Games getting so old they start glitching

[Seastar]

Have you had games that start glitching because they've gotten old? Maybe your old gaming system has trouble reading games these days, or your games are just so old they have dust or something like that in them?
Well, recently my Gameboy games have been glitching and crashing. Two starting wanting to freak me out in the same day. My games that starting acting weird are Kirby's Dream Land and the Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.

Kirby's Dream Land didn't want me to go to the sound test. The first few times I pressed the button combination to get there, it crashed. Then it almost wanted to work. I saw the menu I wanted it on for a few seconds. It faded away randomly and started the first level for some reason. When I finally got the sound test working, I left it on a song and then walked away from the game. A short while later, I heard the sound effect of entering a door and the game had crashed.

Oracle of Seasons had a lot of crashing. It often could not even get past the opening scene. Twice it brought up "This game can only be played on the Gameboy Color" in creepy colors. The strangest thing it did was bring up a text box saying "The hour has come!". I left that on the screen for a while because I very confused. When I pressed a button to make the text box go away, nothing else happened. I'm pretty sure that text box was not supposed to be there. I wonder where that was even used in the game.

Have your old games done strange things before?

 

[XTheLancerX]

Wow. To be honest, those sorts of happenings would terrify me ._.

But I haven't had anything THAT strange occur for older games for me, and to be honest, I don't even think it was age. Pretty much, my copy of Pokemon Sapphire can't hold a save for more than a few days. It corrupts for no apparent reason on it's own, and crashes a bit with awful sounds. However, this copy was severely hacked in the past, so I can understand why. xD

 

[Gizmodo]

My Oracle of Ages & Seasons are both completely dead

 

[EpicGamer12]

I've had and avidly played Fire Emblem 7 for more than 10 years now, still working fine! I keep my games in decent condition so I hope my cartridge doesn't start doing anything weird.

 

[Bui]

My Oracle of Ages game completely stopped working a few years ago.

 

[Dr J]

My Pokemon Yellow edition Gameboy Color wipes the data of any game I try to play on it. I was playing the original silver version once on my GBA, but decided I wanted to play it on my GBC for a bit.. and suddenly 8 hours of work was gone when I turned on the gameboy.

Needless to say, the GBC is now a trophy system only(even then its almost valueless. Sound is dead[loaned it to my step-father for his second daughter to use, got it back with no sound. Chances are he didn't make sure she took care of it because he hates me.. never should have tried to be nice and help him out], battery cover is missing[I used to have a bad habit of playing with them until the clip broke off), and, as I said, it wipes game data. Other than those issues, it IS in pretty good condition.

My gameboy brick's, original gameboy, screen is so faded you can barely use it, but I have the old massive adaptor that game out so you could shine direct light onto the screen and magnify it. Stupid thing takes 4 D-Cells to work though(however it DOES still work and it probably worth something to a collector.) Still can't believe I got it for all of $5 at a garage sale lol Dummy totally been selling it for, at least, $25 and it still would have easily sold to a collector.

I'd have a totally of three nes's over the years. Though one stopped working because my father tripped over it when I was playing Mario Bros. (or possibly Duck Hunt. One of the two anyway) Not sure if that counts as the console acting up though.(I do still have the other two Nes's though. Ones in its, very much, detroyed box though.)

edit: And the OP's posts sound like those fake creepy stories to me. Especially the LoZ one.

 

[chillv]

My smash bros. cartridge no longer saves because of something my sister did (it was handed over to me). In fact, growing up, I thought Smash Bros. had no save feature.

 

[oath2order]

Sucks that that happens to old games :/

 

[kite]

Same thing with systems, my SNES lived out its life until it died of old age. Didn't read games anymore.

 

[Burumun]

Well, the worst thing that's happened was with my first DS, I didn't treat it that well and by the time I threw it away, the screens were only attached by one cable. The colors were also really weird, and I'm not sure the top screen worked at all in the end.

My Pok?mon Sapphire's internal battery ran dry recently, so I can't grow berries. I also have a copy of Pok?mon Red that doesn't save. I bought it like that, though, which really sucked.

Then I have Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. Harvest Moon is one of my favorite franchises, and I ended up finally getting this game last year or something, but my save files keep getting corrupted. After 2 weeks and 4 save files, I gave up on it.