How tough are NES cartridges?

[Famidrive-16]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLOxK6FpfA

Pretty tough, I guess.

[pseudonym]

They'll be around longer than Roaches and/or the Zombie Apocalypse circa 2040?

Seriously, I've never broken one and I was pretty rough with them when I was a kid. You can fuck them up pretty bad by putting gum or something like that on the contacts though.

[Wraith Storm]

Damn! That was pretty hardcore!

Some of those like being ran over and dropped off the parking garage really surprised me when the game worked.

[tubeway]

Wasn't there a couple people squirming when the AVGN would destroy a cart? They must be tearing their hair out while watching these.

[Landon]

Behold the beauty of something well encased, with absolutely no moving parts. We figured out they were damn near indestructible pretty early on and from that point forward, ceased caring about how we treated them. Don't recall ever breaking one. Did step on a Zelda once and cracked the protective lip, but still worked.

[RPG_Fanatic]

Pretty good video.

[MASTERWEEDO]

I flipped my SUV at 70mph, I picked up loose NES games(that ii had just bought) for about a half mile, all worked.

[-hellvin-]

I flipped my SUV at 70mph, I picked up loose NES games(that ii had just bought) for about a half mile, all worked.

Lmao...I can just picture you hobbling for about half a mile...smoking car behind you, scooping up NES carts.

[Andred]

I put all my NES carts in a fridge once. A nuke went off and blew them across the desert but they were fine.

[Gentlegamer]

http://paxarcana.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/nuke_the_fridge.jpg

[PC-ENGINE HELL]

Lmao...I can just picture you hobbling for about half a mile...smoking car behind you, scooping up NES carts.

Better to get to them before anyone else does. Id prob have done the same.

[burn_654]

I put all my NES carts in a fridge once. A nuke went off and blew them across the desert but they were fine.

That was hilarious. Thank you.

[Flippy8490]

I dropped one in a sink full of water once. I got it out, opened it up and let it dry for a few days, popped it in the NES and it has worked like a charm since. That was 4 years ago. So, yeah. I would say they are pretty tough.

[MASTERWEEDO]

Lmao...I can just picture you hobbling for about half a mile...smoking car behind you, scooping up NES carts.

I hit the guardrail head on. I guess i was limping pretty bad. broken ribs, knees were green from impact, broke 5 teeth, nerve damage in my left side.... I'm just lucky noone was near me when it quit steering and that noone ran into the suv when it stopped, or ran over the games. There were games down the road, and all the way up the hill on the side of the road. I think I got most of em. It was mile marker 196 Eastbound I-80 in ohio.

[tubeway]

Nearly dead and trying to retrieve games on a road, on foot

HOLY CRAP DUDE

[Ed Oscuro]

Dave Chappelle forgot to mention that when he was saying The Count was a pimp.

Glad you're still alive to tell the tale, Weedo!

Also, curses @ driving machines trying to kill us. They've tried to do it to me too but I beat them.