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Video Games Basics
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Subject
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it-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Creator: Nolan Bushnell - 1st most popular console (Atari 2600) - big arcade player
Ms. Pac-Man
Magnavox
games and culture in 8-bit era
Atari
2. Type
Konami
relationship b/t arcade and console
Genre
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
3. 1st game console; created by Ralph Baer
Gatekeeping
Street Fighter II
Magnavox
Ultima
4. Created by Atari - Atari's 1st hit arcade game
Street Fighter II
Razor & Blade model
Pong
Myst
5. Father of industry
John Carmack
CD-ROM technology/impact
Nolan Bushnell
Dragon's Lair
6. Progresses story
Pitfall
Cutscene
relationship b/t arcade and console
Razor & Blade model
7. Very popular; had good details - graphics - and SOUND b/c of CD-ROM; adults played; no violence; art section of NY Times article
Nintendo and 10NES licensing
Battlezone
Myst
Mortal Kombat
8. Made PC games - adventure games: story - narrative - puzzle solving (King's Quest)
Sega Master System
difference b/t open and closed system
Sierra Online
King's Quest
9. EA; licensing of live athletes
Tetris
Dr. J and Larry Bird
Razor & Blade model
Full Motion Video
10. Easter egg: hidden message/bonus
Adventure games
Broderbund
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
Street Fighter II
11. Filtering out content by those who control/own the console
Full Motion Video
C. Everett Koop
Galaxian
Gatekeeping
12. Different interface (controllers vs. keyboard a/o mous); OC can save which allows there to be different games (Myst: puzzle/adventure)
Intellectual property
Zork
FCC Regulation/Obscenity
PC vs. console games
13. Glut of low quality video games; mostly Atari's open market; retailers less willing to carry products; U.S. starts to focus on the PC
Galaxian
Apple II
E.T.
Crash of 1983
14. Game developer for Nintendo that put out a lot of popular games
Shigeru Miyamoto
Public domain
Atari 2600
Ronnie Lamm
15. Patented work; father of video games
Donkey Kong
Sega Master System
Ralph Baer
Full Motion Video
16. Line graphics (3D effects) vs. pixels graphics/sprites (2D cartoon)
Sega Master System
vector vs. raster graphics
NES
Genre
17. Biggest arcade hit following Pong - revived biz (Midway)
Space Invaders
Activision
relationship b/t arcade and console
Sega Master System
18. PC game; interactive fiction: all text and typing
Activision
Zork
Street Fighter II
IBM PC
19. 10NES: lock and key system; stringent licensing; restored console industry; monopolized; super app: Mario
NES
Acclaim
Nintendo Game Boy
Tetris
20. Arcade games started by used for consoles (arcade ports); hardware biz vs. software biz
relationship b/t arcade and console
Crash of 1983
Fair use
Nintendo
21. Japanese company that made games for Nintendo
Konami
Donkey Kong
3rd party developer
Nintendo and 10NES licensing
22. A business model in which the complementary goods (blades/games) are sold to make the profit - not the original item (razor/console)
Razor & Blade model
Genre
Colecovision
Atari
23. Photo-based graphics; fatalities; controversial; movie; cited in 1993 Senate Hearings on vg violence
Sega Game Gear
Intellevision
Mortal Kombat
Donkey Kong
24. Surgeon general; harmful to youth: can be addictive and cause negative behavior and nothing constructive in vg
Sierra Online
Battlezone
Donkey Kong
C. Everett Koop
25. Adventure game
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26. Increased data storage - more realistic sound; cheaper than cartidges
Ralph Baer
Battlezone
Nintendo Game Boy
CD-ROM technology/impact
27. Easter egg: hidden message/bonus
Dr. J and Larry Bird
Vectrex
Adventure games
John Carmack
28. 1st attempt to market adults; made in Russia
Public domain
Shigeru Miyamoto
Tetris
Pac-Man (Atari 2600)
29. Photo-based graphics; fatalities; controversial; movie; cited in 1993 Senate Hearings on vg violence
Doom
Mortal Kombat
Sega Master System
Atari 2600
30. 1st person tank game - vector graphics - U.S. military requested for training purposes - e.g. of vgs used for things other than entertainment purposes
Mortal Kombat
Battlezone
games and culture in 8-bit era
Pac-man
31. Outside companies that do not own rights to the console create games
Dr. J and Larry Bird
3rd party developer
Acclaim
Public domain
32. Famous game designer for Sega; mostly arcade games
Mortal Kombat
Atari 2600
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
Yu Suzuki
33. Created by Trip Hawkins; 1st company to license real-live athletes; made PC games
Mortal Kombat
Electronic Arts EA
3rd party developer
E.T.
34. Arcade ports; not good
Electronic Arts EA
Sega Master System
Virtua series
Capcom
35. Vector graphics: line graphics; high-resolution outlines; 3D like effects
CD-ROM technology/impact
Asteroids
Monopoly
Apple Macintosh
36. Best-selling in U.S. - Namco sued Midway for modification of Pac-Man (no permission from original copyright holder)
Ms. Pac-Man
Crash of 1983
FCC Regulation/Obscenity
Atari Lynx
37. Made Doom (FPS)l shareware; mods; multi-player on LAN (local area network)
Pitfall
Tetris
vector vs. raster graphics
id Software
38. A business model in which the complementary goods (blades/games) are sold to make the profit - not the original item (razor/console)
Donkey Kong
Sega Game Gear
Razor & Blade model
Pac-man
39. Mods (kept game going); multi-player via LANs; shareware (part of game free - pay for complete game)
Sega Game Gear
PC game innovations/popularization from id
Gatekeeping
Monopoly
40. Avoided glut of low quality games via lock and key model= no unauthorized source could create games
vector vs. raster graphics
IBM PC
Nintendo and 10NES licensing
Myst
41. Made by Activision; high quality
Dragon's Lair
Zork
Pitfall
Ralph Baer
42. Competes with Nint- fail
PC game innovations/popularization from id
Atari Lynx
Intellectual property
Super Mario Bros
43. Low quality game (glut causing crash) due to the poor graphics in comparison to the arcade version
Fair use
Pac-Man (Atari 2600)
Dr. J and Larry Bird
NES
44. Line graphics (3D effects) vs. pixels graphics/sprites (2D cartoon)
vector vs. raster graphics
Spacewars
Sega Master System
Space Invaders
45. Competes with Nint- fail
Galaxian
Intellectual property
Space Invaders
Sega Game Gear
46. Exceptions to copyright/extent to which you can use someone's int. prop.; protected= parody and education
Fair use
Myst
Spacewars
Gatekeeping
47. Creator: Nolan Bushnell - 1st most popular console (Atari 2600) - big arcade player
Atari
Crash of 1983
Ronnie Lamm
Pong
48. 30 y/o
Zork
Galaxian
Atari 2600
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
49. Pixel/cartoon/sprite graphics vs. 3D graphics (square vs. cube)
Broderbund
Ultima
Crash of 1983
raster vs. polygon graphics
50. 1st U.S. company to be a Nintendo licensee
Colecovision
Commodore64
Activision
Acclaim