Memories – Recording Mario Kart: Double Dash on VHS

I opened an article by Zoe Skyforest for Hackaday titled GameCube Bot Records Your Play in a Weird Way. The article opened: If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape. “If you wanted” eh? “Could…” Talk about presumptuous. How about I wanted and I did. Settle in now: It is story-time. Super Mario Kart was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System on August 27, 1992 in Japan, and on September 1, 1993 in North America. The combination of Mario and friends and kart racing proved to be successful, so successful that every Nintendo home console and every handheld console starting with the Game Boy Advance has received an entry in the Mario Kart series. The fourth entry in the series was Mario Kart: Double Dash for the Nintendo GameCube. It was released in all regions in November 2003. I probably received my copy on Christmas 2003, or not long after (that would be five years to the day I received Pokémon Red).…