The woman had a habit of playing Tetris daily, but the console broke down shortly after her birthday.
Game Boy was once one of the most widespread laptops in all major markets, but today it is difficult to find the parts to repair it, even in Japan. In that situation, Kuniko Tsusaka, a 70-year-old woman who witnessed how her mother, who had just turned 95, suffered the damage to her console was found. It is collected by the Asahi Shinbun newspaper (via Kotaku), whose pages explain that after the birthday of the old woman, the Game Boy with whom he used to play Tetris broke down. Now, Nintendo has given him a new one.
Although he was his mother's third Game Boy, Tsusaka was unable to find a store in Chiba that still sold the laptop. He could not even find any trade that could repair it. Tsusaka's son, meanwhile, flattered Nintendo's technical service, and did so using the expression "Kami Taiou, which literally means" good support. " It is used to describe a good service.
95 歳 で ゲ ー ム 楽 ー イ を 楽 ゃ ん と 任天堂 の 「対 応」 な ら ぬ。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 W
– 埼 玉 犬 也 /Saitama.K (@SITM_K) February 20, 2020
A confusion of Kanji
However, Japanese writing encloses its difficulties and the Kanji, which come from the Chinese, contain different meanings, but many pronounce themselves the same. Thus, Tsusaka confused the kanji of "Kami", which in the case of the expression described above means "gave", for another kanji that reads the same but is written differently. He understood it as "paper," so he sent a letter to Nintendo with the spoiled Game Boy. Before the end of the week, the Kyoto sent him more than a missive, nothing more and nothing less than another machine.
Given that Game Boy's technical service stopped working a long time ago, Nintendo did not have the necessary parts to fix the old system. However, the company found a console in a warehouse and sent it to the old woman, who will finally be able to recover her daily gaming routine, which inevitably passes through Tetris.
