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Captain America and The Avengers (NES)

Captain America and The Avengers on the NES is notably a platformer as opposed to a beat-em-up like the previously released arcade game also from Data East.

Hidden Credit#

On any warehouse level, the initials "TW" can be seen hiding among the title graphics near the exit. "TW" probably stands for Takashi Watanabe, the background artist.

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Unused Animation#

There's an unused animation that shows Captain America performing some sort of somersault or flash kick.

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Unused Graphic#

The game's ROM contains unused images of Iron Man and Vision.

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The game's ROM contains an unused Exit arrow image.

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The game's rom contains an unused sprite Go!.

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The game's ROM contains unused 1P 2P Cpu images. Probably, initially, Battle mode was supposed to support the choice of an opponent: "vs 2 player" or "vs Cpu".

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CHR $40 contains unused tiles for the last level. Some of them depict a view of the planet Earth. There are also tiles that look like glass. The developers probably wanted to show a glass window with a view of the Earth at the space colony level.

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Regional Differences#

Hidden Text#

There is some hidden copyright text inside the ROM of the Australian version of the game at 7F60:

                
Program By      
Hisatada,Ohta. &
Shuji,Ishimaki. 
                
 Wed Aug 28,1991