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...because it was believed that these colors would better appeal to Americans due to the United States flag being red, white, and blue.
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🕹️ #RetroTrivia about the game consoles of our childhood

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...Super Mario Land was planned as the game bundled with the launching Game Boy until Tetris was brought to Nintendo of America. 🚢
They were convinced that the addictive gameplay of Tetris would help Nintendo reach the larger audience. 👏
The company subsequently chose to bundle Tetris with every Game Boy purchase instead of Super Mario Land. 📦

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...to enable a cheat or other effects. 🎮
The Konami Code was created by Gradius developers finding the game too difficult to play through during testing.

They created the cheat code, which gives the player a full set of power-ups (normally attained gradually throughout the game). After entering the sequence using the controller when the game was paused the player received all available power-ups. 🚀

The code was meant to be...

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Do you remember other games presenting you a password at the end to be used in a successor or other title of the series? 🔒

I experienced this while finishing Zelda Oracle of Ages. Obviously it can be used for advanced playing of Oracle of Seasons. 🍂

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