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Which game company's name is short for Service Games?
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What Atari game was made in about five weeks for Christmas 1982?
Answer: E.T.
Why: In 2014, diggers found E.T. cartridges among the Atari games buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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What gadget on a bullet train inspired the Game & Watch?
Answer: A calculator
Why: Each unit paired one game with a digital clock, which is where the Watch in its name comes from.
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By about how much did US home game revenue fall in the 1983 crash?
Answer: About 97%
Why: Revenue sank from about $3.2 billion at its peak to about $100 million by 1985.
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In which game did Mario first appear?
Answer: Donkey Kong
Why: Set on a construction site, Donkey Kong made him a carpenter; he only became a plumber in 1983's Mario Bros.
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Whose boots inspired Sonic the Hedgehog's shoes?
Answer: Michael Jackson
Why: The blue has a separate source: it was chosen to match Sega's cobalt blue logo.
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What was the first console to use ROM cartridges?
Answer: Fairchild Channel F
Why: Engineer Jerry Lawson headed the Fairchild video game division that turned a prototype into the Channel F.
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