Just like you remember?
Fans of retro gaming who will accept nothing but original hardware are in a difficult spot in 2019. Systems from the '80s and '90s aren't getting any younger, and as time goes on, failure rates are only heading in one direction: up. These classic systems are robust, but they weren't built to last forever, and it's par for the course to expect a little bit of clean-up and maintenance if you're serious about vintage gaming in the modern era. At the low end, this might involve sanitising a well-used controller that's covered in more than 20 years of accumulated gunk, to the more extreme, which could be replacing failed capacitors on the main board or bleaching the console's casing to turn it from that sickly yellow to its original white.
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Fans of retro gaming who will accept nothing but original hardware are in a difficult spot in 2019. Systems from the '80s and '90s aren't getting any younger, and as time goes on, failure rates are only heading in one direction: up. These classic systems are robust, but they weren't built to last forever, and it's par for the course to expect a little bit of clean-up and maintenance if you're serious about vintage gaming in the modern era. At the low end, this might involve sanitising a well-used controller that's covered in more than 20 years of accumulated gunk, to the more extreme, which could be replacing failed capacitors on the main board or bleaching the console's casing to turn it from that sickly yellow to its original white.
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