Othello (NES, Famicom Disk System)

Othello
Developer: HAL Laboratory Publishers: Kawada (JP), Acclaim Entertainment (US) Platforms: Famicom Disk System, NES Released in JP: October 13, 1986 (FDS), November 13, 1986 (Famicom) Released in US: December 1988 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

It's Othello, all right.

To do: There's apparently unused code. There's a Rev 1 ROM in the 2020-07-24 leaked ROM archive, that has never been publicly dumped from a cart (and maybe wasn't released on one). There's an secret mode that triggered by pressing 1P:A+B+Select and 2P:Right+A when you select "LIMIT". There's an CPU vs CPU mode.

Unused Graphics

Alternate graphics for a timer.

Hidden Credit

An alternate credit string, stored away from the regular credits at 0x2F8C in the US version.

PROGRAMMED BY HAL LABORATORY

Version Differences

To do: There's much more, mostly graphical changes, and the Japanese versions mentioning HAL Laboratory.

Credits

• The FDS and NES versions use grey text, whereas the Famicom cartridge version uses pink.
• The NES version lacks the HAL Laboratory logo in the upper-right corner.
• The hearts on each end of the "STAFF" text were replaced with © symbols in the NES version.