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General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: level42 on August 23, 2011, 12:10:09 AM

Title: Game Over
Post by: level42 on August 23, 2011, 12:10:09 AM

(http://media.nu.nl/m/m1ezt7xajsg1_700.jpg)

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" ?

Title: Re: Game Over
Post by: 2-mad on August 23, 2011, 07:57:26 AM

Pong ?
or later PacMan ?

I don't really know ..


Didi

Title: Re: Game Over
Post by: Blanbek on August 23, 2011, 09:37:06 AM

Maybe Spacewar 1961  ???

Title: Re: Game Over
Post by: 2-mad on August 23, 2011, 09:53:52 AM

Asteroids ?

Title: Re: Game Over
Post by: Belike 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

Title: Re: Game Over
Post by: 2-mad 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 ..

Didi