Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Nahh dont really miss those things at all really. I like CD, DVDs, and even the mini versions of each format. I hear that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs are more sensitive to things like scratches and such, but otherwise they're still better than catridges :)

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Nope, not one bit. In fact, I wouldn't miss CDs, DVDs or Even BLURAY if they stopped using them today. I'd rather they come up with a 'Gamers Card' with flash memory that holds your games (that looks like a NEOGEO memory card)

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I like cartridges, but the bad outways the good. Seriously, gaming would never have moved forward if CDs had not been used. Imagine TP on a cartridge. It would be like half the game (or less). I really wish we just skipped all mediums and went to internal memory.

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I don't miss the catrs...but there was SOMETHING satifying about the 'click' you got when you inerted them into said gaming device.

But what of the DS? It still uses cartridges...and they have the great tactile 'click' when you put them in.

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I miss 'em. But I understand the benefits of optical discs outweigh cartridges. And yet, I don't think I ever lost a cartridge game do to damage. How many have I lost between me and friends? And I KNOW I take care of mine, but they'll just stop working sometimes. It's annoying.

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I miss the cartridges terribly. Jewel cases are annoying. I'm constantly breaking the little "grippers" inside. Or breaking the cover off entirely. Disc formats are too fragile. There's something about trying to handle something by the edges with my big, manly hands that's frustrating, annoying, and wrong.

I think in lamenting the loss of cartridges, though, you have to pretend as if it were possible to grow their capacity and price to match that of discs. I'd pay a little more for something I didn't have to worry about putting a fingerprint on, but I'm no millionaire. Ideally, the disc formats would get some kind of inexpensive case so that I can grab it without worrying where I touch.

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PS. I like the new "D-pad" .ico

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Sometimes I miss cartridges for the speedy loading times - one reason why I like the flash format of the DS "carts".

I definitely don't miss the cardboard boxes though. Sega had the right idea, but Nintendo made it very very difficult to keep games intact.

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I was sad when I found out that the game cube would take disks I loved my hardy old cartridges, they mad a console feel more like a toy (kinda like Lego). What, possibly annoys me most about disks is when you turn the console on only to find that the wrong disk's in, especially when it starts loading imidiately, and gets grumpy if you take it out.

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I wish we could move everything to solid state or magnetic media. Hard drives are just so cheap these days -- I really like the convenience of having multiple games available to play without having to get up and swap out some archaic media. I think the PS3 did a good thing giving you a (relatively...) big HD and letting you copy the game over. Now, if they'd just let you play without the disc...

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I'm all for nostalgia but prefer to leave the cartridge era behind. I'll agree with most of the posters here that it would be nice to be able to store all of my games in the system or in one place. Wouldn't it be great if the next DS or Wii had enough internal memory to store a dozen or so games at a time? (And I'm talking DS and Wii games, not VC ones. And I'd love to see some VC love brought to the DS as well.)

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Things I miss about carts:

- Ultra-fast system boot
- Ultra-fast loading
- Greater durability

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Has anyone besides my girlfriend used rubbing alcohol to clean their NES cartridges? I simply blew on my games or pushed them up and down in the system until they started working. I thought it was a bit strange to use alcohol but maybe other people did it too. Any other strange cleaning procedures out there?

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I certainly miss them. I grew up playing NES/SNES/N64. Needless to say that it was weird when I got my Gamecube. I've gotten used to it since I got my Wii though.

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@#13: Cleaning the contacts with alcohol is hardly strange. It's widely accepted as the *correct* method, and is FAR better than blowing on them. If you blow on them, you're just going to make them tarnish/rust and get worse in the long run.

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Cartridges were certainly nice, and durable let me tell you. When I was at a friends house with my SNES, we had it balanced next to his tv on a 5 foot tall dresser. We were playing Street Fighter 2 and got in to it, and we accidentally pulled the system with game in tact off the dresser, upside down! When we picked up the system, SF2 case was split open on the back and we could see the internals. Well, I snapped it back into place, threw on some super glue to keep it there, then that game started right up after putting it back into the SNES. Carts work great most of the time, much more durable.

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my friend left a super nes game outside during the entire winter of 1996. and anyone who may not be from the east coast / is like 9 years old, there was a blizzard that year. come march, the game still worked.

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I wish someone would make a system with flash drive based cartridges. There's just something about putting a cartridge into a system and playing it that way.

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The DS is proof that cartridges can hold a lot of information and still be tough as nails to break. The use of CDs and DVDs for games made it more accessible to newer games as it is an easier format to store and collect.

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yes i miss them :(

"oh cartridge boy, the nes the nes is calling thee"

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