when was the last time you threw the controller down

[Steven]

or beat up the game, or punch a door or wall?

Personally, I never understood beating up the game or controller. That to me makes no sense, unless the game absolutely sucks and is worth zilch on eBay/online. I especially don't get people who chuck their controllers down... doesn't seem too wise to me.

However, the other day after one too many Medusa Head mishaps in SNES Dracula X I uncharacteristically snapped and punched the door next to me.. I was just pissed how whenever I ducked, it seemed they dove down, and when I jumped and was sure I would jump over, they would suddenly make a beeline upward. And I got pissed at the lame invincible-after-attack time period... and arrrrrgh.

I admit I lost it there for a second when I hit the door and yelled a loud F-bomb,

I usually am very calm when I play. Usually..

[Jake2215]

Just today I threw it down playing Adventure Island. Fuck that game and its stupid shit. Why do I like it.

The only time I ever broke a controller was playing TMNT 3. I was getting raped on the second stage, while my buddy was doing just fine, and it was pissing me off so I threw the controller down on the concrete floor and stomped it with my heel. From then on the d-pad acted in reverse. But that's pretty, pretty, pretty durable, for getting smashed so badly.

[alec]

Today they make controllers way to big to throw. The last time I thew a controller was when SNES was still being produced.

[Nebagram]

I lost one controller to Jinpachi f**king Mishima a while back, and lost another one recently to Soul Calibur 3 too. Now I've simply taken to headbutting controllers instead of throwing them, and I can turn the right analogue stick all the way round on my main PS2 controller.

Nearly chucked it today playing Kameo and trying to fight Coralis. The watery little shite.

[Ninja Blacksox]

I didn't so much throw the controller down...

...rather, I slammed it to the ground in-hand.

Yep. Fuck you, Tekken 5.

-A Boy

[Jumpman Jr.]

I whipped my NES controller at my brother just a few days ago, and crushed it really hard with my hands trying (unsuccessfully, obviously) to break it in half.
I do it all the time with the old controllers, especially NES controllers because they're generally pretty durable (and easilly replaceable).
I've got a full drawer of tangled up NES controllers. Letting my steam out on one of them isn't going to do anything in my eyes.

[Multi_Dream_Casting]

I dont know if this counts but when the halo edition xbox came out my ex turned off the system on me in the middle of a game and i chucked the controller at her =/

[Haoie]

A few days ago, Alien Resurrection. That game is way too hard.

But I didn't break the controller or anything, of course. Don't take rage out on stuff like that.

[Felixthegamer]

I haven't thrown a controller since Castlevania III was a new game. I was facing Dracula and had been at it for a while and I had him one bar away from winning and he got me. I throw the controller. It wasn't even my controller, I was at a friends' house. Since then, I haven't done it again. If I get frustrated by a game, I usually turn it off and walk away now

[Retsudo]

Fuck that! Damn controllers cost too much to throw and slam on the floor.

[nate1749]

Today they make controllers way to big to throw. The last time I thew a controller was when SNES was still being produced.

That's funny, I never thought of that.

I don't have a temper at all, I play games for fun, and at times they are frustrating yes, but I just say f this and turn it off. I do that with 'counterstrike: source' all the time since I either get fragged by cheaters or people who are pros.

Nate

[exit]

Throwing my controler has ended the lives of atleast 2 games. One being Secret of Evermore. I loved that game, but that one glitch that fucks up your game really got me angry.

Baisacly a good way through the game, if you warp out of this one temple you can't get back in, which pretty much means you have to start ghe game over. I showed that game who was boss tho, then I regreted it and got even more angry.

Another game was this one PS1 game (which name I can't remember) that pretty much had it coming to begin with. I chucked my controller, it hit my PS1 and the game ended up breaking inside.

[Towlie2110]

I did the sytem and Controller at the same time. Can anyone guess how?




























Fire Emblem Advanced. You get to the end, and you try to level up a guy and you have one more move to win, and somone attacks a guy on your team and he has a 20 percent chance of getting hit....AND HE DOES!! ARGHHH!

[SirDrexl]

Just think-with the Wii, you'll be able to throw the controller and actually accomplish something in the game!

[ShinobiMan]

The last time I blew my top during a game was with Super Metriod in 1994. Was the boss in the Lava zone. Man did he burn me up! Hardee har har.

[Wolfrider31]

I dont know if this counts but when the halo edition xbox came out my ex turned off the system on me in the middle of a game and i chucked the controller at her =/

I think I just pinpointed the very second their relationship went sour.

[Hammy]

multiplayer perfect dark. on the challenges, iirc, challenge 24 (capture the case) 4 players, the difficaulty is insane, we lost out by about 2 seconds, and i think there were a couple of broken pads then :S at least one anyway!!

[LiquidPolicenaut]

I have a bad temper unfortunately and I have thrown many a controller many a time. I have also yelled incoherently at the systems and games themselves on occasion. The last one I threw a controller for was Jet Set Radio Future. I like the game but I hate it too. Sometimes the controls are just ridiculously stupid. I have yelled at my PSP and DS too...but I'm not stupid enough to throw them across the room

[Smithy]

I'v only thrown a controller once... I was playing Diddy Kong Racing.. racing against the stupid whizzpig.. and I lost one to many times, and tossed the controller down, but not like against the wall or anything... that's the only time, I'm a pretty calm person

[Xizer]

You know, I haven't thrown a controller for a long time. I've tossed it down, sure, but that was when I was done playing the game, and my carpet is padded.

There's too many ways to cheat these days for me to get frustrated in a game. GameSharks, Action Replays, Game Genies, CodeBreakers...modded Xboxes and trainers