Doing so cleared unwanted dirt and gave way to a few more minutes of uninterrupted gameplay. You simply took any NES game cartridge, clipped the contraption to the front of it and you proceeded to stab the living daylights out of your NES. My first cleaning kit was a Doc’s Fix-a-system, which had what I still feel is a genius idea in the clip on NES cleaner. Game Cleaning Kit Mega Cat Studios 9.99 Shipping calculated at checkout. They made promises to keep the blinking NES, or just a black screen on other systems, away forever! Almost every cartridge based video game system had some form of cleaning kit, and although most of the time it worked for just a short while, the fact that it worked at all made them feel like essential hardware. 5 IN 1 Keyboard Cleaning Kit Set Laptop PC Earphone AirPod Cleaner Brush Remover £2.75 to £3.10 Free postage Monster CleanTouch 2.0 Screen Cleaning Kit (60ml Bottle + MicroFibre Cloth) £6.99 Click & Collect (£6.99/Unit) 5 IN 1 PC Keyboard Cleaning Kit Set Laptop Earphone Dust Cleaning Brush Tools £3. This specialized cleaning kit helps keep your retro games alive and well for years and years to come. If there is one thing I believe about retro gaming, it has to be the fact that if you keep your systems and games clean they will last longer and give you much better functional results.Īlthough I now know the true cause of these glitches, I was still taken in by the cleaning kits propaganda when I was younger. Which was a big selling point made all too easy by the NES and its, more often than not, ability to put on a light show rather than play a game.

In the days when cartridges ruled the world it seemed as if anyone and everyone put out a cleaning kit to keep your systems in working order.

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