Super Nintendo, did this actually happen?

Gerard

Gerard

Gerard

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In the 90's when the Snes came out and eventually you could buy game converters to play American and Japanese games on UK console, the magazines of the time (mean machines, nms c&vg) used to say that using these converters could "blow the fuse" in your Console and destroy it. Anyone know if that was actually true or was it a concocted scare story to try and cut down on the sale of imported games?

Something I've always wondered about, I had a couple of imported games and didn't play them all that much due to fear of ruining my console. Anyone know anyone this actually happened to or was it all BS?
 
I had a universal adaptor in which you stuck the import on top and a uk game in the back. Used it to play countless hours of donkey kong country and my snes never had problems. First I've even heard of such a rumour.
 
My guess would be scare story, back then people got all of their information from magazines so like in your case it probably worked very well at deterring people.
 
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There are a few different types of those adapters, IIRC I had to buy a new one to play Turbo SF2.
 
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