Model 2 sega genesis

was kind of nasty on the outside - so i handeld it with gloves and doused it with alcohol.

next - open the system up for cleaning (like i do will all my systems )
first thing that happend - i was hit in the face with a horrendus odoor (like a 10 year old never cleaned porta potty) - i began to fight the urge to vomit - also i didnt want to drop the peices any where in my house so i ran them out side (holding my breath all the way). Outside i was able to breath better and noticed it was filled with roaches -- i mean filled. I had the urge to just throw the system away but i couldnt. i took a bucket and filled it with 91% alcohol and dumped the system in. put 3 pairs of examination gloves on, grabed a tooth brush and started scrubbing. I did this a few times (the cleaning cost me more than the system). I scrubbed everything. I had my doubts that the system would work after all that but it did and its the system that i use today and abuse (what i mean by that is - i don't take super care of it like all my other stuff)

Oh the other thing about this is that the house it came from must have been the same way - i belive the system was used in foul conditions and must have been a roach motel becasue there was a great concentration of dead roaches all around the voltage regualtors and heat sink leading me to belive that they huddled around the warmest area. Those bugs were every where inside but it was like the regs had a cocoon made of roaches