Stack-up

July 26, 1985

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Robot Series

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Family Computer Nintendo Entertainment System

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Nintendo Nintendo R&D1

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Puzzle Strategy

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subdirectory_arrow_right Gyromite (Game), Baseball (Game), 10-Yard Fight (Game), Duck Hunt (Game), Golf (Game), Clu Clu Land (Game), Excitebike (Game), Wild Gunman (Game), Kung Fu (Game), Hogan's Alley (Game), Tennis (Game), Ice Climber (Game), Pinball (Game), Wrecking Crew (Game), Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform), Family Computer (Platform)

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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.

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subdirectory_arrow_right Gyromite (Game)

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The US versions of Gyromite and Stack-Up did not have their title screens localized, so they retain the games' Japanese titles of Robot Gyro and Robot Block respectively.

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US Gyromite in action - epilepsy warning for the ROB light sensor triggers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocrTkuPMmvI

US Stack-Up in action. Note that the ROB being used here is somewhat yellowed from sun exposure, so some may mistake him for a yellow JP Robot - observe the sticker on his base and you will see that he is NTSC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da0_OgCCLJA