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leapinlew:


--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 24, 2011, 12:34:02 am ---Back in the 90s, I bought the original issue of Flux magazine.  Inside was a story about how someone got so mad at SF2 that he put his fist through the screen, got arrested, had to pay tons of money blah blah.

~2007 I tried slamming a 4lb hammer through the front of a few monitors.  It bounced off without evening chipping the glass.  They were tossed in the air into dumpsters and the ones that didn't hit neck first bounced into the air like super balls.

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I heard a similar story about a windshield, so I took a big hammer and was taking some whacks at a windshield in a junkyard. It may be possible, but I don't believe someone could put their fist through a windshield unless they got into an accident at 60+ mph. 

popsicle:

A couple of weeks ago we had an enormous mosquito surge in Houston.  I was swatting them with my open palm against the windshield in my car while driving, not even that hard mind you, and one of my swats shattered my windshield.  There is a spiderweb crack about 12" in diameter in all directions.

SavannahLion:

Glass is a funny substance. I've taken solid (non-tempered) glass balls and happily bounced them on concrete as a child without a single chip yet I've witnessed toughened, tempered and chemically doped glass shatter without warning.

The glass in a car windshield is not intended to not shatter or break but designed to be retained by the layering when it does break. And, if by chance, the layers don't function as intended, any glass that does get loose is intended to be about the size of a fingernail. I can easily see how swatting a car window would crack it, ask popsicle if there's any jewelery on the fingers. If you've driven a car on the road any length of time, you know perfectly well that the size of the pebble isn't what causes glass to break.

stu33:

I'm not a controller-thrower, but I do get pretty vocal.  Usually when the computer is obviously cheating, like my "almost-perfect" Madden '94 season, where the computer decided in the penultimate regular season game that there was just no way that I was going to go undefeated.  The Mario Kart and NBA Jam (got kicked out of an arcade for my language concerning NBA Jam once) shenanigans do this to me too.

But, this is my favorite personal video game story ever.  There was this game for the NES called Street Fighter 2010.  It bears ZERO resemblance to the capcom series, trust me.  That game was one of the worst auto-fire offenders ever.  If you had the NES Advantage or something similar, the game was a complete cakewalk, but if you didn't, you'd be lucky to get past the first stage.

My cousins and I took this as a personal challenge, and one of them one day was having a complete Rain Man day on that game.  No auto-fire, but he was just zoned in on it that day.  He gets to the final stage, and loses all his lives in about 20 seconds of total gameplay.  He went total balls-out crazy, and after throwing the controller and uttering some choice words (I was 12, so he was probably 9), he ran up to the 29" zenith floor console and bit the corner of the TV.  Hard enough that he chipped a front tooth.

We still give him crap for it to this day.

lilshawn:


--- Quote from: stu33 on December 27, 2011, 11:19:10 am ---he ran up to the 29" zenith floor console and bit the corner of the TV.  Hard enough that he chipped a front tooth.

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bwah ha ha haha!  :laugh2:

NES, Silver surfer. yet another auto-fire offender. must have mashed that controller button 10 billion times before I bought an auto-fire pad.

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