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  1. fuzz on the concept says:

    the best nintendotions

  2. Avis says:

    I can’t say I’m surprised.

    • Ms B ♥ says:

      You wanna pickle?

      • Avis says:

        Ummmm… no thanks, I’ll pass.

        It's so hard to know where a pickle has been
        • Anon says:

          READ THE INSTRUCTIONS THEN.

          • ZombieApocalypse - wearing a soiled, blood soaked ~I ♥ Bloggy~ t-shirt, a sign around his neck reading "RUSH ROCKS!" and riding a pale zombie horse named Pooka says:

            Wait, there’s instructions for pickles now?

            Let me guess …

            1. Open mouth.
            2. Insert pickle no more than a couple of inches past mouth opening.
            3. Safety.
            4. Close mouth, using teeth to chomp off some of the pickle.
            5. Remove the rest of the pickle from the facial area.
            6. Open and close the jaws of the mouth repeatedly, utilizing the tongue to keep the chunk of pickle currently in the mouth between the teeth.
            7. Once the chunk of pickle in the mouth has turned to mush, swallow.
            8. Repeat as necessary until the whole pickle has been eaten.
            9. Wait a couple of dozen hours or so, then head to the bathroom …

            Hides within the comforting walls outside the Asylum.
    • iDream says:

      Me neither; my brother has a 360 and his got the Red Ring of Death awhile back. The Gamecube I’ve had for twice as long and it never broke, nor did the N64, Gameboy, nor Wii game system.

      Not saying Nintendo products invincible, that’s impossible, but durability-wise they’re ALOT better then most game systems.

      • Cloral says:

        I had a gameboy color that died on me about 15 months after purchase. It was out of warranty, but Nintendo still fixed it for me free of charge.

        • nmgyrl says:

          In case the OP doesn’t already know this: for both RRoD and error E74 (one flashing red segment), Microsoft extends the Xbox warranty to 3 years. In these situations, they will even provide pre-paid shipping labels and arrange for pickup. Details are at http://www.xbox.com/support .

      • ZombieApocalypse - wearing a soiled, blood soaked ~I ♥ Bloggy~ t-shirt, a sign around his neck reading "RUSH ROCKS!" and riding a pale zombie horse named Pooka says:

        You have it backwards. It’s not that Nintendo machines are that great, it’s that M$ machines are that trashy.

        How many "... Of Death" acronyms does a company need anyway?
      • says:

        Cartridge-based Nintendo systems are invincible, except NES and the GBA/DS line. Disc drives unfortunately are delicate and they just don’t make ‘em like they used to. :(

        (Even then, NES could take a beating, and the accessories and games were invincible… that damn cartridge connector just sucked. Easily fixed though with some tinkering.)

        I did manage to break an N64 controller once, but it took a LOT of work.

        • existenceisrelative says:

          I broke every N64 controller I’ve ever had for a decent length of time. Not on purpose. Just through the intensity of my game-playing. Although not the controller in it’s entirety, just the analog stick.

      • Jim Darkmagic says:

        to be fair, the original gameboy was nigh indestructible. if they made an x-box out of whatever the gb was made from it would run until judgment day

        • CK159 says:

          They has a working game boy that was mostly melted after some kind of bombing on one of these sites as I remember.

      • Phillip J. Fry says:

        actually you would be surprised house hold hackers decided to make a video (its on YouTube) and destroyed many items. one of the items was an xbox they had to hit with a sledge hammer four or five times before they actually managed to get through the casing. MS makes some good products but I wouldn’t say their xbox360 series does them much justice. I like their zunes at least they don’t turn into expensive bricks like ipods.

        • alex says:

          That’s funny since I have had a Gen4 audio only iPod for ~6 years that works to this day while my friend bought a Zune hd and it stopped working in 3 months.

  3. DanMan says:

    Ooh, I hope this one is full of Nintendo innuendos!

