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*"Lady" is Nintendo's second female video game character. She was preceded by another damsel-in-distress also called Lady in the 1979 arcade game ''{{wp|Sheriff (video game)|Sheriff}}''. While the bezel art for the upright cabinets called this brunette [[Betty]], the Japanese flyer<ref>[https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=3423&image=2 ''Sheriff'' flyer back]</ref>, magazine ads<ref>[https://archive.org/details/game-machine-magazine-19791201p/page/n12/mode/1up Game Machine December 1, 1979 issue, page 24]</ref>, and news articles<ref>[https://archive.org/details/game-machine-magazine-19791115p/page/n14/mode/1up Game Machine November 15, 1979 issue, page 28]</ref> used Lady instead. Miyamoto worked on the art design for both ''Sheriff'' and ''Donkey Kong''.<ref>[https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/punchout/0/1 Iwata Asks: Punch Out!!]</ref> In [[Family BASIC|Family BASIC V3]], Lady's embrace of Mario in one of the minigames reproduces a cutscene from ''Sheriff'' between Betty and the [[Sheriff (character)|Sheriff]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/4tAgYBfAOF4?t=1663 Family BASIC gameplay]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPreemTcUcQ ''Sheriff'' ending]</ref> Betty reappears in the [[Sheriff (minigame)|Sheriff minigame]] in ''[[WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!]]''.