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unusual facts about game console



Software protection dongle

Some unlicensed titles for game consoles (such as Super 3D Noah's Ark or Little Red Hood) used dongles to connect to officially licensed ROM cartridges, in order to circumvent the authentication chip embedded in the console.

TV Scoreboard

The TV Scoreboard is a Pong-like game console manufactured from 1976 through the early '80s and made by Tandy. Distribution was handled exclusively by Radio Shack. The machines were constructed in Hong Kong. The TV Scoreboard consisted of a left and right player, with dials or paddles on the hand held piece, and had multiple Pong era games.


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3DO

3DO Blaster, an ISA add-on card for PCs which included the full chipset for the 3DO video game console

Carla Meninsky

Carla Meninsky was a video game designer during the early years of the Atari 2600 video game console.

Charles Hard Townes

The Japanese FM Towns computer and game console is named in his honour.

Circle of Death

The Red Ring of Death is a nickname for a number of system problems of the Xbox 360 video game console

Didj

Leapfrog Didj, a handheld game console made by LeapFrog Enterprises

ESWAT

ESWAT: City under Siege, a 1990 side scrolling platform video game for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis video game console

Gekido

Gekido (known as Gekido: Urban Fighters in Europe) is a beat 'em up for the PlayStation game console. The game uses a fast paced beat 'em up system, with many bosses and a colorful design in terms of graphics. The game features the music of Fatboy Slim and Apartment 26. Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira also contributed. A version of Gekido was also released on the Game Boy Color in Europe.

GP2X Wiz

In February 2009, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak had stated that "Korea needs to develop a video game console like a Nintendo DS".

Hiroshi Fujioka

From 1997-1998, Fujioka portrayed Segata Sanshiro in a series of television and print advertisements for the Sega Saturn video game console in Japan.

Jr. Pac-Man

Ports for the Atari 5200 and the Atari 8-bit computers were finished in 1984, but were scrapped along with Super Pac-Man when the home computing and game console divisions of Atari, Inc. were sold to Jack Tramiel.

Lisa the Tree Hugger

Bart, needing money for the new video game console Gamestation 256, takes a job hanging menus on doors for a Thai restaurant.

Putnam, Connecticut

In 2006, the town made national news after an individual was shot twice by masked robbers while waiting in a group overnight outside a local Wal-Mart for the release of the PlayStation 3 video game console.

PVD Disc

DcVD – A non-standard MPEG-1 format for the Sega Dreamcast video game console

Towelie

The name of the Okama Gamesphere video game console is a take on the Nintendo GameCube, which was to be released shortly after the episode was written.

VTech

In 1977, the company created its first home TV game console, a version of Pong.

Yoshida Brothers

The commercials for the Nintendo's Wii video game console that began airing in North America in November 2006 featured the Yoshida Brothers song "Kodo (Inside the Sun Remix)".