What's the most disgusting item you have purchased?

[esteban]

It would definitely have to be China Warrior for me. Totally disgusting game!

Attack by flying potatoes !!!!!

The are **aggressive** baked potatoes... pretty f*cking intimidating, actually...

[turboswimbz]

I got a DUO with a TZD sticker on it. covered in some sort of grime.  Cleaned it and use it as an every day machine.  I love the huge have torn sticker on it.  and a box of stuff from my Aunts attic that had mouse nests and droppings in it.  I had to wash that stuff for quite a while to get it clean. 

[Winniez]

No matter how good the item looks I like to take it apart and do a throughout cleaning. Especially true for controllers. And some of the controller PCBs have looked absolutely wretched inside, remainings of 80s japanese fast food and that sort of stuff.

[xelement5x]

Most of the grossest stuff I got is from CL, but thankfully there are not really roaches out here that I have ever run into.

I got some suuuper smokey controllers and a smokey Dreamcast at one point.  I got a LoZ for the NES that was water logged and looked horrible but a bit of elbow grease fixed it.

[Necromancer]

No matter how good the item looks I like to take it apart and do a throughout cleaning. Especially true for controllers. And some of the controller PCBs have looked absolutely wretched inside, remainings of 80s japanese fast food and that sort of stuff.

Yarr, I didn't think about controllers.  I've not needed to disassemble and clean other hardware (just a good wipe down of the outside), but I've done it for controllers; sometimes they're downright nasty, with bits of finger cheese in every nook and cranny.

[Black Tiger]

I clean the pins on each new cart I get, so I never have to try to remember which have and haven't been cleaned.

I clean new controllers externally and usually don't open them up unless there's crud inbetween the shell and pad/buttins or a button is sticking or something.

I like to clean each used console I get at sone point, but usually wait until my first extended play session.

[Dicer]

Fleshlight, barely used...and pre-lubricated.

[BigusSchmuck]

Does having your cat pee on Bernie products count? My poor N64 still smells of cat piss.

[Zero_Gamer]

Does having your cat pee on Bernie products count? My poor N64 still smells of cat piss.

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[SuperGrafx]

Back in the day when I was on a Neo Geo kick, I distinctly remember buying a bundle of common AES carts for a good price.  I could smell the stench of stale cigarette smoke even before I opened the shipping carton...goddamn, nothing I did could remove the putrid smell of smoke from the cases, carts and manuals.

I later ended up selling that bundle at a slight loss just to get the damn things out of my sight.

[Necromancer]

Charcoal and ozone will de-stink pretty much anything.

[xelement5x]

I've also had good luck with vinegar on plastics, but make sure you take the electronics out first if you are going to keep it in an enclosed space.