Sam's GameGuy

Sam's GameGuy is a portable, handheld game console owned by Sam and regarded as his most treasured belonging. He is constantly seen playing it in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island and Total Drama All-Stars. If Sam is deprived of his GameGuy he goes into "game withdrawal," and will begin to hallucinate the world around him as pixelated sprites.

Opening sequence
Sam is seen playing his GameGuy on the dock, however Sasquatchanakwa taps him on the back and steals his GameGuy, which leads Sam to struggle with him as he tries to take it back.

Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!
Sam is seen playing his GameGuy on the boat when he is first introduced, and comments that he just got a grenade launcher upgrade. When Chris blows up the boat and the contestants are forced to swim to shore, Sam protectively holds his GameGuy above the water so that it doesn't short circuit, swallowing a fish in the process. At the end of the episode during the campfire ceremony, Sam is given a marshmallow, which ends up bouncing off his head and landing on his GameGuy.

Truth or Laser Shark
Sam's GameGuy gets confiscated by Chris (along with Dakota's cell phone) using a magnet on a rod. Sam comments to Dakota that they are very similar in that they both have technology addictions. Although she is offended, this interaction serves as the start of a friendship - and later relationship - between the two.

Runaway Model
It is revealed in this episode that Sam had brought more than one GameGuy with him, but by this point Chris had confiscated all of them. Sam explains that due to all of his GameGuys being taken he has now gone into full game withdrawal. Additionally, he has lost his "cat-like reflexes" that he originally possessed from years of gaming. As a result, Sam sees the world as a video game throughout the episode, and is ultimately eliminated for making the Toxic Rats lose the challenge.

Heroes vs. Villains
At the beginning of the episode, Sam is seen playing another GameGuy just as he is about to be thrown out of the helicopter by Chef Hatchet.

Saving Private Leechball
While he is away on exile duty at Boney Island, Mike's evil alternate personality, Mal, emerges and snaps it in half. Mike is distressed when he regains control, but later tells the audience that he eventually dismissed it as a dream. During the challenge, as a battered and bruised Sam is carried by Mike and Sierra, he states his girlfriend Dakota could easily "carry him like he was a GameGuy." Cameron and Sierra then point out a pun that he is a real-life Game Guy. Sam discovers his broken device sometime before the elimination ceremony. Mike is shocked to hear that it wasn't a dream after all. This leads the Heroes to be confused as to who could have done such a thing.

Trivia

 * Sam's GameGuy is one of four electronic devices belonging to a contestant that appears on Total Drama. The others are Courtney's PDA, Dakota's cell phone, and Sierra's Smartphone.
 * Sam's GameGuy causes his elimination in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. After Chris confiscates all of his consoles, he goes into game withdrawal and hallucinates the would around him as a game. This ultimately leads his team to lose and for him to be eliminated in Runaway Model.
 * Sam and Sierra's respective devices both cause them to be eliminated at some point.
 * Sam's GameGuy and Dakota's cell phone are integral in the formation of their relationship, as it was their similarities in both of them having electronic withdrawal that allowed them to bond to begin with.