Atari History trivia
Atari History Mini Quiz
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Question 1
Which simple tennis game was the 1st big arcade hit for Atari and broke when its coin box got too full?
Atari engineer Allan Alcorn built Pong as a training exercise. The prototype later failed because its coin collector, a milk carton, was overflowing with quarters.
Question 2
What movie-based game was so unpopular that Atari buried 1,000s of unsold copies in a desert landfill?
An excavation in 2014 confirmed the long-standing urban legend of the burial by unearthing hundreds of discarded cartridges in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Question 3
Named after a move in the board game Go, what company became a leader in early retro-gaming with the 2600 console?
In the board game Go, atari is a term used to describe a situation where stones are in immediate danger of being captured, similar to check in chess.
Question 4
Known for its wood-grain design, what 1977 home console was 1st sold as the Video Computer System?
The console was renamed the Atari 2600 in 1982 to distinguish it from the new Atari 5200, taking its name from the original CX2600 model number.