NCS provides a number of retail stores in the local New York area with products and services. Many stores source console work from their walk-in customers and relay them to our company. One thing that we specialize in are repairs for the Playstation and Saturn consoles. Over the weekend, we had a good number of repairs to do which were comprised of the usual short-outs, dropped consoles, drive replacements, etc. One Playstation in particular appeared to have a blown fuse since the power would not come on. Upon opening the unit, everthing looked normal enough, with the exception of what looked like specks of dirt on the metal plating of the Playstation. After lifting the CD-Rom drive mechanism, an adult roach scurried out from under the drive and ran underneath the joypad component. The specks mentioned earlier were roach droppings. First, an adversion to roaches is natural so panic set in. Luckily, the roach was still inside the unit and not out and about. After the console was placed inside a cardboard box and brought outdoors, closer inspection revealed a pair of dead roaches that littered the inside of the console. Not too bad, at least they were dead and not causing further horror by running around. Opening the console up completely (since we did have to repair the unit) revealed no less than 8 other dead roaches (and the one living roach). We let the living one run off into the sidewalk but we were puzzled by the number of dead roaches that were stuck to the Playstation pcboard. All attempts to shake them off were futile and it appeared as if they were glued to the board. A screwdriver was procured to to remove them by poking at their bodies and hoping that they would fall off. As the tip of the screwdriver hit the first roach, a crunchy noise could be heard emanating from it's carcass. We realized that the roaches had expired on solder points and voltage circuits on the board. They had been electrocuted by the Playstation and in effect, shorted out the Playstation itself. The roaches had probably gotten into the Playstation through the grills on the side of the unit and had sought refuge and warmth inside. Most of them went in and never came out. One roach survived however, probably because it was a recent emigre to the console and had stayed near the top of the unit. It was a gross experience that was not welcome...but it was also a learning experience since it did show a number of useful voltage points on the Playstation board. In all of our years of servicing systems, we have only met one other roach motel console. It was a Sega Saturn that was absolutely encrusted inside with roach dung, roach legs, roach eggs (that had apparently hatched), roach wings, roach parts...truly something that was not intended for the meek. Many roaches appeared to have exploded or disintegrated when they touched the high voltage points inside the Saturn. Pretty wild stuff. Overturning the console over a garbage can relieved the unit of it's large pile of roach remains. Like soldiers, we marched on and modified the unit. Surprisingly, the Saturn worked well, even though the CD-Rom mechanism had roach bodies and feces all over it. Score one for hardy Saturn consoles.