Scary Hardware Moments.

[Brad]

Have you ever dropped a game console or acidentally scratched your favorite game? I have.
Once it was really early in the morning and I was coming home from my Dad's house. I had my practically BRAND NEW Wii. little did I know I was hoding the opened box upside down. CRASH! The wii and all its other bits came crashing down onto the concrete driveway. another is I had my 3DS for only about a week. I was in the city. I had my 3DS on my lap. We were visiting my sister that I hadn't seen in about 3 years. When I went to get back in the car I found the 3DS flat on the ground, face up (thank god) on the once again, the concrete. It only came out with a couple scratches. Other than one very unexciting story about a red-ringed xbox and worn out xbox hard-drive thats about it. So? What are some of your scary hardware moments?

 

[AndyB]

I've knocked my Wii over several times, but that's really it. It still works fine, so nothing too bad. Does scare me when it thuds down, especially when it has a disc in it.

 

[Yokie]

When I dropped my Gameboy Advance SP and it didn't want to charge anymore.

I was heartbroken. ;_;

 

[SodaDog]

when i got a copy of The Sims Superstar months ago to complete my collection it had arabic and english launguage at the back of the cover. (Piracy?) And when i installed it I realized there was no manual to type in the code! Months later, when i start to play the sims, i UNEXPECTLDY got the SuperStar expansion pack loading screen! Btw, the copy was brought from a carboot.

 

[AndyB]

when i got a copy of The Sims Superstar months ago to complete my collection it had arabic and english launguage at the back of the cover. (Piracy?)

Having another langauge on the back doesn't necessarily mean it's a pirate copy. Could just be from another region. I've got a few games with another langauge on, bought them online but they work like normal.

 

[Slifer Slacker]

I've knocked my Wii over several times, but that's really it. It still works fine, so nothing too bad. Does scare me when it thuds down, especially when it has a disc in it.

this used to happen to me allot due to my playfull curious cats, i got scared everytime.

+ once when the original ds came out, phew, that ds was indestructable, i threw it across the room to try and hit my brother, i missed and it hit the wall, it was ok, one day when i was walking back from school i dropped it whilst trying to beat my rival, and it fell in a puddle, i took it out so fast, it was ok, then about a couple months after all this i lost it in Asda getting new shoes, then i got a ds lite, nothing happened to that, and now i have a dsi, which i dropped once on concrete ( in the case thankfully )

other than that, im a neat freak with my games/consoles

 

[Squirrel with Nunchucks]

While we were moving from room to room in a hotel once my Wii was dropped and would no longer read discs. I was heart broken and cried for about an hour. The funny thing is though while we were driving back home after the vacation, the Wii fell out of the car and hit the ground AGAIN and when we plugged it back in when we got home it worked fine! Disc drive's always been a bit louder since though.

 

[Caius]

I was on vacation in Pigeon Forge and I lost my PSP on the go kart track, only to find out that a few girls ran it over when they hit me. turned out it was fine. Afterwards, I had it in a hardcase, about a year later, opened the case and it was cracked across the screen. Karma you dirty woman.

 

[........]

When I played Pirates of the Carribbean for Xbox, I got super far into the game with my little sister. The next day, we started to play it, and I realized that we had to start over. I wondered why, and started to freak but we caught up to where we were. Then the next day while my sis was trying to open our file, I watched her carefully and noticed that she chose the first words she sees, which are "New Game" and "File 1".

 

[rafren]

After loading Megaman 3 on the VC, my tv was just all black. I panicked. :/ MM3 magically appeared after waiting for a few minutes.

lame story is lame

 

[twinkinator]

Well, I broke my DS by dropping it on a sidewalk. So I got a DS Lite. Exciting story.

 

[Brad]

I laughed, I cried. It was beautiful.

 

[NikoKing]

My ipod fell into the sand on the beach when I went to the Oregon Coast. I thought I'd never be able to charge it again, but the sand came out like 2 days later.

 

[Tyeforce]

A few years back I got a carrying case for my Wii, and the case was built so you can plug in your Wii and play it even in the case. So I did...and it overheated. It was burning up and wouldn't turn on, so I stuck it in the freezer overnight. The next day, it worked. XD

Oh, and there was the whole Brawl disc read error thing. That was extremely annoying. Sent it in for repair and haven't had problems since.

Also, my GameCube has been through a lot. My brother had repeatedly punched, kicked, and thrown it down the stairs. Amazingly, it still works like new, although the top part with the GameCube logo broke off and the Reset button is stuck.


On the portable side, one day many years ago I took my Game Boy Advance out of my backpack to play on the bus, but to my horror the screen was completely shattered. Apparently it broke because someone pushed me down that day, and the Game Boy Advance must have hit the ground through my backpack. Needless to say, I was devastated. That was my first video game system to ever break on me.

That's about it, outside of a few scratched DSes and worn out shoulder buttons.

 

[Princess]

My mom threw my psp... ;___;
R.I.P. screen

 

[Psychonaut]

when i cooked breakfast on my graphics card

 

[MollyCrossing]

I haven't had anything bad just with my dsi I drop it pick it up drop it again so on so on

Also have a big chip in the back of it

Nothing wrong with my 3DS just I can get it extremely dirty very quickly

 

[MollyCrossing]

Oh forgot another thing on my R4i card I changed the time to time travel on ac and it never worked again

 

[Fillfall]

Well our old Playstation 2 broke because it felt of the table it was on and we got a new and better Playstation 2, I also lost my DS Lite on the floor so the On/Off button won't work properly, but at least i works.
Also when I've been on my phone in the bed after bedtime to use internet to be on TBT it has fallen out two times, it still works fine.

 

[.IE.]

When my sister dropped my DSi. *-*