Gameboy in the dirt

Blowing in the Cartridge: Retro Gaming’s Favorite Fix

If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, chances are you remember the ritual. The game wouldn’t start, the screen flickered, and before long you found yourself removing the cartridge, giving it a good puff of air, and trying again. Magically, it often worked, or seemed to. The blowing method became a universal reflex […]

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