AH! I opened up my Atari 2600 and...!

Thornwillow · Post by **Thornwillow** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:55 pm

I opened up my Atari 2600 and it was ful of spiders and spider eggs, not that im afraid of spiders but, it scared me so bad, i know this thread doesnt matter and you can delete, now ill never think of my Atari the same way!

Post by **gannon** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:59 pm

yeah.. I've opened up a few systems that had bugs and crap in them.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:30 pm

my brother said he found a black widdow under a couch im my house and i found one in a flower pot on my deck

Thornwillow · Post by **Thornwillow** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:42 pm

Man it scared me when i saw them, i dont really have much of a fear of spiders, but knowing that big, dark, fast, and creepy things are in my game system really freaks me out, lol, i even started to have a panick attack, lol

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:13 am

Once I opened up a SNES mini and it had a bunch of dead earwigs in it. Pretty gross

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:28 am

*Google image searches for "earwig"* Ah!! That's what those are called? I hate those friggin things...

Edit: I hate silverfish too. (The two look a lot alike.) They love the boxes and clutter in my garage. I don't believe they're dangerous in any way, but they're quick little buggers...

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:00 am

I have a really keen sense of smell. I can usuall smell if there are dead bugs inside electronics. It has a dry musky or murky smell. Often enough I get a whiff of an old VCR or something and I just leave it alone.

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 2:59 pm

I've now lost about a 5-10% interest in opening an old system, I hate bugs. Luckily CT is void of the really big ones, but ordering online could give me a run for my money (and I really would run).

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:35 pm

I have an SNES, and when I got it in the mail, there were tiny ants crawling around on the box, inside and outside, eating the glue.

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:17 pm

Taking out spiders and stuff it part of the fun. ^^* You should have seen my (S)NESes when I first opened them up...MAN they were full of them...same with my Atari.

Thornwillow · Post by **Thornwillow** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:16 pm

I still have a shake thinking of my Atari though...

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:31 am

Thornwillow wrote:I still have a shake thinking of my Atari though...

Think of how you'da felt if they were alive. Consider yourself lucky.

...Wait, no, that was the Earwig guy whose video-game-console-inhabiting pests were dead.

Were the spiders alive, Thornwillow? I'm guessing they were, since there were also eggs in it. If so, then yeah... that'da been scary.

MikeJones · Post by **MikeJones** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:53 pm

i had this old atari 5200 kicking around in my closet that wasnt working, so i opened it up and nearly $h1t myself. there were live spiders all in the thing, so i grabbed my zippo and a can of air freshener and torched the little (naughty word)s. man, that STUNK! but it was sweeeeeeeet

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:04 pm

I guess you have no working 5200 anymore.

I found a bunch of ants in my keyboard. (little [bad word]s were using it as an access path between the kitchen and the living room window. Gotta admire their work ethic, but eeeeewwww...) And guess what I was doing when I found them?

Posting in F42.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:07 pm

once i left my water gun laying outside all summer and when my cousins visited, one of them was using it and whole colony ants and larva living inside it spilled all over him