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level42

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Game Over
« on: August 23, 2011, 12:10:09 AM »


This shows the wide influence of videogames ;)

....and it also triggered a question....which was the first videogame to actually show the text "Game Over" ?
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Re: Game Over
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2011, 07:57:26 AM »
Pong ?
or later PacMan ?

I don't really know ..


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Re: Game Over
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 09:37:06 AM »
Maybe Spacewar 1961  ???
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Re: Game Over
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2011, 09:53:52 AM »
Asteroids ?
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Re: Game Over
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 11:33:16 AM »
"The phrase was used as early as the 1950s in devices such as electromechanical pinball machines , which would light up the phrase with a lamp (lightbulb)."
Those were not videogames, so I pass. ;D
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Re: Game Over
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 12:17:09 PM »
Ok ...
The First known Game is a 1950th Pinball ... and the next one was a Shooter named Gun Fight (1975) ...

Wow .. that something what we all hate, can be so old ..

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