Blowing on game cartridges and smacking old TVs seemed to work mainly because reinserting the cartridge improved the connection, while the smacking temporarily fixed loose solder joints in aging CRT televisions — it wasn’t the blowing or hitting itself that actually did the trick.
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hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 hours agoWe blew into Nintendo cartridges in the US too. It certainly did feel like it helped, but I imagine in reality the point of failure was the wobbly connection inside the console.
frenchfrynoob@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
I dunno, sounds to be like blowing and hitting worked pretty good, if not for the reasons we thought.
frenchfrynoob@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
"I’ll add a picture of a Subor learning machine. Even though what we played back in the day were bootlegs, our love for gaming was still real Image
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Look at you with your fancy extra buttons and your whole ass keyboard!