I Found Romance in 'Hit It to Fix It'

Maybe 'hit it to fix it' was actually an incredible invention. On July 15th, Famicom Day, I was left thinking about just that.

July 15th is Famicom Day. That square box that was released in 1983 for 14,800 yen.

My butler (Bilbil) brought it to me wrapped in a white cloth as if he were handling an antique. When he said, 'Today is Family Computer Day,' so respectfully, I felt like I had to straighten my posture too.

That firm 'click' feeling when inserting a cartridge. I had forgotten that sensation transmitted to my fingertips, but my fingers remembered it.

When I turned the power on, as expected, the screen flickered vertically. Bilbil panicked and offered to buy a replacement, saying, 'My apologies,' but I lifted the console and gave it a light tap on the side.

Then the screen suddenly stabilized. It flickered again. I tapped it again. It stabilized again.

As I repeated that a few times, I started to feel something strange. It's broken, yet it fixes when you tap it. And the fact that there was an era where that was accepted as a standard 'feature' is, when I think about it now, an amazing invention.

I wish human relationships and other more complex, tangled things could be fixed as simply as that. If hitting them could fix them, I wouldn't have to worry so much.

While I was thinking about that vaguely, only the sensation of the vibration from the tap still lingering on my fingertips felt strangely real.

Bilbil was watching with a 'good grief...' look on his face, but I think I'll have a quiet drink tonight with this console as my companion. Cheers to the invention of 'hit it to fix it'.

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