11 Biggest Video Game Industry Lies You Still Believe

11. Blowing Into A Game Cartridge Didn't Fix It - It Actually Harmed It

The first life hack you ever learned was a lie - sorry, but it was, even if it seemed like perfectly sound logic that'd save your prized games from oblivion. In theory, microscopic dust would gather inside the cartridge, so blowing on it would disperse the dust and make it work properly, right? Well, that was wrong - what you were actually doing was allowing the moisture in your saliva to interfere with the copper elements, causing them to break down. Nintendo even tried to warn you in the small print of game manuals, saying your breath could "corrode and contaminate the pin connectors", but who read that? Now let's take this opportunity to remember our fallen idols; many thought they were saving and reviving fallen comrades, but you were just pushing them closer to the grave.