the funny thing is this it’s not the first article I’ve read about it this year, and tbf to them it’s really hard to talk about how some of the games we love for the NES are turning 40 while the console itself is only 38

I’m sure for the marketing it’s a lot better to be succinct with a title for the casual reader. Saying "The Famicom, the pre-cursor to the NES, turns 40: … "

thanks for the input! It’s definitely more to go on. My access to a physical supply store might be a bit limited, but I’ll google up where my closest might be and also take a look at Grainger online. The fact that their suggestion was a class 0 is already a pretty positive point in the right direction.

Also - I know what you mean about amazon - there are a massive load of off brands with photoshopped “usage” photos out there. I think I found a single legit industrial supply seller (Magid), and from there just ended up on their own site looking at what all the options were. That was the point where I backed off and thought I’d ask others cause it’s a lot of info to uptake

Really, I wouldn’t even go this far if I had only needed to open it and dust (even when doing that I was antsy just being walked past unannounced). Problem is upon dusting I found a fallen yoke spacer and that’s definitely going to need me to get in there hands on and possibly be creative. At this point I don’t even know if I can salvage any of the existing adhesives, so it’ll probably be opened and closed a few times as I figure out what my game plan is going to be. Either way I’m going to have to get much more friendly with the yoke than I wanted to, and even with know how to discharge the anode, I’m definitely not comfortable getting my fingers that close without some kind of protection from an unintentional bump.

38 technically (it’s the Famicom that’s 40)