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Wisdom Tree, Inc. is an American developer of Christian video games. It was an offshoot of Color Dreams, one of the first companies to work around Nintendo's 10NES lockout chip technology for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Color Dreams formed the Wisdom Tree subsidiary in 1990 in an effort to circumvent Nintendo's restrictions against publishers of unlicensed video games for the NES by selling their games at Christian book stores which was not subject to pressure by Nintendo.
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge is a sports video game. The game was released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and developed and published by Konami. It is based on the American children’s television series, Tiny Toon Adventures. It is one of the few SNES games to feature an SNES Multitap as a useable controller.
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