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Hm... I don't know what you mean by durable... do you mean having my original GB left out in the snow for two weeks, then dropping it several times on hardwood floor, dropping it in the fire for three seconds, and finally, leaving it in a dusty box, only to have it working perfect?

I had a GBA game go through the wash twice, then get lost in a dusty section of my room for nearly a year, and it still works just as it did then. For some reason, my friend let someone borrow his GBA and when he got it back it was busted, and only internally. Also, one game that is not very durable is Sonic Advance, because for some reason every copy I tried (3 of them) had the Chao garden stop collecting rings after a while, when my friend kept going for a lot longer than those games lasted (he was also obsessed with the care of it).

Can't say I have. Of course, other than dropping my GBA on both tarmac and a cement pavement a few times, they still work perfectly.

I once had an old GameBoy game (Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening ((original, not DX)) if you must know) go through the wash, and it worked, occasionally. The game's data was still there, but the game needed to be blown into a few times to get it working, although I think that was the case for most GB games back then.

Oh, and the game-title-sticker was no-longer on there, either.

its funny to hear all this and then remember how you had to handle an X-box carefully when it first came out because some people could put it down a little too hard (meaning not softly) and the cords would rearrange, messing up the entire system.

Uhm, my THPS 2 game has gone through the was a total of 5 times, and works good...maybe even better than before...jk, but yeah, Nintendo makes uber durable things. heart

I can't even begin to remember all the times I dropped my GBC/GBA. My GBC barely has a scratch on it.

I've dropped my GBA millions of times when I attempted to put it on my bed or something, with a sorta Jackie Chan martial arts style xd