It still works!!

[Saltyk]

I guarantee you that if I could find my old brick Gameboy (between my house and my parent's house) it would still work. Probably without replacing the batteries. Those things will outlive us humans.

I was so ready to make a dick joke until I read the entire OP.

I was pretty horrified when I heard you can actually "break" your dick if it bends too much while erect.

That sounds like the worst pain imaginable.

 

[staika]

When my cousin and I were out fishing he dropped his phone in the lake and he jumped in the lake and made a mad dive and he managed to grab his phone from under the water. he put it in white rice when we got home and the phone worked perfectly after that.

 

[Shakomaru]

The person I like dropped her phone in the snow and left it frozen overnight in below zero weather, and found it then next day, thawed it out, and it worked... I just drop all my stuff. nothing too interesting.

 

[the spud]

My NES fell from a third floor then i tried to use it and it worked

How did that happen? Were you gaming outside the window?

When my cousin and I were out fishing he dropped his phone in the lake and he jumped in the lake and made a mad dive and he managed to grab his phone from under the water. he put it in white rice when we got home and the phone worked perfectly after that.

White rice?...The fuck?

 

[The Lugz]

my water-cooling loop split over my 260, fortunately i had some fancy non conductive water so it was all happy days after i dried everything off
and it still works to this day, my niece has it for her pc now!


I once saw an rc car run over by a pick-up just to drive off, barely scratched
front shock on my bike made a horrible cracking noise when i hit a log once, and went all soggy for a while, but apparently it has a self pressurising ram so it refilled the cylinder by itself

plenty of other things...
I'm a bit of a hardware nut however the resilience of some consumer hardware and electronics baffles even me
yet others seem to be held together with Papier-mâché and thumb tacks and break easily in for-filling their designed role

hard plastic cups that mysteriously shatter is a good example of this tomfoolery

 

[Pandaman1911]

One time I playing the original Smash Bros. with my friend, and his sister tripped over the controller cord. The N64 fell off of his 5 1/2' dresser and landed on the linoleum floor, controller port first. The game never shut off. We just kept playing.

You could drop that thing off a high-rise and keep playing it. It was built like a tank. Nowadays you look at a system funny and you get a hardware error.

But yeah, I ran a copy of Sonic Advance through the laundry machine, and all that happened was I lost all my save data. I really did not expect it to still work. Plus, the game smelled like Mountain Rain detergent afterwards! (Which is a stupid name for a detergent. Mountains are dirty. Rain is dirty. And on top of that, the detergent smells like detergent, not rain on a goddamned mountain.

 

[smearyllama]

My NES fell from a third floor then i tried to use it and it worked

How did that happen? Were you gaming outside the window?

When my cousin and I were out fishing he dropped his phone in the lake and he jumped in the lake and made a mad dive and he managed to grab his phone from under the water. he put it in white rice when we got home and the phone worked perfectly after that.

White rice?...The fuck?

Rice is really water-absorbant. That's why there's grains of rice in salt shakers.

 

[Kinkaido]

One time I playing the original Smash Bros. with my friend, and his sister tripped over the controller cord. The N64 fell off of his 5 1/2' dresser and landed on the linoleum floor, controller port first. The game never shut off. We just kept playing.

Same thing happened with my snes, only it landed cartridge first. Still works, though it can get a bit temperamental about which games it will play.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I was so ready to make a dick joke until I read the entire OP.

I was pretty horrified when I heard you can actually "break" your dick if it bends too much while erect.

I... what? No one ever fucking warned me about that!

It makes sense when you stop to think about it.

OT: I once got blood on the inside of my watch (the face part). still works, which surprised the hell out of me.

 

[The Lugz]

My NES fell from a third floor then i tried to use it and it worked

How did that happen? Were you gaming outside the window?

When my cousin and I were out fishing he dropped his phone in the lake and he jumped in the lake and made a mad dive and he managed to grab his phone from under the water. he put it in white rice when we got home and the phone worked perfectly after that.

White rice?...The fuck?

