Is this bad for the NES?

[chairmonkey4406]

Would it hurt the NES in any way if I were to prop it up on it's side to play it? I don't think it would but I figure I should check first.

[IronMongeR]

I don't think it would cause any problems.

[Bratwurst]

It won't. Everything in the original NES is molded to hold the cart in place. A novel idea I must say, wonder why I hadn't thought of it before.

[MegaManFan]

Could it cause loss of contact though, since gravity is not pushing down on the pins?

[Bratwurst]

Nah, since the nature of the spring board keeps the NES cart at the angle it needs it to be. The shape of the cart connector's plastic also holds the cart in place so it can't slip from side to side (or up and down, in this case).

[vintagegamer89]

Nah man it wont hurt it. I used to have mine sitting on its side and it works fine.

[Ze_ro]

No cartridge based system is orientation-specific, since they have no moving parts in them (At least, nothing that moves while you play). You could hold the NES upside down while playing, and it would still work. Some exceptions to this would be the N64 (it doesn't grip the cartridges very hard, so it might actually fall out, I don't know), and the Vectrex (I haven't tried this myself, but monitors do weird things when you turn them around, so the Vectrex might do some of this too).

 

--Zero