I guess it had to do with the way the Control Deck was shaped... you fed the cartridge into it like a top-loading VCR... if the cartridge was shorter... you'd never get it out.
But it also begs the question... why was the US NES Control Deck even shaped like that in the first place? Top-loading would have been much easier.
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You know half the space in NES cartridges was empty. I still to this day don't know why Nintendo of America decided to use such huge ass cartridges.
I guess it had to do with the way the Control Deck was shaped... you fed the cartridge into it like a top-loading VCR... if the cartridge was shorter... you'd never get it out.
But it also begs the question... why was the US NES Control Deck even shaped like that in the first place? Top-loading would have been much easier.