Mar 5 2008Gameboy Survives Bombing, Still Works

FAKE!

I've seen this GameBoy before. They keep it at the Nintendo World Store in New York City. I remember when this was first posted in Nintendo Power, I was like "That's awesome! This thing can withstand ANYTHING!". This goes to show that it really lives up to it's nickname, 'The Brick'.

They sure don't make things like they used to...try that with any other console...wait, try dropping any other console and you're out a lot of money.

and how did the screen survive being melted (even though it is less likely to sustain being heated) one might ask....

oh yeah, the protective screen that goes over it..... DURP!!

give me a break. mine fell off and constant attempts to sticky tape it back on were barely successful, leading me to not use one at all....

yes i am retarded. so are you. leave me alone.

This is a bad fake. I mean seriously, the perfect little hole for the red power led didn't melt? None of the buttons melted?

No, really. This is a REAL object. Is it really so hard to believe that this still works after being through some fire? I read this story about 18 years ago in Nintendo Power, and yes, they procured the GameBoy for the Nintendo World Store. And yeah, if you didn't notice, the protective screen is melted away completely. They probably popped it off and that's why the red LED still works.

And yes, video game systems of today couldn't take this sort of abuse. Put a DS in a fire and see if it works.

nooooooooooo

it's either real or a really GOOD fake. i'd like to see you make a melted gameboy (no really).

ps. plastic shrinks when melted. ie holes would open up instead of close

gagagagaggaag

Taken at the Nintendo World Store.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAnIRxgODy4&eurl=http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/torched-gulf-war-game-boy-still-works-225690.php

Whoever is playing Tetris in that video must be on downs or something.

Is the phrase "still works" meant to be taken literally?

I'm curious if the button and directional pad actually function. If all you can do is watch the demo on screen it wouldn't really be a "Game"boy.

And yes, it is proof that nothing can kill the power of Tetris.

No one's playing in the video. They just turn the game on and call it a day. Just like every other version of Tetris since this one, if you let it sit there, it will have a demo play.

This ain't no joke. I too remember reading about this a thousand years ago in the pages of Nintendo Power.

Man does time fly...

That is so fake, you can see where the cover comes off on the wooden bit. Yeah right that, that gameboy would've survived a bombing!

Boydi xXx (:

Is it charging in the picture?

Boydi xXx

Anyone who thinks this is fake can visit the mini-museum at Nintendo World in New York City and see the unit on display. I've been to Nintendo World several times over the past three years and this is one of their permanent exhibits. They also have Swarovski-encrusted DS consoles, Japanese consoles and some rare items, like this GameBoy signed by the Zelda creator:

http://picasaweb.google.com/stephenscott/NewYorkUSA/photo#5079034235974962498

This reminds me of the Nintendo Power magazines in the early nineties that every now and then contained letters to the editor with photos of people's gameboys that got really messed up but kept working. The house fire one from one issue looked worse than this one, even, but the screen still came on, though I believe the buttons were completely ruined - I remember another one where someone accidentally dropped it out of the second story window and smashed the screen and part of the casing, but the music still played when you inserted a cartridge and turned it on.

#11: the fact that it survived (not a fire) an EXPLOSION is pretty badass. So "still works" is a relative term.

And I say again, they sure don't make 'em like they used to.

hmmm only thing this proves is that Gameboys are made of recycled cockroaches.

ewwwwwwww

you're welcome :]

TESTICLES!!!

This is fake, and just because you can go to the Nintendo Power World Store and see it doesn't mean it's real.

THE OWNER WAS BURNED TO A CRISP.

Fake! The video was filmed on a sound stage in Oklahoma. All the other comments to this were Photoshopped and if you're reading this you're really a hologram.

If it's on the internet it couldn't POSSIBLY be real. Get out your tinfoil hats, friends, it's time to start whining about how it could have possibly been faked.

I remember seeing this in Nintendo Power too!!
Brings back good memories, that was a looong time ago.

WTF!!! That's a fake! it's the yellow Game Boy Color with brownish-black all over the body!! WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE SO STUPID TO THINK WE CAN GET TRICKED!!!

Not only is the screen(if you focus your eyes on the left, and bottom sides of it) can show plenty signs of re-installed, and the select and start button are rubber, rendering them completely gone wich were, since they are brand new in the pic..

Nobody saw the brand new start n select buttons? MY start n select button for my GBC looked blackishly yellow within a year or 2.

This is really sad. People posting articles like this 'Gameboy survives bombings' and others arguing some meaningless thing like is it a fake or not.
Go see something that didn't survive, like: http://www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/march2003/kewearchive_march30april4_2003.html
"Among the 168 patients I counted, not one was being treated for bullet wounds.
All of them, men, women, children, bore the wounds of bomb shrapnel.
It peppered their bodies.
Blackened the skin.
Smashed heads.
Tore limbs. "

This is definitely real. It's an old story that was originally run in the Nintendo Powers letter. Nintendo acquired the Game Boy from the soldier and gave him a new unit.

And for the non believer who think it's impossible because the light is still perfect and the screen too, you probably never saw a real Game Boy before, because you'd knew those Game Boys had a transparent plastic protector over the screen area, and in this picture, the protector is gone, because it was probably burned to a crisp like the rest of the unit.

And no, the buttons don't work anymore, or if they do, they don't work as smoothly as they used to. XD

i used to have a super nintendo that survived a fire and it still worked but i ended up just throwing it out cuz i didnt like the burnt look on it (wish i didnt do that tho). but the old gameboys are awesome. im not surprised it still works those things are tough.