slackur:
Wow, sorry to hear about that. Now you're making me feel a bit paranoid considering all of the older PC and console games on CD I own. Apparently LDs will go bad quickly as well and am quite happy that none of mine have thus far. I do own quite a few CD-Rs that have flaked up or easily become useless if the cover even touches a slightly rough surface. This is why many of my more played PC games are ripped and loaded as ISO/BIN, to avoid dropping and destroying a disc. Funny thing is I have floppy disks from the early 80's that still have perfect data on them and 10-20 year old VHS tapes with playback of quality as if they were recently produced. Maybe in a few years there will be some collective effort to discover which games are more susceptible to rotting.