Nintendo Help Desk: “Okay – I want you to take the remote, button side down and smack it into the palm of your hand two or three times.”
Russ: “You’ve got to be kidding”
Nintendo Help Desk: “No sir, do it hard enough that I can hear it across the phone line but not hard enough to damage the remote”
The thing is…IT WORKED!
[Editor’s Note from 2023: Props to Wired Magazine for keeping their URL layouts the same for 15 years!]
