I was going through my DS games on Sunday around 3PM and noticed I was missing a game. I found it 24 hours later sitting in the middle of the street in front of my driveway. It had been run over multiple times by vehicles, but it still worked! Here's a picture and video to prove it. The picture is best viewed at the maximum resolution to see the damage.

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All I have to say is...

Nuked Game Boy.

That is all.

Nintendo builds their stuff like tanks.

(And very ironically I just bought a copy of that game today).

Gamecubes are also really stabble.

They can also survive washers and dryers. I think my Phantom Hourglass went through twice, and it still plays.

I've washed both a copy of Link to the Past (GBA) and Metroid Fusion accidentially. Both work completely fine, save for the worn out looking little cover picture.

Hardest konsole ever = Xbox

Lol, I dropped mine at skool one time and got stepped on like krazy. Still worked though.

Nintendo consoles are unbreakable? Hardly. My DS snapped in two after dropping it too many times. Now I have to constantly guard my pockets to make sure my new one doesn't drop. Also my Wii cracked and now it won't read SD cards.

Wow, I never thought the DS games would actually stand a chance against such a thing.

Anyways, the DS is kind of fragile, and the games do get damaged when they are washed for me.

My Gamecube memory cards have been washed so many times, its not even funny. They are scratched all over, but still work perfectly.

When my DS went through the wash, Pokemon Diamond was in it, tested it on a friends DS and it still worked fine... My original GBA has withstood loads of drops on the floor...

I've thrown my DS against the wall variuos times from quite high up... Good thing it still works, eh?

The only problem I have seen with the DS so far is when the trigger to turn it on and off breaks, then you can't turn your DS on anymore. This has happened to my cousin twice.

And my GBA... So much abuse, yet it still works. I am impressed.

My DSLite has had a hard history - most recently, the hinges broke and the top screen looks really faded (seems to be a bad connection with the hinges). The DSi seems a little more stable, and I can still use the DSLite for basic trading between games (though you have to do a little guessing navigation), and for playing GBA games (the bottom screen works perfectly).

The games themselves seem quite durable, though.

My DS lite broke after two years because it split in half becausre it couldn't take my house's hardwood flooring and I then eventually took it apart by hand.

Why do you people have so many broken DS's? Except for the L/R buttons jamming, all three of my DS models are perfectly fine. Granted, my old DS has a crack in the hinge, but it's not severe, nor is it integral.

Having said that, I can't send my DS Lite or DS in to Nintendo for repairs without having to pay for it. (The DS has a bad R, the DS Lite a bad L.)

I dropped my DS hundreds of times and still nothing but, when it got in the toliet...

I snapped my DS in two like many others. Thus the birth of my launch day DSi. Now the DSi's L and R won't function. Was probably the ice cream. Now I can't drift in Mario Kart DS.

I've had Mario Tennis (GB), Gold, Pearl, Phantom Hourglass, and a GC memory card go through the washer.

My gamecube was super stable.

even my platinum survived a few rounds in the washer.

My opinion is that NINTENDO is a very hardworking and nice. They have very sturdy products.

Just getting back to this topic to say I've had Ranger: Shadows of Almia, Diamond, and SoulSilver all go through the wash since starting this thread. They all still work.

I've had one DS game go through a washer and dryer with no loss of save data at all, so I can believe that DS games are really strong.

What I've had happen to my DS carts? I've stepped on them a few times. I've also dropped my DS a couple of times (It still mostly works). I don't know what system is most reliable (probably GBA; my friend's one has gone through quite a bit of abuse, and it works perfectly fine), but I can tell you this: GameCube controllers are extremely tough. When I was a kid and got frustrated, I would hit the controller against things very hard. I've also dropped it a few times, and my friend once accidentally pulled it out of the system, and it works perfectly fine; only sign of damage is a bit of missing paint on the back.

I thought it would have never have worked over being crushed like that

I was out for a walk one morning, and of course I had some DS game cards in my pocket. But when I went inside to play Metroid Prime Hunters, I noticed it somehow slipped out of my change pocket. I retraced my walking path, and there it was, in the soaking-wet grass, dangerously close to my driveway. Seemed like it withstood a light rain. Anyway, I went back inside to play it... worked like a charm.

My Pokewalker went through the washer and dryer and all that died was the battery, I was pretty surprised

I think the Only really fragile Nintendo console was the DS Lite. I've had each DS. The lite is the only one that managed to break. But my Gamecube broke from being too old.