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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. Vector graphics: line graphics; high-resolution outlines; 3D like effects
Electronic Arts EA
Virtua series
Asteroids
Battlezone
2. Japanese company that made games for Nintendo
Apple Macintosh
Capcom
Broderbund
Monopoly
3. 30 y/o
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
Tetris
Public domain
Ms. Pac-Man
4. Japanese - biggest competitor with Nintendo (but weak competitor) - in 8-bit era= 1st party
Sega
Asteroids
FCC Regulation/Obscenity
Capcom
5. Made PC games - adventure games: story - narrative - puzzle solving (King's Quest)
Sierra Online
Ralph Baer
Pong
Space Invaders
6. Vector-based graphics on the home console
vector vs. raster graphics
Vectrex
John Carmack
CD-ROM technology/impact
7. Competes with Nint- fail
Atari Lynx
Capcom
CD-ROM technology/impact
Monopoly
8. Filtering out content by those who control/own the console
Virtua series
Gatekeeping
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
Pokemon
9. Filtering out content by those who control/own the console
Donkey Kong
NES
Sega
Gatekeeping
10. Why gameboy blew up; RPC; huge cultural impact
Galaxian
vector vs. raster graphics
Pokemon
difference b/t open and closed system
11. Best selling arcade game world-wide - pop culture phenomena - nonviolent
C. Everett Koop
Pac-man
Intellectual property
Donkey Kong
12. Exclusive control or supplier of goods and services; lack of competition (stifles innovation - ability to set own prices - high barrier for entry)
Mortal Kombat
Cutscene
Monopoly
E.T.
13. Progresses story
Broderbund
PC vs. console games
Cutscene
Konami
14. 1st video game - @ MIT - 1962
id Software
Capcom
Super Mario Bros
Spacewars
15. Surgeon general; harmful to youth: can be addictive and cause negative behavior and nothing constructive in vg
C. Everett Koop
Dr. J and Larry Bird
Pitfall
Ronnie Lamm
16. Biggest arcade hit following Pong - revived biz (Midway)
Space Invaders
Capcom
Nintendo
Spacewars
17. Surgeon general; harmful to youth: can be addictive and cause negative behavior and nothing constructive in vg
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
C. Everett Koop
Virtua series
Donkey Kong
18. Polygon graphics (3D) vs. typical sprite (2D)
Virtua series
Fair use
Public domain
raster vs. polygon graphics
19. RPG (role playing game)= fantasy element; electronic version of table top games
King's Quest
Donkey Kong
Super Mario Bros
Ultima
20. Laser disk technology (cartoon/Disney graphics) - last hoorah of arcade era
21. Family oriented; just a fad; critiques: violence - addiction - delinquent kids hangout out at arcades; games unwinnable
games & culture in early arcade/console generation 1 era
PC game innovations/popularization from id
Acclaim
Ronnie Lamm
22. Expensive home computer
Monopoly
IBM PC
Full Motion Video
Sega
23. Low quality game (glut causing crash) due to the poor graphics in comparison to the arcade version
Sega Game Gear
King's Quest
Konami
Pac-Man (Atari 2600)
24. Photo-based graphics; fatalities; controversial; movie; cited in 1993 Senate Hearings on vg violence
Myst
Capcom
Mortal Kombat
games and culture in 8-bit era
25. Pixel/cartoon/sprite graphics vs. 3D graphics (square vs. cube)
Intellectual property
raster vs. polygon graphics
1st party developer
Space Invaders
26. Killer app for Nintendo NES
Ultima
Razor & Blade model
Super Mario Bros
Street Fighter II
27. Vector graphics: line graphics; high-resolution outlines; 3D like effects
Monopoly
games and culture in 8-bit era
Intellevision
Asteroids
28. Game developer for Nintendo that put out a lot of popular games
Magnavox
Genre
Shigeru Miyamoto
Intellectual property
29. PC game; interactive fiction: all text and typing
Zork
Magnavox
Shigeru Miyamoto
Acclaim
30. Made Doom (FPS)l shareware; mods; multi-player on LAN (local area network)
Ultima
Pong
Nintendo Game Boy
id Software
31. Type
Genre
1st party developer
Virtua series
Konami
32. 1st U.S. company to be a Nintendo licensee
Acclaim
Electronic Arts EA
CD-ROM technology/impact
Virtua series
33. Creator: Nolan Bushnell - 1st most popular console (Atari 2600) - big arcade player
Commodore64
Atari
E.T.
King's Quest
34. Made by Activision; high quality
Pitfall
Fair use
Adventure games
Razor & Blade model
35. Competes with Nint- fail
Monopoly
PC vs. console games
Atari Lynx
Nintendo Game Boy
36. Very popular; had good details - graphics - and SOUND b/c of CD-ROM; adults played; no violence; art section of NY Times article
Dr. J and Larry Bird
Myst
Intellevision
C. Everett Koop
37. Created by Atari - Atari's 1st hit arcade game
Acclaim
Pong
games & culture in early arcade/console generation 1 era
1st party developer
38. Game developer for Nintendo that put out a lot of popular games
Atari 2600
Pac-man
Shigeru Miyamoto
Ronnie Lamm
39. Most popular - reasonably priced comp
Vectrex
Sierra Online
Commodore64
Spacewars
40. 30 y/o
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
Ultima
Ronnie Lamm
Ronnie Lamm
41. Expensive home computer
IBM PC
Ultima
Dr. J and Larry Bird
Monopoly
42. 1st huge FPS game
Zork
Yu Suzuki
Pac-Man (Atari 2600)
Doom
43. 2nd most popular next to Pac-man - saved Nintendo - 1st appearance of Mario - lawsuit b/t Nint and Universal for their remake of King Kong (intellectual prop) -> copyright ran out - open to public
Tetris
Donkey Kong
3rd party developer
Commodore64
44. Japanese company that made games for Nintendo
Magnavox
Zork
Virtua series
Konami
45. A business model in which the complementary goods (blades/games) are sold to make the profit - not the original item (razor/console)
Super Mario Bros
Razor & Blade model
Doom
Super Mario Bros
46. FCC regulates the valuable - public resource of airwaves and is obligated to follow community standards for decency. Exempt: cable - satellite TV and radio; Obscenity (legal term): miller test= community standards - media value (artistic value)
Sierra Online
FCC Regulation/Obscenity
Capcom
Intellevision
47. Polygon graphics (3D) vs. typical sprite (2D)
1st party developer
Konami
Virtua series
Nintendo and 10NES licensing
48. Arcade ports; not good
Sega Master System
Pac-man
difference b/t open and closed system
Nolan Bushnell
49. First mass produced computer
Apple II
PC game innovations/popularization from id
Pac-man
Pong
50. Longest running company - 1st party games led to their success - ONLY did games
Nintendo
Mortal Kombat
Intellectual property
IBM PC