I broke my GBA, nearly my PS2, and nearly my DS. Video game systems these days are very easy to break.

Man, where do I begin?

Iv'e got an older brother and sister and a younger sister and all four of us are into games, so it stands to reason we've had our fair share of "electronic malfunctions"

My older sister was playing Wario Land on my Game Boy( aka the original BrickBoy)
when my dad told her to turn it off and do her homework, refusing to do so until she had completed the current level. Eventually she got so annoyed of my dad yelling in her ear, that she threw the gameboy, still turned on, out the window onto the concrete patio. Dread filled my heart as it landed with a splintering "CRUNCH" then proceeded to skid a metre along the ground before stopping in a puddle of water next to the dogs drinking bowl. Rushing outside I found that miraculously the device still worked except the speaker had been busted and no longer produced any sound.

I was playing pokemon stadium on my Nintendo 64. i was battling the elite four and had gotten up to the dragon dude(i forget his name). I had reached this point many times before but always lost because of the same damn reason. He would send out Dragonair, who would then use thunderwave to paralyze my pokemon and then start using wrap over and over. Back in the generation 1 of pokemon, wrap locked both pokemon in an inescapable bind, i could not use any attacks or even call my pokemon back and dragonair could'nt use any either until wrap stopped. when my pokemon was finally released from wrap, dragonair would simply start all over again and since my whole team was down to 25% speed courtesy of thunderwave, I was always too slow to attack first, making it impossible for me to get off a single attack, all I could do was sit and watch as that bloody dragon sapped away my whole teams health, wrap after painful wrap.
Having lost so many times before to the same damn strategy, I finally snapped. I ripped the game cartride out of the 64(still turned on) and pegged the game against the wall(something my friends and I had made a habit of with numerous games, an act we had come to call "Walling"). Slipping the game back into the 64, I was presented with a black screen, after checking for dust 5 or 6 times I came to the conclusion that I had walled pokemon stadium one too many times. But at least I don't have to suffer the indignity of yet another defeat at the hands of that freaking dragonair.


My little sister had just bought Ninja Gaiden for her DS. However, she quickly became frustrated with it's difficulty(something I appropriate more to the fact that the game was so poorly made, even a gaming god couldn't have done better with the controls). Her temper flaring, she sunk her teeth into her DS with all her might, shattering the liquid crystal display in the top screen. The DS still works but whenever you try to play a game, the top screen now resembles a nightmarish mess of broken lines, floating body parts and distorted graphics. Still, it's most entertaining to watch.


This is'nt exactly a broken console but it still requires that you risk the functianlity of your 64 to make it work. Put Super Mario 64 into your nintendo 64. Once you start playing and your standing out side the castle, gently pull the left side of the game cartidge out of the machine while holding down the right side. Once you pulled it out far enough, the game will glitch and mario's legs will disappear, he will fall on his back and you can control him as normal, but instead of walking he slides along the ground like he's on ice. When you jump his arms stick up above his head and trying to perform the ground pound(Z while in the air) causes mario to lock himself in midair as his limbs randomly appear and dissappear all over his body, spasming like he's having an epilectic fit. It is truly an entertaining spectacle.

All of my broken systems were broken naturally. Eventually my DS's R and L buttons didn't work (so I got a new one), my Wii's disk drive malfunctioned and became useless (but I replaced it :D), and now something's wrong with my PS2...again (and I'm clueless on how to fix it D:).

And now my GBA's buttons are becoming sticky and I have yet to clean them. But I have an N64 and it, believe it or not, works perfectly fine. :)

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Maybe newer games are more fragile?