I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before in another forum. If it has been I would greatly appreciate a link to the forum post. I don't know much about the NES (or older cartridge playing consoles for that matter) but I was wondering if there is a way, besides an internal battery failure, for the cartridge to stop working. I know that tapes and optical media such as CD's and DVD's corrode over time, so I was wondering if I would still be able to play NES games in the future. As I stated before I don't know much about the architecture of cartridges aside from what I heard that they are similar to modern RAM, so if life spans for other cartridges such as N64 or Sega Genesis are different that information would also be helpful.
P.S.: I know that carts that can play roms off of an SD card are available and that the internet's inventory of roms is never going away, but I would prefer to play the original games.
P.S.: I know that carts that can play roms off of an SD card are available and that the internet's inventory of roms is never going away, but I would prefer to play the original games.