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The FAMILY BASIC ROM was actually created by the creators of the BOMBERMAN games HudsonSoft since most of the cartridges code was created by them.

Along with that FAMILY BASIC was quite unique compared to other versions since NES sprites are already preloaded in ROM Where as in other versions of basic you would be required to create a sprite by using machine code

also the data recore could be used as a standard tape player/ recorder and has a built in mic it runs off of 4 aa batteries or a 6V Adapter

i acutally own one of these in my game console collection and yes there was a tape recoreder avallable for it called the famicom data recorder which allowed you to save your basic programs or save games that have an edit mode like lode runner etc