Console Close Calls

Ok so to explain this topic I am going to tell you all a story. Let me set the scene for you guys, the time was about 30 minutes ago and I just got to my buddy's place to housesit and dog-sit. He set a TV up for me in his basement to plug my gaming consoles into so I was carrying a plastic laundry basket downstairs, with my xbox 360 and Playstation 3 inside. What happened next can only be described as a gaming miracle. I stepped on a inconspicuous and poorly placed tennis ball that belong to Gallop, my friend's dog, and proceeded to fall down the stairs feet first. The laundry basket flew out of my hands and tumbled alongside me as my consoles, controllers, and cables flew into the air, crashing into every step on their way down. I landed at the foot of the stairs with cables tangled all around me and saw my two consoles laying near where my head landed with dry wall dust over the edges (indicating they had made wall-contact on their way down). Once I got myself together and realized my ankle was sprained and the laundry basket was cracked in at least a dozen places, I decided it was time to test my consoles out.

They worked.

So now that I am overjoyed and prouder than I have ever been with the build quality of my consoles, I would like to ask you duders if you have ever had a similar close call that your console (home or portable) survived.

Uh...sorry about your ankle.

Whew. Thank god those consoles are alright.

Only thing I can think of is my old, original Game Boy. That thing had soda spilled all over it while on a school trip. I know I dropped it onto some concrete/cement at least once, and I'm fairly sure I dropped it a few other times as well. During all that it kept working. Sadly, it did eventually die, and is currently on display on my shelf. If memory serves, I think it died well after I stopped actually using it(meaning sometime after the Game Boy Color was released).

Is the ball alright?

Sounds like something that only happens in Pure MIchigan.

@MetalBaofu said:

Only thing I can think of is my old, original Game Boy. That thing had soda spilled all over it while on a school trip. I know I dropped it onto some concrete/cement at least once, and I'm fairly sure I dropped it a few other times as well. During all that it kept working. Sadly, it did eventually die, and is currently on display on my shelf. If memory serves, I think it died well after I stopped actually using it(meaning sometime after the Game Boy Color was released).

I'm pretty sure the original Gameboys were each carved out of a single chunk of solid asbestos; nigh indestructible (though you probably don't want to inhale one).

So I had my dick inside my SNES right, just working it slowly, when all of a sudden...

Nah, I got nothing

Game Boys and Game Boy Colors could survive the apocalypse.

Also, how's your ankle?

Well one time my Xbox 360 broke when I didn't throw it down a stairs, but when I looked it up, it turns out that that's just how the Xbox 360 works!

Needless to say, I was delighted and it turned out to be the best Christmas ever.

Well I've had drops with my PS1 because I pull the cable with my leg when I got up to do something else, but what I'm most proud with is my wired 360 controller and it's 100+ brutal drops. That thing is a fucking rock.

When our basement flooded my mom saved our NES from drowning.