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Win, Lose or Draw (NES)

The NES Win, Lose or Draw is based on the syndicated game show of the same name, which at this point was near the end of its run (a Disney Channel version for teens continued until 1991).

Oh, and apparently "Hairy" was a slang term for "Great!" at the time. Who knew?

Easter Eggs#

Set the difficulty level to Difficult, then enter one of the following as a guess for any drawing.

Programmer's Greetings#

Enter LORDOFTHEWABBITS ("Lord of the Wabbits").

Developer Credits#

Enter SHOWMERSPINC ("Show me RSP Inc").

The full graphic, as stored by the game, can be seen above.

Hidden Message#

Present at address 1F04B is part of the debug text displaying routine. It's still functional, but simply isn't called into use at any point in-game.

HELLO WORLD