Zorphbert & Fred by Dawn Griffin

Once when I was 8, I was playing my Atari Lynx on the john and accidentally dropped it in. Fortunately, I’d turned it off before I fumbled it into the bowl, otherwise it would almost certainly have been shot. My dad suggested I leave it out in the sun, where the black case would soak up the heat and hopefully evaporate all the water out without any damage. And it worked! When I hit the power switch the next day, it turned on just fine.

They really made those old systems to last. I remember reading reader mail in Nintendo Power about Game Boys that had survived house fires. I think one had even endured a grenade explosion in the Gulf War.