Whats the gnarliest accident you've ever subjected a console to?

[coltyhuxx]

Someone posted about wanted a Dreamcast power cord and it reminded me of my Dreamcast and an incident that happened to it. I was playing Skies of Arcadia when my housemate ran by at top speed to grab something and she snagged the controller cord with her leg:headache:. I'm not exaggerating ,my Dreamcast, while powered on, flew at least eight feet across the room (not to mention several feet downward since it was high up on a tv stand. The velocity coulda knocked someone pretty good.

She really didn't think it was that big of a deal... not a gamer. I actually don't ever really remember her doing much aside from a half assed "sorry". But she's too cute and adorable so I forgave her pretty much right away. Sell out, I know. It was either that or go into berserker mode; I elected for the former. I mean is a girls life really the equivalent of a gaming console? Probably not an answerable question..the world may never know.

The upshot here is that although the console wouldn't power on initially, we were able to unscrew the case and jerry-rig the console to always be in "on" mode. Then all I had to do was plug some AC in the back to turn it on. Not really that big of a deal. I still have it and it still works perfectly! Good design SEGA!:applause:

Anyone got anything comparable or worse even?

[GuilewasNK]

I had a first-gen GBA that I bought from a flea market. I always kept it with me in a fanny pack. One day I had the fanny pack in my lunch container with my keys and I forgot to zip the fanny pack back up. The GBA came out and when I checked it later that day the screen had some deep scuffs and scratches in it. All I need to do is get a replacment screen, but I was pretty pissed at the time.

[RedvsBlue]

Gnarly is such a great word. Never had a console incident though. Thank god for Microsoft's breakaway cables though cause there's been a few close calls.

[Vinny]

I slammed my GBP on my desk, it bounced off the hardwood surface, hit a wall, finally hitting a lamp and falling to the ground. The lamp didn't work, but the GBP turned on just fine.:)

Other then that, I treat my systems like they're my children.

[RelentlessRolento]

nothing amaing for me... just my PS1's thing center that holds the game discs fell off for no reason and now makes my PS1 unworkable.

[daroga]

Gnarly is such a great word. Never had a console incident though. Thank god for Microsoft's breakaway cables though cause there's been a few close calls.
Amen to that. I've never actually had an issue with a console falling, but the breakaway cables are genius. I'm glad things are moving to wireless for that reason above all else.

[RedvsBlue]

Wait, I just remembered. It was my old Gameboy, the original "brick" one. I got pissed off while playing Super Mario Land and threw the thing on the ground. It never turned on after that and I had to end up getting another one.

[RedvsBlue]

Amen to that. I've never actually had an issue with a console falling, but the breakaway cables are genius. I'm glad things are moving to wireless for that reason above all else.

What's really funny is that if you read the instruction manual somewhere in there it says that the cable breakaways are for safety purposes so that the console doesn't fall on kids and hurt them (cause of the weight). Either that or it was a picture of the console falling on a kid, I can't really remember now but either way it was effin hilarious.

[graf1k]

Your a bigger man than I sir. I'd fuck a bitch up for wrecking my Dreamcast, I don't care if she was Rachel McAdams cute.

[daroga]

What's really funny is that if you read the instruction manual somewhere in there it says that the cable breakaways are for safety purposes so that the console doesn't fall on kids and hurt them (cause of the weight). Either that or it was a picture of the console falling on a kid, I can't really remember now but either way it was effin hilarious.
hehe, yeah, you made me go get my Xbox manual.

"Each Xbox controller cord has an inline release. This is a saftey feature designed to reduce the chance of the Xbox console falling when the cord is pulled. If the Xbox console falls and hits comeone, especially a small child, it could cause serious injury."

The funny thing is, no child I've ever seen would have enough weight/force to ever bring down an Xbox. The thing must outweigh every child under age 7 out there. ;)

[RedvsBlue]

Your a bigger man than I sir. I'd fuck a bitch up for wrecking my Dreamcast, I don't care if she was Rachel McAdams cute.


Sorry but:

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[ananag112]

My dad was driving and I was in the back seat and the windows were open. A car didn't stop at a stop sign and hit us on the side while we were going around 30 MPH. My GBC flew out of my hand, out of the window, hit the road, skid onto the sidewalk and then flew onto the grass before it stopped. After I got out of the car, I went to go see my GBC and it was fine. The batteries were leaking, but when I got home and tried it, it was fine.

[daroga]

My dad was driving and I was in the back seat and the windows were open. A car didn't stop at a stop sign and hit us on the side while we were going around 30 MPH. My GBC flew out of my hand, out of the window, hit the road, skid onto the sidewalk and then flew onto the grass before it stopped. After I got out of the car, I went to go see my GBC and it was fine. The batteries were leaking, but when I got home and tried it, it was fine.
Man, some systems are just built like tanks, especially the older one. The feel of the original Gameboy just feels much more solid than anything out there now. I kinda would like to see a video of your GBC flying through the air though ;)

[RedvsBlue]

My dad was driving and I was in the back seat and the windows were open. A car didn't stop at a stop sign and hit us on the side while we were going around 30 MPH. My GBC flew out of my hand, out of the window, hit the road, skid onto the sidewalk and then flew onto the grass before it stopped. After I got out of the car, I went to go see my GBC and it was fine. The batteries were leaking, but when I got home and tried it, it was fine.

