Names On Carts

[Valkyrie-Favor]

My PS1 games come mostly from eBay, so who knows where they've been? I also get some from friends or cousins or random people i barely know who will sell them for $1 each.

Last summer I picked up a PS1 and a lot of 19 games. He had Tekken 3, Sled Storm, Pac Man World. A lot of the popular casual stuff that's pretty good. Then he had some awful shooters like Rainbow Six and Fighting Force 2. Downright horrible. All of it is in terrible condition and totally marked up, but it works. Anyway someone bought Dora The Explorer and Blues' Clues games from me, offered $10 a pop. So I actually got it all for free.

Oh, yeah. He also sold me some random worthless middleware called Final Fantasy VII. Weird little game I've never even heard of. Pretty solid, though, if you get past the lame story and terrible music. Naturally, this was the only one he kept in good shape. Discs were nice and it even has the manual! I could probably get it for $1 on ebay too, but then I would have to pay for shipping, so...Guess I saved a few bucks there.

[DinnerX]

What annoys me most is pokemon stadium. It practically begs people to write on the label.

An eraser will eventually rub off permanent marker from the non-label part of a cartridge. I got a couple rental games that had writing on them and they're all clean now.

Just in case you decide to clean...

[AppleQueso]

I don't think I ever wrote my name on carts.

I do remember writing the names of N64 games on the endside of the cart though. Damn lack of end labels!

[Nintendork666]

As a kid, I made the stupid decision of jotting my initials down on the back of every single NES cart I owned. A month later or so, it aggravated me to the point where I felt forced to clean them off with either nail polish remover or rubbing alcohol and some paper towels or cotton balls... I can't even remember, but I still have about five carts slightly damaged from either a faded blotch in the paint, or my faded initials still remaining.

The idea came to me from seeing all the names written on the used NES carts at Funcoland, it must've been a 'marking my territory' kinda thing - I'm lucky I didn't just piss all over them instead.

[harper]

What annoys me most is pokemon stadium. It practically begs people to write on the label.

Seriously. I have a copy with some random kid's name on it. I'd like to get one that doesn't. haha

[CFFJR]

Ah, that is one I forgot about.

For whatever reason, I did write my name on Pokemon Stadium. I was a teenager at the time (13 or 14, something like that), so who the hell knows what I was thinking. I must have seen the label with its name box and been compelled. I actually feel embarrassed when I look at that cart.

[Michi]

At least with the Pokemon Stadium cart I can understand. I mean, it does give you a spot to put it and all (but I'm still glad mine doesn't have it).

What bothers me is when people write on the labels. I got 2 Gen games recently from 2 different stores: one of them cart only, the other complete. Both of them had a letter written on the label in permanent marker, and poor Sub Terrania has a 'D' on the box, manual and cart. I actually managed to get the marker off the carts without ruining them ( ), and the 'D' on the box is on plastic, so a little alcohol and *poof!*. But my poor manual will forever have that 'D'

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Oh hell no. My dad would've gotten so mad had I ever done that. Hell, I wasn't even allowed to leave a game in my PlayStation. It was always taken out carefully and put back on the shelf. My Genesis carts were kept in a nice stack right above the PS1 games on my little bookshelf.

I'm still kicking myself for when I was 9, I liked my PS2 so much that I told my dad to sell my entire collection of black label PS1 games. I had like 60 too.

Anyways, I never buy anything if it has a name on it. It annoys the hell out of me. I had friends who's parents would make them write their name on a game if they brought it over, which was bullshit, since the only reason they'd bring it over is because I didn't have it.

The only thing I've owned with a name on it was a Saturn save cart with the name "Brian" on it which I promptly sold.

[CFFJR]

Alrighty, I took a picture of my super famicom cart. Could one of our Japanese speakers please kindly tell me what it says?

[flojocabron]

I think it says

this will turn into a mega drive cart if it gets wet