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wraggster
January 3rd, 2007, 20:36
http://www.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/01/gulfwargameboy.jpg

Via Gizmodo (http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/torched-gulf-war-game-boy-still-works-225690.php)

This original Game Boy got itself into some deep shit in the first Gulf War, yet somehow still manages to function. There's no better way to prove that you're a hardcore Nintendo fanboy than by staying in your flaming barracks because you only need a few more lines to get a high score.
ExcruciationX
January 3rd, 2007, 20:41
LOL! :D

I want to buy it!
240-185
January 3rd, 2007, 20:58
Pay the museum where it is a HUGE amount of money, pal :P
kcajblue
January 3rd, 2007, 20:58
what have they done.
Junixx
January 3rd, 2007, 21:04
Wow. Thats all i have to say.
jojotjuh
January 3rd, 2007, 21:05
once again proves how nintendo makes quality, long lasting products
kcajblue
January 3rd, 2007, 21:17
why is it that the everything but the screen is burnt. http://bbs.emu-zone.org/newbbs/images/smilies/yct10.gif
Öhr
January 3rd, 2007, 21:23
old...
skater9269
January 3rd, 2007, 22:41
isnt the screen glass so the heat of the fire couldnt melt it.
kcajblue
January 3rd, 2007, 23:40
it would still get all ugly looking if it got burnt.
Hiei311
January 4th, 2007, 01:18
glass gets scrotch marks so were is the scorch marks?????, and the start and select bottons look fine to me..idk if i should belive this, and ppl dont start spazong out on me ok?
Man
January 4th, 2007, 01:36
Im definitaly going with FAKE!! that would be a great war story.
Vegetable
January 4th, 2007, 03:50
Welcome to three ****ing years ago.
Veskgar
January 4th, 2007, 05:21
old...

EXTREMELY OLD!

Holy Nostalgia! I remember seeing this very same Game Boy in an article in Nintendo Power in 1992 I believe.

No, seriously... This VERY SAME Game Boy. I believe it was a female U.S. soldier who owned it.

Wow, very strange seeing something I read about 15/16 years ago back in the news.
Amethyst
January 4th, 2007, 12:25
glass gets scrotch marks so were is the scorch marks?????, and the start and select bottons look fine to me..idk if i should belive this, and ppl dont start spazong out on me ok?

Scorch marks can be cleaned. Also, the point of this is not to show that the Gameboy is in top shape but only that it simply works. The glass might of been cracked and replaced but everything else may be original.

And, yes, this is very old. I saw it on display in on an episode of GameHead in where the host goes to that Nintendo store in NYC.
razorak
January 4th, 2007, 12:35
looks like a yellow gameboy with an extra casing on top
Öhr
January 4th, 2007, 13:00
you can see this gb in the nintendo world store! its lying there for about 10 years...
directive0
January 4th, 2007, 17:49
my old gameboy screen looks exactly like that. Minus the 8th degree burns, but that line in the middle of the screen is dead on.
sonikku88
January 4th, 2007, 19:26
Fake. It's just a regular Game Boy with a custom case.