View Full Version : Roach infestation in an xbox
The_EniGma
11-30-2004, 02:19 PM
I was browsing on XboxScene forums and found this
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=315316
:D
That is a nasty infestation of roachs in an xbox, warning dont open if your eating otherwise open if you need to barf :)
That thread was a great laugh but it is the nastiest thing ive seen regarding to bugs and consoles.
Oobgarm
11-30-2004, 02:42 PM
Nothing compared to finding Chee-tos in one's gaming system. Especially when they weren't there when you originally lent it out.
The Manimal
11-30-2004, 02:43 PM
sick. i've had a box come in like that before....luckilly the item inside the box was in a plastic sealed container.
joshnickerson
11-30-2004, 02:49 PM
*Insert snide Xbox joke here*
Freaky. And even more freaky to think about people who don't open their consoles ever... what could be inside...
Mad Chemist
11-30-2004, 03:06 PM
That is a nasty infestation of roachs in an xbox, warning dont open if your eating otherwise open if you need to barf :)
That thread was a great laugh but it is the nastiest thing ive seen regarding to bugs and consoles.
I take it a lot of you guys don't open up used consoles when you purchase them? I do - as long as it won't destroy the consoles if I take them apart. Stuff I've found:
Roaches
Dirt daubers
Ants
Spiders (most commonly)
Spider eggs ... lots and lots of spider eggs
Remnants of various cola drinks
Ashes
I got an Atari XEGS one time that had all of the types of insect matter above in it. Took about two hours to clean it up, but you'd think it was new now. (Cost including light gun, keyboard, and original joystick - $5 at my hometown flea market. Guess my labor was free. :) )
haha, I looked at that while eating. Not too gross, there is much worse.
Videogamerdaryll
11-30-2004, 03:27 PM
Too Late..... :puke:
rbudrick
11-30-2004, 03:44 PM
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
-Rob
SegaAges
11-30-2004, 03:49 PM
well, he had some bugs in his system, but it was still a hardware problem, not a software problem
Daria
11-30-2004, 04:03 PM
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
-Rob
It was a game cartidge I think. :P
Anexanhume
11-30-2004, 04:33 PM
That's quite literally where the term came from. Old computers used to have bugs in them... O_O
IcewynG
11-30-2004, 05:10 PM
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
-Rob
It was a game cartidge I think. :P
That's right...I remember it. It was a game cartridge... wasn't it stuck between the shell and the PCB, where you insert the cartridge in the game port??
That is some nasty stuff on that Xbox... Definitly makes you consider to open consoles and clean them up, just in case :)
Videogamerdaryll
11-30-2004, 05:27 PM
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
-Rob
I remember reading once..one was found in that bottom hiding spot (box)(expansion port)..on a Nintendo.. :D
Emily
11-30-2004, 05:31 PM
haha, I looked at that while eating. Not too gross, there is much worse.
Me too :shameful: But yeah not as nasty as what i prepared myslf for...
I opened up a super, and NES from my yucky little cousins, and found all sorts of food matter inside. They both had fruity pebbles inside the cartridge slot, and milk( or barf who really knows) encrusted and the inside of the casing. It had turned all brown... :puke:
Emily
11-30-2004, 05:32 PM
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
-Rob
Sweeet deal :pimp:
Raedon
11-30-2004, 06:42 PM
The most common thing I've ever found in a system that was port of some living thing was spider eggs from years past. Almost always in a 2600.
Cable companies have this same sort of thing happen all the time with their digital boxes as they come and go. Most are built like a stereo amp with lots of holes and roaches love the heat I guess. If you ever get anything used that heats up you have to check for roaches including fridges etc.
Raedon
11-30-2004, 06:44 PM
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
-Rob
I once found a boxed Power Pad that had a dried up old scanky bag of dust that used to be weed. LOL
Qixmaster
11-30-2004, 07:36 PM
if people would keep their rooms clean (clean up old dishes, old food) then we wouldn't have this problem. Roaches like dirty places. Clean the house and kill the roaches and they won't come back.
btw, i've found some pretty interesting stuff before, probably the funniest being a joint rolled up inside an N64 box that i purchased from a fellow DP'er (no i won't drop any names).
and when cleaning NES systems i always tend to find ones that have had beer split in/on them.
