Talk:Alca Electronics

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 11:26, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that although their major investor was one of the founders of Sega, UK-based Alca Electronics was sued by Sega for copying their game Frogger? Source: Meadeas, 166
  • ALT1: ... that Alca Electronics was the first European company to make a commercial video game, copies of Pong called Ping Pong because in the UK "pong" means a bad smell? Source: Meadeas, 124
  • Reviewed: Robert I (archbishop of Nazareth)

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 207 past nominations.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 23:07, 24 June 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems:

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed: - na
• Used in article: - NA
• Clear at 100px: - NA

QPQ: Done.

Overall: History6042😊 (Contact me) 15:18, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Update to original hook:

• ... that although their major investor distributor was one of the founders of Sega, UK-based Alca Electronics was liquidated after being sued by Sega for copying their game Frogger? Source: Meadeas, 166

Still under 200 and I think it makes it clearer why this was non-trivial. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:45, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

• @Maury Markowitz: I checked the article, and I found a discrepancy between the former founder of Sega being called an "investor" here, but a "distributor" on the article. So, which one is he? SonOfYoutubers (talk) 16:17, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Yup, good spot. distributor. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:12, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

@SonOfYoutubers: Has your concern been resolved? Z1720 (talk) 16:30, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

@Z1720: Yes, although if you're going to promote the original hook, do change "investor" to "distributor". SonOfYoutubers (talk) 16:35, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

@SonOfYoutubers: If all issues have been resolved, can you add a new green tick below? I do not want others later on to think that I was the reviewer. Z1720 (talk) 16:37, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes, of course. SonOfYoutubers (talk) 16:38, 29 July 2025 (UTC)