I used to. Very rarely. I can still get frustrated and after about 5 tries I'll quit and come back later, calmer. I don't destroy stuff anymore or anything. I don't think I've thrown a controller since the original Genesis days. Which was like ... 4th grade or something for me

In contrast. In the last 3 years, my brother has went through about 7 Xbox 360 controllers. 2 or 3 of which were mine...

Technology is just too fragile; especially these days. Not sure how someone can lose their cool enough to justify just destroying $50 worth of equipment. But then again, he went through two laptops with WoW for the same reason. I guess a $50 controller is nothing when you're willing to destroy $700 laptop and then a $400 one a couple months later. Damn

Though there is an amusing story from the Sega Saturn days, when I'd play with a friend on Street Fighter Alpha 2 for hours. There was some bug in either the controller's chip board, or the system. But if player 2 jammed in the D pad hard enough while doing moves, it'd trigger D pad actions from player 1. So I'd get him in a corner and jam in the pad in and just keep punching and it kept making him roll all over the place, usually right into my punches. After a round of that he slapped my controller out of my hand and killed me