Gamer Science

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I don't know about you guys, but growing up I had a Nintendo DS and a Gameboy. And of course, these handheld game consoles had those game chips. Sometimes you'd pop in a game chip and then OH MY GOSH IT'S NOT WORKING!!! So you did the logical thing that you had done countless times just like so many other people, and you would blow on the game chip and in the slot to get it to work. You assumed that you were getting rid of dust and improving the conductivity of the metal so the game would play.



Well guess what, you were totally wrong! It did nothing! Just gave you an excuse to take out the game chip and reinsert it. But why did we blow on our game chips? The answer is simple, our brains love to see patterns whether they are really there or not. We saw other people blowing on the chips and then saw the chips working again after doing so. Our brains thought it saw a pattern where blowing on not working game chips = working game when it merely was the reinsertion of the game chip that made the game work.

For more in depth info, watch this awesome science video:


What gaming systems did you have or had?
Did you ever blow on game chips to get them to work?
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