N64 stopped working with some games!

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<DeniskaMAshka@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1119498147.705818.46210@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I have an old N64 system, and today the Mario Tennis and Mario Racing
> stopped working! The other few games - Zelda, Donkey Kong racing,
> Tiger's adventure - all work fine.
>
> WIth the Mario Tennis, we were in the middle of the game when it
> started to make screeching noise (like someone is playing with audio
> wires) and then froze! Now when I put the Mario Tennis cartridge, the
> system does not start up - just blank screen. Same with Mario racing.
>
> Any ideas???
>
> Denis
>

Have you tried cleaning the game cartridge slot on both cart and N64?
Sometimes gunk in them causes this.