10 Most Shocking Video Game Myths. Closer Inspection Revealed The Truth.

August 6, 2014 by Ian Miles Cheong

Weâ€™ve decided to collect ten very popular, and totally out-of-this-world game myths and urban legends.

#7 Blowing Cartridges

As every one who grew up during the Super NES era “knows,” you have to blow on your video game cartridge to get it to work, if it’s ever wonky. The truth of the matter is that blowing on the cartridge can damage it—it even says so in the user manuals. It’s unknown who came up with it or why people thought it’d be a good idea to blow on the cartridge to ‘clean off the dust’.