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Have you ever broken a console or handheld? I think it's safe to say most of us have. What about games? Computers? What have you broken?

Myself, I'm really bad with electronics.

I don't know whatever became of my old Gameboy Pocket, but I know that when I lost it, it was badly scratched, the battery protector was long gone and it had a few broken pixels. My Gameboy Advance is the exact same story. I broke my DS hinges within a month of getting it, and just a few weeks ago, the LCD broke (it only worked about 2% of the time, and when it did, the colours were inverted) and one of the hinges was completely severed.

Oh, and my NES takes forever to get going.

I think the most ridiculous story about breaking a game or system had to be my brother's copy of Pokemon Yellow -- he ran it over with a lawn mower. Purposely.

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I normally don't attack my games when I get pissed at them, so I've been able to keep my DS and PS2, among others, in great condition for the past too many years. My brother, on the other hand, is a different story. He's not medically diagnosed with any disease, but he has some sort of problem. The breaking video games is only an example. He will continuously pound his fist as hard as possible on his Wii or whatever he's using, hoping that that will fix his game over? He ofter smashes controllers against systems and chucks handhelds across the room. He recently broke open a UMD case to a PSP game, 100% deliberate. He does play my systems occasionally, but he knows from experience that if he decides to take his anger out on my stuff, the pain will be dealt back to him tenfold.

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The left side of my DS's touchpad is a little screwy, but I don't know if that's from pushing on it, or if it just came like that, but I've never really broken anything.

Oh yeah, someone left an old laptop under a rocking chair, and the screen got cracked, but I don't think that was me.


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When I was younger, I used to get pissed off by video games, but I don't think I ever went as far as deliberatly breaking them. O_o

My cousin accidently broke my GBA when I leant it to him, but luckily no games went with it. Aaaand, his dad bought a new one and covered up the accident to make it look like he did it. I only found out last year that it was him. xD

Oh, and my mum once threw that same GBA at a wall... and it survived with the only damage being that the battery cover wouldn't clip on properly. Say what you like about Nintendo, you gotta admit they make hardware that survives.

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I am a very angry person. When things don't go my way, I shout and scream at the screen and the foul language just spews out of my mouth. However, I don't usually abuse my systems. I haven't thrown a controller in a long time, but when I was a kid, that was a bit different...

When I was 9 or 10, my only two systems were GameBoy Pocket and Sega Genesis, I'd beat the :censored: out of the controllers/system. One time, my GameBoy Pocket started acting a bit funny after I slammed it (it wouldn't turn on for a while), and I felt so bad. The GameBoy my aunt bought me for christmas was broken. :( Thankfully it still works and it was only temporary, but I learned to stop throwing my video games around after that.

I've had a number of GameBoys stolen, but strangely, I still have my original GameBoy (Pocket) with the battery thing too...it's not in the best of condition, but it still works. R.I.P. Sega Genesis though :( at Skull Kid's house. :P

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For me it was never really smashing them out of anger as much as it was just... being clumsy and not taking good care of them. I drop things on a regular basis since I'm really uncoordinated, and that's probably why most of my systems break.

But nothing compares to the things I've had go through the washing machine.

Here's a short list of things I've had through the washing machine: Pokemon Red, Pokemon Gold, Pokemon Silver, Pokemon Crystal, Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Trading Card Game, iPod Nano (broke), cell phone (broke), GameBoy Pocket, GameBoy Advance...

I'm probably missing a few things.

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I have never broke a sysytem but I have lost one. I had four of my DS games get washed and dried but they survived because the plastic case around them.

I have dropped my DS Lite and it has a crack on the plastic on the opposite side of where the power lights are. I stuck it under my arm one day trying to get into my house and my dog jumped on me and I dropped it.

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I can't ever recall a time that I broke a system. I was with Crosman one time though when he threw his PS2 out the window. It was pretty epic.

I have, on many occasions, broken a controller. Either by rage, or just for the hell of it. That's the beauty of collecting a pile of controllers.

