I once called Nintendo as a kid when my DS hinge broke for no reason. I had it for under a year and there was info about a warranty. They told me that they had already fixed that defect and they would not cover it.
Anon goes to Japan
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arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
modus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you try flying to Japan to exchange it?
ravelin@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The most unrealistic thing about this post is the idea that you might drop a GBA and break it’s screen. Those things were practically indestructible.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Not unrealistic at all. I traded someone a shiny blastoise for one with a broken screen that still worked fine. Still think I got the better end of that deal.
ravelin@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Really curious what was broken about the screen. There is no glass, the LCD is recessed… Did a connection come loose?
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 month ago
thats nice dear
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Im happy for this fake person
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Who remembers where they bought their game consoles? Did he give the address of a Best Buy off the top of his head?
figjam@midwest.social 1 month ago
Its odd what becomes a core memory to an 8 year old.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah OP says 12 year old. I guess I can see you remembering a purchase like that around that age.
And I guess I remember where I got the phone I’m using right now.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
To this day i know exactly where my first Gameboy color was bought. I even know the street name off the cuff, not the number tho.
Not as unlikely as you think i would say
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do. Especially when I was young. This was 2002, so it’s probably the same store he went to all the time to browse. (Assuming this is real, of course).
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I don’t know where the ones my parents bought me were from, because they were always surprise gifts. But I sure as hell remember where the ones I bought with my own money were from, and where a I bought a few particularly important to me games. Not address off the top of my head but I could pretty easily look most up now, or even years ago with the internet.
Kirby’s Dreamland 3 was from a discount bin at the Walmart where my family lived until I was 8. Death and Return of Superman for the SNES was from the video rental store we used to frequent after we moved, when they started selling off their old SNES games. Lots of games from one particular Gamestop in between the grocery store and the movie theater. Midnight release of Smash Bros Brawl there. Got a used N64 and some games for it there during the early 360 era too. PSP and some games for it was my first “real” purchase completely with my own money (no birthday or christmas gift money towards it) and was done at a Gamestop in the corner of a local mall. Moved 8 hours away with a GF and picked up Aladin, Starfox, and Super Metroid for the SNES for prices that would now be robbery from a local retro games store before the collectors started getting into retro games (still haven’t checked if they’re legit or repros, and I should because that store sold a few romhacks on physical cartridge from a different display area in the store). Moved back with my folks after a rough break up. Bubsy 3d from a new store that sells all sorts of used stuff out of what used to be an old Border’s book store where I had previously been to for a midnight Harry Potter release (cut me some slack I was like 10 for the Potter and it was long before any of the drama). Switch from a Gamestop in the town where my wife grew up.
Yes, I wish I remembered more important stuff, but I think people have forgotten what buying video games was like in the “old days”. You had word of mouth, experience with previous games in the series, cart and box art, and maybe a review from a gaming magazine to go off of. So it was an experience. Unless you were one of those kids that was going out to buy a brand new game, you used to actually browse and decide. It was a big deal because you’d get maybe one new game for 6 months at a time. I used to strecth things by trying to get a few used games instead of just one new one. Sometimes you got a flop, like when I bought Croc and Croc 2 because they looked fun and I liked the humor on the back of the box. Not bad games, but I already had experienced Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro 3. Early 3D platformer controls like Croc just weren’t my thing by that point.
In some ways I miss it. On the other hand, I have a lot less “meh” games hanging around now.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Blatantly fake. Anon is talking about Nintendo.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
No. A random game shop
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Were GBCs region-locked?
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re not even connected to the internet. Why would region matter?
twack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
DVD players used to be (probably still are?) region locked, and those didn’t require internet service either. The region was either hard coded or could only be changed like 5 times.
It was an attempt to enforce geographic licensing fees and stop piracy.
zarkony@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The GBA was region free, but Nintendo was region locking their consoles from the start. For example, the n64 is capable of playing games from any region, but the Japanese games had different tabs, and wouldn’t fit in a US console without modding the slot.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month ago
You wouldn’t be able to play American cartridges on a Japanese one if they were region locked. I ran into that with a dvd drive in my PC once. It’s not checking anything online, it was something on the disc/drive.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
PS2 was region locked as well, although you had the possibility for a network upgrade I never had that extention.
My father brought over Crash Bandicoot from the states one day and it had a red label instead of the black/blue one we had in the EU and completely refused to play on our PS2.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nintendo did it to control their three markets. JP games came earlier and Nintendo carefully planned when games were available in each market. They also did it cause some regions were cheaper and they didn’t want anyone not paying NintendoTax™.
People will argue Switch 2 isn’t region locked, but I’ll be fucked if Japanese only language in JP Switch 2 isn’t a region locking mechanism. That thing is half off in Japan compared to EU. Maybe its not a traditional lock but they’re doing selective exclusion.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They are not. They are region free.
zabby@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
The memory of breaking the screen of my Gameboy SP.l is burned into my mind forever.
What a great lesson to stupid kid me: Maybe don’t keep expensive tech in your pocket as you wrestle the other kids 🤦
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
How did a 12 to know ? How did the shopowners know that he wasn’t lying?
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
oh ok what
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How the fuck did anon post from the future though?
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Just America’s stupid date format.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mm/dd/yy is a crime akin to min:sec:hour
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It makes sense with spoken English. You say March 3rd not 3rd March.
I get the increased efficiency of ddmmyy in a number based format, but it’s not hard to see how it evolved the other way from the language
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve been using yyyymmdd and was appalled when I found out the ones appaled by the American method uses ddmmyyyy. It doesn’t even sort chronologicaly in alpha numeric ordering. Just why???
certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 month ago
USians. The rest of America uses metric and normal dates