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Jeopardy! New Sports Edition

Based on the tv game show. Jeopardy! New Sports Edition provides the same gameplay as the original Jeopardy!. There are over 1000 answers. Categories include everything from the Olympic Sports, such as…

31 December 1988

Jeopardy! New Sports Edition is a quiz/trivia, released 31 December 1988 on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

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What Jeopardy! New Sports Edition is

Jeopardy! New Sports Edition was released in 1988. It was published by ShareData, Inc.. It is available on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Based on the tv game show. Jeopardy! New Sports Edition provides the same gameplay as the original Jeopardy!. There are over 1000 answers. Categories include everything from the Olympic Sports, such as Gymnastics, Swimming and Track to Football, Golf and Baseball. You can play one-on-one with the computer, or challenge up to two other sports fans to a game. Three players compete against each other by coming up with the question for a given answer. There are two rounds of play each with six categories of answers, and one final round consisting of a single answer. Each correct question given can be worth from $100 to $1000 for the player to respond first, or if a daily double is uncovered the…
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Jeopardy series

Jeopardy! New Sports Edition is the second of 48 entries we hold in the Jeopardy series. It arrived a year after Jeopardy!. The next entry was Jeopardy! in 1988.

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What it launched against

Jeopardy! New Sports Edition launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.

Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.

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When did Jeopardy! New Sports Edition come out?
Jeopardy! New Sports Edition was released on 31 December 1988 for Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

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