it was pretty bad especially since at that point in time Nintendo didn't have any presence in South East Asia and getting a replacement adaptor for a US GameCube wasn't at all possible in this part of the world. Then, when my father mailed me a new one, customs confiscated it and demanded something like $100 for import duties. Then someone told me to NEVER send something from overseas in the original packaging... it needs to look used and old. So my dad opened the next one, then my mom told me he drug it behind the riding lawn mower to rough it up a bit. Customs didn't ask for anything for that one when it got here.
It would be many years before the motor that spins the disks would give out on that thing but when it did it was time to let her go anyway. I think they made that a very quality machine but the 110/220 differentiation I think is a thing of the past.
it was pretty bad especially since at that point in time Nintendo didn't have any presence in South East Asia and getting a replacement adaptor for a US GameCube wasn't at all possible in this part of the world. Then, when my father mailed me a new one, customs confiscated it and demanded something like $100 for import duties. Then someone told me to NEVER send something from overseas in the original packaging... it needs to look used and old. So my dad opened the next one, then my mom told me he drug it behind the riding lawn mower to rough it up a bit. Customs didn't ask for anything for that one when it got here.
It would be many years before the motor that spins the disks would give out on that thing but when it did it was time to let her go anyway. I think they made that a very quality machine but the 110/220 differentiation I think is a thing of the past.