-Josh
dreamcaster
11-30-2004, 07:41 PM
That is a nasty infestation of roachs in an xbox, warning dont open if your eating otherwise open if you need to barf :)
That thread was a great laugh but it is the nastiest thing ive seen regarding to bugs and consoles.
I take it a lot of you guys don't open up used consoles when you purchase them? I do - as long as it won't destroy the consoles if I take them apart. Stuff I've found:
When I can, I open up my consoles. However, thanks to a lack of a game-bit (and my refusal to spend $20+ on one of the things) my SNES, N64 and GCN will remain sealed forever! :P
And although my warranty long since expired on my PS2, I just can't bring myself to break that seal in the back. LOL
This stuff is disgusting. The nastiest stuff I've found is a couple dead bugs in my Atari 2600 Jr and a spider complete with web inside my friend's Mega Drive.
By the way - how does one open an Xbox?
Berserker
11-30-2004, 07:41 PM
Upon receiving my used copy of DOA: Beach Volleyball, I found one packet of Jergin's Hand Lotion, one tissue(folded up), and a cigarette.
kidding.
Porkchop
11-30-2004, 07:53 PM
That's quite literally where the term came from. Old computers used to have bugs in them... O_O
That bug was a moth not a roach, and that was back when computer were made with tubes.
If there are that many roaches in his xbox his house must be full of the things. Just think, turn down the lights to play Silent Hill and having bugs droping on you head. :yipes: Now that is what I call special effiect. :evil:
Promophile
11-30-2004, 07:57 PM
Jesus now you guys have my afraid of my NES and SNES, which are my used systems. Hell now I'm afraid of all of my systems I never open them.
Ed Oscuro
11-30-2004, 08:04 PM
Nothing compared to finding Chee-tos in one's gaming system. Especially when they weren't there when you originally lent it out.
Hey, at least you had an idea how long it'd been in there!
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
That was...DavidBrit? Found it inside a game cartridge, actually.
Not looking at the pics BTW gotta go eat :P
Gapporin
11-30-2004, 08:35 PM
Remember, it's not a bug, it's a feature!
*groan*
EricRyan34
11-30-2004, 08:47 PM
I found a dead mouse in my friends VCR once :eek 2:
I think that beats my moldy Dreamcast. :shameful:
El CiF
11-30-2004, 10:18 PM
wow...
mouses do the darndest things.
btw if you people puke at that then you all are ninnys!!!!
/waits for the angry mob
Dahne
11-30-2004, 10:18 PM
Oh, shit...I just realized that I've never opened up the Atari 2600 that had been sitting in the back of an old lady's closet for who knows how many years. I'm scared of what might be in it.
Come to think of it, that Atari was found while my parents were cleaning the house out for an estate sale. I wonder if it's haunted.
Gapporin
11-30-2004, 10:23 PM
Come to think of it, that Atari was found while my parents were cleaning the house out for an estate sale. I wonder if it's haunted.
*waits for Old Man Graves' Ghost to appear*
Algol
11-30-2004, 10:44 PM
I've heard of people finding all kinds of weird stuff in old things like that. I'm wondering what's in some of my stuff, but I'm too scared to open any of it up. :|
GarrettCRW
12-01-2004, 03:55 AM
OK, I think I'm going to finish cleaning my room tomorrow.....
While my room is frequently a bit slobby, I can't see how it could get that bad. Roaches in the system means that the whole house is infested. Another thing to consider (if you own a house) is to have someone spray the place monthly, 'cause it's safe to say that most infestations start in the house first, and not in your video game systems.
ghostangelofcky
12-01-2004, 04:23 AM
All I've ever found was a old spider egg on the expansion door on a genesis model 2.
Weirdest thing I ever saw was a scratched out drawing of a stick figure complete with boobies on the inside casing of a darth vader 2600. LOL
davidleeroth
12-01-2004, 04:34 AM
Since this is turning into findings thing...
