Real Prize

Video game concept

Allows players to participate in real contest and receive real prize offered by publishers depending on their play.

8
games
5
platforms
Not to be confused with game playing tournaments. This tag is for contests of home participants competing against the game itself and not other contestants directly. Though players were usually encouraged to be the first to win the prize as later comers got nothing.

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Games by year

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The first Real Prize video game was released in 1981.

Atari and Bundesministerium des Innern published most of these games.

Platforms

Atari 2600 3
MS-DOS 2
NES 1
Apple II E 1
Windows 1