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Subject: Once Upon A Time I Owned A Nintendo
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My halo 2 wouldn't work right when I bought the game.... so I got a new one.... it works alright now... but it still kinda messes up sometimes. Probably cuz my Xbox is messed up. I should get a new one. I think I will get a new one. My NES is sucky too, but my SNES works good still. Hoo-Rah. Gotta love Super Bomberman on the SNES, such good times.

  • 12.26.2004 3:04 PM PDT
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Atari 2600 is the machine that introduced me to the joys of Cart blowing
Pitfall, Pacman, River Raid and more
they were great when they worked

  • 12.26.2004 3:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: DosserTugsy
Man I knw exactly what your talking about, I used to spend 10-14 mins blowing on a cartridge trying to get it work then I would blow into the NES to get it work. Gutted. I'd then give up trying to play the game and try another.

Is it me or have alot of the old school nintendo generation jumped ship to the X-Box? I know I did and I owned every single nintendo console bar the gamecube.

I think its quite sad the Mario Brothers are now glorified cleaners - Luigi is now hoovering old mansions and Mario is cleaning islands from top to bottom with a water gun. lol

Same thing here. Old school NES and SNES were the pimp(I remember once I blew so hard my face turned purple and my mom made me lay down.) I owned every nintendo console, and GB until the gamecube. I also have been wondering lately what the hell have they done to my mario bro's? Old school mario is way bettter than where mario is now. Also, what the hell have they done to Donkey Kong? He used to be this mean King Kong, but now, he's some soft hearted oaf trying to save bananna island. I mean, even with the improved graphics and everything, gamecube is a slave compared to the rich king NES.

  • 12.26.2004 3:08 PM PDT
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hey, im only 13 and even i remember those things. first game system i evr played. *sighs* wat a classic...

  • 12.26.2004 3:20 PM PDT
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I've read about the post and about half of the replys and don't think i can read anymore. There is all this talk about "blowin cartridges for like 10-15 minutes" with some guy named mario. This is supose to be a forum about video games like Halo and not some -blam!- hang out for perverts.

PS/disclaimer

I liked the Atari, but yes the NES was much better. I use to be able to get so many extra lives of the O.G. Mario game that i would have picture icon rather than numbers to represent lives i had. Luigi sucked. Mario ruled.

  • 12.26.2004 3:23 PM PDT
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someone stole my nitendo when i was 5

  • 12.26.2004 3:42 PM PDT
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has nothing to do with halo2- yet posted in halo2 forums. try a general forum.

  • 12.26.2004 3:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Richard1000
Posted by: PQZ
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Posted by: Fyrfly
Once upon a time I was 10 years old. It was 1990, and I owned a Nintendo Entertainment System.


good for you, so did most other ppl.


what a sausage jockey....


:) thx.......you do no i was joking..well i werent, Most ppl do, but i was being..........'a sausage jockey'


you'll have to run that by me again, cuz i dont have a -blam!- clue what you mean

  • 12.26.2004 4:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: PQZ
lol thanks fyrfly, that was great. lol one more thought, imagine a halo side scrolling, platform shooter for nintendo... lol


you can't say i didn't try to steer this towards a halo 2 discussion =)

  • 12.26.2004 4:04 PM PDT
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Dude, I hear you completely - It seems the technology to grasp the perfect gaming console will never exist...At least, with the console you happen to own, anyway. Sod's law prevails once again...

