Hey All, Over the weekend, I pulled out some OLD stuff from boxes I haven't looked at in years. Something interesting for you all to chew on: I have had two SNES since weeks after it was released... one I got as a gift from a relative in California. Another I bought with my own money in Northern Virginia. Neither of these have seen the light of day since they were packed up and forgotten. I was grounded from using them a few months after I got them, for getting bad grades in school. I since forgot about them. This was a box I picked up from my dads the last time I was there. Anyway, on with the story. There has been lots of speculation as to the reasoning for the yellowing of the SNES's. Hopefully this will put some of that speculation to rest. Both of these SNESs were bought around the same time... near the forefront of the manufacturing. One is yellow. One looks brand new. The only difference between the two is where they were bought. They have both been sitting idly for most of their lifetime is a tucked away box. The yellowness can NOT be attributed to dust or smoking or any of the likes. Post any further thoughts here.
I think a lot of it had to do with the plastic used in each batch manufactured. Probably due to slight fluctuations in the plastic formula each time they pumped out a round of them. I have had the same situation with old Amiga 500's of mine. One has pretty much sat in a box while the other has been out in the open on my desk its whole life. The one in the box is yellowed, while the one that has sat on my desk still looks white. I don't smoke inside my house, and it obviously isn't UV light that has caused it, because the one that has sat out looks nicer than the one in box. I'm just hoping the Xbox 360 doesn't suffer the same yellowed plastic problems, I think I might just wait for a special edition in black or some other color to come out, I'm not a huge fan of white consoles anyways, they don't match the rest of my home theatre equippment.