  4. Mr. Me says:

    But it looks better:D

  5. This more win than anything. Just shows that Nintendo knows what they’re doing when it comes to video games.

  6. AB says:

    You can’t see the red light on the NES blinking incessantly in the still…

  7. Leila™ says:

    Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!

  8. Avis says:

    Oh for crying out loud!

  9. iDream says:

    One Ring to kill them all, apparently.

  10. Justice says:

    Nintendo rules. I don’t know any guys who get laid wearing “Gears of War II” shirts. I do routinely see hot girls wearing 8 bit Nintendo shirts.

    I’m going to play Megaman II now. See ya!

  11. Pablo says:

    too long, didn’t read

  12. Me says:

    Nintendo EPIC WIN

  13. spinzgirl says:

    You trying to push all the buttons hoping one gets you a KO?

  14. LOLWUT says:

    Well, the NES has 4 moving parts and generates almost no heat, this is not surprising. although the 360 SHOULD last longer than it actually does.

    P.S. i’m no fanboy, i’m a proud owner of an NES

  15. tony says:

    no entiendo…

    • Fawfulster says:

      El Xbox 360 salió a la venta por 2006 y es notorio por tener el anillo rojo (el cual indica que la consola está descompuesta de manera irremediable. Si tiene el anillo verde quiere decir que todavía funciona en óptimas condiciones). En N.E.S. salió a la venta en 1989 y todavía funciona. La ironía aquí es que Microsoft (creadora del Xbox) ha sacado juegos para hacer creer a los consumidores que su producto es mejor que el de Nintendo (que actualmente tiene el Wii), y sin embargo las consolas de Nintendo nunca han fallado a menos que el dueño de dichas consolas las tenga en un ambiente poco saludable (expuestos directamente al sol y/o a temperaturas extremas).

      If you don’t understand what I said because of the language: http://translate.google.com

  16. Qwaz says:

    Your superior technology is fine, you were just too hasty putting in your hard-drive.

    Buzz-killing aside, someone put in a cheat code for extra NES life, it seems.

  17. Steve says:

    What to do with a troll like this? Point and laugh? Thats always entertaining, but it gives the troll the false impression that someone has actually read its post. Ignore it? Probably the safest option, however its far more boring…

    Point and laugh it is then! Lolololololololololololololololololololololol!

  18. Bardo says:

    Number of Xbox360s that have died on me: 1
    Number of NESs that have died on me: 1
    Number of PS2s that have died on me: 1

    Thus concludes all system failures I’ve experienced.

  19. Steve says:

    Did anybody else find that hitting your NES made it work better? If mine froze, we always used to hit it and it would usually work. If you didn’t hit it, it would always stay frozen, and you’d have to reset. Of course, mine did break a few years back…

    • ZombieApocalypse - wearing a soiled, blood soaked ~I ♥ Bloggy~ t-shirt, a sign around his neck reading "RUSH ROCKS!" and riding a pale zombie horse named Pooka says:

      Nope, never experienced that one. Though I did have an old original Playstation that would only work if you stood it on it’s left side.

  20. Chris says:

    no.its a win

  21. BehindGreyEyes says:

    This warms my Playstation loving heart :)

  22. VickyLee says:

    >sigh< They don't make em' like they used to…

  23. VickyLee says:

    Apparently he equates the NES with his god and Obama… understandable.

  24. Joe Blow says:

    I would call this a superior technology win.

  25. anon says:

    meh, i saw this one a year ago

  26. cooliio says:

    Because they put the xbox 360 on its vent to let the heat out

  27. pat says:

    NES WIN!!!

  28. Dannagar says:

    The NES isn’t very reliable either. For most people, getting a game to start was a lot of work. Don’t tell me you don’t remember seeing a flashing screen and blowing on cartridges to try and get them to work. The original Playstation had problems too. Those individuals that bought PSones on day one had loading issues and had to put their systems up side down to get them too work. A large percentage of Playstation 2 Fats gave disc read errors. The first slim editions of the PS2 had overheating problems.

