From trash to treasure: restoring an outdated game console
The grief that accompanies the death of a treasured vintage gaming system is known to many. It hurts to have to part with a console that has many special memories since it's suddenly no longer a reliable little gadget that has helped you through difficult times and long nights. Some gamers seem to be a little more emotional than the majority of us, who would probably send our broken item to an e-waste center and go on to the next one. They are also technically adept at disassembling outdated technology.
One of the most exquisite ways I've ever seen someone recycle an outdated system is this memorialized Nintendo DS Lite, which was shared by user Wolve5000 on the r/gaming Subreddit. In essence, they took the old DS apart piece by piece, assembled it with personalized artwork labeling every single piece of metal and plastic, and then framed the whole thing.
It eventually stopped working on me after years of gaming. I made the choice to keep it.In other words, Wolve5000 inr/gaming/byu/
I'm not sure how they did it, but this whole arrangement looks so much nicer than a lot of the museum exhibitions I've seen including video game artifacts. I want one right now to hang above my desk, but it wouldn't mean the same to me as it does to this individual if I were to simply purchase one like this already.
This would be a fantastic chance, I think, to finally learn how to disassemble and repair vintage game consoles, something I've always been interested by ever since I started watching videos of a YouTuber named Odd Tinkering doing exactly that. It would be very profitable to create similar little tribute artworks for other individuals whose cherished gaming systems have also passed away, as if there's one thing I know about gamers, it's that we're emotional. If you're reading this, Wolve5000, I think you may have a great job chance there.