Before they were the basis of hip soaps or remade as even hipper clocks, Nintendo’s cartridge games were a source of delight and vexation for millions of people. From the NES up to Nintendo 64, gamers enjoyed their 8- to 64-bit adventures by plugging those game paks into their consoles and then enjoying whatever fresh madness had been cooked up by Japanese designers. Occasionally, people would turn on their systems to find not the comforting neons of Bubble Bobble but instead a pixellated mess (well, moreso). Using a pre-Internet collective unconscious, gamers somehow knew that, in order to fix it, they had to pull out their cartridges, blow on the game a bit, and slam it back in. Except…well, that’s not true.