29 Video Game Facts to Blow the Dust Off of Before Cramming Them Violently Into Your Brain
These’ll work this time, we swear!
You old heads remember when a game working off the hop was a real coin-flip? We sure do. It was a slight annoyance, but we always knew that a quick blowie would fix everything.
Okay, that sounded weird. We didn’t know a term for blowing into a cartridge before shoving it back into the system, so we just went for one.
Anywho, we gave all of these a quick blowie (yep, still weird!), so you can get right to them. No slight annoyances on our watch!
Earthworm Jim
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Mortal Kombat: Deception
Chase the Chuck Wagon
Video Game Cut Scenes
Doom
Fallout: New Vegas
Catacomb 3-D
Dark Souls
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