They do pretty well if you keep both the carts and the console clean. I have an original that works as well as it did when it was new. You had to blow on the

They do pretty well if you keep both the carts and the console clean. I have an original that works as well as it did when it was new. You had to blow on the games then too. :-) (By keep them clean I mean that you have to actively clean them periodically.)