It's good that I'm not the only one who had bad luck with their GameBoy. I was also about 8 when I got my first one, it was the see-through model of the original GB and my dad got it from Singapor about 6 months before the Australia release. A week later I dropped it on the tiles, and it would only show a flicker when you turned it on. Thats all, there wasn't any more. After sending it to Nintendo for about 9 months, they sent me a repaired unit, and I promptly dropped it on the same tiles immediately after taking it out of the box. Same flicker, same disappointed 8 year old.
However my Wiimote seems to be able to withstand repeated wall-bashing, so maybe it was just GameBoys and me.
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It's good that I'm not the only one who had bad luck with their GameBoy. I was also about 8 when I got my first one, it was the see-through model of the original GB and my dad got it from Singapor about 6 months before the Australia release. A week later I dropped it on the tiles, and it would only show a flicker when you turned it on. Thats all, there wasn't any more. After sending it to Nintendo for about 9 months, they sent me a repaired unit, and I promptly dropped it on the same tiles immediately after taking it out of the box. Same flicker, same disappointed 8 year old. However my Wiimote seems to be able to withstand repeated wall-bashing, so maybe it was just GameBoys and me.