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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And then you put it back in, and it would work.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Mm-hmm.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

The thing is, it wasn't doing anything.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Alright, so you've got this mold now pressed together if it's injection.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

When you blew on it, you weren't helping it.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

It just hadn't made the correct connection the first time.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And then you have to assemble it if you have the arms separately perhaps or basically anything else that doesn't come on that original mold.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So when you took it out and put it back in, the chances were that you were making the correct connection then, and then the game would work.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

But you, being a dumb 10-year-old, thought, well, I blew on it, so that fixed it.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

You're gonna have to assemble it together.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Put all the little finishing details, maybe the clothing that you hate so much.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

But Nintendo long said, do not blow on these things.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

It's actually bad for them.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Maybe they're painted with a little more detail, that detail that you hate so much.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And no one listened until there was this guy who came along and actually ran a study, the world's first study on what blowing on a Nintendo cartridge does.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And all the things that make a better action figure that you hate so much.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

It's not that I hate it.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And it didn't work.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

It's just... I don't know.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

This is in 2012.