My Basement Flooded

[DAAAAA!!]

Maybe it's time to take your games out the basement and start playing them again ^_^

[YoshiEgg25]

Rice absorbs moisture really well.

Cooked or raw? And yes this is a serious question. As someone who HATES rice as food, I have no idea how it behaves when it gets in contact with water.

Raw.

[pakopako]

My first reaction if my DS got wet would be to open it up and dry out the inside manually.

A cousin of mine gave me their gaming collection that got flooded out. I managed to salvage some games and systems, but I overlooked what I thought was a dry GameCube. As soon as I powered it on, I could hear something choking the exhaust fan.

If you have the tools, the know-how and a clean environment, it is better to be safe than sorry. Inspect everything inside and out.

Here's the point, insurance in these situations covers everything at set price rates ... my games that were lost, about 30 gamecube games were valued at an insurance set rate $2 per game. I of course was concerned... I was told anything you believe the set rate isn't high enough for, you need to have it separately insured (usually your same house insurance will just add it to your existing policy). So, keep this in mind not only for flooding, but fire, theft, etc.

The exact concern a fellow GameCube gamer brought up a month ago on GameFAQs. Someone suggested they look into what's termed as Collector's Insurance for your, well, collectables.

[Breetai]

Para, where are you located? If you say Winnipeg... well, you should have seen it coming (but you DO have my sympathies). That Red River is a bitch. Sucks either way, but at least your games and consoles are safe!

[Czernobog]

The exact concern a fellow GameCube gamer brought up a month ago on GameFAQs. Someone suggested they look into what's termed as Collector's Insurance for your, well, collectables.

I had a finance professor once tell me that she believed Collector's Insurance was the best way to go. I don't have it, as I'm currently financially unsound and can barely afford decent car insurance, but I trust that she knew what she was talking about. She was a huge finance nerd. Talked about stocks and bonds as passionately as we talk about retro games.

[Weekend_Warrior]

Wow! Sorry to hear about such an unfortunate incident. Hopefully, others will learn from this experience and possibly reconsider how they store their games and various collectibles.

My mom always tells me the story about how the basement flooded at her house when she was young and she lost all massive record collection, pictures and things from when she was a child, and many Beatles collectibles.

Old pictures and family heirlooms are the worst though. Because that's the stuff that you can't fix or get back

[pakopako]

I had a finance professor once tell me that she believed Collector's Insurance was the best way to go... She was a huge finance nerd. Talked about stocks and bonds as passionately as we talk about retro games.

Sounds awesome.

To be honest you are more thankful that you only lost your magazine and not you entire collections of gaming system, that would be hard if thats the case.

Actually, games can survive water. Cousin was in the same situation and after their games dried, worked fine. Their game-manuals and optical-systems (with all the moving parts)... not so much.

[BoringSupreez]

To be honest you are more thankful that you only lost your magazine and not you entire collections of gaming system, that would be hard if thats the case.

Actually, games can survive water. Cousin was in the same situation and after their games dried, worked fine. Their game-manuals and optical-systems (with all the moving parts)... not so much.

Yes, games can certainly survive water. My youngest brother once decided to "wash" my Sonic 2 cartridge in the bathroom sink. I let it dry for a few days, then put it in the Genesis, hoping against hope. And it still worked.

[Para]

Yes I do live in Winnipeg.
Different insurance policies cover different types of damage, and property, etc and I am sure it is different per province/state/country.

My auntie's house got broken into about 13 years ago and her NES and Atari got stolen so the insurance company reimbursed them 1:1 for systems and games but with newer generation stuff, since it was a lot easier to do that as opposed to finding another Atari and NES with all the specific games. She ended up getting a brand new N64 with about 10 games and a Playstation with 10 games. It actually worked out pretty well from a finincial perspective but I still miss all those awesome old games. I had a lot of good memories playing Chicken Run, Frogger, ET, Yars Revenge, etc at my aunties house. She also got brand new TVs to replace the shitty old ones.