Lule Chapter 10: Online gaming

Question 1

Gaming’s popularity surge during COVID-19

Answer 1

It offered gamers a way to connect with one another

Question 2

“Spacewar!”

Answer 2

• developed at MIT during in 1960s
• coin-operated arcade games were placed in public establishments

Question 3

Pong (1972)

Answer 3

• first popular arcade game (developed by Atari)

Question 4

Magnavox Odyssey (1970s)

Answer 4

• first console for the home TV
• launched “Table Tennis”
• developed by Ralph Baer
• Sanders Associates

Question 5

first game cartridge-based home systems

Answer 5

late 1970s

Question 6

Atari 2600 released

Answer 6

1977

Question 7

Video game crash of 1983

Answer 7

• caused by an oversupply of games and waning demand
• Pac-Man failed as a home game, despite arcade success

Question 8

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Answer 8

became known as one of biggest failures in
gaming history

Question 9

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

Answer 9

• 1985 released
• released Super
  Mario Brothers
• ended the reign of the Atari 2600

Question 10

Sega Master System

Answer 10

• released 1986

Question 11

Sega Genesis

Answer 11

• first 16-bit home system
• released 1989
• Sega Genesis branded for teen market

Question 12

GameBoy

Answer 12

• ## released in 1989 with tetris

Question 13

Super NES

Answer 13

• released 1991
• 16-bit Nintendo

Question 14

Sony PlayStation (2000)

Answer 14

Failed launched of Sega Saturn in 1995 led to PS popularity

Question 15

Success of first-person shooters on PCs (1980s-90s)

Answer 15

Wolfenstein 3D in 1992, Doom in
1993, Quake in 1996

Question 16

Strategy/adventures games

Answer 16

• outsold first-
  person shooting game in 1990s
• Myst, River, and SimCity

Question 17

end of Sega

Answer 17

Sega leaves market with failed Dreamcast release

Question 18

Wii Sports and Wii Fit (2006)

Answer 18

• Wii Fit brought Nintendo into competition with other exercise machines and videos
• led to Sony PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect

Question 19

mobile gaming

Answer 19

• iPhone’s release in 2007 sparks growth of mobile gaming

Question 20

gaming in the 2010s

Answer 20

More expansive games with improving technology and rise of
Esports

Question 21

Death Race, 1976

Answer 21

• release provokes concerns about violence in gaming
• formed in 1994 to provide game ratings

Question 22

Entertainment Software Rating Board, ESRB

Answer 22

formed in 1994 to provide game ratings

Question 23

video game addiction

Answer 23

• No clear-cut answers about addictive nature of gaming

Question 24

Gamergate

Answer 24

2014 controversy titled “Gamergate” included independent game-makers and critics advocating for greater inclusion in gaming production and portrayals

Question 25

Grand Theft Auto (1997)

Answer 25

• one of the first sandbox games, or open world, in which players freely pursue their own objectives
• lawsuits have attempted to tie GTA to real-life instances of violence

Question 26

Fortnite (2017)

Answer 26

• Most influential game to date
• Made billions through in app purchases

Question 27

Call of Duty (2003)

Answer 27

• $3-billion in sales in 2009 was record-breaking
• Calls to ban the game despite the Mature rating—argues it’s not appropriate for minors

Question 28

Mixed Reality (AR and VR)

Answer 28

VR predicted to be future of gaming, but technology remains expensive and uncomfortable

Question 29

gaming in the 1980s

Answer 29

• video games moved into the home
• console= a video game system designed to be attached to a television to simulate arcade video games