WTF yours flies out of a fucking car and is fine but I throw mine on the carpet and it won't turn on anymore?!?!

[graf1k]

Sorry but:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41221000/jpg/_41221441_rachelmacadams_getty.jpg>http://www.davesvideoarcade.co.uk/dreamcast_files/dreamcastkit.jpg

True, but that kind of agression will not stand, man.

[Graystone]

My friend was so pissed about his fat PS2 and DRE's. He called me one night so we took an axe, gasoline, and a bb gun to it. Not an accident but gnarly nonetheless.

[coltyhuxx]

Gnarly is such a great word. Never had a console incident though. Thank god for Microsoft's breakaway cables though cause there's been a few close calls.

Sometimes I still wince when someone breaks those away.. total knee jerk reaction!

[coltyhuxx]

Your a bigger man than I sir. I'd fuck a bitch up for wrecking my Dreamcast, I don't care if she was Rachel McAdams cute.

I really went into my calm place. I don't even know how I went there. Everything went very gray and got quiet in my head. The physiological opposite of fight-or-flight.

I just remembered ANOTHER damn bad thing that happened to my ORIGINAL childhood NES:cry:

My friend Nicholas borrowed my NES back in about 9th grade. He was playing Tecmo Bowl and, basically, Deion Sanders wasn't running as fast as Nicholas felt he should have been. So he picked up my system I bought using all my summer job money - that I on-god-damned-christ-to-god LOANED to him(yes, i'm mentioning it again) MY Nintendo Entertainment system and threw it against his wall and smashed it into dozens of pieces. One throw... It was utterly demolished. A pile of total wreckage. Not cracked. Pieces. Guts spilled out everywhere. I wasn't there when it happened, thank God. That's how people die.

We're still friends if you can believe it. He never replaced it. Man, I feel like I got some issues off my chest today. I think I'm still pissed....!

[coltyhuxx]

Sorry but:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41221000/jpg/_41221441_rachelmacadams_getty.jpg>http://www.davesvideoarcade.co.uk/dreamcast_files/dreamcastkit.jpg

ruling.

[VanillaGorilla]

The worst I can think of is, my Genesis was laying on the floor, and me and my brother were wrestling, and he pushed me off the bed and I fell on the Genesis. Didn't hurt it though. I'm pretty strict about people not messing around near my stuff.

[RAMSTORIA]

after a LAN party at my friends house, and a lot of dopplebocks later (if you dont konw its a great beer by sudwerks clocking in at 9%) i had taken my computer apart. i was carrying my desktop to my car when i missed a stair on his porch, the computer went flying and we both fell hard into the cement. well i just kinda layed there, laughing because everyone else was laughing. the computer took a few scratches, but it still runs great and no serious damage to any components or the case. im typing on it right now. dell computers are hard core baby!

[BIG5]

I once dropped my Xbox in the toilet. Then I decided it belonged there.

[Odenat]

I droped my dreamcast about 5 feet the day it was released it's still going strong today. Other than that I gutted my old PS1 and turned it into an ashtray

[mcgavin27]

I once dropped my Xbox in the toilet. Then I decided it belonged there.
That is a horrible attempt at a joke. An xbox can't even fit into a toilet.

[Reality's Fringe]

I've posted this before, I think, but I like to tell it because it's a testament to the durability of Nintendo products:

When I was still living in a dorm, I opened my window once as I swept my room. It was a crisp autumn day and I was trying to flush out the smell of me and cheap instand food, so I moved a few things around to allow them to air-out. Unfortunately, college dorms are extremely small, so I didn't have much manuvering room. My Gamecube was sitting on top of my television, which happened to be in front of the room's only window. As I was moving around, I bumped into the television and my precariously positioned launch-Gamecube slid down the tv, out the window, and plummeted 2 stories onto a slab of concrete. I was mortified and rushed to reclaim my precious, expecting the absolute worst. When I recovered it, I found that the system itself experienced no structural damage, as if it had merely glided and came to a soft landing on its side. I returned to my room and anxiously powered it on only to see that it worked fine. Nintendo 1, Physics 0.

[levi333]

I was shredding in 2-player on Guitar Hero at a friends during a party and the other guy got way to into it. Pulled the PSTwo off a table onto tile, about a 3 foot drop. After seeing what he did he looked around real quick, pulled off the guitar and took off into another room.
Luckily the PS2 powered right up.

