Dead GBC Battery?

[alec006]

I was speaking about Pokemon games in general. Even Red/Blue seem to have a higher rate of dead batteries.

Really,my Red & Blue still work and save perfectly and I've had them ever since they came out. Granted I don't play them all the time like I used to but every time I turn them on the save file is still there. Now my Yellow version in recent years has gone in and out, but that's only because I used the Gameshark a few times with it,and from what I heard, the Gameshark drains the batteries substantially. Now I have opened up both my Red and Blue versions and according to the date on the batteries,they should last till 2012, how ironic :P

[Aussie2B]

Anyway, everyone is talking about Pokemon Gold but then NES games are brought up as some sort of counterpoint even though they aren't really comparable

I brought up NES games because I (possibly incorrectly) interpreted the 5-7 years quote as being about the life span of batteries in games in general. I'm accustomed to reading comments like that online, where people who don't know what they're talking about claim that game batteries in general only last 5/10/15/"insert small number here" years when obviously history has proven otherwise. I get kind of weary having to sublate the fear mongering. I've seen people even refuse to buy games as recent as GBA because they're convinced that every cart will have a dead battery or is like a ticking time bomb ready to crap out at any moment.

I can understand that certain games may be prone to having their batteries die sooner than others, but even in Pokemon Gold's case, the majority of copies still have working batteries.