The birth of the videogame happened with the NES...
...or so some would like us to believe. Great break-down of the biases and innacuracies in the review, Matt. While I don't have the stomach to watch it myself, indeed Zelda and Metroid are generally credited as the first pure videogames with a traditional battery backup, circa 1987. I believe these were required because they were originally disk-based games with save for the Famicom disk drive system that was never released in the US for the NES.
Sadly, the ColecoVision would have been home to the first videogame with battery backup if Probe 2000, which was a software development offshoot from the Magnavox/Philips/Odyssey2 group, hadn't had various technical and business issues around the time of the industry depression/crash. Probe 2000 made the superb War Room for the ColecoVision, and had several other games in development, including a sophisticated computer-like RPG called "Lord of the Dungeon", circa 1984! Unfortunately, the save game to battery backup caused occasional corruption and the problem wasn't resolved before Probe 2000 was disbanded. A select few prototypes exist, but few have actually been able to play a copy.
...or so some would like us to believe. Great break-down of the biases and innacuracies in the review, Matt. While I don't have the stomach to watch it myself, indeed Zelda and Metroid are generally credited as the first pure videogames with a traditional battery backup, circa 1987. I believe these were required because they were originally disk-based games with save for the Famicom disk drive system that was never released in the US for the NES.
Sadly, the ColecoVision would have been home to the first videogame with battery backup if Probe 2000, which was a software development offshoot from the Magnavox/Philips/Odyssey2 group, hadn't had various technical and business issues around the time of the industry depression/crash. Probe 2000 made the superb War Room for the ColecoVision, and had several other games in development, including a sophisticated computer-like RPG called "Lord of the Dungeon", circa 1984! Unfortunately, the save game to battery backup caused occasional corruption and the problem wasn't resolved before Probe 2000 was disbanded. A select few prototypes exist, but few have actually been able to play a copy.
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Armchair Arcade, Inc.