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Games capable of physically destroying the console

I remember one of my friends in middle school that got an imported copy of Majoras Mask, the one that came with the new expansion pack for the N64.

Somehow the pack was broken on delivery or maybe it was because it was imported, either way once he put the pack in and booted the console something inside burned and the console never worked again.

Granted this was one of these notorious "my uncle works at nintendo" type kids so take my story with a grain of salt.
 
I've read reports of the installation for the PS3 version of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax wiping the HDD. Fortunately, it's an optional install.
 
Fallout 3 is the game that melted my Xbox 360. I kept playing it despite a bunch of freezes and weird behavior because I figured it was just REALLY glitchy. But eventually it RROD'd. Sent it in for a fix, though and it's still going.
 
When playing LA Noire in PS3 the sounds the lense produced (or maybe it was the harddrive?) were akin to an animal being slaughtered. I never bothered to finish the game for fear the console would explode or something. No other game made the console suffer so much.

Now my PS4 is making a lot of noise (the fans this time) when playing Unity, but it's weird because the fans enter in full jetplane mode at the beginning of every session, then 10 minutes in they stay silent and run normally. I hope the thing doesn't break down anytime soon.
 
Bulletstorm came worryingly close to wrecking my PS3. Crashed consistently in the opening stage, and took more than one database rebuild to get the machine running again. That version of the game is a flaming pile of garbage.
 
Dio said:
The Witch and the Hundred Knight had a bug that caused a memory leak which made the CPU go faster and faster and faster until the CPU melted. Luckily, the PS3 will most likely shut down after detecting the overheating before it gets TOO bad, but if that doesn't work, then God help you.
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This sounds like something made up by somebody who doesn't know that much about computer hardware. Googling around, some people are claiming that it was actually a Disgaea game on the PS3 that dud this, but I wasn't able to find anything other than hearsay about that, either. Gaming urban legend?
 
Mine was the fucking Nyko Intercooler that made my Xbox 360 Elite RROD while playing Mass Effect. MS fixed it.

Halo Reach made me get Error 74. It was fixed too.

Gears of War killed a friend's launch 360 with RROD.

WiiConnect24's standby mode damaged a RAM chip in my launch Wii. It had graphical errors consistent with damaged RAM. GCN games ran fine though, so it was the DDR3 that only Wii software used.

I swear I always thought PSO Ep. I&II was gonna kill my launch Gamecube's mini-DVD drive.

Kumubou said:
I've also seen Dreamcasts get blown out by people playing Marvel vs Capcom 2. The issue here is similar to what someone described with the rumble packs and Spawn. People playing on old Mas sticks (an early custom stick maker who made sticks that were the size of cinderblocks... and weighed about as much) would be prone to getting the purple screen of death (really just the pause screen randomly coming out from the controller ports freaking out). However, what really caused issues was people who played on variants of these sticks that used optical sticks, which required 5 volts of power... but the Dreamcast controller ports only delivered 3.3 volts. So there would a voltage issue and over time the controller I/O board would just fry itself. Although that's more of an issue of people using hacked together solutions and the Dreamcast controller ports being hot garbage (which they absolutely were).
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No, the DC controllers work at 5V. The problem is the amount of current the shit chip they used drew from the board.

I know because I checked the specs to write a FPGA converter and because I had that issue with my Dreamcast. I also opened a MAS stick because it stopped working.

It is the amount of current.
 
I seem to recall the point-and-click adventure game Universe being able to destroy the Amiga's disk drive. I could be misremembering, it's been over twenty years.
 
Call of Duty WAW and BLOPS never played nice with my PS3's
Guaranteed the system would overheat and shut down due to those games and their crashing, freezing and connection issues.
BLOPS3 isn't as bad but it haven't improved this gen but they haven't killed my PS4 yet.
Funny enough MW123 was fine and I haven't had problems with Ghosts, AW has memory pool problem thou.
Perhaps keeping away from Treyarch games is a good idea
 
Every time a big game is released you'll always see threads on the official board with people complaining it killed their console/gpu.
 
