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Will Game Cartridges Make a Comeback?
sk8pmp writes "With the cost of solid state memory going down, will we see the return of the game cartridge? Or will digital distribution reign supreme and transition our entertainment into the cloud? This editorial explores the beginnings of the cartridge vs. disc battle of the '90s and theorizes a second one in the future. 'Imagine if you could marry the vast spaces of discs with the blazing fast speeds of solid state memory. Can you say "no more load times"? You pop the game into the top of the console, so the game is sticking out the top like in ye olden times, and you could see the sweet artwork on the front of the cartridge. The nostalgia is killing me!'"
Blowing into a USB port just isn't the same.
No, no, no, the ever-popular UMDs!
I prefer my games on a reel-to-reel you insensitive clod!
What is this NES you speak of?
The only way to clean your Atari 2600 cartridges is to blow in them. Wiping is for butts.
Actually, they feel the net has an outdated look and feel to it. Plans next year are to upgrade to the intermesh.
And there are even still new NES games coming out, like Sivak's Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril and ProgAce's Bio Force Ape vs. Dur Butter.
Apparently you're confusing "went out of style" with "completely ceased to exist".
Just because I can find a green leisure suit on an internet site somewhere doesn't mean I will still look normal walking down the street in it.
Well, what dya know!
RIP America
July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
Not every time. Once you get pissed off because someone beat you to choosing Oddjob, and in your Soda-fueled rage you kick the SNES into the TV, it no longer worked, and you had to reseat the cartridges a lot.
That didn't happen to all you guys?
People who try to put them into their film projectors? ;)
What is this NES you speak of?
The only way to clean your Atari 2600 cartridges is to blow in them. Wiping is for butts.
Your mom likes blowing
Bow-ties are cool.
You think that is a problem? The damn wax cylinders for my phonograph keep melting in the heat!
"But this one goes to 11!"
Blowing is a horribly inefficient way to clean cartridges.
That's why you suck.
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true story:
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Once upon a time when I was 14, I wanted to clean the connectors on my NES cartridges... reading the NES instruction booklet, and the booklets of the individual games, I learned that I shouldn't use water or alcohol to clean with, because these solvents may damage the circuit board. So instead of a $.99 bottle of alcohol, I paid $10 for a tiny bottle of cleaning solution with a crappy applicator, because it had the NINTENDO seal of approval. Ingredients contained in the cleaning solution: alcohol mixed with water. FUCK YOU NINTENDO.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
We had a rule, though...you could pick Oddjob if you wanted, but whatever your kill count was at the end of the round, we got to punch you that many times.
We had two rules when playing GoldenEye. 1) Quit your bitchin. 2) Don't break the controller. Everything else was fair game.
"Educate the mind but never at the expense of the soul."~Blessed Basil Moreau
Ouch that was like when I was told it would cost me $40 to have bestbuy install some ram for me (i was 11 or so) and when I asked why I was told that they have to go in and set up the bios and windows to recognize the new ram.
If your console's cartridges don't have those idiotic tiny plastic teeth *cough*DS*cough*, use rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab instead.
Have an even better/fun way to do this. I use "Everclear" grain alcohol to clean any parts. Once I clean the parts...I'm next with a few swallows. Of course...my liver hates me...but may as well clean me as well as my electronics.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz
My paranoia has increased tenfold. Thank you, asshole.