“You have 30 minutes to remove your Cube”

I can’t remember whether my family acquired a GameCube at Christmas of 2001 or 2002; what I do remember is that I was in one of my last two years of high school and not gaming as regularly as I had been a few years earlier. My sister used it more often than I did. How, then, we somehow wound up with three controllers for it remains a bit of a mystery to me.

And now I have four.

I bought a third-party aftermarket controller from a local shop a few years ago, probably around the time I acquired a used copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. I also used it with Wii Virtual Console games, which worked fine until it didn’t. (You don’t think much about how SNES buttons were laid out in a way that allows you to execute a running jump using a directional button, X, and B at the same time until you’re using a controller that doesn’t.)

I brought the other three home, with my sister’s blessing, from our parents’ house this weekend. I look forward to seeing what I can do with them.