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Jamie wrote:
I don't know whatever became of my old Gameboy Pocket, but I know that when I lost it, it was badly scratched, the battery protector was long gone and it had a few broken pixels. My Gameboy Advance is the exact same story. I broke my DS hinges within a month of getting it, and just a few weeks ago, the LCD broke (it only worked about 2% of the time, and when it did, the colours were inverted) and one of the hinges was completely severed.

That sucks...

I'm a bit more careful with my games and systems. However, one of my friends somehow managed to close the car door on his GBA SP screen. He still uses it, although only half the screen works now...

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I spilled water on my PS2, but that was about it. I recently broke two Gamecube controllers by slamming them on the ground. I hardly ever throw controllers though; that just happened to be a bad week.


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I eat on my laptop and sometimes the keys are hard to press because of the food. My SP has a very hard time charging and it takes a very long time to charge fully. I cracked the screen of my MP3 player and lost its battery case.


EDIT: OH and I used to chew on the DS stylus until it broke.

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an actual system? no but im on my 16th set of ps2 controllers.

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When it comes to games and electronics, I am VERY careful about what I do with them. The only bad things that has happened to my games is having my DS slapped out of my hands making it fall on concrete, my DS falling into the mud, and that's about it. I own an Orange GC Mad Cats controller. It still works but you have to use it on a certain angle. Not having it on the right angle can have it screw up and have it not be read. I usually just smash hard on the ground and you can hear something small jiggle around inside it.

Oh and my old PS1 Dualshock controllers stop working because of my 2 younger siblings many years ago......

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Pokemaniac wrote:
my DS slapped out of my hands making it fall on concrete
A similar thing happened to me once in sixth grade. I was borrowing my sister's Gameboy Color and I was playing it outside at school on the pavement when some idiot throws a basketball right at me, knocking the Gameboy out of my hands, making the batteries fall out and scratching it up considerably.

Luckily, my sister never found out.

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Well, I have broken them, but they were never badly damaged enough that I couldn't play them.
One example was when I was really young, playing Mario and Pokemon on my GBA. Sometimes I'd chew on the corner in frustration. The teeth marks are still there now.
Also there was a time I accidently dropped my DS lite and the right corner with the power lights blew off.
Luckily my Warrenty hadn't expired yet, and I got a new one for free.

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My GameBoy Colour broke because of a reason unknown to me :( it just slooowly died, I'm sure it switches on but the games won't work. Other than that I can't think of any. I do shout at consoles when I get mad but I won't throw them. If I'm that peed off, I'll hit the crap around me.

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I've only broken one video game-related thing before, and that was Resident Evil 2. The discs were scratched beyond repair, and I decided to take a bat to them. Looking back, that was kinda blasphemous as RE2 is the best game in the series, in my opinion D:

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It stopped working for no reason. So I gave it a reason to stop working.

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My parents were cheap. I was lucky to get any video games, so I took excellent care of them.
But one time my sister dropped the Super Nintendo down the stairs. I was pissed, but despite 5-8 large cracks in the casing it still works perfectly to this day.

While on the topic of smashing systems...

Did you guys see the episode of Mind of Mencia where they break a Nintendo 64?

Or the episode of X-Play where they abused a PS2, Xbox, and a Gamecube to see which was the most durable?
(afer a 10 ft fall and being smashed with a hammer PS2 broke right away, Xbox CD tray broke second, Cube still worked)

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I have broken some of my Gamecube games but never my systems o.O

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I broke a Sega Genesis a few years ago (or maybe it was the SG's fault, who knows) And I also broke my friends tiny PS2 controller...by accidentally sitting on it...

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Yea, I was at school and my Dr. Pepper exploded on my Ds... :(

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1.my ds broke in half from being played a little too much(costed 50 but they gave me a new a new warrenty and touch screen)
2.were in the world is my game boy advance battery cover?


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Yeah, i had two DS one of them broke cause the top screen broke. the other one broke cause it kept turning off by itself. I have a new Ds hope this one does not break.

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