in the Nintendo 64 game console, why does “tilting” the cartridge cause so many weird things to happen in-game?

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Watch any internet video on the subject to see an example of such strange game behavior.

Why does this happen?

EDIT: oh my this blew up didn’t it? Thanks for all the replies!

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A cartridge communicates with the system with dozens of little gold plated pins. When you tilt the cartridge, you unseat some of the pins from the connector, making intermittent contact with some. This sends garbled signals to the console, especially with the graphics as there wasn’t much error correction

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