Questions tagged [game-consoles]
For questions relating to a number of different video game consoles, or to game consoles in general.
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Were there any games running at high refresh rates such as 90 and 120 Hz on computers and consoles of the 80s and 90s?
Games these days allow us to set the refresh rate as high as we want, the monitor's refresh rate notwithstanding. From what I understand, CRT TVs could easily clock above 60 Hz even in the 20th ...
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Which game console is in the movie "Invitation to hell"
In film the game is called "Astro Bomber" Someone can recognize this console/game-hardware? From movie Invitation to hell
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First use of an OS in gaming consoles?
Early gaming consoles were quite simple machines (from today's point of view). So simple in fact that often the games were the initial "entry point" for the CPU on boot and the games had to ...
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Did the Sega Saturn support homogeneous transformations for graphics or only affine transformations?
Warning: My question contains some assumptions and mumbo jumbo. I attempt to learn how this stuff works and its correct terminology. And though I've implemented some of it (not all) from scratch over ...
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What was the first games console to be as powerful as the Sega Model 2 board? [closed]
Back in the day, Sega's Daytona USA was the king of arcades. All those polygons flying around at 60 frames per second, it was incredible. It was also hugely expensive. What was the first games console ...
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7 votes
1 answer
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What game is this music from? (probably a Shoot 'em up)
Back in my teenage years (around 1992) I recorded in VHS (but overrecorded it afterwards) a certain console game's opening sequence from a game TV show and attempted to transpose the background music ...
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9 votes
2 answers
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Why did the Atari 5200 revert to only two controller ports?
The Atari 5200, released in 1982, had four controller ports, an unusual feature which as far as I know had never been seen before, and would not be seen again until the late nineties. The 1983 ...
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What was the reason that the original Western NES console had a "cartridge bed" that had to be pushed down to play?
In Japan, they had the Famicom. You put in the cartridges on the top, just like with the later SNES and other consoles. But for Europe and the USA (and the entire "West"), the "NES"...
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