I think...that 90% of video game myths...are busted...even before being posted...due to the fact that most of these games are very unrealistic...

true but we aslo asked to make gadects from videogames.

I heard a kid's PSP melted in his hands

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Originally posted by sir_midnight11:
I heard a kid's PSP melted in his hands

probaly from being in the sun

if you got a gadgect for a video games plese post it. P.S. im doing the no sleep all video games thing again. only one day.

I posted this in another part of this site, so please forgive the double posting:

I have a few ideas for a Videogame Myths show that might be testable.

1. In Quake, there is the rocket jump, which is basicallly someone using something like a bazooka or rocket-proelled grenade to aid them in jumping to a place higher than they could get to by their own power. But they would have to hold onto the thing while it fired, and that might require inhuman skill.

2. In Tomb Raider, Lara Croft, the titlar character, often makes leaps from one ledge to another, grabbing on with only her fingertips. I am thinking that no human has to power in their fingers to counteract the sheer momentum of her movement downwards, even with a short leap.

3. In Crysis, the character will shoot at barrels full of oil or gasoline. One bullet will pierce the barrell, releasing oil. The second shot will explode it. How legitimate is this?

4. In Splinter Cell, Sam Fisher ofte crawls through ducts above offices and the like. Will humans actually fit in ductwork? Will it hold them? And in some games, people fire at you wen you're in them, piercing the ducts, and letting light shine up from below. How plausible is this?

5. Finally, in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, there is this one puzzle where there is this little ramp that leads down into the floor, but instead of leading anywhere, there is a battered metal door hinged at the top of it. Basically the puzzle was that you had to drop a grenade underneath it, stand on top of the door, and let the resultant explosion lanch you up to a walkway where there were more weapons. Would this work in real life?

If anyone could think of more videogame myths that are actually testable, that would be great.

i have one. your video game accually melts in the console from the heat of the console.

ive seen this in real life. i think it takes around 2-3 days

if you play video games when your outside in the middle of a thunder storm can you die.( I mean a laptop)

what would happan if you dropped your game system in water?Whould you get zapped if you tried to get it out?

for all these myths about video game consoles exploding, or even the game (specifically the CD roms) melting in the system whenever those happen it's under rare occations, i say this only from experience, with my N64 i left Star Fox 64 (possibly one of the best game's ever, but that's a different forum entirly) for 2 weeks when i went on vacation in British Columbia, i came back home and being aware of these myths was in a panic that; A) my favourite game was going to be ruined and B)my favourite system was going to have a broken game fused to it. but to my surprise and delight i was able to turn on my TV and keep playing as if it had been 2 minutes not weeks. i have done this with basically every system i've had since but with me in the house playing it to list them i guess it would be; Playstation 1, PS1 (yes there is a difference), Playstation 2, PS2, XBOX, GameCube, Wii, XBOX 360... i still own them all and are all in working condition.

Ahh, a myth is in many spy games and in more movies people lay on what i can only described as that foamy kind of stuff on the cellings in schools and buisness', it's the stuff that hids the supports for the lights, and hids the ducting and wiring.can that stuff support a full grown man?

a lot of game systems have coolers on them

One video game myth they might be able to test is this: in HALO master chief is wearing amour. So if the myth busters can find a material that can stand the blast of a grenade from about five feet away. Make a figure of a human out of it (7 ft about the size of mc). The maximum weight should be about 2 tons. Then place buster in it so they can see what the shock waves do to him and it adds the human weight into the equation. Then they can raise it up it the air, and while it is going up in the air blow something up under it (that is were they get interested) film it in slow mo and see how much it goes up. They can’t say it would be too heavy for a human to wear since mc was physically altered so he could wear the suit. If you don’t trust me, read FALL OF REACH.It explains it all.

A cool myth to test would be to see how long it would take for a CD to break Inside the computer as you are using it

This can apply to most corded electronics, but can a controller be ruined by wrapping the cord around the controller when not in use, rather than either leaving it unwound or winding the cord around itself like someone would wind rope, hoses, or extension cables?

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Originally posted by thatguy6:
yeah. but have you ever heard that when a x-box 360 the green light that tells you its on will turn red.

yea man many call that 'the red ring of death'

Ive left my game consoles on for over a month plenty of times and they never have blown up or exploded. though one time i got water im my basement and it ruined the game in the console but not the actual console itself

you casn thank mothers who got tierd of thier sons playing video games all spring break so they made up that lie to get them off.

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Originally posted by Poetic_killer:
I've heard that it doesn't matter about the violent content but the stress factor of the difficulty can insight violent behavior.

I have to agree with that statement Poetic, the stress/frustration is what did it to me. I got so mad at a silly game once (ninja gaiden for the NES), that I jumped up in a rage and kicked a hole in my parents wall! The game was not violent compared to the games of today so it was not that aspect of it that made me react the way I did, just frustration of the game not doing what I wanted it to.

I have since grown past that immaturity and just throw the controller down now...

I've done that... Big hole in the door.

When I was young I got baned from playing games from destroying to many controlers

Can you pick up Wi-Fi from a restaraunts sattalite? My friend said that me picked a connection up from McDonalds on his PSP.