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Why was "blowing on" NES Titles a thing, but never any other cartridge Consoles?

Master System, Genesis, Atari, SNES, N64 - people simply nev...
Comical stage
  05/02/25
There's a lot of scholarship on this. The front loading mec...
Pungent Silver House
  05/02/25
in hindsight, the top loading NES system was one of the stup...
Comical stage
  05/02/25
Snes was much better constructed. Genesis ppl either broke/...
Tan flickering double fault
  05/02/25
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brindle fragrant location
  06/03/25
George Soros was behind all this
Unhinged striped hyena
  05/02/25
I had a 32X but had to return because the games would freeze...
massive arousing university masturbator
  05/02/25
Did you live in a Trailer
brindle fragrant location
  06/03/25
same reason "slime" was a big thing on Nickelodeon
buff impressive gaping dingle berry
  05/02/25


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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:13 PM
Author: Comical stage

Master System, Genesis, Atari, SNES, N64 - people simply never "blew" on the cartridge connectors to make it "work." Only on the NES. And even on the NES it was often pantomime flame.

But why? Why was the NES the only Console where we were supposed to do this?

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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:25 PM
Author: Pungent Silver House

There's a lot of scholarship on this. The front loading mechanism of the NES didn't work as well as top loading consoles (all the others).

Nintendo wanted to make their console look less like a video game system and more like a home "entertainment system" like a VCR so as not to be associated with older crappier systems. But it had the effect of making the connection looser and shittier.

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Date: May 2nd, 2025 1:52 PM
Author: Comical stage

in hindsight, the top loading NES system was one of the stupidest decisions in Gaming history. Amazing that the system itself was such a piece of shit, but the controllers were literally indestructible and many still work perfectly 40 years later. Had they just done a "stick it in" type cartridge system without a loading "deck" the systems would have lasted forever IMO.

Microsoft always on "Kinnect" is also up there.

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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:27 PM
Author: Tan flickering double fault

Snes was much better constructed. Genesis ppl either broke/lost their games or gave them to a friend who never returned it.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: brindle fragrant location



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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:33 PM
Author: Unhinged striped hyena

George Soros was behind all this

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Date: May 2nd, 2025 1:54 PM
Author: massive arousing university masturbator

I had a 32X but had to return because the games would freeze after a few minutes. “Clerk” said it was known issue with old style Genesi. Thoughts?

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:16 AM
Author: brindle fragrant location

Did you live in a Trailer

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Date: May 2nd, 2025 2:21 PM
Author: buff impressive gaping dingle berry

same reason "slime" was a big thing on Nickelodeon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719581&forum_id=2).#48899297)