Quoth DGoddessChardonnay
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Really, the better speakers out there are going to be heavy by default. The idea is for the cabinet to not have any resonance to it, and that typically takes some dense wood. Tap a speaker cabinet, and it should produce a dull 'thunk'; a hollow sound means that the cabinet is cheap, and likely to resonate.
Quoth Estil
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As far as other systems go, vintage Pong systems/clones tend to exhibit dirty paddle controls (again, fixable). Colecovisions apparently exhibit video issues; I've never had this happen with mine, but it's apparently a thing. I do have an Atari 2600 (original "heavy sixer" with a weird color issue, but that can probably be fixed if I find out what IC is the issue. All in all, nothing overly difficult, but still, this stuff does show its age from time to time. I will say that video game systems based on solid-state media (i.e. cartridges) are likely to last longer than ones that employ moving parts (i.e. optical media).
-Adam
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