Don't you hate the Mysterious piece of scotch tape?

[MegaDrive20XX]

You ever buy something online, from a flea market, or some friend gives you a system or a cartridge....and there's a mysterious piece of scotch tape wrapped around it....and you're afraid to open it?

Yeah, like that Power Supply you wouldn't dare open or touch...yet it looks jerry-rigged by SCOTCH brand tape...or Duct Tape...

If it's on a cartridge of a game you've been looking for, then the scenario gets a little more unpleasent for you.

Like today, I found a copy of Virtua Fighter 32X. I peeled off the tape (curiousity did kill the cat)....and it's the plastic that broke off. (The screws are in place, but the entire back of the cartridge has been removed by force or abuse it looks like.

Yet I wish people wouldn't try to HIDE the problem by using a piece of tape...

Kind of reminds me when I used to work at GameCrazy and GameStop. You always have that one customer who wants to trade in a NES, SNES, Genesis system....and some of the controllers and power supplies have tape all over them. Like it was part of a 1st graders arts and craft show..

[Joe Redifer]

I always find people's names scribbles into Nintendo cartridges with markers. Only Nintendo. I'm usually able to get it off and make it look pretty clean, but is there something about Nintendo games that makes people feel the need to put their names on the cart?

[MegaDrive20XX]

I always find people's names scribbles into Nintendo cartridges with markers. Only Nintendo. I'm usually able to get it off and make it look pretty clean, but is there something about Nintendo games that makes people feel the need to put their names on the cart?

I dunno, but I've seen a few Genesis carts and manuals like that.

Heck for the longest time I thought only kids in America did that to NES and SNES games...

Until one day on Ebay, I saw a kid write his name in Kanji on a cart of ROCKMAN X lol