re: How did we all know to fix NES cartridges as kids in the 80s/90s?

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You have to realize most homes were dustier than today’s homes. People still smoked like chimneys and shag carpets were still in people’s homes holding years of dust that was never really vacuumed up. It was just recirculated each vacuum. Plus that cigarette smoke put a nicotine glaze on everything. I just picture a YouTuber fixing a 1970/80’s console TV and commenting how baked it was with the nicotine smell emanating from the capacitor and board components when he first turns it on.

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I know I lived it. Cartridges still didn’t accumulate dust inside them every couple of hours

It was that you kept taking out the cartridge and placing it back in slightly differently. Once we learned you could just kinda push the grip part side to side a few times and it would do the same thing without taking out the game we never had to “blow dust” out of them again.