Term which refers to the old game cartridges that were used by the NES and the cartridges that were used by SNES. These NES cartridges were infamous for getting so very dusty and unclean that your warm, moist,
stinky breath had to be applied at the opening of said cartridge (See
Nintendo Blow) to even get them to work at all! SNES cartridges were not AS bad but STILL suffered the same problems = same "solution" to NES cartridges being dusty.
After throughly "breathing" on these cartridges, and after a relatively short period of time, the game that would be using the cartridge would freeze up as the moisture ran out, and the TV which would be hooked up to your game will look psychedelic in 16 bit blocks.
For an idea of what these cartridges look like, look to your left. Occasionally there will be an ad for
Busted Tees next to this definition and it will have a girl wearing a
demin skirt and a green shirt saying Blow Me with a pic of a side view of a NES cartridge.
Example:
1996 (NES)- "My
Cobra Command cartridge is acting up again!" Argh *
Huff Huff*
1998 (SNES)- "Donkey Kong Country isn't working again..."
1999 (SNES)- "
Yoshi's Island is always working as usual ;D"
2000 (???) - "Screw this crap im gonna go play playstation"