I've seen some gross things but the most amazing find was an old Lego block inside a PS2. The thing is it the poor PlayStation stilll had the security sticker intact. :hmm:
Cauterize
12-01-2004, 04:45 AM
and we thought the yellowin of NES's was sick!
thats just awful!
Ebay: Ant Farm/Xbox - Buy It Now - $450
NESaholic
12-01-2004, 05:13 AM
Damn that's nasty, i found a fly once in a complete game i bought, but nothing compared to what i just seen. O_O
Push Upstairs
12-01-2004, 05:18 AM
By the way - how does one open an Xbox?
With a specialty bit. I got one in a bit collection/screwdrive set i got on Ebay.
Six (long) screws later and that bad boy is apart. Very cramped inside that huge box :/
That roach thing was nothing.
1. Bought some used Genesis systems off Ebay (3 in the lot to be exact). One was fine, two had too much water damage, three was infested with the remains of many a roach.
#3 was cleaned outside.
Second story.
Took in a Gamecube that was completly infested with *LIVE* roaches (in late Feburary no less). Damn thing was hard as hell to clean as the big bugs (there were three different sizes and kinds) would crawl all around and find new spots to hide.
Nothing says "earn that paycheck" like attepting a manual "de-bugging" of a very small and cramped game system.
The Gamecube was the only loser in the battle to rid the system of the infestation.
Roachs 1, Nintendo 0
rbudrick
12-01-2004, 11:40 AM
Where would the bugs even crawl into a Gamecube?
Isn't there a screen over the vents? WTF
-Rob
Howie6925
12-01-2004, 11:48 AM
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
-Rob
No, bu i did find a gram of weed in a sega saturn i bought one time, I dont smoke that stuff(anymore) so i threw in a ditch.
Push Upstairs
12-01-2004, 02:36 PM
Where would the bugs even crawl into a Gamecube?
Isn't there a screen over the vents? WTF
-Rob
I have no idea. I guess the only way they could get in there is if someone had left the lid open and they crawled in the laser eye opening. Of course, thats how we knew it was infested when one popped out of that opening to say "Hello".
I don't even wanna imagine what the house that Gamecube came from looks like.
Xtasy
12-01-2004, 03:53 PM
Hah enigma beat me too it, my hats off to you.
http://nissaninfiniticlub.net/photopost/data/500/6475lizard-1.JPG
LOL!
as for opening an xbox
http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/open1.php
***Opening xbox will void warrenty*
:D great post
-Xtasy
Xtasy
12-01-2004, 03:54 PM
Didn't somebody here find a pot roach in their system once?
-Rob
No, bu i did find a gram of weed in a sega saturn i bought one time, I dont smoke that stuff(anymore) so i threw in a ditch.
Are you crazy? I would have sold it muahahha :evil: :P :evil:
-Xtasy
Emily
12-01-2004, 08:43 PM
That poor little Alligator Lizard! Is it in an Xbox or a PC?
Xtasy
12-02-2004, 02:53 PM
An Xbox :)
-Xtasy
Iron Draggon
12-03-2004, 05:56 AM
Well what I wanna know is if one of those roaches is what killed the XBOX. Once upon a time, in my poor white trash days, we had a TV that got killed because a roach had managed to get one set of it's legs and another set of it's legs in just the right position to make a connection that instantly killed it and the TV at the same time. Now that was freakin' hilarious, having the TV guy come to our roach infested house, and tell us that a roach killed our TV.
And seriously, the insides of that XBOX are NOTHING compared to the house that I grew up in during my poor white trash days. Have you ever seen the movie Joe's Apartment? Our house put that movie to shame. So things like that don't even phase me at all. You get used to that living in Houston, TX anyhow. I think we must be the roach capital of the world. But fortunately, we don't have that problem in our new house. I'm so glad we finally moved.
maxlords
12-03-2004, 09:18 AM
Ugh. The only system I've had a bug problem with mwas my C64. It used to get a lot of small gnats and flies caught in it because the white paste they used to make a connection was really sticky, so it worked like fly paper and in the summer, the smaller bugs snuck inside the house to have tea in my C64. So gross when a friend of mine opened it up to work on it and there's a whole ladies social of flies in there...