The Videogames Punishment Thread

The only Ninty related breaks I've had weren't rage-related: My Wii U disc drive popped it's clogs for no reason a month ago (and was duly repaired), and I burnt though battery covers for my GBA by snapping the little plastic tab.

In terms of dishing out physical damage to a game, when we were kids, me and a friend rented Gex 64. We were, unsurprisingly, disgusted: my friend so much that he threw the cart out of the window of his attic room to smack onto the concrete road.

Like every good horror movie though, evil lingered. The cart had some cracks but was firmly held together by all the "void if removed" stickers the rental store had plastered over it, and still "worked". Insofar as Gex ever worked.

Balladeer wrote:

  If you were my secret Santa (which you may or may not be), I'd be worried about any present I sent you being destroyed within days!

As long as nobody buys me some expensive fine china I'll be good.

Buskalilly wrote:

Then my DSi had a shoulder button that just up and died on me. I've been lucky so far with my 3DS and my XL.

My soapy blue DS Lite has had a dicky R button for years. I don't know whether it's a design flaw (it's been well looked after) or down to the fact that I played a lot of Mario Kart DS on it back in the day. I know my DSi's touchscreen was never the same after I played Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol.

Jolly Smurf wrote:

Balladeer wrote:

  If you were my secret Santa (which you may or may not be), I'd be worried about any present I sent you being destroyed within days!

As long as nobody buys me some expensive fine china I'll be good.

...well, shit.

A few days ago this appeared on my day one 3DS:

Punishment through overuse:

That New Nintendo 3DS better be happening soon!

That 3DS looks... loved.

Yeah, that was Jas's reaction on Twitter. No idea how it happened!

A couple of years ago I accidentally hoovered up the Wii Sensor Bar cable, snapping it in half. Yesterday - I - did it - again?