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Title: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: drawfull on October 15, 2008, 01:49:27 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7671677.stm

Not bad, just for fun. I got only 7/10 and the three I got wrong I had owned at some point or sill do. Oops.
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: Level42 on October 15, 2008, 03:51:38 pm
8/10 Missed the IBM portable (thought it was Compaq and the other I missed was the Saturn (thought it was a Panasonic).

Really British contest with the ZX, the Spectrum and those Acorn machines. Too little Atari mentioned IMHO ;)
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: ChadTower on October 15, 2008, 04:00:44 pm

Yeah, really hard for the US folks with all those European models.  I missed one of the Sinclairs and the Mac one for 8/10.
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: Jack Burton on October 15, 2008, 05:13:59 pm
The console ones are ridiculously easy. 

Come on now, a Neo Geo and a Saturn versus that other stuff?

I think they could have come up with some more obscure consoles.  how many people have seen a CPS changer, a pico, or sega wondermega?
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: clok on October 20, 2008, 12:19:42 pm
Yep all where easy except the ones not from US, not sure I have even seen some of them before, but as an emu guy I have played the games for um I'm sure so names where fermilier.

Clok
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: ChadTower on October 20, 2008, 12:37:51 pm
I'm sure so names where fermilier.


<keanu>whoaaaaaaa</keanu>
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: RayB on October 20, 2008, 02:57:41 pm
7/10 and only reason I got the "PET" one wrong is because the screen wasn't green! (All the PETs we used in high school had green monochrome screens)
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: ark_ader on October 20, 2008, 03:16:02 pm
7/10 got the Portable wrong - never seen an IBM portable - seen a luggable.

Thought the Apple was a Apple I - but silly me it was a II.  Had a IIse so I should Have known better.

Cannot remember the other one I got wrong, but its a by product of using the Nostagic Memory Machine...you use it and it conks out.  Or its the mind shielding me from the nightmare of fixing all that old crap and installs on the weekend with no pay.  :dizzy:
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: Chris2 on October 20, 2008, 04:22:51 pm
8/10. I'm a Super Mario! Still, needs more Vectrex! :)


I think they could have come up with some more obscure consoles.  how many people have seen a CPS changer, a pico, or sega wondermega?
I've seen all three of those someplace or another (An old friend of mine owns a Pico...I wonder if he'd sell it to me.). Still, very obscure they are.

Still, why stop there? How about an RDI Halcyon, a Fairchild Channel F, or an Adventurevision?

Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: vespertillio on October 24, 2008, 10:29:39 pm
9/10 Woohhoo. stupid cpc got me.
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: abzman2000 on October 24, 2008, 11:43:27 pm
it helps to have an intrest in retro equipment, and I have more than half of these (10/10 although honestly the sinclair zx80 was a guess)
Title: Re: Old computer / Console Quiz
Post by: Jack Burton on October 25, 2008, 03:12:05 am
8/10. I'm a Super Mario! Still, needs more Vectrex! :)


I think they could have come up with some more obscure consoles.  how many people have seen a CPS changer, a pico, or sega wondermega?
I've seen all three of those someplace or another (An old friend of mine owns a Pico...I wonder if he'd sell it to me.). Still, very obscure they are.

Still, why stop there? How about an RDI Halcyon, a Fairchild Channel F, or an Adventurevision?



or an FM-towns, or an Arcadia 2001, or a Net Yaroze?  I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THJEM :dizzy: :hissy: :timebomb: