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I finally got my old Nintendo working after 10 years of it sitting in the basement
Last weekend I found my childhood NES in a box from when we moved back in 2014. I figured it was done for with all that dust and who knows what else. After about 3 hours of cleaning the pins with rubbing alcohol and a old toothbrush, it actually fired up. I hooked it up to my dad's old CRT TV in the garage and played Super Mario Bros for 20 minutes straight. It felt like being 8 years old again but my thumbs started hurting way faster than I remembered. Has anyone else had luck bringing a console back from the dead with just some basic cleaning?
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xena_rivera631mo ago
Get that CRT TV working right and you've basically got a time machine. A lot of people don't realize how much of the old console experience was tied to those chunky screens, not just the games themselves. Clean pins and a good connection will usually bring them back, your thumbs just need to remember how those stiff controllers felt.
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victorcoleman1mo ago
And honestly that CRT part is HUGE, people don't get that those old consoles were DESIGNED around that laggy, blurry picture. I tried playing my NES on a modern flat screen once and the timing felt all wrong, like the game was drunk or something. The CRT hides all those rough edges and the scan lines make pixels look way better than they really are. My thumbs remember the stiff D-pad too, those original NES controllers have way more resistance than people give them credit for. It's like your muscle memory forgot how much work it actually was to beat those games back then.
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