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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Oohhh god, You just unblocked a horrible memory of mine. Once while playing Zelda majora’s mask, i was hitting the bell that’s above the inn, just for fun (?)… then, rain starts falling and, at the same time that the thunder sound effect cames up, i moved the console, with my feets by accident, causing that intermitence, the above created an effect like if link was hitted by the thunder… BUT LINK STARTED TO GLITCH HORRIBLE, the half of his body was blinking and making a 90° angle, and the audio sounded like when you try to find the right angle of your damaged headphones. All of this was before that [BEN.wmv](https://youtu.be/iGOJmdxdjeA) creepy pasta. You can imagine my face when i saw those videos, i was like “omg i think i meet BEN:(” i was 8 at that time

Anonymous 0 Comments

I accidentally tilted my MM cartridge once…

It had no visible effect until I started a new file and gained control of Link.

He had an Ocarina in every single item slot.