Cartridge

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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, Game Boy Advance use cartridges, though Nintendo DS uses Flash ROM cards instead.

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.