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What a feeling that was (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Blowing on a cartridge was a cartridge thing. The idea being to blow dust off the connector pins, the console itself is irrelevant.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Of all the consoles I ever owned or played at other people's houses, the NES was the only one anybody ever blew on.

    My lived experience trumps anything you can try to claim. You lose; good day sir!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I never owned a NES, but had a SNES and my brother also borrowed his friend's Mega Drive (Genesis for those of you in the US) from time-to-time. All of us would blow the connectors on the cartridges, regardless of console. If anything went wrong with a game, the first step to troubleshoot was to take the cartridge out and give it a good blow.

    It was never about how the console actually worked, a five year-old isn't going to logically think about that. It was all about a perceived performance increase by doing it.

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