This had to have been in at least one strategy guide as I remember doing this. I remember being peeved any time I would jump and accidentally catch the barrel cannon and have to go through the entire level.

NES cartridges required the ritualistic blowing into and reinserting. Playstations/Saturns frequently had issues with how far the cd was on the spindle. One micro-millimeter over and it would go to the screen to manage your memory cards instead of launching the game. The N64 actually required a physical RAM upgrade to…

Andy Murray was/is asked that question all the time by journos