How many of you know your Video Game History?

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Skulltrail-old

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"You got 23 out of 68 Video Game Systems"

I've only been around since '92 so I guess that can be my excuse for not knowing most of them. :laugh: Yet, I've never heard of "Gizmondo" or "HyperScan," and these are rather modern consoles.

EDIT: I know what HyperScan is now. It's that ****ty game you see in commercials on Cartoon Network where kids start scanning cards to unleash new creatures. Kinda like Yu Gi Oh but more realistic to the sense that you can actually summon cards onto your TV screen by swiping the specific card.

Wow, I never knew that was considered a video game...

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Steffan

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43/68. Alot of systems, such as the gameboy color and such weren't on the list. After a while I just started adding II's and 2's to the end of some of the names I got already and they appeared. Lucky me XD.

game boy color is on the list. game boy is spelled with a space between the words. ds lite wasn't on the list tho

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Kreuger

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I got 20/68. Some of them wouldn't register for me, like the Amiga but apparently they wanted the full name. I tried GBA and that didn't work for me (maybe I didn't space it?). Completely forgot the DS. The Coleco didn't work (forgot vision). I don't like how picky it was with the names. It took me a few tries to get the Sega Master to go. I didnt know Nintendo had anything before NES either.

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null.

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Like the n-gage. Was supposed to be some all-in-one gameboy killer, and look where it is now: 6 feet under.

Heh, yeah. I got that one, it was an epic failure over here and everywhere else from the sounds of it. I didn't get all the older console relaunches though.

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The Teej

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In all fairness, some of the new stuff that's on the list like game.com and HyperScan never made it to this country... under the radar release + not even in this country = no chance of knowing.

Anyway, 34 out of 68, not too great. Ones I should have got were: Game and Watch, CD-i, N-Gage and Gizmondo. I'm really surprised they included the Tapwave Zodiac and not the iPhone, though. Zodiac is hardly a games console now, come on. It's a freaking PDA. The freaking N-Gage is more of a console then the Zodiac.

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Michael1406

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I got 19. That'll do, got the main ones. Missed things like N-Gage, but can you blame me? Waste of time, that was. Also missed ones that didn't get released in the UK, and anything before I was old enough to have any knowledge of. Entered this world in '88.

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