14 Urban Legends In Games You Likely Believed

Blowing Cartridges

Whenever you played on the Super Nintendo, NES or even the Nintendo 64, you might have experienced your cartridges not working. How many of us would remove the cartridge, blow into it to “clean” it and pop it back in, believing things to have been fixed? As it turns out, a lot of us – until it was revealed to be utterly pointless. It’s OK To Be Smart, a show from PBS Digital Studios, revealed that removing and inserting the cartridge is what ultimately fixed things. Everything else was just our imagination.