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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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