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		Wowfunhappy on March 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What made the NES so interesting? I expect a plain text file would win the utility per byte award.

evancoop on March 27, 2022 [–]

Possibly, but I doubt that 35-years later, folks would continue to read and re-read that .txt file for its entertainment value. Those few hundred thousand bytes of Mario Bros. code have been reviewed by so many for so long!

LocalH on March 30, 2022 | [–]

Try 32,768 bytes (plus 8,192 bytes of graphics data).

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