Mandew vs the Colorless Curse

It was a clear evening. Mandew sat on his porch with a refreshing iced tea and the latest issue of 'hammers illustrated magazine'. He thought to himself, "Boy it sure doesn't get much better than this". He was absolutely right, it didn't get any better then that. In fact, after the series of events that transpired the next morning, things happened to get a lot worse... The next morning a package had arrived in the mail. Mandew was perplexed as he had just placed his order for industrial strength orange hair dye only last night. Opening the box he discovered it only contained a single unmarked portable game cartridge. "What an odd present", Mandew thought to himself. Not thinking too far into it, he crawled into his attic, pulled out his old Game Dew and popped the cartridge in. In a dazzling display of bright light, the world Mandew knew was pulled away from him. Mandew felt the sensation of falling. Where was he? Why is this happening? Did he remember to take the kettle off the stove? All this and more whirled around in his head when everything went black...