16th October 2003, 9:31 AM
I don't think the reason most NESs went bad was because of people blowing on cartridges. That practice was in place long before and lasted long after the NES. The reason the NES was so faulty was because of that crazy spring-load cartridge design, which easily and quickly, in many cases, misaligned, which is why the famous practice of using the black plastic sleeve to keep the spring-load anchored down came into being. My NES simply would not work period unless I did that.
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