Games that you actually destroyed on purpose

[Sotenga]

Can't say I've ever eliminated any of my carts or CD's in a blind fury. I focus my anger on other objects that aren't games, mostly furniture. But I have the feeling some of you guys obliterated games intentionally. So... whodunnit, and why?

[Querjek]

(I could swear there was already a topic like this, but anyways)

I almost destroyed my GBASP because Super Ghouls and Ghouls kept on owning me... on the first level!

[Sotenga]

(I could swear there was already a topic like this, but anyways)

I almost destroyed my GBASP because Super Ghouls and Ghouls kept on owning me... on the first level!

Yeah, G'NG will do that. LOL

And somehow, I thought so. VG induced frustration is common, so I'm not surprised. :frustrated:

[jaydubnb]

I've never destroyed a game, but Power Moves came pretty damned close to biting the dust.

[Mr. NEStalgia]

I blew up a dead copy of TMNT with some fireworks last 4th of July.

-=Mr. NEStalgia=-

[Sotenga]

Yeah, that game is really difficult. Who will believe that I beat it? :D

But I think one game that I wanted to send to Hades is Starfox. Let me tell you... route 3 is a surefire way to strike up your frustration. :bad-words:

[sisko]

Tons and tons of copies of Super Mario/Duck Hunt, because they were only 1 cent each.

When I worked at Funco we would use them as baseballs in the back room. So so much fun :)

[Sotenga]

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

I should do that. My local Funco has at least sixty copies. :evil:

[Pantechnicon]

I've never destroyed a game on purpose, but I do make point of hanging the remains of dead games and hardware on my cubicle wall at work as if they were some sort of ghastly trophies. I had dead carts of (stripped of casings) of of 2600 Missile Command and 5200 Q*Bert. These often invoked curious looks from my coworkers.

I also have a large pile of NES toasters which are going to serve as fodder in an attempt to build a portable unit. "Destroyed"? No. "Subject to unethical experimentation?" Definitely... :evil:

[Drexel923]

When I was a freshman in college, my friends and I used to play Mario Kart 64 multiplayer all of the time. Well my friend eventually ended up playing it so much that it was effecting his grades. So what does he do? He takes it and drops it 8 floors down the elevator shaft. He was a tad bid crazy. Of course in a month or so after the incident, he bought another copy. LOL

[Balloon Fight]

A friend of mine use to play DoA2 for PS2 so much that he racked up 100 hours in a week and a half. So i go over to his house and play in training mode for about 20 minutes, and ask him if he wants to play me. He just laughs and says "Yeah but dont get mad when you lose."
So i play him, beat him 19 times out of 20, and he chucks his controller at his TV and goes downstairs.

[Dire 51]

My wife once destroyed an SNES cart. Her ex was a total jackass, and one night he was up cursing at the game because he was losing, keeping her awake. She got up, went out to where he was, snatched the game right out of the system and chucked it out their third story window, right into middle of the pond that was on the property. He never got it back either.

Hell, he deserved it... about a month prior, he had snapped one of her favorite CDs in two because he was sick of hearing it. So they were even.

[Sotenga]

She's had a more interesting life than the two of us combined. O_O

[KirbyStar27]

I didn't destroy a game, but when i was 6 or 7 or so, my mom was reading a book in a stupid (funny to her) voice. I got so fed up, I grabbed the book (paperback,) and tore it right down the middle and stomped out! Man was i mad, and forgave her shortly after (she read the ripped book right.) YAY!!! :D

[Ed Oscuro]

http://home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/comic2_panel2.jpg

[Ed Oscuro]

I almost destroyed my GBASP because Super Ghouls and Ghouls kept on owning me... on the first level!

Hmm, so I'm not the only one. I must've played it for about 10 minutes before giving up in disgust :/

[Retsudo]

I didn't destroy a game, but when i was 6 or 7 or so, my mom was reading a book in a stupid (funny to her) voice. I got so fed up, I grabbed the book (paperback,) and tore it right down the middle and stomped out! Man was i mad, and forgave her shortly after (she read the ripped book right.) YAY!!! :D


If I would have ripped my mothers book down the middle because I was mad, I would have been taking my school pictures with no freakin teeth x_x

[c0ldb33r]

Holy crap I'm bumping an old thread. This thread was reference in a thread which was just locked as being redundant.

