So finally, one day when we were up in Bountiful, he looked for his old Super Nintendo he got for Christmas one year. He couldn't find it anywhere, and he asked his dad where it was. Too his dismay, hJoe's dad told himt hat he had just thrown it away two weeks ago, along with all the other game systems that he didn't think were important to keep. Well, you should've seen the look on Joe's face when he heard that news. He said, "You WHAT!?" and he couldn't talk for like a full 30 seconds. And then started saying, "That was MINE!" Joe's dad felt so bad, he really did felt bad and said that's like the worst he felt in a long time.
Anyway... Joe was so sad that his super nintendo was gone, and since then, I'd been looking on KSL and checking out the Provo DI to see if there were any SNES's. We found a good deal in Springville but found out it had already been sold... So I suggested to Joe that we should pick a day to visit as many DIs we can around the area and see if we could find one. Last Saturday, we decided that we were going to visit all the between Provo and Salt Lake. We stopped off at the Provo, American Fork, Sandy, West Jordan, Murray, and Salt Lake Sugarhouse DI. As the day went on, I started getting nervous that we wouldn't be able to find any, and we got to the Sugarhouse DI 20 minutes before they closed. And after looking around about 10 minutes, we saw IT! In the electronics section! It was so funny, because Joe and I both spotted it at the same time, and I've probably never have seen Joe move so fast. He snatched it up so quickly, I couldn't see his hands move.. Ha ha.
Well, we wanted to test it out before the DI closed, and we had only 10 minutes to do so. We pulled out all the cords and the controllers out of the ziplock bag and started to connect it to the tv. But, there was no power cable! Joe quickly ran back to the electronics section to look for a compatible power cable (10 volts) and came back a few minutes later looking very disappointed... We stood there debating if it was worth $15 to just take the game home with a possibility that it may not work. And then, a blond girl walked up to us and said, "I think you are looking for this..." and handed us a power cable! And it was the perfect cable for the SNES! Joe was so excited, he told her, "You just made my year!" Later he told me she must have been an angel or something... Ha ha.
After that we dropped by Bountiful to visit Grandma and Grandpa, and then mom. We didn't get home until after midnight but he was so excited, he wanted to test out the game. We played a few boards. I was so surprised to see Joe play just like the guys on YouTube (flying through the board, knowing where all the secret passages are, never ever dying, etc.).
The console we bought is a little old and yellow, so Joe wanted to find a better one that didn't yellow. So just the other day, we bought another one from a guy in Woodscross for $20 (includes Street Fighter). Ha ha. We are gonna see if we can sell the one we bought from the DI. Anyway, I'm excited that Joe was able to find something he liked, we just gotta find a megaman game for him now. :)
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