So Taboo on the NES is... weird. You boot it up, and right away it asks for your name, birthday, and gender—which already feels oddly personal for a cartridge game. Then it prompts you to ask a question (like "Will I get rich?" or whatever), shuffles some virtual tarot cards, and spits out a Celtic cross reading. The translations are rough—half the time you're squinting at the screen trying to figure out what "The Moon reversed in position of past sorrows" even means.

After the reading, it asks for your home state and gives you lottery numbers, because why not? There’s no actual gameplay, just an endless loop of cryptic fortunes. Some of the interpretations are so vague they could apply to anything, and the whole thing feels more like a novelty than anything functional. No surprise it flopped—parents weren’t exactly thrilled about tarot readings on their kid’s Nintendo. Still, it’s a bizarre little time capsule of late-80s oddities.