My house mate and I are currently moving through our Killer Instinct phase on SNES, and I just lent my NES to my 18 year old sister and her boyfriend who borrow it regularly.
I'm taking this article very seriously, as I am from the family of people who blew in the cartridges (and the console) up until I read this :)
Is it really worth it the risks to play on the real thing? I don't have my NES anymore (my parents convinced me to give it away when I got an N64), but I think that I'd still use an emulator and boot it only once every few months rather than risking breaking it. And using It Might Be NES (emulator for the PS1/One/2) on a CRT TV is almost the same anyway ;)
Now, I realize there's no point in having something without using it, but my point is if parsimony isn't a better policy.
My house mate and I are currently moving through our Killer Instinct phase on SNES, and I just lent my NES to my 18 year old sister and her boyfriend who borrow it regularly.
I'm taking this article very seriously, as I am from the family of people who blew in the cartridges (and the console) up until I read this :)