Poll of the Day > Video game history quiz

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I made a little quiz about video game history. If you want to check out how much you really know about it, then i suggest giving it a go

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ElDBLnYFF-CqPKCO2C2Ps_rJmyjet-JzdMyrZHwpG3o/edit?fbclid=IwAR3dwTjLP4UdFS4DHNhQzOoxpIVgzPZzK9plzpJLmd2NeLGGhZs11QuNCZw

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cool that was fun. learned a couple things too. (15/21)

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19/21 got the first question wrong and the Gameboy release wrong.

13/21


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It could use some editing, The Legend of Zelda is not the first video game to allow progress to be saved. It was the first console cartridge to ship with a battery backup, however.

Good quiz but there's some misinformation in there.
8th gen started in 2013. WiiU is a 7th generation console.

Might as well say 9th gen started in 2016 with the PS4Pro if you're going to say the WiiU is 8th gen.

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12/21

I like the idea of PotD having quiz topics.

hmmmm

I'll give it a shot!

1. 2600
2. Oversaturation
3. Magnavox Oddysey
4. Zelda
5. MK
6. 1989
7. SG-1000
8. 1985
9. Alex Kidd I think
10. Playstation
11. False N64 used carts
12. Perfect Dark I think
13. DVD drive
14. GTA 2
15. Red ring of death
16. '03
17. 2012/2013
18. Bushnell and Dabney
19. 1889 as a card company I think
20. I'm gonna say sometime in the 1970s

That's all the questions I have time for. I hope I got some right.


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17/21. I'm a little surprised how well I did.

What I missed:

• What was the first video game console ever made?
• What was the first Sega console ever released?
• Who were the 2 founders of Atari?
• What year was Sega founded?

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DocDelicious posted...

Good quiz but there's some misinformation in there.
8th gen started in 2013. WiiU is a 7th generation console.

Might as well say 9th gen started in 2016 with the PS4Pro if you're going to say the WiiU is 8th gen.

The Wii U is generally considered to be 8th gen


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I missed two, not including the two I had guessed because I didn't give a damn about GTA or CoD (somehow still got those right). So I took to Google after taking this quiz.

Google tells me Mario Bros. came out in 85, and Donkey Kong, the first game with Mario as the playable character, was 81. Your quiz says 83. It also says Sega was founded in 1960, not 1940.

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Entity13 posted...

I missed two, not including the two I had guessed because I didn't give a damn about GTA or CoD (somehow still got those right). So I took to Google after taking this quiz.

Google tells me Mario Bros. came out in 85, and Donkey Kong, the first game with Mario as the playable character, was 81. Your quiz says 83. It also says Sega was founded in 1960, not 1940.

You're right about the sega thing (I just changed it). But Mario Bros did come out in the year that the quiz said

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VidGameGuy posted...

You're right about the sega thing (I just changed it). But Mario Bros did come out in the year that the quiz said

So Google was wrong about the release date of Mario Bros., at least when I checked? Huh. That's odd.

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Entity13 posted...

So Google was wrong about the release date of Mario Bros., at least when I checked? Huh. That's odd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros.

Yeah wikipedia says 1983

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18, I got only some of the year related questions wrong, I'm bad with dates and they were long before my time.

17/21, and some of the ones I got right I was totally guessing on.

What I missed:

2600 vs 5200 - I said 2600.
Sega console - I said Master System
First Mario - I said 85 (forgot about the O.G. Mario Bros, I was thinking of Super Mario Bros)
8th generation - I said 2015

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16/21. Guessed on a lot of them.

Missed:
Atari founders: picked one at random because I had no idea and couldn't remember if it was a japanese company or not.
First mario game: said 1980. I knew it wasn't 85 or later, but i couldn't remember what year the og mario game came out.
Sega's first console: said the master system. I'm extremely unfamiliar with sega outside the genesis and dreamcast
Sega's first mascot: said david draiman. Obviously wasn't link or pacman.
8th gen: said 2015. Didn't realize it started that early. I still don't own any 8th gen consoles.

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Entity13 posted...

So Google was wrong about the release date of Mario Bros., at least when I checked? Huh. That's odd.

depending what you were looking at, be careful when google tells you directly what it thinks the answer to a question is. it looks very official when it puts it in big bold letters, but every now and then it has inferred the wrong meaning of your question, or pulled a date value from somewhere that doesn't actually mean what it thinks it means, etc.

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18/21? That's BS! I lived through all this shit! ~flips table~

What year was the first Mario game released?

