Hah yeah me too, I had games shipped from Asia in 1997 or so, that was so exotic back then that people came over to my house to see what packages from the other

Hah yeah me too, I had games shipped from Asia in 1997 or so, that was so exotic back then that people came over to my house to see what packages from the other side of the world looked like (hint: exactly like the local ones, except maybe with a few more stickers). Then in the later versions of the PS1 the solder points became so small that I needed to solder the chips in with a magnifying glass and a very thin needle-like soldering gun tip, which I accidentally got right a few times and then botched a customer's Playstation with. Whoops. Stopped doing it after that - it was getting repetitive anyway, and profits had always been very low, even before factoring in my time.