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2666087 No.2666087 [Reply] [Original]

Did any of your consoles break when you were younger and you/parents needed to buy a new one?

>> No.2666089

nope

>> No.2666094

Nintendonium is a real thing.

Dropped, smacked, kicked and whacked. The SNES never stopped working.

>> No.2666095

I replaced my N64 for a Pikachu N64 just because.

>> No.2666101

No.

Mastersystem: still around and working fine
Megadrive: still around and working fine
PS1: still around and working fine
Saturn: still around and working fine
Dreamcast: still around and working fine, dead battery
Xbox: dead clock capacitor leaked on the motherboard, destroyed

>> No.2666103

I broke my older brother's gameboy and he got a pocket.

>> No.2666105

>>2666087
Yep, 2 Gameboy NB.

>> No.2666108

>>2666087
They only console that ever "broke" on me when I was kid was my ps2. Fucking Disc Read Error!

also pls dont use boobtube cancer in your op.

>> No.2666116

No way in hell were my parents going to buy me a new console if I broke mine.

>>2666108
>pls dont use boobtube cancer in your op
This.

>> No.2666121

yeah right. I got like one thing a year. and that was always a bike.

>> No.2666131

My game boy's screen cracked, spilling its liquid crystal guts. While I did get a new one, I had to wait a couple months to get it for my birthday.

>> No.2666139

>>2666121
then got sent off to work at 15-16. And just bought all my own shit.

>> No.2666140

>>2666101
Nigga you were warned about those fucking caps way before they started doing that.

>> No.2666210

The screen on my gameboy broke when I took it to school in second or third grade. I guess I had a heavy book in my bag or something.

>> No.2666248

>>2666210
My pocket's screen broke when my brother sat on a bag that it was in. Took it to the local Nintendo repair shop, had it fixed by the next day. Thanks mom.

>> No.2666283

Nope, If it broke, I had to try and fix it or else I had nothing.

>> No.2666321

Nope, all are still working and playable to this day:
Atari 2600
NES
Master System
SNES
N64
PS1
Dreamcast
PS2
Xbox Prime

Though my 360 red ringed and I ended up buying a neighbors off of him for cheap.

>> No.2666351

>>2666087
No. I broke plenty of controllers but never a console. My dad threw my 99 4/A across the yard and it still worked fine.

>> No.2666373

Ps1 broke, but at the time I was touching the lens, and kept pulling apart the spindle. I was like four or five at the time. I still have the old system, the lens just need to be cleaned and the spindle needs to be replaced.

>> No.2666381

>>2666087
I gave my little brother my Gameboy color when he was like six, he dropped it and broke the screen like a week later.

I felt really bad for the little guy, first thing I did with my first paycheck of my first job was buy him a psp

>> No.2666382

Not me but my best friend tried to flushed his older brothers Game Boy Color down the toilet and it still worked. It's mine now

>> No.2666390

>>2666382
That's fucked up

>> No.2666397

>>2666390
Why?

>> No.2666450

>>2666108
>>2666116
>caring about op images
are you faggots fucking new?

>> No.2666660

>>2666140
Did someone go around door to door letting people know about it? It would probably be some obscure info unless you were actually looking for it.

>> No.2666691

>>2666087
Ugh. Yes. All the time. I have an older brother who I had to share consoles with. I was always very careful with how I cared for everything, but he was the opposite. It wasn't a huge issue until we got a PS2 to be honest. He treated it so badly. He would never, ever put games away in their cases. He would use the PS2 as his foot rest while gaming. He broke our 3rd PS2 this way. He never washed his hands before gaming, and would always drink soda without any kind of lids. He constantly spilled them too. This is how PS2 #2 and #4 died. Thats right, I didn't just have one or two PS2s, I had fucking 5, because he broke 4 of them. Two to soda, 1 to falling off the table after he used it as a foot rest. I don't actually know to this day what he did with the first one.

Oh, and that 5th one? Because all of the games were shared, he took them all, including the consoles, and sold them all for money to buy drugs. Including games like Misadventures of Tronne Bonne, Suikoden 2, full .hack series, etc...

>> No.2666717

>>2666087
I've had to do general repairs on several consoles, but complete loses were very few.

A model 1 Mega Drive got destroyed because it was stored away with a weight on top. It crushed the on/off switch, splitting the board in half.

