MegaManFan Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 In my nightmares I'll see hundreds of spiders, worms, and cockroaches crawling out of all my hard-earned Atari 2600 cartridges. D'oh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san-d-2000 Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 When I was in Brazil, I opened one of the carts I found and a Spider jumped out - Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariKari Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 Dude, once you see one that is alive inside your house, you are surrounded by them ! If I were you I'd call an exterminator immediately ! Then we'd have to dunk the whole island in Borax That's the first one I've seen in my place, but I think they're here to stay in NYC. I bought the system at a flea market, so I'm guessing that's how it got it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garak Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 In actual fact i have found many dead roaches inside of my machines, However the strangest was a worm like thing inside a c64. There was only the shell left and it vanished into dust. Still it was visually pretty gross. Erg... When I lived at another house about 2 years back I was sitting at my C64 then all of a sudden a large (3-4 inch) long hideous !@#! centipede ran out of the expansion port onto the keyboard and stayed on the keyboard. Freaked the hell out of me I tell you - to this day I'm still not over it. Anyway, I waited till that thing got off the C64 and smashed the living hell out of it Anyway, what would have been even freakier would have been if I was playing Centipede on my 2600 and and one came out of it. Now _that_ would be freaky! Garak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidPenguin Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 I opened my Junior last night to attempt the AV mod on the VCSP page... Errr... what's the address of that? Hmm the weirdest thing? Nothing really. Once, when I was sorting through a lot of a bunch of XE to NES carts with some random 2600 carts I found money folded up and stuffed into some of the NES carts. I found about $20 stuffed into various carts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted October 21, 2002 Author Share Posted October 21, 2002 Cool find ! The VCSP page is here ... http://www.classicgaming.com/vcsp/ but you could also read this thread ... http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14619 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted October 21, 2002 Author Share Posted October 21, 2002 Dude, once you see one that is alive inside your house, you are surrounded by them ! If I were you I'd call an exterminator immediately ! Then we'd have to dunk the whole island in Borax That's the first one I've seen in my place, but I think they're here to stay in NYC. I bought the system at a flea market, so I'm guessing that's how it got it... Errm, sorry forgot to look at your location, have heard many horror stories from friends that lived in NYC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Karnage Posted October 21, 2002 Share Posted October 21, 2002 Opened a defective Pitfall cart, and there was a green LiteBrite peg inside. I guess it was in there to color all the beautiful foliage. DK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Tails Prower Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 I don't open my carts unless I have a double and want to see the guts, but I've never found anything. Neither do I. Weirdest thing I ever found was a porno pic. inside a Combat Cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytol Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 I just opened my Quadrun, and... nothing. Too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candiru Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 I don't know if this counts, but..... Once, I was cleaning some new purchases with alcohol and a Q-tip and had that little dust flap thing pushed back. It seemed to be staying open by itself so I looked inside to see if the chip was clean when the cover snapped shut and launched a little piece of black plastic that had broken loose straight into my eye. Cartridge safety rule #1: Treat every cart as if it were loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella'sGhost Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 True story: I opened up an ET cart in 1983 because I wanted to know why it was making such an odd noise and to my surprise a tiny Steven Speilberg jumped out and slapped me on the nose, then he jumped back in and closed the door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkoVitch Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 well that would explain why they were all destined for landfill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charin Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 When I was in Brazil, I opened one of the carts I found and a Spider jumped out - Sandy Hi Sandy, Did you went to Sao Paulo, or Rio de Janeiro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carolsheba Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 damn im afraid to touch my atari games now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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