Crucial? … it was necessary … plus you had to wave it around in your hand like a fan to make it do something and then once you inserted it, you had to nudge it to the left, right, back, forth, up, down until you found just the right nudge to get it to work
Yes crucial, the ritual blowing of powerful blasts of cool (not wet) air, to get the dust out, and then firmly push it in, to show it that you meant business (and complete the spell). You might be getting mixed up with the secret cheats for games. Up up left right down down wasn’t it?
That was for the controller when the game actually started running … I was talking about the original NES catridge problems … once you inserted the cartridge and it didn’t work, one trick you did was to nudge the cartridge ever so slightly to the left, right, up, down or push it by a fraction of an inch or back … eventually one of those movements placed the cartridge in the right place to get it to work.
But those button combinations … we tried getting our hands on gaming magazines to find codes but seldom did. I didn’t live near any cities or near any stores that had good magazines (or any magazines lol) … but it was like magic if you happened to stumble on a cheat code by accident and then spend weeks trying to recreate it only to never find it again.
Lol I was partly joking around but we were the same with the cheat codes! I remember a friend showing the first one to us and we were amazed. It seemed so much more fun back then, when every advance was so hard won. I don’t recall if there were any Nintendo magazines available here, but if so, we didn’t have any. There used to be premium rate phone help lines if you got stuck on a game, but otherwise you were on your own.
Were you in the US, by any chance? I know the NTSC cartridges were different (PAL here), so maybe that’s why our ‘technomagical skills’ differ.
Crucial? … it was necessary … plus you had to wave it around in your hand like a fan to make it do something and then once you inserted it, you had to nudge it to the left, right, back, forth, up, down until you found just the right nudge to get it to work
Yes crucial, the ritual blowing of powerful blasts of cool (not wet) air, to get the dust out, and then firmly push it in, to show it that you meant business (and complete the spell). You might be getting mixed up with the secret cheats for games. Up up left right down down wasn’t it?
That was for the controller when the game actually started running … I was talking about the original NES catridge problems … once you inserted the cartridge and it didn’t work, one trick you did was to nudge the cartridge ever so slightly to the left, right, up, down or push it by a fraction of an inch or back … eventually one of those movements placed the cartridge in the right place to get it to work.
But those button combinations … we tried getting our hands on gaming magazines to find codes but seldom did. I didn’t live near any cities or near any stores that had good magazines (or any magazines lol) … but it was like magic if you happened to stumble on a cheat code by accident and then spend weeks trying to recreate it only to never find it again.
Lol I was partly joking around but we were the same with the cheat codes! I remember a friend showing the first one to us and we were amazed. It seemed so much more fun back then, when every advance was so hard won. I don’t recall if there were any Nintendo magazines available here, but if so, we didn’t have any. There used to be premium rate phone help lines if you got stuck on a game, but otherwise you were on your own.
Were you in the US, by any chance? I know the NTSC cartridges were different (PAL here), so maybe that’s why our ‘technomagical skills’ differ.