Atari, Sega and Xbox

What this quiz asks

• The standard joystick of the Atari 2600 had how many fire buttons?
• Who co-founded Atari with Ted Dabney in 1972?
• The name "Xbox" grew out of which Microsoft technology?
• The Atari Lynx, launched in 1989, had a colour screen, unlike the Nintendo Game Boy of the same year.
• Xbox 360 owners dreaded the "Red Ring of Death". How many of the ring's four segments flashed red?
• Which studio, bought by Microsoft in 2000, made the Xbox launch game Halo: Combat Evolved?
• Select ALL of these home consoles that were made by Sega.
• Did the Sega Dreamcast come with a built-in modem for playing online?
• The name Sega is a shortened form of which two words?
• In 2014 a dig in a New Mexico landfill uncovered buried Atari cartridges of which 1982 film tie-in?
• Order these Microsoft consoles by release date, earliest first.
• The Atari 2600 went on sale in 1977 under which original name?
• How many gigabytes of storage did the hard drive built into the original 2001 Xbox offer?
• Activision, the first independent maker of console games, was founded in 1979 by programmers who had left which company?
• In which country did the Sega Master System stay on sale for decades thanks to the local partner Tectoy?
• Sega surprised shops and rivals in 1995 by launching the Saturn in the USA months early, announcing it on stage at the first E3.
• Select ALL of these companies that were already selling home video game consoles before 1985.
• Which Sega add-on, launched in 1994, plugged into the cartridge slot of the Mega Drive to give it 32-bit power?
• Atari's last home console, the 1993 Jaguar, was advertised as the first home system with how many bits?
• Atari's 1979 game Adventure hid one of the first famous video game Easter eggs. What did the secret room reveal?