Okay, I call BS. Mario Bros was 1983, but the first game with Mario in it was Donkey Kong, and that came out in 1981.

Granted, that means my answer of 1980 was still wrong, but I really only picked it because I knew Donkey Kong came out before 1983 (in fact, I think I got my ColecoVision and the packed-in copy of Donkey Kong for Christmas in 1982).

I also thought this came out before 1983, but Wikipedia tells me it came out IN 1983:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGNoBDVi3NU

What year was the first Call of Duty game made?

Okay, this one's fair. Aside from the fact that I've never really been a huge CoD fan, I only answered 2006 because I went for the earliest year I could see, and my brain somehow missed the 2003 at the bottom.

You win this round!

What year was Sega founded?

1960? Hmm. I could have sworn they were founded in 1940, because my brain equates the company with the military and WWII (Sega literally comes from Service Games - they were originally a company catering to the military).

Hey, wait, no - fuck! The Wiki validates me!

"In 1940, American businessmen Martin Bromley, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert formed Standard Games in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their aim was to provide coin-operated amusement machines, including slot machines, to military bases as the increase in personnel with the onset of World War II would create demand for entertainment. After the war, the founders sold Standard Games in 1945, and in 1946 established Service Games, named for the military focus.

In 1952, Bromley sent employees Richard Stewart and Ray LeMaire to Tokyo to establish Service Games of Japan

The name Sega, an abbreviation of Service Games, was first used in 1954 on a slot machine"

So, their original company was founded in 1940, but the company that eventually became Sega (sort of) was formed in 1946 (not 1960). There were some acquisition and asset/IP transfer shenanigans in 1960, but a case can be made that "Sega" as an entity predates that.

I suppose the question of whether Sega came into being in 1946 or 1960 depends on whether or not you think that the Atari currently publishing games today is technically the same company as Atari in the 1970s/80s, whether modern Activision has continuity with original Activision, and whether or not THQ Nordic actually has any claim to the THQ legacy.

What was the main cause of the Video Game Crash of 1983?

ET: The Extra-Terrestrial and Atari's Pac-Man 2600 port.

;-D

What was the first video game console ever made?

I knew this one mostly because it was the only one that actually predates my birth. The 2600 and ColecoVision were very much 2nd gen (and the consoles I started on), and NES came even later.

If you'd thrown in the Telstar or other earlier consoles as an option, I'd have been harder-pressed to guess.

Who were the 2 founders of Atari?

...and I knew this one mostly because I knew Bushnell was involved in creating Atari. And Chuck E. Cheese.

Which video game was the primary reason that a video game age rating company was created?

If the quiz wasn't multiple choice, I'd be tempted to answer "Night Trap" for this one. But MK was definitely involved.

I'd also be tempted to say "The Resident of Evil Creek", but that's actually from a later (stupid) controversy.

http://ncac.org/resource/a-timeline-of-video-game-controversies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_as_an_art_form#Legal_status
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DocDelicious posted...

Good quiz but there's some misinformation in there.
8th gen started in 2013. WiiU is a 7th generation console.

Wii-U was never really considered a 7th gen console.

The standard assumption has always been NES (3), SNES (4), 64 (5), GC (6), Wii (7), Wii-U (8). The Wii-U's intended competition was always meant to be the PS4 and Xbone, not the PS3 and 360. It was really only the apocalyptic failure of the Wii-U that caused Nintendo to panic and pivot on that.

With the advent of the Switch, Nintendo's insistence that it's the "official" console of this generation (and not a handheld at all, damn it! It's a portable home console, not a handheld that can be docked to your TV!), and people saying it's the "real" current gen console it's sort of retroactively become the 8th gen console, but that doesn't retroactively push the Wii-U back a generation - it just means that Nintendo technically had two consoles this gen (and one of them failed). Or more accurately, one console, one handheld, and one weird hybrid of the two that effectively replaced both of the first two simultaneously.

If you like, you can think of the Switch as part of the 8.5 generation, and sort of tuck it in with the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X as sort of a half-step forward.

Though what makes things even more complicated is that the Switch is probably going to remain Nintendo's core console for a while once the next gen starts and the PS5 and Xbox come out, so the Switch is going to straddle its way into the 9th gen as well. Unless Nintendo panics and rushes out ANOTHER new console (which seems unlikely, considering how popular the Switch wound up being).
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Nice, I got 18/21. I've actually learned a lot about old game systems by watching AVGN lol.

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