Rice is really water-absorbant. That's why there's grains of rice in salt shakers.

interesting use for rice, i'd still go with a cloth and a warm place over a pot of rice any day tho

 

[the spud]

My NES fell from a third floor then i tried to use it and it worked

How did that happen? Were you gaming outside the window?

When my cousin and I were out fishing he dropped his phone in the lake and he jumped in the lake and made a mad dive and he managed to grab his phone from under the water. he put it in white rice when we got home and the phone worked perfectly after that.

White rice?...The fuck?

Rice is really water-absorbant. That's why there's grains of rice in salt shakers.

Ohhh...Life makes more sense now...
I might have to try that some time.
OT: Pretty much anything that has happened to my gamecube. That thing is a tank.

 

[Tartarga]

A rather heavy chair once fell on my copy of Shadow of the Colossus, not a scratch on it. I'm still amazed at how lucky I was on that day.

 

[Condor219]

An SUV once drove over my copy of Pokemon Fire Red. The force broke half the plastic part of the cartridge off, exposing the raw circuit board to the game, as well as causing an indent in the remaining plastic. Luckily, the "remaining" part was what held it in the GBA, and when someone found it and started it up, it worked like nothing had happened.

Oh, that and when my dog somehow got the case to Sim City 4 Deluxe and chewed it up, teeth indents and all showing in the disc, I started it up and miraculously it still worked.

 

[Lightning Delight]

My iPod is 6 years old, has been washed 7 times, has had Gatorade spilled all over it (orange flavored, if anyone cares), fell in the pool once, and is constantly used as a chew toy for my dog. And it still works.

 

[The Lugz]

I was so ready to make a dick joke until I read the entire OP.

I was pretty horrified when I heard you can actually "break" your dick if it bends too much while erect.

I... what? No one ever fucking warned me about that!

well it's true, you can tear the skin, rupture the blood vessels or snap the cartilage / ligaments inside..
it needs a warning label:

'do not bend in use'
- you don't even wanna know why.

( with flavour-text of-course, flavour-text is the win. )

 

[Waaghpowa]

My Zune HD was in my back pocket when it went through the wash, then bounced around in the dryer. Still works, if it were an Ipod it probably would've died.

 

[Denamic]

interesting use for rice, i'd still go with a cloth and a warm place over a pot of rice any day tho

Rice is actually much better.
It's particularly good at absorbing atmospheric moisture for being so readily available.
It'll get rid of the moisture in the hard to reach spots where cloth is useless.
Also, never heat up electronic devices.
Heat = death.
And keep your shit out of the sun.

 

[staika]

When my cousin and I were out fishing he dropped his phone in the lake and he jumped in the lake and made a mad dive and he managed to grab his phone from under the water. he put it in white rice when we got home and the phone worked perfectly after that.

White rice?...The fuck?

Yeah supposedly the white rice absorbs the fluid that the phone got when it was dropped in the lake. My cousin supposedly learned that trick from the internet and I was skeptical at first but it worked so I can't complain with the results.

 

[The Shade]

Yeah, when I was younger I dropped my GBA in the toilet. Thankfully, before using the toilet(and it had just been cleaned). I immediately grabbed the system, took out the game and disassembled the sucker. I let it dry for three days and it worked perfectly afterwards. Still got a new one just in case though.

I once dropped my Gameboy Colour in the snow in my front yard and lost it. Four months later, when the snow melted, I found it in the mud and it turned on just fine.
I'm impressed by Nintendo's durable handhelds and all, but what friggen' brand were those batteries?!?!

 

[thejackyl]

My phone went through the washer.

Removed the battery and had that and the phone sitting on a towel all night to dry. The outside display was ruined, and the inside display had a few spots, but it worked after it had dried out.

My new phone has been dropped SEVERAL times and it still works.

My Gamecube was dropped onto the street when I was loading it into my car, and it still works, though it's not very "Cubic" anymore. The top left corner is slightly caved in.

Oh, and a friend of mine sold me his copy of A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time, for a dollar. Apparently he spilled a bottle of cologne into his container of games, and those were the only ones I wanted. After about 2 hours of constant play (back than at least) you began to smell the cologne he spilled. (It was nasty stuff too )