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Palace Arcade

A mini arcade machine featuring licensed ports of Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, and Dig Dug...and also 16 Stranger Things games ("Palace Arcade" being a location on the show).

While the Namco titles are tolerable recreations of the arcade games, the Stranger Things "originals" are so abysmal that they'd make Action 52 cry.

Miscellaneous Data#

A lot of miscellaneous text data appears towards the end of the ROM. It starts at address 3F91B0, alongside a build date and an XML:

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