Game Boy Microwaved is always watching you
What do you do with a broken Game Boy Advance? Artist Kenny Irwin threw his into a microwave oven, Gremlins-style, blasting the aged handheld with magnetron waves for three minutes on high. As you can see, the portable came out of the microwave a bit deformed! We're just happy that it didn't sprout legs and scamper out of the kitchen, running around the neighborhood terrorizing locals.
Of course, not everything in the photo was a result of microwave experimentation -- the marshmallowy gunk is actually melted Solo cups, and Kenny brought the screen to life with some Photoshop trickery. The eyes? They blinked open as the portable was pulled out of the microwave, and they haven't stopped staring since. According to Kenny, his Game Boy Advance is now "33% beast, 42% alien, 11% radioactive, and 56% game machine, making it 100% complete for endless hours of eyetone gameplay." Creepy!
Of course, not everything in the photo was a result of microwave experimentation -- the marshmallowy gunk is actually melted Solo cups, and Kenny brought the screen to life with some Photoshop trickery. The eyes? They blinked open as the portable was pulled out of the microwave, and they haven't stopped staring since. According to Kenny, his Game Boy Advance is now "33% beast, 42% alien, 11% radioactive, and 56% game machine, making it 100% complete for endless hours of eyetone gameplay." Creepy!










Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yan @ May 25th 2008 8:46PM
hahah thats some ugly ass ****
John B. @ May 25th 2008 9:31PM
He should have removed the circuit board and the screen first and then microwaved the case. Then he could use a dremel to fit the circuitry back in and install new buttons and he'd have a totally badass microwaved GBA : )
Very Metal @ May 25th 2008 9:46PM
Art.
tim leahy @ May 25th 2008 10:04PM
wait a minute... "33% beast, 42% alien, 11% radioactive, and 56% game machine, making it 100% complete for endless hours of eyetone gameplay."... but that adds up to 142% and i guess that is awesome
Eleniel @ May 25th 2008 11:15PM
Part of it is actually a radioactive alien-beast?
Robert Baldwin @ May 25th 2008 11:12PM
Maybe that 42% Alien is Alien Game machine? That would be the simplest way to solve the seeming discrepancy.
It does have an impressively horrific visage.
c_judicator @ May 25th 2008 10:28PM
3 minutes on high=Spawn of Evil?
Joshua @ May 26th 2008 12:55AM
Nightmares, nightmares, nightmares, nightmares, nightmares, nightmares, nightmares, nightmares, nightmares, nightmares...
Char6296 @ May 26th 2008 8:55AM
How exactly did it get eyes...? I'd hate to play that at night.
ssuk @ May 26th 2008 10:30AM
Someone jam a Ghostbusters GB game in there just to make sure that thing doesn't get any funny ideas...
Anonymous Coward @ May 26th 2008 10:57AM
...but be careful, looks like it might bite your hand off.
Gewurztraminer says: R.O.B. is the last Cylon! @ May 26th 2008 11:13AM
This must be the Game Boy that the "Real" Mario plays.