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  "description": "I recall having known that Wario's Woods was the final licensed game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (\"NES\") in North America. But I learned something extra about that previously-known fact in Marc Normadin's article about Wario's Woods for NES at Retro XP.\n\nBecause of the late release date, Wario’s Woods is also the lone NES game to be slapped with an ESRB rating. It’s a little bit of a coincidence, too: the previous slate of brand-new NES releases came in August of ‘94, […]",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-02T17:38:42.000Z",
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    "on September 16",
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  "textContent": "I recall having known that Wario’s Woods was the final licensed game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (“NES”) in North America. But I learned something extra about that previously-known fact in Marc Normadin’s article about Wario’s Woods for NES at Retro XP.\n\n> Because of the late release date, Wario’s Woods is also the lone NES game to be slapped with an ESRB rating. It’s a little bit of a coincidence, too: the previous slate of brand-new NES releases came in August of ‘94, when three licensed games all landed in a row to end what had been a very quiet year for the system very much replaced at that point by the 16-bit SNES and the 8-bit handheld Game Boy. … That August date is important, as the first wave of ESRB-rated games came out on September 16, and included the likes of DOOM on the 32X, Super Punch-Out!! for the SNES, and Donkey Kong Country, also for the SNES. There would be no NES games in September, or October, or November, and the only one to be released at all in a world with the ESRB in it was Wario’s Woods. So, it’s the lone NES game to pull a rating — it landed ‘Kids to Adults,’ by the way, the predecessor of ‘E for Everyone’.\n>\n> Marc Normadin (Retro XP)\n\nIt is possible that I knew that fact in the distant past when I read video game magazines (which I assume is the source of my original knowledge that Wario’s Woods was the last licensed NES game in North America), but if I did, I since forgot. I do however remember the old Kids to Adults ESRB rating.",
  "title": "Things I Learned: NES Wario’s Woods ESRB Rating",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-07T17:51:16.000Z"
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