I have seen people do lots of stange stuff with nintendo item. Gamecube storage out of NES carts, complete PCs with nes emulators and games built in NES consoles, various controllers modified to work on PC's, and know an olympic type event with NES game carts.
This site threw, dropped, hit with bats, kicked, and generally abused NES game cartridges and then tested to see which ones still work and had the least damage:
The competition overview:
http://www.geocities.com/ziggers86/NES/page228.htmlClick the white link to see a summary of the event and an interview with the competitors
The results (winners):
http://www.geocities.com/ziggers86/NES/page229.html