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thead44
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2h ago
My Atari 2600 wouldn't show a picture so I cleaned the cartridge slot with alcohol and now it works but the joystick only goes left
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pipera50
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19h ago
My Sega Genesis died mid game of Sonic 2 and I opened it up expecting the worst
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jesseb20
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23h ago
Showerthought: my 2003 GameCube stopped reading discs and I almost tossed it in the trash
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the_zara
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4d ago
A guy at the flea market in Ohio swore by the hair dryer trick on a dead NES, I laughed in his face, guess who feels dumb now
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ellis.charles
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7d ago
I finally stopped blowing out cart pins with compressed air, and a $6 brass brush in Dayton taught me why
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margaret_nelson
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8d ago
Appreciation post: my $9 soldering iron beat my $60 station on a 1986 Game Boy
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verab28
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9d ago
Found a TRS-80 in my late uncle's attic in Scranton and the dust inside told me more than the manual did
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alice_reed47
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10d ago
Update: a guy at the swap meet told me to stop cleaning my NES carts with alcohol and I finally switched to a pencil eraser
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spencer_johnson22
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11d ago
Shoutout to the guy at the Portland retro swap who made me eat my words about reflowing Game Gear caps
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reese177
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11d ago
Recapped my old Mac SE and it booted worse than before, starting to think the internet is wrong about this
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seth_green85
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11d ago
Spent 3 hours on a dead NES because I forgot the power brick was switched to 240v
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amy858
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11d ago
Showerthought: my $8 logic probe from a flea market saved a dead Atari 2600 last month
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wrenstone
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13d ago
My 1989 Game Boy had a dead pixel column, so I had to pick: 3 hours with a soldering iron or just playing through it, and I picked wrong
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the_amy
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14d ago
TIL the $12 security bit set for my NES was the whole problem, not the 72 pin connector
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the_zara
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14d ago
The week my 1993 Packard Bell finally booted DOS from a 40MB drive after 11 tries
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