Problems only old-school gamers would understand

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  • #21
Everyone of the Nintendo 64 age in gaming will remember that amazing feeling when the N64 logo shows up on the television screen after the 50th attempt to fix the cartridge by blowing/cleaning/slamming it into the system, haha. I still miss the cartridge blowing days though, I'd take them over cleaning off the smudges/scratches off of discs..
 
  • #22
Once I dropped an n64 cartridge (i was young and dumb) and my dad got mad. I forget what game.
 
  • #23
I am only 12, but I still have a lot of my dad's old consoles that I play on a lot so I would understand these problems :p ( I hope) but when I am playing on the SNES or the NES, I would have to blow on the cartridge a bit to get it to work, and playing Mario Party, the pain you would get from the N64 controller... It hurt xD... I also remember my sister nudging the cartridge on my N64 and froze the game :/
 
  • #24
Yeah I remember those times where I had to blow on the cartridges to make them work . It was good times and it didn't really seem to be a problem and I still liked the original games where it was impossible to beat and how fustrating it would be to start all over again . They still managed to be fun over and over and they are still memories:sleep:
 
  • #25
I thought that blowing on the NES game cart would work. But you have a better chance on destroying the pins in the cart then blowing the dust off. Also I realized that the NES 72 pin connector was bent wide open, so the game cart can't read it. So I bought a 72 Pin connector online when my NES was over 20 years old to replace it.. It's an easy fix. Now the games work with no problems at all. The only downside to this is that it's hard to get the games out. Since the pin reader inside the NES is great. So I use pliers to get the game out. Now that my NES is 27 years old, since I got it back in the 1980's. It works like it was brand new. And I have 287+ NES games for it.
 
  • #26
I wasn't completely a 90's kid b I do know of some of these problems. I remember I had a journal like book to keep my all of my save passwords. Then one day I lost it and had to start serial games or from the beginning. :(
 
  • #27
I remember with the 64 whenever something small would fall into the cartridge slot and I would have to pick up the system upside down to shake out whatever fell in, or tapping the system whenever it would start buzzing just to silence it.

With the Gameboy having to sit under a lamp just to see the screen so that mean no bed time gaming.
 
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