The Last of Us absolutely destroyed my old, fat PS3. Seeing this was probably the last PS3 game I cared about before PS4, I immediately bought one of those cheap 12 GB super slim's and added the HDD from the old one.
 
ThePliskin said:
The Last of Us destroyed my fat PS3
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It didn't destroy mine but I agree with this.

The fans ramp up so much playing this on PS3 or PS4.

And I don't know if it's because it was left on for days and I had the console since 2008 but GTA V caused my PS3 to start tripping out.
 
I vauguley remember a recent game that if you left it on the menu screen the framerate would skyrocket to some absurd number. I dont known if it destroyed any systems but I'd think it would do some damage of you forgot on for an hour ..
 
EctoPrime said:
Jade Cocoon on Ps1 seems to directly control the consoles mjpeg decoder to run a still frame plus animated video file that runs for what seemed to be over an hour in length which made my consoles cd drive lockup. No long term harm but I avoided that npc afterwards. It also has an intro video that runs in 480i or was that 480x360, I cant remember.
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Wait, is that from the old man in the village who is say near a tree in the graveyard and tells you stories of the games history?

My sister was playing through the game last summer, and when she was listening to the stories it suddenly started playing the intro in super slow motion during one of them, before the PS2 locked up.
 
Cisce said:
I got Sonic 06 a day before release and it gave my launch 360 a RROD straight after the opening FMV.

RIP
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Well at least you can say it died as a hero, protecting you from the horrible, horrible "game" you were trying to play.

May it rest in peace.
 
Ahjumbie said:
I vauguley remember a recent game that if you left it on the menu screen the framerate would skyrocket to some absurd number. I dont known if it destroyed any systems but I'd think it would do some damage of you forgot on for an hour ..
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The latest Hitman did that on launch.
 
Xenoblade destroyed my launch Wii. Just before the final boss, I never saw how the game ended after 100 hours of gameplay.
 
Fracture demo killed my Xbox 360.

Yeah, it was just the RROD that everyone got, but I still blame that POS Fracture.
 
Dead Rising. I swear I wanted to murder Otis after his insistent calling whilst I'm surrounded by undead. My 360 nearly it got it on several occasions to the point I just quit the game.
 
I had a Japanese Ceramic White 40GB PS3, and a family friend's son brought some Call of Duty game to play (Modern Warfare 3, perhaps?). Anyway, we're playing a couple rounds of some form of multiplayer, and at one point it freezes on the loading screen. When I resetted the system, it wouldn't recognize any disc inserted into the system. Turns out the laser had died! Whether COD had specifically killed my PS3's bluray laser or that game just happened to be the straw that broke the camel's back, I don't know.

Sony NZ refused to take it because it wasn't covered by warranty, spouting some nonsense about import models having different voltage (even though it has a universal PPU inside!). Luckily, I found a local guy online who was happy to replace the laser for me, and it's been working ever since. :)

Hope it lasts. It's my favourite PS3 model!
 
The Mega Drive/Genesis game Alien Soldier has the capability to destroy the system if the player is good enough at it. The system can't keep up with everything that happens on screen and it begins to overheat, eventually damaging the core processor.

Also, FFXIII caused my first 360 to RRoD. No other games that I had made the system sound like a jet engine. Eventually, everything stopped working.
 
Anth0ny said:
brawl fucked up my launch wii

I think certain wii's had problems reading dual layered dvds. brawl was the only one on wii when it was released, I believe.
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I remember this issue, early models of the Wii could burn out the laser or at least wear them down before becoming unusable.
 
Secret Character said:
The Mega Drive/Genesis game Alien Soldier has the capability to destroy the system if the player is good enough at it. The system can't keep up with everything that happens on screen and it begins to overheat, eventually damaging the core processor.
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lol this is good and maybe very slightly too subtle
 
This one is entirely self inflicted, but PSO for the Gamecube had an exploit where the game would reroll odds for a rare monster spawn every time the map loaded, so players would repeatedly teleport between the city and map to get one. This of course put an incredible amount of strain on the disc laser which had to reload assets constantly.
 
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