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Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is a conversion of the long-running TV quiz show where the answers are given and contestants must provide the questions. Compared to the Genesis version released a year earlier, the Game Gear version…

1 August 1993

Jeopardy! is a quiz/trivia, released 1 August 1993 on Sega Game Gear.

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What Jeopardy! is

Jeopardy! was released in 1993. It is available on Sega Game Gear only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Jeopardy! is a conversion of the long-running TV quiz show where the answers are given and contestants must provide the questions. Compared to the Genesis version released a year earlier, the Game Gear version features only about half the number of questions, and replaces the console version's photo-realistic style with a more cartoon-like approach.
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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.

Where it sits in the Jeopardy series

Jeopardy! is the ninth of 48 entries we hold in the Jeopardy series. It arrived 8 months after Jeopardy!. The next entry was Jeopardy! Sports Edition in 1994.

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What it launched against

Jeopardy! launched on 1 August 1993, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars and Daytona USA.

Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, Daytona USA.

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When did Jeopardy! come out?
Jeopardy! was released on 1 August 1993 for Sega Game Gear.

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