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Video Games Basics
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it-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Vector-based graphics on the home console
Vectrex
Activision
Galaxian
Doom
2. Legal protection for intangible ideas protected via copyright: covers authored work (games); patents: covers inventions (software); trademark: sign or symbol associated with biz
games and culture in 8-bit era
Dragon's Lair
Intellectual property
Konami
3. Father of industry
Pac-Man (Atari 2600)
Nolan Bushnell
Pong
Sega Master System
4. Competes with Nint- fail
Apple Macintosh
Galaxian
Nintendo and 10NES licensing
Sega Game Gear
5. Why gameboy blew up; RPC; huge cultural impact
Magnavox
Atari Lynx
Pokemon
Pac-man
6. 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
Acclaim
Crash of 1983
Donkey Kong
King's Quest
7. Increased data storage - more realistic sound; cheaper than cartidges
1st party developer
Mortal Kombat
Atari
CD-ROM technology/impact
8. RPG (role playing game)= fantasy element; electronic version of table top games
Nolan Bushnell
Ultima
Atari Lynx
Atari
9. Created by Trip Hawkins; 1st company to license real-live athletes; made PC games
Nintendo
Electronic Arts EA
PC vs. console games
Sega Master System
10. Japanese company that made games for Nintendo
Konami
raster vs. polygon graphics
games & culture in early arcade/console generation 1 era
Cutscene
11. 1st popular handheld; created by Gunpei Yokoi; created market
Dragon's Lair
Myst
King's Quest
Nintendo Game Boy
12. Different interface (controllers vs. keyboard a/o mous); OC can save which allows there to be different games (Myst: puzzle/adventure)
Fair use
Adventure games
PC vs. console games
Nolan Bushnell
13. Best selling arcade game world-wide - pop culture phenomena - nonviolent
Yu Suzuki
PC game innovations/popularization from id
games and culture in 8-bit era
Pac-man
14. Competes with Nint- fail
Atari Lynx
Pac-man
Battlezone
Apple II
15. Photo-based graphics; fatalities; controversial; movie; cited in 1993 Senate Hearings on vg violence
Mortal Kombat
Capcom
Myst
relationship b/t arcade and console
16. Legal protection for intangible ideas protected via copyright: covers authored work (games); patents: covers inventions (software); trademark: sign or symbol associated with biz
Genre
Nintendo Game Boy
Monopoly
Intellectual property
17. Creator: Nolan Bushnell - 1st most popular console (Atari 2600) - big arcade player
raster vs. polygon graphics
Atari
Cutscene
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
18. EA; licensing of live athletes
difference b/t open and closed system
John Carmack
Dr. J and Larry Bird
Super Mario Bros
19. EA; licensing of live athletes
Dr. J and Larry Bird
Donkey Kong
Space Invaders
raster vs. polygon graphics
20. Famous game designer for Sega; mostly arcade games
Vectrex
Yu Suzuki
Donkey Kong
Adventure games
21. Japanese company that made games for Nintendo
Capcom
Gatekeeping
relationship b/t arcade and console
Zork
22. Expensive home computer
C. Everett Koop
Tetris
Magnavox
IBM PC
23. Competed with Atari
Crash of 1983
Intellevision
Intellectual property
NES
24. PC game; interactive fiction: all text and typing
Street Fighter II
Avg age of gamers according to ESA
difference b/t open and closed system
Zork
25. Avoided glut of low quality games via lock and key model= no unauthorized source could create games
Apple Macintosh
Apple II
Nintendo and 10NES licensing
Asteroids
26. 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
Colecovision
Nintendo and 10NES licensing
Ralph Baer
27. Competed with Atari
Colecovision
Zork
Capcom
Acclaim
28. Japanese - biggest competitor with Nintendo (but weak competitor) - in 8-bit era= 1st party
Myst
Sierra Online
Sega
FCC Regulation/Obscenity
29. Most popular - reasonably priced comp
Sega
Atari 2600
Commodore64
Pong
30. Competes with Nint- fail
Atari Lynx
Sega Master System
Razor & Blade model
King's Quest
31. Lack of imagination; audience of 8-14 y/o boys (other media geared towards this age group)
Cutscene
Ms. Pac-Man
games & culture in early arcade/console generation 1 era
games and culture in 8-bit era
32. PC action games
Broderbund
Razor & Blade model
vector vs. raster graphics
Adventure games
33. 1st video game - @ MIT - 1962
Myst
Apple II
Spacewars
CD-ROM technology/impact
34. Expensive home computer
Dragon's Lair
IBM PC
Pitfall
Shigeru Miyamoto
35. Exclusive control or supplier of goods and services; lack of competition (stifles innovation - ability to set own prices - high barrier for entry)
CD-ROM technology/impact
Colecovision
Konami
Monopoly
36. Most popular - reasonably priced comp
Adventure games
Razor & Blade model
Apple II
Commodore64
37. Polygon graphics (3D) vs. typical sprite (2D)
Virtua series
Pokemon
Nintendo
Apple II
38. Terrible; part of crash of 1983
id Software
IBM PC
relationship b/t arcade and console
E.T.
39. 10NES: lock and key system; stringent licensing; restored console industry; monopolized; super app: Mario
Crash of 1983
NES
Razor & Blade model
Nolan Bushnell
40. Surgeon general; harmful to youth: can be addictive and cause negative behavior and nothing constructive in vg
Magnavox
Atari Lynx
Nolan Bushnell
C. Everett Koop
41. Best-selling in U.S. - Namco sued Midway for modification of Pac-Man (no permission from original copyright holder)
Ms. Pac-Man
King's Quest
1st party developer
PC game innovations/popularization from id
42. Revived arcades (1989-1995); movie made - console war b/t Nint and Sega b/c of game
Sega Game Gear
Myst
Street Fighter II
3rd party developer
43. Interactive movies; appealed to wider audience; fell from popularity
Sega Master System
Dr. J and Larry Bird
Full Motion Video
Magnavox
44. First mass produced computer
Apple Macintosh
Apple II
Pokemon
Myst
45. 1st true color arcade game
Nintendo Game Boy
Galaxian
PC game innovations/popularization from id
Konami
46. Biggest arcade hit following Pong - revived biz (Midway)
Space Invaders
Nolan Bushnell
PC game innovations/popularization from id
Asteroids
47. Progresses story
Acclaim
Public domain
Ralph Baer
Cutscene
48. Avoided glut of low quality games via lock and key model= no unauthorized source could create games
Activision
Adventure games
John Carmack
Nintendo and 10NES licensing
49. PC game; interactive fiction: all text and typing
Zork
Genre
Electronic Arts EA
Apple Macintosh
50. Very popular; had good details - graphics - and SOUND b/c of CD-ROM; adults played; no violence; art section of NY Times article
Atari
PC vs. console games
Myst
Galaxian