls tripped on the controller cord walking in front of me and it jarred the system causing it to freeze.
oh, before I played, my youngest daughter was hitting the game repeatedly and a LOT of reddish dust came out. I had assumed clay like dirt...
but... it still played.
I decided I'd try to clean it up before trying to play that one again. Took me a while to find a tool that would work on it.
How does this work?
I am wondering if, at least at the time, the N64 and games were the very best built, at least of the Nintendo family. I mean, I will never forget taking super NES games out, blowing in them, etc, and putting them back in all the time.
Seriously, this system and this very game(pictured) STILL work.
We have at least a dozen other games that all work. Haven't taken those apart, but not of them rattled like this one did.
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