    • Hoss says:

      Maybe, but that Xbox probably hasn’t been around more than 4 years or so, compared to the NES, which is probably five times as old?

      At least the flashing screen still gives you a little bit of hope to still play a game. Once that Xbox quits on you, it’s dead son.

  29. N/A says:

    Big whoop. So a new-fangled NES is still operational. My Videopac G7000 (1979) still works. Now that’s longevity.

  30. Dumbass. says:

    Oh, come ON! This is clearly a WIN!

  31. Biotechzilla says:

    Truth: the consoles back then were very simple with no moving parts and or OS installed.. most of the times the new consoles break because we depend so much on the virtual machines (OS) when they break it’s difficult to see which part did what to make whatever stop working. This fail is a fail in itself.

  32. Uncle Pukey says:

    Where’s Francis E Dec when you need him? Worldwide Mad Deadly Communist Gangster Computer God beats all this clankage about religion.

  33. me says:

    yeah i think the Snes could survive a nuclear bomb.

    Thats good old Quality

    • Someone says:

      I think the difference is that today manufacturers only focus on computing and graphic power. Not hardware durability. Otherwise it would be like $500 for an xbox360. Plus snes were simple and arnt as complex as an xbox360.

  34. Xaby says:

    Did he died?

  35. Winner says:

    this is the winningest photo I have ever seen. Win.

  36. Turtle says:

    Well, I have an xBox 360, and I’ve left it on for 6 hours at a time w/o using it, and its totally fine. The problem is: idiots put the console on the side (as shown) and this blocks the main vent. One only needs to kiip it flat, and preferably on a platform / book so that none of the venta are blocked.

  37. Uh Win? says:

    That is pure WIN. An Xbox 360 (2005) stops working because of hardware failure but a NES (1985) still works and its twenty years older. Talk about quality products.

  38. Nddrums says:

    Designed by microsoft, made in china, of course it went wrong.

  39. MR. FIRST says:

    FIRSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

  40. anime933 says:

    that is a win

  41. lotus says:

    i feel this a win.

  42. bunnyman14 says:

    OOOOO… PWNED BY THE R.R.O.D!(Red Ring of Death(on XBox))

  43. Captain Obvious says:

    Superior technology my ass… NES FTW

  44. Captain N says:

    HA!

  45. LULZIFICATION says:

    no wonder microsoft name the console XBox…..

    XB <—- dead nerd

  46. dankly says:

    well its only 3/4ths broken give it that much credit

  47. Matty2Fatty says:

    Yip my mega drive, snes and other old tech consoles still work :) gave me a bit of nostalga the other day when one cart wouldn’t work so I had to blow in it to get it going again :D

    • Nik says:

      Um, I was told blowing on it is bad and rusts it. I’ve been banned from doing that to my boyfriend’s Retro duo games. But now I know why my SNES died so horribly.

  48. Mahs says:

    Obama also googles p*rn and loads flashvideos as mp4

  49. Mahs says:

    the fail is the ROD. as i remeber x-box (the first) dont have such probs

  50. Charles Rising says:

    Stop lying. You have to kick the the thing across an entire football field to even see a terribly glitched title screen of your Super Mario Bros. cartridge, and the video is so terribly glitched beyond that you can’t even play it.

    And just as a side note, not to deny the hardware problem of the 360, you know its hardware failure rates are lower than the original fat PS2, right?

  51. Matt Scheaffer says:

    Hahaha. Lets look at the list of consoles I have owned and how many:

    NES – 1
    SNES – 1
    Atari 2600 – 1
    Genesis – 1
    Wii – 1
    Gamecube – 1
    PS1 – 1
    PS2 – 1
    PS3 – 1
    360 – 5

    What does that tell you?

  52. Germaine says:

    Some people call it planned obsolescence.

  53. Kajet says:

    No, that’s a total win.

