Frustrating, Annoying Moments.

[DreamcastRIP]

Systems that "yellow" over time. Here's looking at you Amiga 1200 and SNES!

[SoupDragon]

I can't remember if it was GoW 1 or 2 where you had to ascend rotating pillars with knives on them and if you got so much as scratched with one, you fell all the way to the bottom. That bit really ground my gears! A younger friend of mine has lent me Demons Souls, and said that'd test my patience too, seeing as I'm always going on about how easy games are nowadays, and how he wouldn't have lasted 5 mins in the hardcore 8-bit days
We shall see....

I did that first go. Nothing to do with my gaming prowess, sheer luck

[Liamh1982]

Systems that "yellow" over time. Here's looking at you Amiga 1200 and SNES!

Dreamcasts as well! Mine has anyway...

[speedlolita]

Mine has toooo.

I think it's a little bit charming. I've come to terms with yellowing now..

[Liamh1982]

Odd though, my DC's only yellowed on the top and my SNES on the bottom.

[DreamcastRIP]

Systems that "yellow" over time. Here's looking at you Amiga 1200 and SNES!

Dreamcasts as well! Mine has anyway...

Yeah, I've heard of the same thing happening to DC too. All I can say is that my DC hasn't yellowed one bit. I'm a smoker too, not that I know whether cigarette smoke causes the problem - I suspect different consoles are made from different types of plastic so therefore react differently to the elements they're exposed to.

My Japanese Saturn hasn't yellowed either.

[Megamixer]

The library in the first Halo and the Flood in general.

The blue shell in Mario Kart and the laser thing in CTR. Pure unfair and a bizarre punishment for being good enough to lead the race

Tw@ts hacking stuff like PSN and ruining it for everyone to 'prove' a stupid point.

Not being able to turn off character reselecting in fighting games for when you continue. Capcom Vs SNK 2 lets you do it so why does something new like MvC3 force you to reselect everybody and their assist types? I can understand why it might be useful but surely you should have the option of 'quick continuing'?

[Liamh1982]

Systems that "yellow" over time. Here's looking at you Amiga 1200 and SNES!

Dreamcasts as well! Mine has anyway...

Yeah, I've heard of the same thing happening to DC too. All I can say is that my DC hasn't yellowed one bit. I'm a smoker too, not that I know whether cigarette smoke causes the problem - I suspect different consoles are made from different types of plastic so therefore react differently to the elements they're exposed to.

My Japanese Saturn hasn't yellowed either.

Being a non-smoker, I can say it's not the fags.

[DreamcastRIP]

Being a non-smoker, I can say it's not the fags.

Maybe it's something in the air down Wrexham way? Mold, perhaps?

(Terrible play on words, I know!)

[Megamixer]

Just keep 'em out of direct sunlight - that does the most damage (see also manky PS2 spines where the white is now a p1ss yellow colour).

The worst are NES consoles where grey somehow manages to fade to a disgusting yellow colour. I can only assume that things back then were made out of different types of plastic.

[DreamcastRIP]

Does anyone know if the original model PC Engine is also susceptible to yellowing too?

[crusto]

Just keep 'em out of direct sunlight - that does the most damage (see also manky PS2 spines where the white is now a p1ss yellow colour).

The worst are NES consoles where grey somehow manages to fade to a disgusting yellow colour. I can only assume that things back then were made out of different types of plastic.

The same thing happens with uPVC windows believe it or not, especially the more 'economical' ones.

[Megamixer]

Just keep 'em out of direct sunlight - that does the most damage (see also manky PS2 spines where the white is now a p1ss yellow colour).

The worst are NES consoles where grey somehow manages to fade to a disgusting yellow colour. I can only assume that things back then were made out of different types of plastic.

The same thing happens with uPVC windows believe it or not, especially the more 'economical' ones.

Yeah. I remember my Grandad's plastic window frames being badly yellowed and he was a heavy smoker.

[DreamcastRIP]

Just keep 'em out of direct sunlight - that does the most damage (see also manky PS2 spines where the white is now a p1ss yellow colour).

The worst are NES consoles where grey somehow manages to fade to a disgusting yellow colour. I can only assume that things back then were made out of different types of plastic.

The same thing happens with uPVC windows believe it or not, especially the more 'economical' ones.

What about the Sinclair C5 then?

[nokgod]

Odd though, my DC's only yellowed on the top and my SNES on the bottom.

the cases/components were made in different parts of the world and bought together to be assembled on the production line. You got cases where (possibly) the top half was made in one hemisphere and the bottom in another. Differing manufacturing methods/raw materials/procedures/chemicals...etc etc ends up with two halves that look alike when new, but over time age differently.

anyway,

Gran Turismo driving licenses.....drove me bonkers at the time, especially as i sold GT 1 to buy GT2 and didn't realise i could keep the save data