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Why do we need to blow on the games and why do the games mess up?!?
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Why do we need to blow on the games and why do the games mess up?!?
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Topic: How many of us blew into our cartridges?

66 replies / Originally posted by ahmadimran / Latest reply from AustinGarrod / Topic is open

By ahmadimran

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I'm sure I'm not the only one who did this.

Used to blow into the game cartridges when they wouldn't load. Just a quick blow phwwwoosh and then, magic! lol

Posted 7 months ago

By manbeard

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As an 8 year old I did blow the cartridges, but I'm not sure why dust ever go into the cartridges to begin with.

Posted 7 months ago

By colttrickle

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I think everyone did that, didn't they? ;)

Posted 5 months ago

By soulforged

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i know i did, aswell as everyone ive ever met. the onyl way to make them work aside from using a game geenie. that too would often make carts work

Posted 7 months ago

By M4Lki3r

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I think every NES and owner had it's own song and dance that was required to get it to work. Mine need a blow on the cart then insert it. Push it down and up and back down then hit the power button. Don't know why, but it always worked.!!

Posted 7 months ago

By ahmadimran

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Hahaha I know! For me it was blow twice, then insert the cartridge, but not all the way in, so that when I pushed down (ever so slowly), the top of the cartridge would grate against the inner wall. Don't know why either, but it worked lol.

Posted 7 months ago

By Polymira

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Haha, I did the blow, the hot air blow, then the blow. And did the same this with inserting the cartridge. Dont' push it ALL the way in, then push down so the back grates across the console.

Posted 7 months ago

By trickrodd

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That is the exact same method I always used. I think this is the real trick, and everyone else is crazy.

Posted 7 months ago

By stridermt2k

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Still one of the best Monopoly titles to play with four people.

NES Monopoly lets you skip past ALL the animations making for amazingly fast speed-games.

-not to mention very little to pick up afterward for the loser. ;)

Posted 7 months ago

By deinfinityx

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God i remember lots of blowing into the cartridge to get it to work, even did it with the N64. That was just classic gaming at its best.

Posted 7 months ago

By coologuy1957

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Answer: EVERYONE!!!

Posted 7 months ago

By tno

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i found myself blowing into an SNES just last week. it was nostalgic till i remembered that i wasn't supposed to.

Posted 7 months ago

By coologuy1957

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now i have to slap the NES on the butt to make it work more than blow on the cartridges... at least its still ticking.... way more reliable than my 360...........

Posted 7 months ago

By ubertaffy

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i seriously don't know a single person who did not have to do this nearly every time. and i never really understood why it worked. i mean... maybe if the game was dusty...but you could have just played the same game yesterday. it doesn't load...you blow in it... it loads. every. single. time. i miss those days. now if something doesn't work, what kind of insanely silly thing do we have that shouldn't work but ALWAYS does?

Posted 7 months ago

By cn31672

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The only way to make them work. Who didn't blow in the cartridges... Geez.. It even made the games easier, or so I've heard....

Posted 7 months ago

By phuoc

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Of course I did... I'm sure 99.9999% of the people who owned one of these did as well. If it did work without blowing into the cartridge but worked after blowing into the cartridge, why not? As long as it works.

Posted 7 months ago

By 8th

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i used to blow to and also remembering praying that it works every time.... i wonder was it ever in the manual to blow if doesnt work?

Posted 7 months ago

By ahmadimran

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That's the beauty of this whole thing. The fact that thousands upon thousand of people all over the world, at a certain period in history, blew into this piece of plastic we call a game cartridge. Without having read it in a manual or anything of the sort. Sort of a spontaneous global ritual heh heh.

Posted 7 months ago

By reefinyateef

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For some reason Mario 3 requires the most blowing for me ... Maybe cause it had more data than most cartridges?

Posted 7 months ago

By AlanMuir

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And this led to cans of compressed air.

Posted 7 months ago

By MrChris

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I was told that the blowing coated the contacts in a very fine spray of spit on the cartridge which helped make a better connection through conductivity.
I called shens but I'm not 100% opposed to the explanation.

Posted 7 months ago

By Lampbane

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I've heard this story as well, though when I heard it the explanation also mentioned that spit is corrosive and caused degradation of the cartridge.

Posted 7 months ago

By liz

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probably, but it worked all the time! fogging the contacts works more
often than just blowing at it.

I prefer the penny between the cart and the support bar method.

Posted 7 months ago

By xerocint

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It worked. Simple as that.

Posted 7 months ago

By Inmyforces

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I used to play for hours on end, and the game would get super hot. We put the cartridge in a zip-lock bag and stuck it in the freezer. Stuck it back in the game after about 20 minutes, and got hours more play out of it.

Posted 7 months ago

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