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[[File:PaperboyCart.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A [[NES]] cartridge]] A '''cartridge''' is a form of storage media, with a plastic shell that houses a circuit board; this circuit board has a connector that plugs into a port on the console that is capable of reading the information stored on a ROM chip on the circuit board. This was the common medium for games used by the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]], [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[Nintendo 64]], [[Atari 2600]], and [[Genesis]], among many other consoles and even home computers. Some modern [[handheld console]]s such as the [[Game Boy]] and [[Game Boy Advance]] use cartridges, though the Nintendo DS uses Flash ROM cards instead. Some educational-based game systems like the [[Leapster]] and the [[V-Smile]] also use cartridges. The plastic housing contains [[read-only memory|ROM]] cells on which the content is stored. This tended to increase the production cost, as solid-state memory was expensive to manufacture. [[Category:Storage media]]
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