How to get rid of roaches in an Xbox 360/Wii?

[NYLatenite]

Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to make sure.

Seriously, you can clean it, but who knows what surprises (eggs?) might still be in there - I'd say at the very least, once you clean it as best you can (and with the droppings that are no doubt in there, that's not going to be 100% clean), be sure to quarantine it in something for a good while - just to make sure.

In answer to one of the other questions on the topic, yeah - I remember reading somewhere that roaches are actually attracted to electromagnetic fields.

[Famidrive-16]

a teacher of mine who was a former exterminator was once sent to an abandoned tv station building that still had some wires hooked in around and he flipped up the floorboards to find AN ENTIRE LAYER OF ROACHES AAAAUUUUGGGGHHH

[cynicalhat]

This is why everytime I buy an old console somewhere I bring it out to my garage and. Spray the board down with electronic cleaner and have at it with a toothbrush before I bring it inside my house. They like the heat from standby mode electronics especially.

[TmEE]

nasty stuff...

I'd put it in a locker or some other small room and bugspray that room (don't bugspray the machine itself). The poisoned air should kill the bugs. Then you open the machine up, clean it nicely, wash the chassis and thigns should be good.
Do you know if the machine even works ?

[Enigmus]

Take a shotgun, shoot the systems, burn them, and then get used ones from GameStAAUGH.

[exit]

I'm not too Craigslist savvy, but shouldn't you have noticed this when you picked the items up? The first thing I would have done was inspect every inch of the consoles before I even considered handing my money over and I'm sure I would've noticed the smell in the process. I'm not trying to criticize you or anything, since I don't know the entire story, but this really seems like something that should have been noticed from the get go.

[Belmont008]

How common is this exactly? Is it possible that there are roaches in (most) every game console?

[briana26]

ah this is the same issue my brother is going to through. Infact our backyard is full of pests like roaches, ants, cockroaches.

[CRTGAMER]

So here's the bad news, which I hope is just a coincidence. I seen a bug in my apartment today similar to the one inside that system. My apartment complex offers free extermination visits so I'm going to schedule one tomorrow. I've been having dreams of finding roaches in my house lately, and any time my cat goes after something I jump up expecting to find one of those nasty fuckers. I have a bug phobia.

Two days later and console is still full of bugs!

Just break the seal and dump all the bugs in the trash outside! Its not like you have an option of a factory warranty.