One time I was playing Clayfighter for SNES and got so pissed off that I ripped it from the machine, ran outside, threw it into my backyard and that ran at it full speed, jumped as high as I could and landed on it. As I landed on it, I tried to kick downwards as hard as possible. I wanted it to DIE!

...

It was fine, which just got me madder, but I knew I was beat. It still worked fine when I sold the SNES a while later.

[Deadpixels]

After first playing Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road for the NES a friend and I were so disappointed at how awful it was and decided a sacrifice to the Gaming Gods was necessary. We walked down to a local creek and ritualistically set the cart on an altar-like stone, then proceeded to smash the pcb to smithereens.

This experience was infinitely better than playing Victory Road.

[GnawRadar]

I gutted a Genesis Model 1 and turned it into a very impractical piggy bank and I was only because I had two Genesises (Genesi?).

[c0ldb33r]

I gutted a Genesis Model 1 and turned it into a very impractical piggy bank and I was only because I had two Genesises (Genesi?).
Genesii

[theChad]

Reposting from my locked thread, although this wasn't exactly on purpose, I was just frustrated:

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/2524/dsc01861om3.jpg

When I was four years old, I was playing Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, sitting up against the wall of my toy room making my way through Wario's Castle. I made it to Wario but could not beat him and ended up losing all of my lives I'd earned through roulettes and whatnot, getting a game over.

I was so pissed I smacked my forehead straight into the screen and the game turned off. I looked down and there was some black stuff starting to seep through the newly formed cracks in the screen.

When I realized what I'd done, I was so scared that my parents would find out and I'd get in trouble but eventually I told them it just broke and I wrote a letter to Santa asking him to take my Game Boy with him to the North Pole and fix it. Instead I got a Game Boy Pocket to replace it and I still own both of these today. :)

[Nebagram]

Never destroyed any on purpose but I am planning to- I have a copy of Pac-Man 2600, a PS1 that's seemingly been en route for ages and a few sports games that have been promised a nice, hot thermite shower. I will be sure to video this as and when it happens.

[Superman]

I have never destroyed a game, although I have tried many times. Of course, this was many years ago, when I was younger (and angrier evidently) and weaker.

Some of the games I remember wanting to break are Super Ghouls n Ghosts, Mike Tyson's Punchout and Street Fighter II.

The reason I wanted to break these games: Because they were cheating!

[Famidrive-16]

I was on a roadtrip once last year and bought some PS2 game at a Gamestop. After the trip when I got back home I tried using it but the game wouldn't load. There were some crazy scratches on the disc and I guess it just didn't work anymore. Knowing there was no way to take it back now I angrily frisbeed the disc several times across my apartment, then chucked it in the trash.

Also there was some Run's House episode where one of the kids smashes his GBASP in half. Dang.

edit: I almost broke my PS2 controller when I was playing Guilty Gear X2 several years back as Dizzy on the story mode.

[NES_Rules]

The only game I destroyed was a Pac-Man cart. It was after hunting season and I needed to unload my muzzleloader, so I figured, why not. And shot the cruddiest looking Pac-Man cart I had laying around.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/Mike_2_0_0_6/PacManvsmuzzleloader.jpg
It actually still works too and I still have it.

[The Manimal]

Reposting from my locked thread, although this wasn't exactly on purpose, I was just frustrated:

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/2524/dsc01861om3.jpg

When I was four years old, I was playing Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, sitting up against the wall of my toy room making my way through Wario's Castle. I made it to Wario but could not beat him and ended up losing all of my lives I'd earned through roulettes and whatnot, getting a game over.

I was so pissed I smacked my forehead straight into the screen and the game turned off. I looked down and there was some black stuff starting to seep through the newly formed cracks in the screen.

