Daily Drop: GameBoy

[OisinDeBrun]

not a happy camper... i was denyed one of these as a kid... doomed to walk the land gameboy-less ... and this is how you treat one of the fabled holy tablets of gaming? the gods will not be happy campers either

 

[Saelune]

I wanna see them drop a Gamecube. Morgan Von Webb would be happy to see her experiment verified.

Also, that vid made me feel old. Simply cause I knew what that was and had one at one point, and kids today have no idea what one of those are.

X-Play did a test on how well made last gen was in their construction. They dropped an Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube. The Gamecube was the only one still working in the end.

 

[waroftheflyingzebras]

... How could you!? I... I... I think i'm going to cry! thanks alot, i come to this site to unwind and here i see you destroying a Game Boy! *Cries in corner*

 

[jackknife402]

Why would you destroy such a beautiful piece of artwork? If I had the money, I'd "Daily Drop" you, by scale. See how a three story high building would agree with you....

I was just screaming "NOOOOO! NOT MY CHILDHOOD!"

I had mine survive a drop downstairs, mud, being ran over by a 92 geo metro and chucked at a wall.

 

[Eleima]

I knew it'd take the crowbar!!! XD

Now let's see a PSP... Seriously, that thing wouldn't even survive the first drop, I'm willing to bet.

 

[SweEscaspist]

Game Boy: The hardest substance known to man.

 

[tehweave]

How the hell is it so resistant? I had a friend with an original gameboy back when I was 7 (1995) and I got so frustrated with a game that I slammed the gameboy into my forehead (anger issues back then) and the screen was smashed to pieces. Completely unplayable. Here I am 16 years later and I've heard about the gameboy that lived through the gulf war (AND WAS STILL PLAYABLE) and the fact that LRR dropped a gameboy twice... Barely did anything, and even after hitting it with a crowbar, all it did was break the plastic...

Did my friend have a really faulty one, or what?

 

[Marik Bentusi]

Well, at least hell will be funny with you guys.

 

[Cannorn]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I actually shed a tear, you just threw my inner child down the stairs then brained him with a crowbar, well...a small part of him anyway...but still

For all that the least you could do is destroy it completely, why not post remains to will it blend

 

[jovack22]

This is the first time I thought 'NOOOOO' in my head lol.

 

[deckai]

Isn't this in someway cruelty against elderly?

A fine piece of handheld... I gave my to my grandmother, she loves to play Tetris and Micky Mouse on it.

 

[Billy3B]

I always said that thing was a brick. You could never destroy it. And if it ever stopped workign you could use it to smach a window and get a new one.

 

[DeepComet5581]

I suspect the thing still works. If one can survive a bombing then it can survive a crowbarring.

Although if you're going to do that to something that rare you may as well drop a Faberge Egg later in the week.

Also, I seem to remember from the first crowbarred video that Graham was the one who smashes the things to oblivion.

 

[Chubbs99]

One hit with a crowbar against Nintendidum? I bet you that brick will still work.

Still though... Nooooooo You monsters!!!!

 

[FamoFunk]

Not suprised, that peice of bad-ass machinery has taken so many (accidental) beatings from me and I can still play it.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Nintendium, baby. What would you have done if the Crowbar didn't work (you only cracked the top anyway)?

'Applying Shotgun...'
'Applying Nuclear Warhead...'

 

[Slanzinger]

Ah, I already knew how this was going to end. Considering that back in the day I did some accidental "testing" of my own, dropping my yellow Gameboy onto a hard stable floor. And like the first drop here, the only negative effect was that the outer screen fell off. Everything else about it still worked absolutely fine.
I was hoping you were going to switch it on after every drop to show it still worked! Mine certainly did!
(Does it still work after the crowbarring? Say you didn't kill it!)

Ah, memories of childhood...

 

[Withall]

I wanted to see if the Gameboy was still working after that whack. Nintendonium FTW!

 

[Slanzinger]

It's been so long that I've used on I forgot what those ports on the side are for. I know it can't charge, and I don't recall any cord-based multiplayer games...

Yeah, there were Link Cable multiplayer games, for example Pokemon in all its various forms, and I think Tetris and Mario&Yoshi {the puzzle game} had multiplayer too - those were the only ones I had anyway. Apparently a couple of games were four-player if you had the correct four-way adapter (all the link cables had a socket in the middle I think, which allowed you to daisy-chain other cables onto it)
You could use some kind of printer in the Link Cable slot as well, which if I remember correctly could print stickers and such - but I never owned one of those and I don't think they did much with it or the camera (Yeah, the original Game Boy had a camera attachment [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Camera] - again I never owned one but one of my cousins did and it was AWESOME.) The printer and Link Cable went in the large square port on the side.
And it could be run off mains if you had the correct adapter - this was used too for various rechargeable battery packs (it would fit in the battery slot but not have any contacts therein - instead there was a cable leading from the back of the GB to the AC port)

And then you have your fat dial for volume, and your thin dial for contrast. Headphone jack on the bottom. Power switch on the top which had the dual purpose of locking your game into the gameboy, and preventing you from trying to play Gameboy Colour-exclusive titles (they didn't have the same notch in the top of the cartridge)

Man, the Gameboy was awesome...

 

[Balthazzar]

That was the first time I didn't want to see the crowbar.