Limited Run says potentially damaging NES carts are supplier’s fault

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Limited Run Games has apologized for a potential issue with two games it has offered on NES carts — Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland and Piopow — that could cause damage to the cartridges or to NES consoles. The statement follows a Time Extension report about the games. In a statement emailed to customers, Limited Run says those two games weren’t manufactured by its “regular” manufacturing partner. “Due to an issue with voltage regulation, there is a small chance that prolonged use of these titles could result in damage to either the cartridge or the console hardware,” Limited Run says. The company is stopping further shipments of the games to customers so that it can re-manufacture them itself “via our trusted manufacturing partner,” according to the statement. Anyone who has already received the games will be sent “a newly manufactured version of their title autom ... Read full article.