ELi5: why did old cartridge games not boot up properly and people would end up blowing on them?
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It was actually a myth. Re-seating the cartridge is what got the games to load properly
People widely believed that dust or debris might have gotten between contactors on the game boards, so we would blow on them thinking it dusted them off.
If anything, this probably put excess moisture on our games and made them corrode quicker
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