What Happened To Blowing?

Let’s go back to when the very first Nintendo system was ever made. Remember that one? A gray box with a simple red button and simple controls with a and b, start and select. Do you know how fun those games were? Where you had a world to complete, you started at level 1 and worked your way up. Every 5 levels or so there was a monster at the end you had to kill, and then you were allowed to move on to world 2. Along the way you found different tricks and secrets that made you feel like a superstar and that you were amazing. Then you would go to you’re friends house and play more Nintendo and show off which secrets and tricks you knew so that your friends would be like “wooaaaa how did you find that out?” And you would just smile and nod and be like ya, I’m cool.

You know what else made you feel cool? If you knew how to fix something. These days if a computer or system or anything breaks down, i’m not even going to try to fix it because I know it’s more complicated than I could ever imagine. Back in the old Nintendo days, all you had to do was give it a simple blow. Machine go fuzzy and the game isn’t starting? No problem, open up the box and give it a blow. Is the game frozen and giving you a blinking screen? No problem, eject the old school game and give it a blow just like so.

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Do you remember how simple that was? Because these games WERE simple! Why did we have to get so technical and keep on making one system better than the other. Now you have so ship the entire system away for it to be replaced because inside that machine there are oodles and oodles of wires and buttons and god knows what else.

The other day I was at my friends boyfriends house and he was playing Xbox and all of a sudden yelled out a massive scream. He ran over to his computer and started to type something in. We were waiting for an explanation but all we saw was a flashing red light. He was going ballistic and then let out another scream. This time his scream was not just an ‘ahhh’ it was a “THE RING OF DEATH”!

What the hell is a ring of death? Apparently for all you game users out there will probably know what I am talking about, but with all Xbox systems apparently there is like a disease it can catch called the Ring of Death? And it is a known fact! My friends boyfriend had ran over to the computer to type something into Google what had happened during his game (the screen had just gone blank) and immediately he had thousands of Google hits telling him that he had been hit by “The Ring Of Death’. My times have changed. This is a known condition through all XBox’s and people are aware that it a default in their system and if they get the Ring of Death they automatically get a new system.

This was a massive deal, he called up his friend told him he had the ring of death and his friend knew exactly what he meant. His friend let out a sign and said don’t worry, I will bring mine over. Problem solved, they could continue playing hockey or whatever it was they were playing and waited for his fresh system to arrive.

Whatever happen to just blowing in the system. Could a blow not fix The Ring of Death?