Game Boy Microwaved is always watching you

by Eric Caoili on May 25th 2008 8:00PM

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!

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Tags: art, eyes, kenny-irwin, microwave, mutant

Reader Comments (12)

hahah thats some ugly ass ****

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 : )

Art.

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

Part of it is actually a radioactive alien-beast?

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.