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| Which country banned video games in 1981? |
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| How did Kassar treat his designers? |
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| He seldom allowed them to meet with reporters or put their names on machines. |
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| What was Military battlezone? |
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| An adaptation of battlezone for the US military that used realistic trajectories and ballistics as well as a joystick control. |
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| What did Ed Rotberg think of Military battlezone? |
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| He didn't like it and resented being forced to work on it. |
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| What did the game Star Wars originally start out as? |
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| Warp Speed, a game where players attacked a space fortress. |
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| Who did Hiroshi Yamauchi hire to run the US offices of Nintendo? |
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| His son-in-law. Minoru Arakawa. |
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| What was the first game released by Nintendo of America? |
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| What did Miyamoto get his degree in? |
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| How was Miyamoto different from normal Japanese people? |
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| He played the banjo, collected Beatles records, and love bluegrass. |
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| Where did the name Donkey Kong come from? |
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| An English dictionary's synonyms for Stubborn Gorilla |
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| Where did Mario (Jumpman) get his name? |
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| From the landlord that threated, but gave extensions to, Minoru Arakawa and Nintendo of America |
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| How did the American employees of Nintendo of America feel about the name Donkey Kong? |
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| They didn't understand the name and were not confident in it |
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| What was a trait of centipede? |
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| Where did the idea for Centipede come from? |
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| A book of game ideas, "Bug Shooter" |
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| What game was originally categorized as "First Person Space Invaders"? |
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| What was a bug in Tempest? |
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| Players could glitch it and get 40 free games. |
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| What was Super Missile Attack? |
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| An expansion board modification to missile Command |
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| Who made Super Missile Attack and why? |
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| MIT Students, because they wanted to attract more business to the Missile command units they placed on campus |
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| Who sued General Computer and why? |
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| Atari, because they were making expansion boards. |
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| What game did General Computer make for Bally/Midway? |
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| What was the biggest difference between Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man? |
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| Ms. pac Man had four maps, not just one. |
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| What did Baby Pac Man for for General Computer? |
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| They sued Namco, saying they came up with the idea for a Pac Family, and thus were entitled to royalties from merchandising and games |
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| A camera that would place player pictures next to high schores |
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| Some dude flashed the camera on day two of location testing |
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| What rock group was featured in a game by Midway? |
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| Journey (The Best Band Ever.) |
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| What happened on June 21, 1982 at 4:30 PM? |
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| The video game business fell over a cliff. |
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| What company made a game that infringed on Tarzan? What was the original title and what was it changed to? |
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| Taito, Jungle King, Jungle Hunt |
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| What was notable about Combat? |
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| It was a collection of mostly Tank games |
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| What happened the first year Kassar ran Atari? |
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| First Easter Egg in a game? |
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| Warren Robinett's Adventure |
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| What was the easter egg in Adventure? |
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| A hidden room with the words "Created by Robinett" |
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| How much space did the Adventure Easter Egg consume? |
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| What game ignited interest in consumer video games? |
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| What console first competed with the VCS? |
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| What was a feature of the Odyssey 2? |
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| Best-selling game of 1980: |
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| First big name to quit Atari? |
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| What did Activision do that was so new? |
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| Ex-Atari members Miller, Crane, and Whitehead |
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| What did Atari do to Activision? |
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| Sued them ever six months for 1.5 years |
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| Who was the VCS's first real contender? |
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| What triangular machine did Coleco make? |
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| What two things made the intellivision good? |
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1. Graphics
2. Lineup of sports games. |
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| Which company made calculator sized sports games with LED lights and colored strips? |
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| Who created Simon and where did he get the idea? |
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| Ralph baer, and he jacked it from Busnell (Karma) |
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| What handheld did Nintendo release during this period? |
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| Before releasing the Colecovision, what did Coleco want to do? |
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| Make arcade ports for the VCS |
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| What set ColecoVision apart? |
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| Better memory mapping for better animations and visuals |
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| What was Coleco's crowning achievement? |
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| Six month exclusivity with nintendo for Donkey Kong |
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| Which movie studio sued Coleco and Nintendo over Donkey kong? |
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| Why was Universal researching into Kong trademarks? |
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| For a King Kong game by Tiger |
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| What was Coleco's response to the suit from Universal? |
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| They agreed on principal and agreed to pay royalties. |
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| What did Universal's litigation department allegedly do? |
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| How did King Kong by Tiger differ from Donkey Kong? |
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1. the man wore a firehat.
2. Gorilla threw bombs.
3. The girders were horizontal |
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| What undid the case against Nintendo? |
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| Universal has sued RKO in 1975 to claim that King Kong was public domain. Oops. |
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| What did Universal have to do after losing to Nintendo? |
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| Pay damages and pay back the people it was collecting royalties from. |
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| What novel was Robottron 2084 based on? |
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| 1984, but only with robots! |
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| What artist was the basis of q*bert? |
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| Q*bert was originally called... |
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| How did the sounds for Q*bert come about? |
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| Random inputs into a speech chip to make gibberish. |
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| What company released Dragon's lair? |
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| Who designed the art for Dragon's lair? |
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| What movie did Disney make that wasinfluenced by gaming? |
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| TRON!! He fights for the users! |
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| What company released X rated games for the VCS? |
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| Caballero Control Corporation |
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| What game depicted raping of Indian women? |
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| What was the first game General Computer made for Atari, and what was special about it? |
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| Food Fight, They made it in three months |
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| How many games did Genral Computer make for Atari in two years with Atari? |
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| Who developed more than half of the games for Atari's 5200? |
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| What is the rumor behind the Vectrex? |
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| The screens were made from discount Asian heart monitor screens |
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| Which company helped distribute the Vectrex? |
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| How did the general public view vector based graphics? |
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| What news set off a panic in 1982? |
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| Atari expected a 10-15% increase in sales, not the 50% they had been foretelling. |
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| What did Ray Kassar do 23 minutes before releasing the financial info of Atari? |
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| Sold 5,000 shares of stock. |
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| What game was an incredible disaster? |
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| What two games helped kick off the fall of Atari? |
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| What was with the pac Man cart for VCS? |
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| It was laggy and ghosts flickered terribly. |
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| What did Steve Ross promise Spielberg in return for an ET game? |
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