Nintendo Warns Consumers Against Cartridge "FuFu"

[Radelaide]

In other words, he's blowing into it to get it to work, an act I feel bad that the younger of us may never experience, what with their holo-discs and their "Steam" download machine.

Back when we were kids, you had to load games in from paper card! And we had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

My father used to cut us in half with a butter knife!

 

[Keepitclean]

I'm pretty sure it said not to blow into cartiges for that reason on the back of the old Sega cartriges.I did it anyway, I was such a badass 6 year old.

 

[therandombear]

ah yes, fufu, I remember back in the days with the N64 at my friends house and Super Mario didn't start no matter how many times he turned on/off and pressed it harder into the machine and kept wiggling it. Then I used my super awesome brain and used fufu on it.
Ended in success. Oh yeah.

 

[Nukeforyou]

so I wasnt supposed 2 do this all these years?! oh well my SNES and games still run fine



[small] kinda annoyed I'm on my 2nd 360[/small]

 

[The Cheezy One]

So it is referred to as performing fufu? Umm... wow...

I'll just stick to saying "blowing into the cartridge".

"so what are you doing right now, sweetheart?"
"fufu"
"isnt that your dog?"
"yes, but actually its a blow jo- honey? honey?"
"beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep"

i wish this would actually happen

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Man, my method was the worst...when "FuFu" didn't work, I'd take a regular #2 pencil and rub the connectors with the eraser end.

 

[FrostyChick]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

but seriously stop using it... I never used it and I never will, fufu just sounds wrong for soooo many reasons....

 

[Queen Michael]

My first thought when I saw that headline was "Death by FuFu!"

 

[drbarno]

I still Fufu. Damn DS cards won't work half the time.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

I use a sheet of blu tack to clean crap out of my console/carts. FuFu usually makes me feel dizzy.

 

[crepesack]

I used to fufu with girls all the time when they came over to play N64.

 

[WittyInfidel]

I could never get my old cartridge of Gauntlet to work unless I gave it a good FuFu. It always had to have someone else watching. Same went for Super Mario Bros 2. But that one always was a bit strange to begin with.

On another note, this explains why I always did so well at Goldeneye on the 64. I had a friend accuse me of sleeping with my N64. It wasn't that at all. I just had to give it FuFu once a week before our marathons. (I could kill him unarmed 10-0 while in the Power Weapons settings without ever dying once, and it would make him rage)

God, I feel so dirty now...

 

[Macgyvercas]

Done it since I was five, not stopping now (yes I still have an SNES hooked up).

 

[Please don't shoot]

Fufu? that's a silly name for it, I just call it a blow job.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

It always worked for me.

On a related not, fufu is an excellent word: equal parts descriptive and hilarious

 

[Rect Pola]

All those "cleaning kits" to deter fufu didn't do squat.

 

[AboveUp]

Or you could just wiggle it.


I do this all the time, works like a charm.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

"fufu"? I've never heard it called that before. I can understand Nintendo discouraging it though. better to get a can of compressed air instead.

 

[Georgie_Leech]

No, Fufu isn't what kills the cartridge, improper technique does. Always be sure that when blowing, you purse your lips and blow gently to ensure that you do not spit into the cartridge at all.

 

[Bloodstain]

I remember FuFu'ing my N64 and GameBoy cartridges...good times.