re: When the Nintendo didnt work...

I found my Sega just the other day. My kids been watching Sonic the hedgehog and that made me go look for it.

Plug it in, turn it on and nothing. It looked old as shite and I didn't even expect it to come on, but the light at least came on, but had a blank screen.
So I take the cartridge out, blow on it and in the console, look at my wife and roll my eyes at how dumb that was, put it back in and sure enough we were playing sonic 10 seconds later.