Just Blow On It

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I don’t think there’s a gamer among us that at one point, hasn’t fixed a video game cartridge by blowing on it at one point or another. What do you mean your first system was the original disc-using PlayStation? How old are you? How old am I? Ahh damnit. Nostalgia strikes again.

In any case, for us old geysers out there, Jake Murray has immortalized the moment of your first brush with tech support with this excellent piece above. Granted, I am young enough where the first system I did this on was a SEGA Genesis, and not an NES, but still. Lovely piece.

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2 Comments

  1. I was fortunate enough to never have to blow in my cartridges…as myself and my brother were both Atari/Sega fanboys as youngsters.

    I went from the 2600 to a Master System, to a Mega Drive, to a Saturn…

    The first Nintendo console I owned was a 64 and by that point they’d finally caught up with everyone else and were making cartridges that – as long as they were properly looked after – didn’t need to be blown on to function properly.

    That said, I bought a NES about 10 years ago and SNES roughly a year or two later so as you’d imagine, I’m now well versed in the experience that is playing computer games with a light head!

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