Here is what you "youngins" don't have to go through

The cartridge-loading mechanism for the Nintendo Entertainment System represents one of the most forbidden with video games in history. As kids, we saved up what little money we had to buy that shiny new NES cartridge, or we waited patiently for it to become available at rental, or we even did the unthinkable--pretended to be that one kid's friend at school so we could borrow that game. And wouldn't you know it, when we finally got the game home...we couldn't get it to work.

We tried blowing on the cartridge leads. We tried blowing into the cartridge system. We tried waving the cartridge in the air like a fan, for some reason. We tried pushing the cartridge all the way in. We tried inserting it only as far as it needed to go. We tried turning the NES power on and off repeatedly. We even tried pushing down the cartridge extra-deep by shoving in another cartridge on top of the first one. We tried just about everything to get that thing to work. Sometimes, when we had a new game we really wanted to play, we were practically begging: Please, Nintendo Entertainment System...we just want to enjoy you and the wonderful game experience you have to offer. Please, just work.

I had 1 NES, and even though I had to blow out the cartridges, and near the end I had use the gamegenie or another cart just to keep the game I wanted to play in the down position... it always worked.

My 4 faulty 360's could have learned from this. When they died, they straight up died.

Lol, that's funny.... I had forgotten about those days. Lol, I remember it got to the point that I blew in all of my cartridges before putting them in just as a safety precaution.

It didn't really dampen the fun though.... it just seemed normal. And more often than not the cartridge would end up working. It was weird now that I think about it.

I went through 3 PS2s. They sure are unreliable.Vandalvideo

I've owned 2 PS2's and neither of them were unreliable. I had the original and then got the slim version a year or so ago. That's just the way it goes with consoles... some people will never have a problem where some draw the bad luck of getting faulty consoles. From ninty to sega to sony, I've never had a console that stopped working altogether.

And I don't think anyone is intending to bash Ninty... I blew in all of my Genesis cartridges too, BUT I did have a lot less problems with my Genesis than I did with my NES.

[QUOTE="Vandalvideo"]I went through 3 PS2s. They sure are unreliable.Sgt_Hale

I've owned 2 PS2's and neither of them were unreliable. I had the original and then got the slim version a year or so ago. That's just the way it goes with consoles... some people will never have a problem where some draw the bad luck of getting faulty consoles. From ninty to sega to sony, I've never had a console that stopped working altogether.

And I don't think anyone is intending to bash Ninty... I blew in all of my Genesis cartridges too, BUT I did have a lot less problems with my Genesis than I did with my NES.

Still got the same TurboGrafx...

Even the 17 year old conversion card that plays JPN/EU HuCards still works...


TekkenMaster606

[QUOTE="TekkenMaster606"]Still got the same TurboGrafx...

Even the 17 year old conversion card that plays JPN/EU HuCards still works...


Vandalvideo

I think the NES is sort of the exception.  The Master System worked great at that time and the SNES/Genesis had no problems of note. 

HuCards > NES Carts...No blowing...
TekkenMaster606

I went through 3 PS2s. They sure are unreliable.Vandalvideo

I remember blowing on the cartridges for my NES.  It worked, too.sonicare

If blowing didn't work my failsafe was always cramming one of those sleeves on top of the cartridge while it was in the system. For some reason, pressing the cartridge all the way down made a lot of games work...TekkenMaster606

Jesus you think that was bad? Be thankfull you didn't have a console with a tape deck.DilutedDante

Ah, the annoying days of blowing catridges and turning my PS1 upside down so it could read discs better, hopefully those days are behind us now...A2D

funny, my brother had no such problems during the 80s

although, during 1998, it took me, at age 7, quite a bit of ingenuity to make that tank run!

Gezz. youngins, this IS NOT about a system breaking, everyone goes through that young and old. This is about back in the day, When games were harder to earn then begging your parents for them, and consoles were a trick to get working.

How many of you can honestly remember being somones friend to get a hold of a game, haha, I have. Or sleeping over at a friends house so you can take turns playing Mario or some other pixilated 2D game that seemed like heaven at the time.
Sure systems break now, but no amount of blowing on the halo disk will fix that dirty disk error.

P.S. Blowing on cartrige corodes the copper, so dont do it!(if you still got a nes)

Jesus you think that was bad? Be thankfull you didn't have a console with a tape deck.DilutedDante

POKE 32,14

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

Man... Now I wanna dig out the Vic20 and play some "Aztec Challenge" or "Lemonade Stand".

[QUOTE="DilutedDante"]Jesus you think that was bad? Be thankfull you didn't have a console with a tape deck.y2kzorak

POKE 32,14

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

Man... Now I wanna dig out the Vic20 and play some "Aztec Challenge" or "Lemonade Stand".

[QUOTE="A2D"]Ah, the annoying days of blowing catridges and turning my PS1 upside down so it could read discs better, hopefully those days are behind us now...Vandalvideo

Ah, the annoying days of blowing catridges and turning my PS1 upside down so it could read discs better, hopefully those days are behind us now...A2D