Did Blowing on Nintendo Video Game Cartridges Help Them Work?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to video games and whether they are true or false. VIDEO GAME URBAN LEGEND: If your Nintendo video game cartridge didn’t work, blowing on the contacts would help make it work. In the latter half of the 20th Century, we as a […]

Is There a Transgendered Character in the Super Mario Brothers Universe?

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to video games and whether they are true or false. VIDEO GAME URBAN LEGEND: Super Mario Brothers features a transgendered character. In Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers 2, one of the various bad guys that Mario and Luigi have to fight is named […]