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PostConsole destruction
by jawafour » Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:40 am

Consoles tested to destruction. Dropping, smashing and spillages... all-out action, and it's all here.

Which console would reign supreme? I actually felt a twinge of angst watching the machines get bashed!


I don't know how the 360 survived that drop :shock:.

Do you have a console that survived after receiving battle damage?

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by Corazon de Leon » Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:46 am

My GameCube lasted ten years, until 2011. Twice it was dropped down a flight of stairs, and it's been yanked off the TV stand by... excitable multiplayer games, shall we say, on so many occasions I couldn't even estimate. :lol:

Hurts a little bit watching that video.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Ironhide » Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:04 pm

The original Gameboy was by far the most robust games console/handheld ever made, dropped mine countless times and generally mistreated it and it never broke, even now, despite having no battery cover or front screenguard it still works after nearly 25 years.

My cousins master system II survived having a 23 inch crt TV fall onto it (the casing cracked but remained intact).

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PostRe: Console destruction
by jawafour » Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:18 pm

In general, it seems that the older a console is the longer it'll last. Maybe it's because they have more in them, but newer consoles never feel very robust. Having said that, I think I read that "capacitors" only have a working lfe of around twenty years... I'm not knowledgeable about electronics, but does that mean that older machines would need to have these replaced at some point? Would that be possible/easy?

Unscientifically, I've always felt the N64 to be a bit of a toughie. Even the the carts look like they undertook a lot of gym training.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Seven » Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:21 pm

N64 might be strong, but the sticks on pads hell aren't. Even if you manage to keep them unbroken, they become unusable gooseberry fool. Probably reason why I put away my N64 and just play N64 games on emu or on Virtual Console ):

But yeah, Nintendo stuff has been really strong.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Steve » Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:39 pm

That was like watching some of my best friends get raped.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by jawafour » Sat Mar 21, 2015 1:10 pm

Steve wrote:That was like watching some of my best friends get raped.

:shock:.

Thinking about it (not *that*), the C64GS must be in with a good shout of winning the duel. It was just a flat slab!

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Ario » Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:55 pm

Pulled my N64 out of the depths of our garage so I could send it to my nephew abroad, and that things still going like a trooper. The disc drive on my PS2 on the other hand is royally strawberry floated.
I do agree that the older consoles do seem more robust, but I thought the SNES would do better, it always seemed "chunky" to me, although they tested a US version which is built differently to the PAL console.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Steve » Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:24 pm

Old consoles were more robust because they had no moving parts and were simply a circuit board with some fancy plastic housing around them.

When I was a kid, the Mega Drive always felt like it was indestructible.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by chalkitdown » Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:33 pm

My N64 has been yanked off the TV stand about half a dozen times and once went down a flight of stairs while I was excitedly moving it from the bedroom to the living room.

It still works perfectly today. 8-)

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PostRe: Console destruction
by PatSharpsMullet » Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:35 pm

My Mega Drive II survived having a load of water out of a vase being knocked over it. My Dad dried it out with a hair dryer.

My Playstation 1 (original model) survived being dropped down the stairs from about quarter to half the way up.

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by Hypes » Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:36 pm

My DS and 3DS have been dropped from various heights a number of times

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Steve » Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:40 pm

PatSharpsMullet wrote:My Mega Drive II survived having a load of water out of a vase being knocked over it. My Dad dried it out with a hair dryer.

My Playstation 1 (original model) survived being dropped down the stairs from about quarter to half the way up.


My PlayStation 1 was one of the original models and suffered from that jerky issue during gameplay. I think people worked out you could turn it upside-down to fix the issue :lol:

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by Ironhide » Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:56 pm

Hyperion wrote:My DS and 3DS have been dropped from various heights a number of times


Dropped my DS lite whilst it was open and the hinges broke.

A week later I knocked my PSP off my desk and cracked the screen :fp:

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by Ario » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:43 pm

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Hyperion wrote:My DS and 3DS have been dropped from various heights a number of times


Dropped my DS lite whilst it was open and the hinges broke.

A week later I knocked my PSP off my desk and cracked the screen :fp:


Hinges cracking on the DS lite was a common fault, happened to mine with no impact. Unless you mean that they were bent backwards.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by jawafour » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:49 pm

[touch wood] Barring dead-on-arrival consoles, the only machines i've owned that have stopped working are my SNES and an Xbox 360 (one of the newer models, ironically). Neither was damaged, but the SNES just stopped powering on and the 360's hard drive died.

The biggest surprise is that my Sega 32X still works fine, even with the mountains of cables and connections required :-).

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Ironhide » Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:50 pm

My 32X didn't last more than 3 weeks in which time the shop where my parents bought it (some small indie games shop) mysteriously closed down so they couldn't get a refund/replacement.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Squinty » Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:00 pm

I've went through a 360 (red light of doom), 2 PS1 consoles, 1 PS2 console. All 3 of my playstation's had disc read problems in the end. The PS2 started scratching games towards the end of its life.

No Nintendo breakages despite drops and general mistreatment.

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PostRe: Console destruction
by Preezy » Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:10 pm

Ironhide wrote:The original Gameboy was by far the most robust games console/handheld ever made, dropped mine countless times and generally mistreated it and it never broke, even now, despite having no battery cover or front screenguard it still works after nearly 25 years.

Same here o/

Watching that video makes me realise just how fragile my PS4 must be. Clearly their channel budget wouldn't stretch to the current gen :lol:

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PostRe: Console destruction
by TheTurnipKing » Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:11 pm

jawafour wrote:In general, it seems that the older a console is the longer it'll last. Maybe it's because they have more in them, but newer consoles never feel very robust. Having said that, I think I read that "capacitors" only have a working lfe of around twenty years... I'm not knowledgeable about electronics, but does that mean that older machines would need to have these replaced at some point? Would that be possible/easy?

Capacitors are usually generic electronic components. As long as they don't leak and damage the traces on the circuit board, they can be replaced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZygwZKBsI

If they leak, life gets a lot more complicated, but on simpler systems it's often possible to patch a bad trace with wire.


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