When I realized what I'd done, I was so scared that my parents would find out and I'd get in trouble but eventually I told them it just broke and I wrote a letter to Santa asking him to take my Game Boy with him to the North Pole and fix it. Instead I got a Game Boy Pocket to replace it and I still own both of these today. :)


Dang - you're making me feel old. I think I was a freshman in H.S. when those Play-It-Loud'ers came out..

[theChad]

Haha - I knew someone would definitely feel aged by that story.

[SpaceHarrier]

When my copy of Phantasy Star Online v.2 JP blackscreened while online, I got pissed. Jumped up, opened the console and slammed it shut again (quick reset). Did this a little too hard. The disc popped up on one side, so when it spun it popped off and began bouncing around inside the DC. Scratched pretty much beyond repair. Sorta unintentional. Here is a list of stuff I did intentionally destroy out of videogame related rage:

-1 SNES controller
-1 Gamecube controller
-2 PS2 Dual Shock 2s
-1 Playstation system
-1 "Lazyboy Recliner" (broke the left arm off)
-1 Dreamcast keyboard (impaled with sword)

-1 Super Mario Sunshine "Official Perfect Guide" it survived in wrinkled, sorta-thrashed condition, but left ink marks on the wall where it flew.
-Tried to break a Dreamcast controller by pushing the analog stick off of it. Couldn't do it. Those things are indestructible.

[PentiumMMX]

I broke my PSX as a result of Crash Bandicoot.

I was close to the end of Road to Nowhere's bonus stage, on my last life, when I missed the jump before the save point. In anger, I slammed my fist down on the system, causing the spindle to jam and the disc to float around loose. Strangly, the system and the copy of Crash still work fine (Though the drive does try to crap out if the game is heavy on load times)

[Fear The Turtle]

I destroyed a PS2 when I kept losing in some online game years ago. Good old days of being an angry teen.

[c0ldb33r]

-1 "Lazyboy Recliner" (broke the left arm off)
Whoa Hulk slow down there.

[Xian042]

when I was working at EB some kid tried to trade in a dirty N64 without any cables or a controller. We told him we dont take them like that so he got frustrated so he left it on the counter and walked out.
After work we took it outside and destroyed it.

Also I remember being at a friends house back in the day and we ripped apart an NES cart. Cant remember what game it was.

[kainemaxwell]

My friends and I played hockey with Populous for the SNES. Afterward we threw the game chip into a bowl of lemon juice.

[SpaceHarrier]

Whoa Hulk slow down there.

LOL LOL Probably should have worded that different. I more or less pushed it off.. with great effort!

Yeah, I try not to get so upset over videogames anymore. The "chair incident" as I refer to it, occurred some 8 years ago.

[Bandicat]

I destroyed a Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge a few weeks ago out of non-video game related rage.

My ex girlfriend and I hooked up while playing it. Then a few months later she dumped me in an extremely immature way and refused to tell me the reason why she ended it. My buddy took me out drinking to help me get over it, but it ended up having the opposite effect. I got home in a drunken rage, grabbed the cartridge and smashed it into the kitchen floor. It shattered everywhere.

Alcohol + Anger = Bad Combination

[Muscelli]

Ive swung controllers like lassos out of rage then smashed them into bits on the ground. That felt so good.

[Astrosmash]

Wasn't an intentional destruction, but I did lose my first PlayStation to a lightning strike and later dismantled it just 'cause. I probably still have it (or at least the shell) around somewhere; maybe I could find something to do with it.

I do have some dead carts that I don't really know what to do with though...

[Nebagram]

-1 Dreamcast keyboard (impaled with sword)

Oo-kay... :-/

[exit]

Secret of Evermore has this nasty glitch where at one point if you exit out of one of the dungeon areas, you will no way be able to get back into that said area. This happens pretty damn late in the game (I believe it was in the re-visit to the Egyptian type setting) and hit the game pretty damn hard, resulting to it's death.

I've also hit my PSX because of Crash, resulting in the game breaking and I also completely destroyed this one game (i forget it's name) because of how unbearably frustrating it had gotten.

[alexander4488]

I tied a crappy sports games onto my bike, while peddling down the road. It was bouncing everywhere, before I finished it off with a hammer.