The Gamecube keeps going and going and...

[BHvrd]

I've had my Gamecube pretty much since launch day, about 2 months after launch, and i'll admit I haven't taken very good care of it. :smirk:

I never dusted it "many dust bunnies in that grill", dropped it about a half dozen times "actually my dumb ass friends would always trip over the cords", and finally it kicked the bucket about a week or so ago, or so I thought.

So some 5+ years after abuse, and all I had to do was break it open and shove a plastic knife in it...

http://h1.ripway.com/Kingbiscuit/Knifecube.jpg

Ok so maybe it's not exactly the best method I could have used :D, but hey it's working!

Regardless of my abuse "and lack of decent tools", I gotta say this was one very well designed and versatile system. One of the best ever imho.

[CreamSoda]

I can agree with you on this one, I've had my Gamecube since launch day in 2001. And it still works perfectly after years of abuse(mostly by accident). *Knocks on Wood* I hope the Wii holds up as well as the previous Nintendo consoles have.

Off Topic: I just wish my 360 would have been made as durable as the GC/N64/SNES. DAMN YOU RED RING OF DEATH!!!!!!!

[studvicious]

If there's one thing Nintendo does best it's making durable hardware. No doubt about that.

[RARusk]

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=97886&hl=

One of my better reclaimation projects (even if AtariAge's new forum software moved the pictures to the bottom of my post - scroll about halfway down the thread). And I still haven't replaced the logo disc.....

[Rogmeister]

I've had my GameCube since Launch Day and had no problems with it. But then, I didn't go kicking it around to see how much punishment it would take. I have accidentally kicked my SNES several times and no problem with that.

[Snapple]

GameCube is definitely more durable than the PS2 or Xbox. Nintendo makes stuff that lasts. Usually.

The original NES and original Gameboy excluded.

[carslayer]

My friend's basement flooded, and the gamecube was on the floor. it was in an inch of water for more than a day, and still works perfectly. out of the last generation, I can say for sure that the gamecube is the most durable, with the Xbox in distant second and a third for dreamcast then the PS2 in dead last. Nintendoes NES was crappy but that was because of the unnecesarry moving parts.

[c0ldb33r]

X-Play did a segment about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRguiutlnWc

It's been posted before, but is relevant to this topic, and very entertaining :D

[8-bitNesMan]

@ Snapple: I've got to beg to differ with you about the original Game Boy. Those little dudes are tough! Who can forget the brilliant marketing on Nintendo's part with the GB from Desert Storm that was blackened and charred but still played?

@ Carslayer: Which moving part are you referring to? Spring loaded cartridge slot?

[PDorr3]

A friend of mine once set a gamecube on fire which he made a youtube video of awhile ago (I did not witness it firsthand) and boy did it stand up to the flames for awhile. I have also seen videos of gamecubes being dropped, smashed, you name it. These damn machines hold up really well to torture. The Wii is the only nintendo system that to me seems delicate due to how slim and small it is, however it really is another well build and sturdy piece of hardware.

If you were to drop a PSP and a DS (I would say an original design DS not a lite) from like 15 ft in the air I would say hands down the DS would survive to work again, PSP to me is the most prone to breakage system out there.

[carslayer]

Yeah, the spring loaded cart slot is such a pain. look at the master system. It is just a regular cart slot, and i have never had any problem with an SMS, and have never seen one that didnt work. If nintendo had'nt tried to hard to make the thing look like a VCR, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to find one that actually works. and yeah, i guess i cant blame them, it would have been hard to sell an actual game machine after the 2600 market crash (so they made the carts huge like tapes and the system like a VCR) but why did poor canada have to suffer? Canada didnt have a video game market crash, and we got american systems with spring loaded slots that never work. what did canadians do to deserve that? Japan got nice famicoms that have no moving parts and always work. they never had a market crash.

anyways, im ranting. my point is, consoles with no moving parts usually work, sony systems shatter in the slightest breeze, and out of all the disk-based systems, the Saturn and gamecube are BY FAR the toughest. the gamecube, as you can see by numerous you-tube videos of console smashing and dragging behind cars, is near indestructable, and i swear a could park my car on top of my saturn and kick it around for days and then go play Sega Rally on it. that thing is amazing. sadly, that wasnt the case with the dreamcast. those things are weak

and im ranting again.

[retroman]

I have had mine since day one, and i have never had a prob...Knock on wood.

[retroman]

i remember that...

[Mayhem]

I'm lucky... not just all my Cubes, but I've never had a piece of hardware go duff on me. But indeed Nintendo make their stuff to last...

[ProgrammingAce]

my brother spilled a bottle of mountain dew in my gamecube, still works fine to this day...

[NinjaJoey23]

My experience with the Gamecube has been quite different. Within the first 18 months of launch, I had three Gamecubes die on me. These were machines that were not abused, kept clean, and handled with care. Oh well.

[Mobius]

out of all the disk-based systems, the Saturn and gamecube are BY FAR the toughest.

I dunno... The 3DO FZ-1 is a god damn tank, as far as I'm concerned.

http://www.vidgame.net/3DO/PANASONIC3D0.html

[Hwj_Chim]

My nintendo systems are the only ones that i have had problems with (from Nes on). My other systems (ps2 included) have all been rock solid.

[tom]

My GC works fine from day one (alright, my original from UK launchday I sold after 4 month to a crazy UK guy.....= (Uh i gotta have your Game Cube...now.....So I said: OK GBP 100, and he gave me the money on the spot).
Then I got one later when the black ones arrived in UK, still works fine.
Same time period I went through 3 PlayStations (original), always a CD drive problem. Now, my PSX number 4 is dead too. (Although my PSOne works from day one)

[shadowforte]

I love me some gamecube.

[exit]

I've had my GC since the release of the RE-make and haven't had a single problem with it. My old Gameboy went through hell and back, worst that happened is you'd hear no sound without headphones.

Nintendo can build a mean product.

[GarrettCRW]

I'm surprised that the famous "Desert Storm" Game Boy hasn't been mentioned yet. Also, in '90 or so, someone wrote into Nintento Power telling how their NES and games survived a flooded basement.

[WanganRunner]

If there's one thing Nintendo does best it's making durable hardware. No doubt about that.

+1

I've never had a Nintendo product break on me, ever, after tens of thousands of hours gaming and hundreds of individual Nintendo products over the years.

Not so much as a snapped plastic game boy game case....nothing.

[Leo_A]

You guys should enjoy this video I just found.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RoD6zzd35mc

[8-bitNesMan]

I'm surprised that the famous "Desert Storm" Game Boy hasn't been mentioned yet. Also, in '90 or so, someone wrote into Nintento Power telling how their NES and games survived a flooded basement.

It has. Check out post #9...

[Lady Jaye]

I've had my Cube since the first price drop (4 years ago) and it still works perfectly, aside from an occasional start screen freeze (during the GameCube logo animation), and even then it's not that often, and it's nothing that a reboot doesn't fix (probably just some dust issue).

[Frica89]

I swear those things are bulletproof.