I will never forget the fact that in 2006 right after the Wii launched, they were impossible to find.

So a radio station held a contest. It's one of those things that sounds innocent enough, if you never think of the medical side of things.

So basically, the contest was called "Hold your Wee for a Wii". You drink a glass of water, and wait. And then at intervals, everybody drinks another glass of water.

Well......a woman died, and I forget the medical term, but basically she drank so much water that her bladder burst, the water filled her lungs, and she drowned from the water she drank.

All in the hopes of winning a Wii. Then after she died, the radio station fired both of the shock jocks, and tried to distance themselves from any responsibility. This was before twitter, so the family reached out to media outlets and said something along the lines of "even if they never admit fault, even if they never help with paying for the funeral arangements, and even if we didn't sue them, they STILL never even bothered to send us a Wii. Our mother is dead, and they're so cheap they won't spend $250 on the console our mom put herself through hell for."

They did sue, and won. And a bunch of people from around the world crowdfunded and got them a Wii.

But if I were that 12 year old kid, I'd appriciate the gesture of the regular people crowdfunding to get a Wii, but I'd never be able to enjoy it. Every game, at every moment, I'd be thinking "my mom is dead.....for this."

I don't know if I'd ever be able to seperate Nintendo (who did nothing wrong in this by the way), from my dead mom. Even with the Switch. Or retro games. I think if that had happened to me, it would kill my ability to play Nintendo, if not all games.