My Saturn stopped displaying video the day after I chipped it. I took it back to the place that did the job for me and they replaced the entire motherboard because they couldn't track the issue.

I went through two Xbox consoles, both broke. One had the problem that causes it to turn on/off by itself because of corroded tracks, and the other had HDD errors. Both are fixed, but I have no money to go pick them up again for the meantime.

My Master System, SNES, Sega CD, 2 GBASPs, Atari 2600, never had any problems. In particular, it feels like I could use my SMS to murder someone using it as a blunt weapon, and it would still be fine afterwards.

>> No.2666863

>>2666087
No. But my mom threw my 2600 at a stone tile floor full force and it was just fine aside from a chipped corner.

Atari games don't stand up too good against a hammer though.

>> No.2666884

Lost my first PS1 to a 3rd party controller somehow, after I plugged it in it wouldn't turn on.

>> No.2666891

I poured milk into a Master System when I was 3, apparently it stopped working for about a week.

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>>2666891
Not spilled, but poured? You did it willingly?

I am curious.

>> No.2666907

>>2666717
I had similar experiences with different systems. I bricked my psx doing a really hacked up mod with the spring out of a bic pen and some tape as far as I remember. I was trying to play burnt/imported games. That was pretty late in its lifecycle though, so I already had a ps2 to play those games on. That was my first time fucking around with the hardware of a console I owned.

My Wii is soft-modded, and some features don't work quite right anymore, but all around it's been good. There's some decently well-built homebrew software out there for the Wii.

Xbox 360s though. Jesus. I've fixed four of them for myself and friends after they got the RROD. A $3 tube of heatsink paste and 8 pennies is all it would take to fix that glaring design flaw with their GPU. It's planned obsolescence in action. Instead of a heatsink or a fan or something for their console's main GPU, they put a fucking foam pad over the chip. Zero airflow and no heatsink. Of course they overheat and brick peoples' systems. Retarded.

My snes and genesis from the first maybe year after launch both live to this day. I've never had a problem with anything from that generation.

nice satan trips btw. HAIL SATAN!

>> No.2666909

>>2666087
my 3DO died a few years back do to old age, but consoles never died. Had a smaller crt fall on my ps1 one day and it still worked.

>> No.2666914

>>2666904
>be 5
>get told to feed dog
>pour dog food into bowl
>think it's dog cereal
>pour milk into bowl
>upset dog won't eat it, dont want it to get soggy
>get on all fours and eat dog cereal with milk

>> No.2666917

>>2666863
kek. Did she think the atari was tempting you to do the devil's work?

>> No.2666932

I dropped my first gen Game Boy hueg on the garage floor and it got a bunch of vertical lines through the screen. I was so upset but I called the 1-800 number on the back of it and Nintendo repaired it for free despite the fact that I bought it at a pawn shop. They said there was a recall on ones that had that problem or something.

It's a shame video companies aren't like that still, but when your consoles have a 65% fail rate I guess you can't be as generous as when they have a 5% fail rate.

All my other consoles from the 20th century are still working fine with the exception of Sega CDs. Sega CDs are pretty shit.

>> No.2667056

My SMS overheated after leaving it on overnight in a small enclosed wooden box. Repaired under warranty (I think?)

Damn Zillion had no save feature.

>> No.2667061

>>2666914
>Brother says give dog a 'milkbone'
>4 yo.
>What's that?
>"huehuehue. You get a bone and put it in a glass milk."
>Dog doesn't give a fuck
>Box of milkbone brand dog cookies in pantry

>> No.2667279

I had a an Xbox get stolen about a year after I bought it

luckily, by that time Jet Set Radio Future was the pack-in game, and that was the only Xbox game I ever played (the disc was in the system when it got jacked). I had the money, so I was like fuck it I'll buy another fucking Xbox

>tfw I payed over $500 basically just to play Jet Set Radio Future
>it averaged out to about 3-4 dollars an hour of playtime

>> No.2667316

Only consoles I ever had stop working weren't retro.
My fat PS2 started giving disc read errors.
My fat DS had its hinge break, which pinched the ribbon cable and disabled the top screen (still works fine for GBA games).
My DS lite had its hinge break. I replaced the housing.

