A Momentary Lapse of Awesome

Posted on Jun 2nd 2012 at 02:39:39 PM by (nupoile)
Posted under whats inside, NES, variation, variant, al unser

Awhile back I had started a couple of threads showing pictures of the insides of games or devices I had taken apart. Unfortunately those threads were lost in battle. See, back in early 2012 RFGeneration was in a large battle, I think it was mostly ninjas, but there may have been pirate aliens too. Some of our youngest and best threads were lost. But RFGeners stayed strong and started making new content quickly. I am doing my part by bringing back the "whats inside?" sort of pictures, this time in Blog form!

Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing. The first copy I bought was several years ago, it seems like it was part of a larger group of games bought on one day. This has been the only NES game I have never gotten to work. No amount of cleaning, blowing, wishing or blue potion's were able to bring this cartridge to life. There was no apparent reason for this, although far from a mint example, nothing seemed to be wrong....well, there was one thing. This cart was also the only one I've had which has a rattle when shook.

Fast forward to a month ago when I found another copy of Turbo Racing. The first thing I did when I picked it up was shake it. It rattles too! How strange is that? Would it work? I really was wondering about this until I got home. At the risk of ruining the suspense this is bringing my two readers, yes, the new copy worked. But why do both carts rattle? It's never taken much of an excuse for me to open things up....



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