A WTF week for Nintendo as its handheld consoles get abused

There are always WTF moments in gaming. We should know – we’ve got a dedicated category for them. This week, though, the honors go to Nintendo’s handheld consoles.

That poor 2DS

A dude microwaved a Nintendo 2DS. Apparently he does this to many items and calls it art, because you can call anything art these days. He also sells the sad remnants of these experiments on eBay, where people actually buy them. The Nintendo 2DS was episode 665, and is going for $2000.02 on eBay, where it’s described as ‘Microwaved Extra Crispy & Crunchy’ and is signed and dated by the artist.

That poor 3DS

Of course, the Nintendo 3DS wasn’t going to be outdone by its predecessor. Together with the newest Pokemon game, this innocent handheld console managed to incur the wrath of a mother somehow related to PETA, who detailed her fury in a blog post we are sadly unable to sieve out from the reblogs all over the internet. This is the final part of her post.

After a brief argument, I was able to wrestle my daughter’s Nintendo away from her and broke it in half. I flushed that horrible Pokemon game down the toilet with my cat’s droppings. I’ve banned her from any video games and anything Pokemon-related and told her that she’s never going to see the boy who bought the game for her ever again. And I’ll be home schooling her from now on.

This daughter in question had apparently received a Nintendo 3DS and Pokemon Y as a birthday present. Her suspicions were first aroused when her older daughter once begged for Pokemon LeafGreen, a real game whose title also happens to be a slang term for marijuana. So the mother did some research into Pokemon and was horrified by what she found.

The woman had stumbled upon Pokemon Origins and watched two scenes: the one where Team Rocket chases a Cubone and Marowak, and another where Squirtle and Charmander face off. Gaming blog Play4Real sums it up best for us.:

Curiosity quickly turned to outrage though as she witnessed a scene where “a small dog and her puppy are chased by some poachers and they end up cornering the baby dog.” It was then that she noticed the puppy had no skin on its head and its skull was visible which made it clear to her that these poachers must have abused these poor creatures for science experiments. She went on to describe that “the puppy eventually got away but had to listen as these vile men beat her mother to death.”

Further angered, she then went on to describe another scene where “a turtle was being forced to mate with an orange dinosaur.” Unfortunately, this was not a beautiful scene of animal lovemaking as it turned out the turtle was actually attacking the dinosaur. She said that the scream that the dinosaur let out as it was being tortured still rings in her ears and made her physically sick. “I haven’t been able to sleep for days because of watching this,” she wrote, “The people who own these animals just stand around and watch while this slaughter is going on. It’s barbaric.”