That... sounds about right. I distinctly remember my Gameboy suffering damage that would wreck any other electronic device, even, no, especially modern ones.
The game boy was essentially just a brick of plastic with a small circuit board inside. Not shocking that it would survive most things other more technical items would not.
The game boy was essentially just a brick of plastic with a small circuit board inside. Not shocking that it would survive most things other more technical items would not.
The pertinent question here is why would Nintendo build it that way? I don't think they actually expected it to be subjected to such horrific amounts of physical damage; their main demographic is not soldiers in active war zones.
The pertinent question here is why would Nintendo build it that way? I don't think they actually expected it to be subjected to such horrific amounts of physical damage; their main demographic is not soldiers in active war zones.
They expected a lot of children to use it, and children might as well be a hand grenade for their effects objects.
Maybe they remembered the angry gamers that tend to throw their controllers when they lose. Or the ones that would rip out the cartridge from the Atari and throw it.
They expected a lot of children to use it, and children might as well be a hand grenade for their effects objects.
I don't think it has to do with that exactly. Although I do think that the Gameboy, GBC, and GBA where designed to be more toy-like for the benefit of marketing towards teens and children at the time, and that could be what helps.
I think it's just a classic case of simplified construction vs clever construction. Compare pictures of a 3DS circuit board to a Gameboy one. Micro computer technology gives us things like portable stereoscopic 3D displays, but there's a lot less that can go wrong with an 8-bit computer.
The flight corps's base bombed by the enemy.Ugh...this is horrible.It is fortunate that we don't have any shipgirl or fairy casualties.Ah, I remember my room was around this area....Hmm...?Poor thing...*switch**Pikoooon~♪*My Gameboy!It's charred black, ja?Well at least it somehow managed to stay intact, that's pretty lucky for you.It works!!?I can play it as normal!!Source: During the Gulf War, a charred black Gameboy was found in a bombed out US barracks, and it worked just fine.
