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3	Name: This Troper\
4	Birthdate: 10.10.90\
5	Gender: [[ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet M]]\
6	Question: Will I get a description?\
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8	''Taboo: The Sixth Sense'' is a video game released on the Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem in 1989, developed by Creator/{{Rare}} and published by Tradewest. It's a game involving UsefulNotes/TarotCards. Everything from the Major and Minor Arcana is present.
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10	First, the player has to tell their name, birthdate, gender, and question (none of which has any bearing on the reading you receive), then the cards get shuffled. After that, ten cards are shown, with predictions and advice. And after that, depending on the state the player selected, they may get one to eight different lucky numbers.
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13	!!I will now deal the tropes:
14	* BlueWithShock: The Hanged Man's face is blue, because he was... well, hanged.
15	* ContentWarnings: The back cover warns that the game is not intended for players under the age of 14 and is meant for entertainment purposes only. [[https://www.honestgamers.com/7158/nes/taboo-the-sixth-sense/review.html The 8-bit nudity on the High Priestess, Lovers, and Strength cards]] are the most likely reason for the former. Weirdly enough, it's an officially licensed Nintendo game in spite of both that and some religious imagery.
16	* TheEmperor: One of the cards.
17	* {{Engrish}}: Bizarrely, the game is not Japanese, but the fortune templates don't bother with any kind of natural-sounding flow between setup and payoff or even any regard for basic grammar, resulting in some very awkward, confusing and clunky sentences (e.g. "Your present position is use skill, willpower or self-confidence to influence a situation.").
18	* EpilepticFlashingLights: The lights when the cards are shuffled are pretty painful.
19	* TheFool: Present as a card.
20	* GrimReaper: Death, obviously. The only thing he lacks is the cape.
21	* TheHermit: Also one of the cards.
22	* ScalesOfJustice: The Justice card is depicted as a scale.
23	* ScareChord: The Devil card announces itself with an alarmingly abrupt leitmotif.
24	* ShadowArchetype: You may run into reversed cards which are (usually) negative.
25	* ShoutOut: The leitmotif for Strength sounds [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong suspiciously close]] to Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger".
26	* TarotTroubles: If you get cards like Death or Hanged Man.
27	* TheTower: One of the cards, as well.
28	* WeirdMoon: The Moon card is presented as an actual crescent, with the edge of its hollowed space resembling a skull in profile.
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30	[[LOL69 69]] [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]] [[VideoGame/Action52 52]] [[{{Irony}} 0]][[FourIsDeath 4]] [[LuckySeven 07]] [[{{Irony}} 1]][[ThirteenIsUnlucky 3]] [[Platform/Nintendo64 64]] [[Rule34 34]]\
31	ARE YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS

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