  • 12.26.2004 4:08 PM PDT
Subject: Once Upon A Time I Owned A Nintendo
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Once upon a time I was 10 years old. It was 1990, and I owned a Nintendo Entertainment System. I'm not talking game cube, I'm not talking gameboy, and I'm not talking super NES. I'm talking about Duck Hunting with one of those 5 dollar laser guns, playing Super Mario where you could only be Luigi or Mario, and jumping over barrels with Donkey Kong. The golden age of Nintendo. So, back in the day, there was one thing that bothered me and still sticks in my mind. And, if you have ever owned the orginial NES you will know exactly what I'm about to describe. You sit down in front of your favorite game, whatever it was or may be, let's say Super Mario #1 just for old time's sake. You put in the cartridge (for those of you who are 10 or 12, game systems didn't have disks they weren't around untill the mid to late 1990s, so everything worked on cartidges just like your gameboy) and a black screen greeted you from the depths of your NES. Panic, outrage, disgust. You just wanted to play Mario. You didn't want to think about the fact that NES used copper cartidge connectors so they sometimes got cruddy and wouldn't hold a charge. You just wanted to play Mario. So, what did you do? You held the humungus cartridge in your hands, kinda like a penut butter sandwich, and blew into it. You blew your heart out. You swept back and fourth prayin that you would dislodge some dusk or gunk that was messing up the connectors. You would do this for 15 minutes sometimes before it would work. Personally I remember leaving and coming back to a game because it wouldn't turn on. This was 15 years ago. Today, I own an XBOX. I play Halo too much. I couldn't help but find it funny how a system that is light years ahead of the original NES, with internet capabilities, with a hard drive, with so much more processing power that it is laughable to think we even played on the original NES, can still have the same stupid problem. Xbox is a great system, Bill Gates is a smart guy, and Microsoft rules the world. So, why can't they make a disk drive that reads a stupid CD?

P.S. This post is a desperate cry in the hopes that some day I will never have to read the words "Your disk is dirty or damaged..." when I just bought the disk and cleaned it before I put it into my machine. Sorry if this post isn't really about Halo or Bungie. But, it had to be said.

  • 12.26.2004 11:35 AM PDT
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I totally agree, but one of the reasons it was wrecked, was because blowing into your cartrages, especialy for 15 minutes :S, caused alot of damage, all the moisture and spit damages the cartrage enternally. Also this guy makes a great piont and you wido maker all you say is "get a sig" you wido maker are -blam!-

  • 12.26.2004 4:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: X Slicer X
so true so true

back in the day i had a Sega Genisis, Sega's golden age i remember blowing in the cartrage :) the good old days

I have a perfectly opperating NES, SNES, Sega 3, 64, xbox, and a computer made from old soviet satilites that runs on coal........

  • 12.26.2004 5:15 PM PDT
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I never owned a NES or a SNES but I did own a Nintendo 64 and I had the same problem.

  • 12.26.2004 6:23 PM PDT
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I think CD's are perfectly fine. Though I have to admit, I still have my Nintendo 64.
Yep, cartrages and all.
(I think the greatest game ever made was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for N64)

  • 12.26.2004 7:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: The lone Gundam
I think CD's are perfectly fine. Though I have to admit, I still have my Nintendo 64.
Yep, cartrages and all.
(I think the greatest game ever made was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for N64)


Mine isn't wrking right. It works ok but I can't get beat the forest temple as an adult. Not even the guides help..... I'm sad now.

  • 12.26.2004 7:43 PM PDT

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The "Nintendo Blow" worked simply because it added moisture to the contacts, and liquid is a good conductor of electricity.

I collect games now, and you can always tell the cartridges that were blown in because they get a greenish corrosion from the saliva.

Always clean cartridges with a 99% rubbing alcohol solution then rinse with a Q-Tip dipped in distilled water, then dry with a clean Q-Tip.

And the Atari was my first, but was followed by many many more...

Your systems will work forever if you take care of them properly, I still have an Odyssee and a Fairchild Channel F that work like they're brand new. - The Fairchild is 29 years old, and the Odyssee is 33 years old.

  • 12.26.2004 8:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
The "Nintendo Blow" worked simply because it added moisture to the contacts, and liquid is a good conductor of electricity.

I collect games now, and you can always tell the cartridges that were blown in because they get a greenish corrosion from the saliva.

Always clean cartridges with a 99% rubbing alcohol solution then rinse with a Q-Tip dipped in distilled water, then dry with a clean Q-Tip.

And the Atari was my first, but was followed by many many more...

Your systems will work forever if you take care of them properly, I still have an Odyssee and a Fairchild Channel F that work like they're brand new. - The Fairchild is 29 years old, and the Odyssee is 33 years old.


Hey GameJunkieJim, do you have a SEGA Master System?

  • 12.26.2004 8:51 PM PDT
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NES is better than an xbox anyday.

  • 12.26.2004 9:06 PM PDT

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