Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that A child in Venezuela made a Game Boy console out of cardboard.
As families have been stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Nintendo Switch became one of the most popular tech products of 2020.
A viral Facebook meme claims a 9-year-old boy named Paco Gutierrez always wanted a Nintendo but couldn’t afford one, so his created his own cardboard “console” and was faced with a lawsuit.
“Using his creativity and with the help from his uncle, he made a cardboard Super Mario game, posted it on YouTube and the video went viral,” reads a Jan. 25 Facebook post from the page Dank Meme. “Thanks to the video, Nintendo’s CEO Doug Bowser personally traveled to Venezuela to give Paco a Cease and Desist order and sue his family for 200 million dollars.”
Above the text is a photo purportedly of the 9-year-old boy and an image of a cardboard version of the Nintendo game. The post has over 800 shares and 2,500 reactions.