# The Cartridge That Always Worked

> The Cartridge That Always Worked is a Retsy Series 1 NFT on Solana, one of the 5 Grails that exist exactly once. A glowing gold game cartridge that booted perfectly on the first try, every single time.

URL: https://retsy.fun/collection/the-cartridge-that-always-worked/

- Card number: 1282
- Set: Series 1 Grails (S1-GRL)
- Year: 1993
- Type: First-try game cartridge
- Tagline: No blowing required.
- Found at: A sleepover nobody can quite remember
- Cost back then: Traded for an entire binder
- Stats: Nostalgia 10/10, Hype 9/10, Weirdness 6/10, Trade value 10/10
- Finishes: Grail (1 copy)
- Images: https://retsy.fun/nft/1282-grail.webp

## The story

Everyone had a ritual: blow on the pins, wiggle it, slam it in at a slight angle and pray. This one never needed any of it. Word spread from sleepover to sleepover that one kid on the block owned a cartridge that just worked, and a line formed outside his house every Saturday morning until his mom taped a sign-up sheet to the door.

## Fun fact

Grown adults still blow on it out of habit, and it politely works anyway.

Retsy Series 1 is an NFT collection on Solana. Every card is minted to the buyer's wallet the moment its pack is ripped at https://retsy.fun/packs/.