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« on: November 22, 2011, 06:50:17 AM »
I myself had just started college up in Fairbanks, AK (if you think Anchorage is bad, try going to Interior Alaska in the middle of January... two weeks of -50 is ugly...), hanging out with some friends and talking about the "Micro$oft whore" who lived down the hall from us who was so damn proud of his new X-box. For some reason we thought it'd be funny for all of us to go out and get Gamecubes and just walk into his room with them in our hands, so one of the guys, Nick, started calling around and asking if anyone wanted to go out in the morning and buy one. Imagine our surprise when he found out from one of the guys that K-Mart was open 24/7 and they had started selling the 'Cubes at midnight! So we all piled into Nick's car and putted off in -20 at 1:30 am to get our consoles.
The astonishing thing was that, according to the sales clerk, this store had received 150 consoles, and there was quite a stack of them left when we got there (probably close to 80 or so)! We each chose a black version of the machine and a game of some sort. There wasn't much in the way of software to choose from at the time, and I ended up getting that year's edition of Madden. And we all did indeed walk into the "Micro$oft whore's" room to show off our 'Cubes... though it didn't turn out to be as funny as we initially thought it'd be...
Despite my console dying on me six or seven months afterwards and having to get a replacement console from the local Nintendo service center, I've never regretted the purchase.
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