Allow me to preface this story with the fact that it’s going to make me look like a complete imbecile, and I admit, I am rather ashamed of the events that follow… but it’s too funny to hide, even if the laughter is at my own expense. So laugh away. I’ll be laughing with you.
We are always a little behind when it comes to technological advances. While most people are texting, twittering, iPoding and whatever-the-helling, we are still over here playing with fire and saying things like, “Ow! Fire hot!”
We were very proud of ourselves when we bought a Gamecube while it was still the most recently available Nintendo offering of the day. Hours of entertainment, got a whole bunch more than our money’s worth, it was great. But after a while we were consuled out, and ready to move on. We packed up the Cube and didn’t look at it or think about it for a at least a couple of years.
Recently I’d been getting this urge to drag out the Gamecube from wherever it was buried, in one of the many boxes of crap in our house. We’d moved a couple of times in the last two years, and we just haven’t had the energy, inclination, inspiration, or self discipline to actually finish organizing our house into something resembling a home. We have stacks of boxes in the living room, the kitchen, our bedroom, the attic, our garage, and the in-laws’ garage. After much digging, piling, and tantrum-throwing, I discovered the Cube and all its accessories in a box in the kitchen. The games were with the movies and a tangle of many electronic cables that at one time served some purpose, but now just fill up space under the category of “Might need later.”
So I finally extricated the Gamecube and all its accessories and games (it’s been a couple of hours by now), and I’m all jazzed and ready to play. Hook it up, turn on the TV, adjust the input setting on the remote, turn on the cube and…
Everything is in black and white. What? Graphics are fine, game plays fine, but there is no color. How is this possible?
I frantically google (yes, I’ve upgraded to google, have you heard of it?) the holy stuffing out of combinations like “gamecube black and white help” and “color problems gamecube”, and I may have thrown in a couple of “wtf gamecube is being a jerk”. As far as I could tell, the the most consistent results I came up with were that it was either the Cube itself, or there was something wrong/broken with the video input cable that came with the Cube. Since option number 2 was cheaper, we decided to go with that and hope for the best.
So the next day we head out and pick up a new Gamecube cable, taking the opportunity to trade in some games I knew or suspected I wouldn’t play again, and with the credit they ended up owing me $1.34–HA! I can at least be proud of myself for that move. Ahem. So we go home, hook everything up, and power it up.
Black and white.
I was so disappointed I could cry. We couldn’t afford to repair our Gamecube. It was over. Finished. All my hopes of rescuing Zelda dashed…
But then I began to think… I really put my brain to use about this problem I was having. Yes, the fire was hot, but perhaps I could use a stick to prop Twilight Princess over the fire and… err, what I mean is, I may not be able to afford to repair my Gamecube, but I bet I could buy a used Gamecube pretty cheap! I mean the Wii’s been out for a while, right?
After making a few phone calls, I discovered a Used Game shop down the street from my house was selling them for only $25! That’s not bad at all, especially having saved myself $15 on that stupid cable purchase by trading in all my games, so it’d be okay to splurge a little here, right?
So I ran down to the little shop and picked up the new Cube (ugh, my experience there is best saved for some other post), bring it home, hook it all up (still using my new cable, you know, just in case), flip everything on…
Black and white.
WTF!!! I seriously felt like chucking my entire living room set out the window at that moment, I was so confounded. I try the old cable again, still black and white. I could not believe our TV–our brand new TV–was broken!
The irony is that despite my record as a TV owner, when the Gamecube first came up black and white I was convinced that it couldn’t be my TV, because this TV was barely a month old. It had to be the Cube. I stupidly took that for granted, so much so that I traded in a bunch of games, spent my credit on a new cable (we have three now!), spent $25 on a new Gamecube altogether, before realizing it was the TV itself.
What’s worse? I stupidly didn’t try the Cube in any of the other jacks until after everything went down. Much to my chagrin and humiliation, the problem was only with that particular set of jacks. We have four sets. *Hangs head in shame*
Ahem, so, the moral here is: Anyone interested in buying a Gamecube?
Hahahahahahahaha.
^—— another awesomely needed laugh.
you write humor good.
me funnied.
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