Austin unboxes mint Gameboy Color, good thing he did

[ComputerSpaceFan]

I enjoy the videos posted by Austin Evans and today he unboxed a mint Gameboy Color for personal reasons which I sympathize with.

 

While most of us are horrified at the idea of breaking the seal on a mint console, I was intrigued what he found inside kinda makes a good case against keeping items sealed forever. Particularly what was ruining the box from the inside.

 

It's nothing too mysterious or majorly dramatic, but watching this unboxing made me think about preservation in a new light.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la--KfCQKA4&list=UUXGgrKt94gR6lmN4aN3mYTg

[omegadot]

So, forgive my ignorance in battery construction, but should I be concerned about how the inside of some of my carts look?

[19rsn007]

wow what a luck this guy had.

And yeah, I've seen those batteries inside carts and even computers (Acorn A3000) wrecking things.

The Acorn was so wrecked!! PCB traces and stuff were all gone !!

[Dripfree]

Interesting to think how people hold on to these NIB items that are more valuable having never been opened. But inside the box they may be getting destroyed. Its kinda like Schrodinger's Game Boy until the box is opened the Game Boy is perfect and destroyed at the same time.

[TheGameCollector]

I opened a couple sealed Venezuelan Commodore 64 games just because they were just as cheap or cheaper than an opened copy and I didn't have a loose copy of either game. The connector pins were actually kind of discolored but they worked after I cleaned them. I guess virtually airtight still doesn't protect them from changing temperature.

[Hydro Thunder]

Since I'm more player than collector, I have grown to frown on NIB and have gone full bore after really great condition CIB stuff. And not even because of what the guy in the video discovered, but now that's a factor too. NIB prices for anything remotely old are just outrageous anymore. Open it, play it, keep it in great condition and take care of it I say.

[Dripfree]

Since I'm more player than collector, I have grown to frown on NIB and have gone full bore after really great condition CIB stuff. And not even because of what the guy in the video discovered, but now that's a factor too. NIB prices for anything remotely old are just outrageous anymore. Open it, play it, keep it in great condition and take care of it I say.

 

Agreed. I need to play what I own. There was an NIB Coleco Adam at a local shop here. It was out of my price range anyway but if it was in the high end of my range I would still have to pass on it. I am able to respect the idea of NIB enough where if I had something like that I wouldn't open it. But because I wouldn't open it I would also never buy it. For some people NIB is their thing I can respect that, but it's not my thing.

[mickcris]

This makes a good case for companies doing "batteries not included" with their products.

[19rsn007]

This makes a good case for companies doing "batteries not included" with their products.

 

you're damn right it is !!