A Sticky Situation

Ever since its launch in 2005, I’ve been addicted to the PSP. Strangely, I never much cared for the games on Game Boy or other similar portable systems. But the high-powered PSP, with its remote play feature and built-in Web browser, appealed to me directly. Until a few weeks ago, the unit had been performing without a hitch. That’s when disaster struck.

I was sitting at my desk just before a morning class, drinking orange juice and trying to beat a particularly difficult PSP game. In my excitement, I knocked the juice over with an errant elbow, and drenched the handheld system in sticky sweetness. Luckily PSP repairs are not hard to come by. I’ve already found a place online that offers to fix videogame systems at reasonable rates.