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Cartridge can refer to:

• 4-track cartridge, an analogue music storage format popular from the late 1950s to the early 1970s
• 8-track cartridge, an analogue music storage format popular from the late 1960s to the early 1980s
• Cartridge (electronics), a module to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment
• Cartridge (firearms), a round of charge-and-bullet ammunition
• Cartridge paper, a high-quality type of paper used for illustration and drawing
• Film cartridge
• Ink cartridge, a replaceable component of an inkjet printer that contains the ink
• Magnetic cartridge, the removable part of a record player (turntable) arm holding the stylus (needle)
• Cartridge (Surname), a rare English surname

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A NES cartridge

A cartridge is a form of storage media made of a plastic shell housing a circuit board that plugged into a port that read the information stored on a ROM chip on the circuit board. This was the common medium for games (and, back in the iron age, other software) used by the NES, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Atari Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, among many other consoles and even home computers. Some modern handheld consoles such as the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance use cartridges, though 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 ROM cells on which the content is stored. This tended to increase the production cost, as solid-state memory was expensive at the time.