[ananag112]

I've posted this before, I think, but I like to tell it because it's a testament to the durability of Nintendo products:

When I was still living in a dorm, I opened my window once as I swept my room. It was a crisp autumn day and I was trying to flush out the smell of me and cheap instand food, so I moved a few things around to allow them to air-out. Unfortunately, college dorms are extremely small, so I didn't have much manuvering room. My Gamecube was sitting on top of my television, which happened to be in front of the room's only window. As I was moving around, I bumped into the television and my precariously positioned launch-Gamecube slid down the tv, out the window, and plummeted 2 stories onto a slab of concrete. I was mortified and rushed to reclaim my precious, expecting the absolute worst. When I recovered it, I found that the system itself experienced no structural damage, as if it had merely glided and came to a soft landing on its side. I returned to my room and anxiously powered it on only to see that it worked fine. Nintendo 1, Physics 0.

WOW. That is amazing. ^5 Nintendo.

[Who's The Twitch Now?]

I [thank God] don't have anything too graphic or memorable to my Gamer Catastrophe Credit, but I do love to tell the story of a certain episode of Mind of Mencia. See, the problem with Carlos Mencia is, he's a good comedian. He has a voice, and one that speaks the truth. It's his degradation of every single punchline into "Dee-dee-dee," that ruins the joke. If he could refine his humor into a more situational sense and not a pre-established punchline sense, he'd be a hit. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The episode involved a Midget Gallagher hitting various olden-day electronics with a completely improportional sledgehammer. All right, so he starts out with a beeper. You still have one, you're a jerk. Hit, dead, just like you'd expect a beeper to be after being hit by a sledgehammer.

The next thing he brings out, lo and behold, is a Nintendo 64 system. He bad-mouths its modern-day technical inadequacies, of course forgetting to mention the modern-day systems' arguable fun inadequacies when compared to this marvel of home entertainment. So anyway, Midget Gallagher hits the N64 with the sledge. It hops. It shows a small scuff and perhaps a dent in the plastic nameplate. He hits it again. It jumps. It has a small crack in the side. Again, and again. Finally, the plastic shell is adequately destroyed to the point of being still playable, but no longer interesting to dwell on.

They bring out a $500 professional FAX machine, and a small tap sends it swirling in 50 different directions.

[rsigley]

i never done anything to mine, but a couple weeks ago drunken DDr ruined a nice slim ps2

some guy was going crazy on the pad with his timberland boots on, the pad was too close to the ps2, pretty obvious what happened

one step and the slim ps2 just sort of exploded, piecesof the case start going everywhere, strangely the ps2 was still working tho just the case is all cracked andbroken

[whoknows]

My dad was driving and I was in the back seat and the windows were open. A car didn't stop at a stop sign and hit us on the side while we were going around 30 MPH. My GBC flew out of my hand, out of the window, hit the road, skid onto the sidewalk and then flew onto the grass before it stopped. After I got out of the car, I went to go see my GBC and it was fine. The batteries were leaking, but when I got home and tried it, it was fine.

Dont take any offense to me not believing it...my gbc broke from a small drop onto the sidewalk, and then once I dropped my sp while it was in the closed position and when I opened it the screen was cracked...

[Puffa469]

One time looong ago, my Atari 2600 had a little 'accident'. I first want to preface this story by saying that I was a rather angry 10 year old, Im a much more mellow adult, who takes care of his stuff and would never, ever, subject one of my precious game consoles to such a horrible and undeserved ending.

One fine day I was playing the 2600 game 'Buck Rogers'. It was a game I had borrowed from a friend. And this game was kicking my ass, I was angry... so I punched the Atari as hard as I could, which did nothin except reset the game. That got me even angrier so I pulled Buck Rogers out of the cart slot and threw it against the wall. The case was smashed to pieces, but the rom chip inside was still whole. I plugged it back in and viola! It still worked.

So I continue on playing the Buck Rodgers chip, until the game starts to kick my ass again. I wind up punching the Atari again, this time cracking a corner off the Buck Rogers chip, which obviously now no longer worked. This for some reason so enraged me that I had to have my revenge to that damn Atari. I calmly walked to my kitchen and opened the window. Now I grew up on the 4th floor of a 4 story brownstone (may be called a 'row house' in your area) and out my kitchen window across my very small backyard is the brickwall side of another brownstone.

I go back into the living room and scoop up the Atari and pull out all the cords. The joystick is still hanging on by its cord. I gather it all together in my arms and then RUN into the kitchen and towards the open window as fast as my angry 10 year old legs will take me. I scream something along the lines of 'FLY, Buck Rogers, FLY!' and heave the entire thing out the window. The Atari, with the broken Buck chip still in it, RF cord hanging out the side, Joystick hanging on by the cord, all of it... goes flying across the expanse of space 4 stories up, smashes into the brick wall of the house on the other side, explodes into a million pieces of black plastic (it was the Darth Vader Atari), and showers down into my grandmothers potted plants in the backyard below.

To this day the first and only console I have ever killed, either on purpose or by accident.