Do any of your games smell?

[RASK1904]

I've just been wondering about this. On ebay people say "comes from a smoke free home". OK. I have over 800 videogames and I dont think any smell. Some are over 20 years old. They've had to have been in a house with someone smoking. Especialy back then. What do you think? I haven't tried smelling each one........yet!

Thanx RASK1904
Merry X-mas

[neist]

Some of my games definitely has a smokey, musky smell to them.

I wouldn't say sitting in a house with someone who smoked did it, but certainly someone who smoked 2 packs a day for 20 years, probably. :P It reeks pretty bad for being a piece of plastic.

But then again, it's 20 years old, should I really complain if it smells a bit musky?

[darkslime]

I've had a ton of games smell like ciggarettes.

It seems like all of the games I buy off Cl the person is smoking while they're handing me the games.

If anyone is having trouble getting rid of the smell, put some dryer sheets in the box for a few weeks.

[jcalder8]

Yeah some of my games smell a bit musty, but not enough to really notice.

[ooXxXoo]

Every time that I buy a game, there is this personal quality control to meet/pass before it goes into any of my shelves.....Desinfecting cleaners do the job for me (kill 99.9% of germs)... , I'm not kidding...
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[theChad]

I've got a boxed Zelda II for NES that smells like cat piss - box, manual, cartridge - the whole thing. I've cleaned it all inside and out, left baking soda in the box, everything I could think of and it still reeks. There aren't any stains or anything, however. I've also got a boxed SNES that smells pretty similar, again with no stains or marks. With that one, I'm thinking it's the styrofoam that's the source of the odor.

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

Sometimes I get games and systems off E-bay and the whole package smells like smoke. I don't clean any of them unless there is visible dirt or if the contacts look dirty. After they sit around in the game room the smell eventually wears off, I think.

[TheRealist50]

I bought a game and it smelt like vinegar...Kinda curious as to how it ended up smelling like vinegar. Happened not too long ago actually, few months.

[Bojay1997]

I've just been wondering about this. On ebay people say "comes from a smoke free home". OK. I have over 800 videogames and I dont think any smell. Some are over 20 years old. They've had to have been in a house with someone smoking. Especialy back then. What do you think? I haven't tried smelling each one........yet!

Thanx RASK1904
Merry X-mas

Not everyone smokes and not everyone smokes in every room of their home. In fact, the few people I know who still smoke typically go outside of their own home to do so just so their home doesn't smell.

[MachineGex]

I've got a boxed Zelda II for NES that smells like cat piss - box, manual, cartridge - the whole thing. I've cleaned it all inside and out, left baking soda in the box, everything I could think of and it still reeks.

Go to the pet store and buy a product called "urine-be-gone". It's made to get rid of cat piss. It is amazing. My neighbor bought a used freezer that smelled like it use to house a dead body. He was gonna toss the freezer. He had bleached it, scrubbed it, cleaned it every way possible and it still reak'd. I told him about this product and he called a few days later to thank me. He spayed the "urine-be-gone" on it and it was all better.
Apparently the spray has an enzyme that kills bad smells. Give it a try.

[Poofta!]

Go to the pet store and buy a product called "urine-be-gone". It's made to get rid of cat piss. It is amazing. My neighbor bought a used freezer that smelled like it use to house a dead body. He was gonna toss the freezer. He had bleached it, scrubbed it, cleaned it every way possible and it still reak'd. I told him about this product and he called a few days later to thank me. He spayed the "urine-be-gone" on it and it was all better.
Apparently the spray has an enzyme that kills bad smells. Give it a try.

awesome tip, ill keep it in mind if i need to de-odorfy something. thanks

[Ze_ro]

I recently got some PC Engine games off eBay, and they smell funny. It's not a cigarette smell, and there's no discolouration. I have no idea what they went through, but I notice it every time I open the case.

A lot of the stuff I buy from thrift stores is dirty, but has long since lost it's smell. A week ago, I bought a Genesis with SegaCD attached at a thrift store. I mostly bought it because it was a SegaCD2 with the Genesis 1 extension piece on the end (I don't see that piece very often)... the thing was absolutely filthy... all kinds of dust and grime and cat hair on it. It took me ages to get the Genesis detached from the SegaCD because some dickhead spilled Coke on it and it was cemented in place... I had to resort to prying it apart with a screwdriver. However, I never noticed any smell from it.

--Zero

[aclbandit]

He SPAYED the "urine-be-gone" on it and it was all better. Apparently the spray has an enzyme that kills bad smells.

Just got the biggest lawl out of this for no reason. I know it's a typo, but imagining someone trying to get their fridge "fixed" at the local appliance-veterinarian just gave me the giggles.

[emceelokey]

I remember I bought a used Xbox game from Gamestop a few years back that completely smelled like cigarette smoke. I forgot which game it was so I can't check to see if it still smells like smoke or not but I changed out the case and I even took the instructions out for a few days and shook it for a few minutes at a time during those days and i still had the smell of smoke. Later on someone said to get a sheet of fabric softener and just put it in the booklet. I haven't tried that yet but it seemed plausable.

[skaar]

I have yet to notice a single olfactory receptor on any of my games.

No noses either.

Even the Dreamcast. It may be thinking, but it ain't stinking.

[vypher]

Never had a game that smelled yet but I've played some that stinks.

[Videogamerdaryll]

My Neo Geo AES games have a weird plastic oder to them.,..crazily it's quiet pleasant smelling...When you open the cases up you can clearly smell something plastic or rubber like.

For as many games I brought home from flea markets I've never had any that smelt like smoke..And since I don't smoke I can really smell it on something or a person when they smoke,Whew!!

With odors..When it's damn out anything that I have made of wood,pinball machine,arcade machines smells like wood..

[savageone]

My Neo Geo AES games have a weird plastic oder to them.,..crazily it's quiet pleasant smelling...When you open the cases up you can clearly smell something plastic or rubber like.

This is SNK's patented "Neo Geo AES premium smell". It's the video game equivalent of the smell of leather! Aaahh.. Refreshing. The stronger the smell the more the game is worth. Even a clogged nose can smell Kizuna Encounter up to 300 yards away!

In others news:
Up until a few years ago I've never had anything that smelled too bad (I mean all games, especially new ones, give off some odor good or bad), but then I came across a box of goodies that had an indescribable odor. My guess is said box had been sitting in a barn for a few years. The smell wasn't disgusting by any means but certainly not a smell you'd want inside your home. There were PSX games, various manuals, N64 games, a N64 system, various wiring, etc etc. I swapped out the cardboard box first thing and let the stuff sit out in storage for a month or so (no special tricks), the smell was practically gone. _Except for the N64 system and controllers_. I wish I could say I opened it up and there was a dead rat in there or something but no such luck. Some day... !! I ended up taking the casing off the system and soaking/scrubbing it in the sink with soap. ..And thats the story of how I defeated the funk.

[Smashed Brother]

I was checking out a reasonably priced Sonic Jam (SS) a few months ago at this little store and was contemplating whether or not to pick it up, until I opened the case to inspect the instructions..... and found my nostrils assaulted with a stench very much like some leathery woman breathing all up in my hostile little face at some random biker dive. Infact, so brutal was the stench, that I decided that this unholy apparition simply could not exist in my collection

[DigitalSpace]

I have a few games in the "carts to be cleaned" drawer that smell of cigarette smoke, but that's about it.