Why Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
The REAL reason NES games didn't work: http://mentalfloss.com/article/12589/did-blowing-nintendo-cartridges-really-help Follow on Twitter: ...
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Dang it. If you played old-school Nintendo, then this has happened to you. Your game went all crazy, so you blew on the cartridge, and bingo. Beating a game like Mario Bros. is all about knowing the patterns. Luckily we're good at that Our brains are nature's most powerful pattern-recognition devices. They let us pick out meaning from the chaos: in order to sense danger, so we can see consequences for our actions. For our ancestors that could mean the difference between life and death. You eat the red berries, and you get sick. Eat the blue ones, and you're fine. Plant your crops in late summer, you go hungry. Plant your crops in spring, and you eat like a king. Since those early days, our brains have kept evolving, but maybe not as fast as the world in which we live. And while we keep upgrad...
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Dang it. If you played old-school Nintendo, then this has happened to you. Your game went all crazy, so you blew on the cartridge, and bingo. Beating a game like Mario Bros. is all about knowing the patterns. Luckily we're good at that Our brains are nature's most powerful pattern-recognition devices. They let us pick out meaning from the chaos: in order to sense danger, so we can see consequences for our actions. For our ancestors that could mean the difference between life and death. You eat the red berries, and you get sick. Eat the blue ones, and you're fine. Plant your crops in late summer, you go hungry. Plant your crops in spring, and you eat like a king. Since those early days, our brains have kept evolving, but maybe not as fast as the world in which we live. And while we keep upgrad...
