Games with the worst design flaws

[Tornadoboy]

"Looping and probably Sky Bumper - They like to thermo-cycle their TMS9995 processors to death until the legs literally fall off, and they're tough to find."

Don't forget that Looping also had a suicide battery. The code to fix this problem is available on the Internet (need to reburn one PROM).

Scott C.

You sure about that? I've had my Looping boardset apart more than a few times and I don't recall it having anything that looked like it had a battery, I'll have to go grab it and look again.

 

[Scott C]

You sure about that? I've had my Looping boardset apart more than a few times and I don't recall it having anything that looked like it had a battery, I'll have to go grab it and look again.

There may have been two versions of the Looping boardset, but I ran across the code years ago on a collector page where they went into great detail about it. I owned a Looping for about a day or two and I had no way to test the board, so I can neither confirm nor deny.

Scott C.

 

[Pac-Fan]

Any boards that use Texas Instruments proms/eproms or TTL chips.

* Thinnest legs of all manufacturers, easy to bend/snap off while inserting or removing
* Apparently not enough nickel coating and they not only tarnish easily but downright rust out while the rest of the board, and sometimes the socket they're in, appears spotless.

 

[CrazyKongFan]

If you think it is an urban legend, then the next time you are at Funspot make sure you ask Gary to tell you the story about the smoking Star Trek back in the 80s.

Yep, I've heard the story from him too