So I gotta Xbox 360 recently, and when I got it the guy at Gamestop gave me this long list of instructions on how to make sure that I don’t damage it, or let it overheat, or breath on it funny.

Then a couple of weeks later I got NBA Street: Homecourt (cool game by the way) and the dude at Best Buy gave me this spiel about how the DVD’s are very prone to getting scratched and you should get the “extra protection”…blah blah blah.

Then I saw this shirt from nerdyshirts.com and it made me reminisce about the old NES I had when I was a kid.

Not working? Slap it a few times.

Game acting funky? Don’t forget to blow in it.

Get mad at your game? Throw the controller against the wall.

There was absolutely nothing you could do to that thing to make it break…well you could set it on fire or something, but no normal beating would damage it.

However, my Xbox, which must be 4 times as expensive, will start to freakout if I even look at it the wrong way. Don’t get me wrong, I love my new toy…but there is something to be learned by the old NES.

Ah the memories…