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Gyromite
Gyromite
August 13, 1985
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Multiple early "black box" NES releases' cartridges produced during the console's US launch in Winter 1985 didn't use NES ROM chips, but rather Famicom ROM chips with a built-in converter. The 15 NES launch titles, and the only games known to have these chips, are:

10-Yard Fight
Baseball
Clu Clu Land
Duck Hunt
Excitebike
Golf
Gyromite
Hogan's Alley
Ice Climber
Kung Fu
Pinball
Stack-Up
Tennis
Wild Gunman
Wrecking Crew

All of these games would eventually be reprinted with regular NES chips.
Also Appears On: Stack-up (Game), Wild Gunman (Game), Golf (Game), Pinball (Game), Baseball (Game), Excitebike (Game), Ice Climber (Game), Kung Fu (Game), Tennis (Game), Hogan's Alley (Game), Duck Hunt (Game), 10-Yard Fight (Game), Clu Clu Land (Game), Wrecking Crew (Game), Family Computer (Platform), Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform)
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Gyromite is perfectly playable, and some may argue better, without using ROB the Robot. You can push the pillars up and down using a second NES controller while the first controller commands Professor Hector as it would in ROB play, making the game either into a faster-paced co-op platformer for two players, or an unconventional two-controller game for one player in a similar manner to Atari's Raiders of the Lost Ark. This technique cannot be performed on Stack-Up.
Also Appears On: Robot Series (Collection)
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