Yeah paint will come off the gen 1 Lynx regardless I have found out. I got one from launch and at the time was amazing. When the system tanked I drove all around scooping up any game I could find as toys r us put them down to 2.99 each. Rampart was a favorite of mine, also played a lot slime world in 4 player mode with some friends. I think it could do 6 or 8 though but we were probably the only 4 Lynx owners in town :-) blue Lightning was ok, never got into batman, ninja garden was solid, and I never found a copy lemmings or Tetris (I'm thinking Tetris was just a bootleg). Turning the system for Tate games made complete since and was not uncomfortable at all. I bought a second gen system that had 6 games packed in at Electronics boutique on clearance but ended up like the original system more. I sold that one off in the last year and still have some games for it but not sure if I'll ever be compelled to play it again. Not sure how California games kept my attention for so long but it served it's purpose back then and I don't regret buying it. Especially since most of my games were purchased for 3 bucks and not 30-40 bucks each like the retail prices were then.