Anyone have cigarette-flavored games?
I've read a lot of Ebay auctions that say "games comes from a smoke-free home." I always thought that was silly.
I bought a couple of Sega Cd games off E-bay. They are in fine shape, but when I opened the box a raunchy & stale cigareete smell ran out of the box and sailed around the room. All three games STINK. I got rid of the little sponges you find with some Sega CD games, but the games still smell.
Will they ever air out and stop stinking? What can I do? They really reek.
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! I remember working at Gamestop/Funco/Babbage's and people used to bring in like 50 Genesis/Nintendo games at a time, systems and all, and they would just wreak.
We washed them with Windex and they stop smelling after a day or two.
Ugh I remember I bought one NES game from a flea market once, when I blew on the inside, it smelled like someone smeared the cartridge with mustard.
It's just like anything else you want to air out. If it's a nice day out, just leave them otuside to air out in the shade. That should work. I'm not sure how long you should leave them outside for but...
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I bought some Intellivision carts on ebay once that showed up smelling like cat pee.
My mom smokes 3 1/2 packs a day, and my dad smokes cigars. Anything had left at that house became nasty...
Any plastic surface - use rubbing alcohol and a paper towel. Windex isn't bad either. Works great on old carts and consoles. Don't let the label of the cart get wet!
For cd based games, get a bowl of hot soapy water and just drop the entire disk in and let it sit. Don't use alcohol/windex on these - can make the print side of the label run.
Manuals - not too much you can do about those. Wipe the outside with a dry paper towel to get any possible dust off, and let them sit open on their sides so all the pages are open. They get much better after a week.
CD game cases/dvd cases - you can take the cardboard inserts out and just have the plastic parts - let the cardboard sit and wash out the plastic portions in the sink.
Controllers - the smell can really get inside these - so just do the best you can wiping down the outside.
If I ever owned Intellivision-carts I would have sworn it was my cat who did that. My cat pissed over my collection of rare comics. It took me 2 years to got the serie of 5 comics complete and then the cat pissed over them. I was so pissedOriginally Posted by baddseed
Oh yeah.
A load of Ody2 stuff, Genesis stuff, And Super NES stuff...
I'm trading away most of it.
It was almost nothing but a headache. I had to use a dremmel on most of them to get them to play!
Yeah... I get the occassional bad package off eBay... argh.
Febreeze can actually do wonderful things.
Thats why people who smoke cigarettes inside their houses are nasty. I bought a super famicom and i swear it has tar on it.
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I once bought a Saturn lot that stunk like reefer and old cigarette butts. I didn't really mind that much though seeing as I got 10 games with it for 50 bucks total.
I hear ya guys. I remember my now deceased cat decided to go into my room and piss all over a bunch of anime and comic books I had lying around in there. Man was I.. umm, well.. pissed.If I ever owned Intellivision-carts I would have sworn it was my cat who did that. My cat pissed over my collection of rare comics. It took me 2 years to got the serie of 5 comics complete and then the cat pissed over them. I was so pissed
Just slightly off topic..
I've had that problem with Lego I got in a container once. But since it's all just plastic I was able to bump it into a big plastic bowl of hot soapy water and that worked great. Not really useful advice other than to backup using hot soapy water for plastic items such as CD cases. You could do the same for stinky controllers if you have them apart and if they don't have any glue or labels on the casing.
I've never had a game that smelled like smoke, but I got a Mario doll off of Ebay and it stunk like someone blew cigerette smoke into its face for years. I have owned it for around 6+ months now, and it doesn't really smell anymore at all. Only when you squeeze it.
Have you tried using Febreeze on it? Maybe you could put it into a plastic bag, spray febreeze into the bag and tie it closed quickly and leave it a day or two, with maybe adding more to it. There's actually a special febreeze for smoke I think.
That can be really annoying...I recently got a used SMT Nocturne that reeked of smoke. I took the insert out and left that, the manual, and the discs out for a few days. Helped some, but still has a funk to it.
I'm just amazed that my SNES, which spent 9 years in a house where both of my parents smoked incessantly, is still the pretty, factory shade of greyish white without a speck of yellow on it.
Maybe we just solved the yellowed SNES mystery...
Anyway I goo gone almost everything I buy so the orange citrus allways overpowers the funk.
not so much ciggs for me but i have a copy of wave race for the GCN and i swear to god i cant get the friggin stink of moth balls out of it i dread going to play it cuz i know i will be faced with that horrible smell, im gonna try to air it out now that i think about it tho....hopefully that will fix it
You must be Dirk, Dirk the Daring
I once got a Genesis model 1 that REEKED of cigarette smoke. I was even warned of it, since it came with a lot of games that came at a REALLY good price. I sold the games off (without warning the buyers by accident [resolved now]), and I don't go near the Genesis.
Not smoke (as I can remember), but I bought a loose NES game once and when I opened the package it smelled like indian food or something hehe.
Yeah, I keep running into this problem. And wouldn't you know it... it's always the best deals that carry the worst stench of smoke. That huge box of games for $10, or the SNES with two controllers for $2... these are the ones that'll stink the worst!
Anyway, I always take smelly controllers and consoles apart and scrub the plastic parts with an old toothbrush using hot water and some sort of bathtub or tile cleaner. I love Lysol Basin, Tub and Tile cleaner for this task (I think that's what it's called.) Always works wonders. Of course, in a lot of cases, you'll need the elusive "gamebit" and some time to get a console apart, but it's worth the extra effort. I can completely deoderize a console in about 20 minutes. Now, those instruction manuals and boxes are a different story. Still don't have a surefire solution for those.
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