Way back when Pepsi first started with their Pepsi points, you could do the same thing to see if you had won a free bottle or not. Then Pepsi got sick of it, and made all of the cap liners grey so you couldn't see through them.
This is in Canada anyway, and they still do it.
The same thing happened to my memorex CD player. It's been dropped from a pocket onto a road - still worked fine, fallen from my locker at school (about a 6' drop) the lid came off and I just reattached the ribbon cable and it worked, although I didn't have the LCD display anymore. It died when I accidentally threw it across the room when it was in my backpack and it got crushed by a few textbooks.
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Dead already?
I wonder what they'll end up crashing this one into?
Prior art?
They fixed that in the Greatest Hits version. My copy is at 100%.
Way back when Pepsi first started with their Pepsi points, you could do the same thing to see if you had won a free bottle or not. Then Pepsi got sick of it, and made all of the cap liners grey so you couldn't see through them. This is in Canada anyway, and they still do it.
The same thing happened to my memorex CD player. It's been dropped from a pocket onto a road - still worked fine, fallen from my locker at school (about a 6' drop) the lid came off and I just reattached the ribbon cable and it worked, although I didn't have the LCD display anymore. It died when I accidentally threw it across the room when it was in my backpack and it got crushed by a few textbooks.
I'd buy myself a DDR 8th Mix machine, then make my friends pay to play.