  54. Herman says:

    Well it IS microsoft… no one should be really that surprised… if microsoft made a product that worked correctly i think the world would implode…

    • RandomGamer342 says:

      Microsoft has recently Announced that they have perfected their next version of windows. It crashes before it starts!(but seriously, anyone with win7 noticing the increased amount of fake error messages?)

  55. Jexx says:

    Thats why u Never stand up yr 360 (no matter how they show it on the box)

  56. somedude says:

    damn right it still works! next gen my ass

  57. Evilgirltroll~♥ says:

    Nooooo the red ring of death strikes again!

  58. Kirajenlove says:

    He’s right, I still have my 1989 old Nintendo system (like the one in the picture), and it still works!

  59. perfectwoman83 says:

    WOW! 25+ years of technology “progress”, and this is what it gets us. . .a ring o’ death! Still have my SNES & it still works! Would have my NES still if it had not been given away when I was a kid. :(

  60. Superciuppa says:

    My Xbox is doing the same thing, and my nintendo wii (which is 2 years older) still works perfectly.

  61. anon says:

    I’m confused….all I see is win.

  62. Wintendo says:

    All I see is win also. This just proves why Nintendo are awesome, nothing I have brought from Nintendo has ever broken.

  63. the question says:

    xboxs are the worst reliable systems. I’ve had two fail on me and I’m done forever. (same problem with both)

  64. Jack says:

    that’s not a fail… that’s an epic win!! shame on who-ever thinks this is a fail!!!

  65. philjo says:

    Nintendo games don’t have any loading time.

  66. Dooobie bunk says:

    Not even Broken this happens when it gets unplug it……uploading this pic was a fail and people who fell for this you have failed

  67. Bundoro says:

    Superior technology win. Nintendo is so much better.

  68. foozlesprite says:

    This is so true. My PS2 broke a while back but my NES plods onward, never tiring.

  69. Noah says:

    OF course it got the red rings
    not only is it the cheap model, but when you stand it up vertically the ventillation is inefficient and therefore the xbox can easily overheat

  70. Philip says:

    This is like saying cars are superior to space shuttles because the latter crash more often. Or that cave paintings are superior to canvas because they last thousands of years.
    The more complex a system, the easier it can break down. If you want both complexity and durability, you have to pay much more. The producers of gaming consoles didn’t think their market was ready to pay $1000+ for consoles just as durable as their 90s counterparts, so they didn’t go through the trouble of developing it.

    If you are willing to pay $1000 or more for an xbox 360 which doesn’t have a 3% chance of failing, rather than a $300 model which does, then you have the right to be angry at microsoft for not satisfying your part of the market.

  71. Anon says:

    Yeah, because no one has EVER had problems trying to play Nintendo games.

    *blows on cartridge until passing out*
    *wakes up and tries to play game*
    NOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Seriously, a little perspective here, people? One plays 8-bit games, and had trouble doing so sometimes. The other plays modern day games that take far longer and are far more complex to render, etc.

    Straight up comparisons like this can easily make the target look bad when facts are left out.

    • Robert says:

      my NES has been professionally restored by myself and has no problems ever. same with my N64. Open your cartridge and clean the contacts with a rubber eraser and rubbing alcohol. same with system.

  72. PhoenixM says:

    I wish the Nintendo ROB was as durable. Its start-up checks (which involve pushing itself to its physical boundaries for calibration purposes) wreak havoc on the gear shafts.

  73. Jimera0 says:

    XD I have both systems and have never had more than minor trouble with either *knock on wood*

    Of course, one is a couple decades older than the other.

  74. brun0 says:

    good god!
    this should be a WIN! ._.

  75. joe says:

    This was mislabeled. This should be a win, hands down

  76. toth says:

    No way! A console that’s about a million times more complex sometimes dies before the less complex one does? Call Ripley’s!

  77. Robert says:

    That is because MICROSOFT SUCKS and NINTENDO IS AWESOME.


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