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Somehow, our canny brothers over at the Consumerist took time out from insulting all gamers everywhere to hack into Kotaku's email account and steal an email meant for us! We'll let them have it: they need the content. Although our kotaku.com email password is definitely being changed... Crecente's measurements were obviously too easy to guess.
But though the Consumerist bastards stole our email, it's more than worth mentioning the content here. otakuite Phil purchased Tetris DS at his local Best Buy. The salesman then tried to get him to buy a 2 Year Protection Plan for the game, claiming "We get a lot of these returned. I just want you to know that."
We find it frankly incredible that Best Buy would try to foist a 2 year service plan on the buyer of a $30 game. As Phil H. notes: "I've been playing video games for more than 25 years, and I don't think I've ever had a cartridge or disc go bad on me. I had been led to believe that Flash memory is more durable than the old GBA cartridges"
Has anyone ever had an experience where a flash-based game just went 'bad' within two years of purchase? I'm curious as to how common an event this is.
Best Buy: "Oh Yeah, Tetris Breaks All The Time." [Consumerist]
