cartridges

Nintendo Told Us All Along That Blowing On The Cartridge Wouldn’t Work

The popular myth has been debunked: you can’t blow on cartridges to make them work. Actually, blowing on the cartridge might damage it. Sorry, folks. It’s true.


I’m Ready To Trade The Scratches On My Discs For The Accessibility Of The Cloud

I grew up, like many, blowing cartridges and spending hours reading through game manuals. Then came the boxy jewel cases and CDs. The more I loved a game, the more scratches and nicks the back of a game would suffer.


NES Cart Harmonica, Now Conveniently For Sale

About two years ago, a guy posted a how-to for turning old NES cartridges into a harmonica. If you lack the tools, know-how or NES carts to make one yourself, someone’s now selling them, for $US24.99.


Just How Much Punishment Can A NES Cart Take?

Inspired by a three-year-old Kotaku article, Canadian blogger Rinry subjected eight NES carts to varying forms of torture to see just how durable the goods were. Seven of them were still fully playable.


Blank N64 Cartridge Challenges Your Manhood

Meanwhile, in the make-believe land of eBayia, someone’s auctioning a “mysteriously blank Nintendo 64 cartridge” – promising only that the game works and doesn’t suck. “Are you man enough to buy a label-less N64 game?” No, but Saxton Hale is!


NES Carts As Objets D’Art

We don’t know much about art, but we know what we (sort of) like – and what we (sort of) like is NES cartridges put in a cheap frame and displayed on our walls.


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