Try Blowing On It!
🎮 Try Blowing On It!
The game is broken. Good. Break it some more.
Remember when your video game stopped working, and the obvious solution was to yank out the cartridge and blow into it?
Turns out, that was a terrible idea.
Welcome to *Try Blowing On It!*, a ridiculous retro-inspired puzzle platformer where a malfunctioning game cartridge is your greatest weapon.
You're a tiny, unfortunate hero trapped inside an increasingly broken video game. Every time you blow into the cartridge, the game glitches into a different state — changing platforms, walls, enemies, and even the laws of common sense.
The trick? You can't fix this game. You have to break it strategically.
🕹️ Features
- 💨 Blow into the cartridge! Cycle through three different glitch states that change how the world behaves.
- 🧩 Break the puzzles to solve them. Turn enemies into trampolines, walk through broken walls, and exploit glitches that were definitely not approved by Quality Assurance.
- 🏭 Explore absurd worlds. Navigate bizarre warranty departments, malfunctioning machinery, and other places where software bugs are apparently a feature.
- 👾 Meet ridiculous characters. Including a heroic little adventurer, some deeply questionable employees, and a boss who takes software maintenance way too seriously.
- 🤢 Enjoy gloriously gross cartoon humor. Featuring an extremely confident kid with an extremely questionable understanding of electronics.
- 📺 Relive the cartridge era. Inspired by the consoles, games, and questionable troubleshooting techniques of the late '80s and early '90s.
⌨️ Controls
| Action | Controls |
|---|---|
| Move | A / D or Arrow Keys |
| Jump | Space / W / Up |
| Blow into cartridge | B / E |
| Smack the console | S |
| Interact / Confirm | Enter |
| Retry | R |
⚠️ Important Technical Information
This game contains:
✅ Intentional glitches
✅ Unintentional-looking glitches
✅ Extremely questionable repair procedures
✅ Employees who may become platforms
✅ A warranty that is almost certainly void
Please do not blow into actual video game cartridges.
Our legal department made us say that.
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🛠️ Made by Hollowtech Labs
A nostalgic love letter to old video games, Saturday morning cartoons, and the beautiful art of making broken things even worse.
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*If it ain't broke, blow into it until it is.*