TV-Visa

TV-Visa is a Finnish trivia quiz for DOS styled after television game shows. According to its original BBS blurb, version 1.0 contains thirty questions, and the author proudly points out the game's "great sounds" – exactly the kind of confident sales pitch small shareware titles used on bulletin boards at the time.

Quiz games were among the most common genres of the Finnish home-computer scene of the 1990s: they could be written in Pascal or BASIC in a few evenings, with the authors supplying their own questions, so the results were tightly bound to Finnish life and language. Outside Finland these games were virtually unknown, and international retro archives still pass them by.

The questions are naturally in Finnish, but the game remains a curious period piece – and TV-Visa runs right in your browser on OldGame.cz.