How good is your gaming knowledge?

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Like the title says, how much do you know about gaming history?

Allright here's what this is about, i'll start by asking a question about gaming history and the next poster has to answer my question and give a new question to the next poster.

Question: What's the name of the first home console ever to be released?

[dz06lt]

Magnavox Odyssey i believe

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Originally Posted by dz06lt

Magnavox Odyssey i believe

Correct

Question: Why wasn't games commercially sold on the first PCs?

Wrong.

it was the Pong Machine Released in 1972

MO was in 1979

Also all home PC's have had games. Just before the early 90's they were either a) very basic or b) didnt have as rich a sound as their console counterparts.. However the C-64 was a beast when it came to games.. but it falls more into the Console catagory, everything was in one package and could be hooked to any TV.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixKfz

Wrong.

it was the Pong Machine Released in 1972

MO was in 1979

He said "first home console."

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Originally Posted by PhoenixKfz

Wrong.

it was the Pong Machine Released in 1972

MO was in 1979

Also all home PC's have had games. Just before the early 90's they were either a) very basic or b) didnt have as rich a sound as their console counterparts.. However the C-64 was a beast when it came to games.. but it falls more into the Console catagory, everything was in one package and could be hooked to any TV.

Magnavox Odyssey was released in 1972.

And to the PC thing, I was asking what PC was the first to have commercially sold games, because not all PCs have had commercially sold games if I remember correctly, because the first PCs you could only punch in the codes and have the game shown temporarly because you couldn't (I am not completely sure on this one) save because the first PCs didn't have a floppy drive so you couldn't install the games.

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From wiki: In 1978, Magnavox, now a subsidiary of North American Philips, released the Odyssey², their new second-generation video game console.

The Magnavox Odyssey is the world's first video game console. It was first demonstrated in May 1972 and released that fall

This was their first one> Magnavox Odyssey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


You mixed the Odyssey² with their first Odyssey

Your correct...

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Name all of the Koopa Kids from Super Mario 3.

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Now lets continue to the next question:

What game company kept the industry from crashing in the 80s?