Of course the only retro consoles I owned as a kid were the NES, N64, and a Game Boy Color. The latter two being when I was old enough to care for things.

>> No.2667319

>>2667279
It's not even as good as the Dreamcast one anyway.

>> No.2667325

>>2667279
>>2667319
Fucking haram, I say. JSRF is one of the top games on the system, and better than the DC game, even if not by much.

The other bundled game, Sega GT 2002, was pretty good too. Don't tell me you never bothered playing it.

>> No.2667480

I didn't use my PS1 much, so my best friend by the age of 14 asked me if I could lend it with some games.

He got addicted to FFIX, it took a few months to see it. Then I noticed something weird: games were not loading at all. It got stuck on the PS logo and that was it. I was frustrated and he refused to take responsibility. After some time of being mad at him, he told me he threw the console at his brother for stopping him before he could save and he had to reassemble the thing.

A few months later, sure enough, with my scratched copy of FFIX and my broken console, he bought himself a PSone with another copy of FFIX. He would then brag about getting excalibur II and everything. I stopped seeing him. He was a massive homo. Fuck you, David. You son of a whore. I know you're on the street asking for money to buy drugs and I ain't helping your ass.

>> No.2667489

>>2666103
Just one?
Was it a shirt pocket in that case?

>> No.2667492

>>2666381
You're a good brother

>> No.2667495

>>2666094
I think they found some leftover nintendium for the wii u gamepad because i've dropped it several times like a total tard and it hasn't stopped functioning even slightly.

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2667504

No, but my dumbass dad would go to some shady porn sites, download viruses, and then blame me for breaking the computer.

>ANON!! YOUR GAMES ARE SLOWING DOWN THE COMPUTER!!!!

>> No.2667513

>>2667495
No. It's just a very empty shell

>> No.2667516

Of all the near dozen systems I've owned, the shitbox 360 is the only one that ever broke.

>> No.2667527

Wow reading this shit thank god I didn't have siblings that were also into gaming to fuck my shit up.

Everything from NES-PS2 works. I never owned any Xbox consoles or Segas besides the dreamcast tho.

Xbox360 red ringed when I had like.. 6 games to my name, I hardly played it lol, fucking pathetic.

I have a launch cecha01 ps3 with custom firmware and shit, runs like a champ. I had it reballed with leaded solder and put some extra fans in it though, that guy idles around 50C. Pretty good emulation, I don't really have money to mod all my consoles to work on flatscreens.

>> No.2667549

>>2667504
hahahahahaha yeah, totally this.

>slowly creep around kitchen corner and peer through the hallway at mirror reflecting computer screen in office
>shemales.jpeg
>"HEY DAD!"
>so startled he just mashes ctrl alt del until forced restart

>> No.2667560

>>2666691
Wow, your older bro was/is a douche.

>> No.2667561

>>2666932
>All my other consoles from the 20th century are still working fine

This has been my general experience as well. As a child/young teen, I never had a single thing go wrong with any of my consoles; they felt like they were indestructible. Computers were the things that felt delicate in comparison.

I did, however, have a Game Boy Color stolen from me a few weeks after I started fifth grade in the fall of 2000. I made the idiotic mistake of leaving it unattended in my desk while I was in gym class (albeit zipped away in one of those Five-Star binders that were all the rage), and by the time I got back it was gone. Thing was, OP, my parents didn't buy me a new one, they said I would learn a "valuable lesson" about "being careful with [my] posessions". Couldn't even wait until my birthday the following year to get a Game Boy Advance. I had to scrimp and save allowance money for two years before I managed to get an Advance SP at launch. In the end, though, I'm actually kinda glad that my parents chose to act like total Jews, because since then I've looked after my stuff with the utmost caution, while my friends are all still breaking and/or getting stuff stolen all the time.

>> No.2667571

>>2666094
The first Nintendo console to break on me was my GCN, and my launch Wii has one of those faulty GPUs (and it killed my memory card 1019). NES and SNES are still running fine. Shit Nintendo, what happened?

>> No.2667578

Original gameboy, n64 and master system still working 100%. First Playstation bought in Dec 1996 FMV starts skipping within 6 months. Really upset and blame myself for some reason (find out years later it was a known fault of earlier models). Get new ps1. Within 5 months disc spindle starts losing pieces. Phone helpline and offer me refurbished model. Didn't understand that refurbished meant an old one fixed up and agreed. However, got a new scph model 5x and still working 100% today.

