How well do you know EARLY video game history? (Slightly Later)
So now it is time yet again to see how well you know early video game history. We will pick up from where the last one left off.
1.) While E.T. was widely known for being one of the two major players in the crash of the video game industry (I gave away an answer to the first one! Damnit!), this popular arcade machine turned atari game was the other culprit as the console version was nothing like the original. So much was riding on the game's success that more copies of the game were made than there were Atari consoles sold.
Galaga
Frogger
Ms. Pac-Man
Pac-Man
2.) While consoles were blazing onto the scene and picking up steam shortly before the crash, hobbyists were using new fangled devices called computers to play games. What was the typical distribution model of said games?
Books - the source code was printed inside of them and the gamer would type them in and compile it him/herself.
Giant floppy disks
8 Track Cassette - an adapter allowed them to be used as a method for early software distribution much like CDs and DVDs were used later on.
The Internet
3.) While Street Fighter is synonymous with 1 on 1 fighting games, it wasn't the first of it's kind. In 1984, this game started the genre...
Kung Fu
Karate Champ
Mario Fist-In-Your-Face
Fighting
4.) While the Apple II was the first computer to see any real success with computer gaming in the late 70s, 1982 saw the released of a gaming computer that would go on to be the internationally best selling computer model of all time. What was its name?
Intellivision
ColecoVision
Commodore 64
Sinclair
5.) So now let us jump ahead...past the game crash of 1982/83. Computers and arcades still managed to make it, but console sales were terrible...that is until this character came to nearly single-handedly save the day in 1985. Who was it?
Donkey Kong
Sonic the Hedgehog
Link
Mario
Super Meat Boy
6.) This generation of consoles far surpassed today's typical generational life-span of five years by lasting until 1995. In this time many franchises that still exist today were born. One of the most surprising of these came from failing game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi who decided to make one more game before quitting. This game became the first in what would become one of the most successful game franchises in history. What was it?
Sim City
Final Fantasy
Dragon Quest
Crash Bandicoot
7.) MMORPGS have become one of the biggest forms of gaming today, but it all began in the early 90s in a primitive form involving mostly text. This was called a MUD which stood for what?
Many User Device
My Ultimate Distraction
Multiple Union Distribution
Multi User Dungeon
8.) Sweet Home, released in 1989, was the first game to use many of the elements seen in todays survival horror genre, but this 1992 game was the one that developed the formula of deemphasized combat, increased investigation and a combination of 3d characters on 2d backgrounds that would be adopted by Resident Evil and Silent Hill.
Alone in the Dark
Dragon Quest
Monkey Island
Myst
Thief: The Dark Project
7th Guest
9.) As consoles began to catch up to arcades in quality patronage started to fall and many arcades began closing. They were temporarily saved by the mid-90s fighting game boom that was all started with the early 90s release of what?
Street Fighter
Street Fighter II
Mortal Kombat
Time Killers
Virtua Fighter
10.) While Nintendo dominated gaming almost until the death of the Super Nintendo in 1999, it wasn't the one that started the 16-bit era. That started with Nintendo's biggest competitor, Sega, releasing the Genesis...this was also known as what?
Sega Mastersystem
Sega Dreamcast
Sega CD
Sega Saturn
Sega Mega Drive