I think everyone blew into their NES cartridges. I actually remember having to go and get rubbing alcohol to clean the contacts on the carts and system. I did get one DRE on the PS2, but that was easy to fix myself and still haven't had any problems. Alignment issues are easy to fix. ;)
My pokemon brings all the nerds to the yard. And they're like, "You wanna trade cards?" Damn right, I wanna trade cards. I'll trade this, but not my charizard.