>> No.2667610

>>2666087
I remember my PSOne's cd reader failing back in 2001. Got it fixed for 10 bucks, still working today.

>> No.2667613

>>2666904
According to my mother, I thought the console was thirsty.

>> No.2667615

>>2667480
I declare this a legendary post

>> No.2667617

>>2667615
By the way my parents didn't buy me another one of course. I couldn't play PS1 games until I got into emulation. Fucking homo-hobo. Bet he sucks dick for meth.

>> No.2667742

>>2667571
What happened is the same thing that happened to all of the other consoles. It's really easy to make a durable console when it's fairly simple. When it's one step away from being a PC, it becomes more likely to fail.

>> No.2668172

>>2666087

This one summer, 2 different TVs burned out at home and my parents blamed "that damn Nintendo" and still swear that the NES was responsible for those pieces of shit giving out. Whatever. That led them to buying me the first GameBoy and basically saying "here, kill this shit instead". Ironically, a couple years down the line, my GameBoy started having a line or 2 of dead pixels and I had to buy another one...

>> No.2668173

>>2666351

>My dad threw my 99 4/A across the yard and it still worked fine.


back story please?

>> No.2668259

>>2666917
Nah, I said something sassy when she was having a bad day and it made her hulk out. I think I know where my anger issues come from, now that I think about it...

>> No.2669220

>>2667319
I agree. JGR is one of the greatest things mankind ever created

JSRF is a mixed bag, and I was conflicted about the changes from JGR even at the time. but I still couldn't help but play the fuck out ot it, and eventually 100% it.

>>2667325
for like a half hour

later on, once games were cheap, I started picking up other stuff for it. Project Gotham (I had Metropolis Street Racer for DC) and Tiger Woods Golf (holy fuck how was that game as fun as it was? it bummed me out the 360 couldn't run it)

over time, I got my money's worth for 2 Xboces*, but for a couple years it was purely my JSRF machine.

*not a typo

>> No.2669262

Our N64 got fried in a power surge during a storm.
Since it wasn't the fault of me or my brother, our parents didn't have a problem with picking up a new one from a pawnshop.
That one is still working. The only downside is that we went from Atomic Purple to Black.

>> No.2669369

None of my retro stuff has broke on me. Original Xbox disk drive burnt out and I replaced it. Had another Original Xbox that had the corroded trace problem, fixed that too. Damn Xbox 360 the day I bought it had a faulty hard drive so I just got it exchanged. The new one I got failed after about a year but I had actually bought the warrenty since I had heard they fail a lot (plus that first one made me cautious). I had a couple other systems my friend had given me, ps2 and GCN, they failed on him. I just took them fixed em up and put them in my collection. He knew too and it didn't matter to him, didn't play them anymore.

>> No.2669390

>>2666087
When I was a kid, I left my playstation at my dad's house. A rat pissed on it. It still worked but it smelled like rat piss. Tried getting the smell out by soaking it in cleaning products but that broke it. Stupid me. Anyway, never got a new one. Every time I see a playstation I remember the smell. Dad's never acknowledged it. Really wish he got me a new one.

>> No.2669846

>>2666087
fell in a pool with my gbasp in my pocket. Gramma bought me a new one, the ds was out at the time so they were only $100. I appreciated the gesture, but I really wanted an original ds so I was a little bummed.

That special type of bummed where you feel guilty for not just enjoying what you have. I still have that SP, I can't even look at it anymore cuz of the blinding ugly frontlight

>> No.2669853

>>2666087
No, all my 8 and 16 bit consoles still work. Except for a Sega CD that I foolishly fried, but that was my own doing and I replaced it myself.

It wasn't till the PS1 era when I was buying all my own stuff that consoles started being built like shit. I have 4 of those fucking things die on me, as well as 2 PS2s and 3 PSPs. Sony builds shit like garbage.

>> No.2669901

>>2666660
Ok, yeah, if you didn't get your internet until 2011 then I guess you may not have known.

I'm not sure how you would have missed the dozens of "HEY YOUR XBOX ONE WILL EXPLODE IF YOU DON"T CLIP THIS CAP OFF" articles that have been around since like 2004.