How Tough are NES Games?

I released a new video last night! I was inspired to test the endurance of NES games through a series of tests after reading this article about a Japanese gamer who subjected her copies of Street Fighter II to three different endurance tests. Watch to find out how tough those little NES cartridges really are!



YouTube is not a fan of this video, so you'll hear a couple of blips in the audio that weren't in the original file. It's kind of sad because JOT worked so hard on the audio, but it's hard to complain too much about a free service. JOT picked out all of the music except the Super Mario RPG piece, "Forest Maze", and "Still More Fighting" from Final Fantasy VII. They're both personal favourites of mine!

I know some people have voiced concerns about how horrible it is to destroy something old and irreplacable, despite its relative abundance. I just want to let everyone know that I didn't do the video and then throw the games away. They're now a valuable part of my collection and a testiment to their hardy design:


They have a really comfortable perch beside some other relics: my one and only famicom game, Adventure Island, which was actually purchased from France; my Saint Seiya Happy TV (which is like a cheap viewfinder), an anime I've never seen before but I've held onto this strange device since high school; and my Coca-Cola Lulu which was given to me by an old friend who spent some time in Japan. Oh, and I can't forget my Sega Genesis games! I even kept the pieces that broke off, you can see them sitting on top of the stack :)