Hidden game of Reversi or Othello on Insignia FS-24FTV

Hidden game of Reversi or Othello on Insignia FS-24FTV

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I discovered some hidden buttons on the remote for this TV when I took it apart to clean the battery terminals. I expected these buttons to either do nothing, or at the very most, access a calendar (which actually showed up when I was setting up my xfinity remote, lol). What I didn't expect was a game of Reversi to show up!

You move the cursor up, down left, and right by using volume up, volume down, channel down, and channel up on the remote. No other functions work when the game is up except for the "Reversi" button (which exits the game) and the power button (which turns the TV off). Even the buttons on the TV itself are inoperable (except power)

As for the remaining 6 hidden buttons on the remote: One of them brings up the aforementioned calendar, another brings up a V-Chip menu, and the rest do nothing.

Why the manufacturers of this TV would cram a full game of Reversi in the firmware is beyond me, especially since this is a "generic" TV that was also branded as a Polaroid (I thing LG made these? I'm not sure)