Ready Scholar One Flashcards

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Oregon Trail

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A game where you make the journey from Boston to Oregon by oxen. It is a very difficult game, showcasing the harsh realities that Western Settlers had to go through on the US’ Expansion Westward

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Seven Cities of Gold

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A game where you are a Spanish Explorer, exploring the cities of gold in the newfoundland of South America

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Sid Meier’s Pirates

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A game where you explore the differences between different countries as a sailor, during the age of piracy. You can also become a pirate, and the whole point of the game is to do as much as you can before you become old and retire

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Doom

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The first FPS, where you are a space marine, and you have to kill hordes of undead, through Mars to Hell itself. This was one of the first games to introduce 2D and 3D graphics

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Ghost of Tsushima

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A game where a Japanese Samurai defends the island Tsushima from the Mongol Invasion

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Rampage

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An Arcade game where 3 monsters “ravage” or destroy human cities. The purpose of the game is to destroy a whole city block, before dying.

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Assassin’s Creed

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An open world game where as an assassin, representing the Order of Assassins, which is an order representing freedom, in their quest against the Templar of Knights, which represents order

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Freedom!

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A game where you are a slave, trying to escape his/her plantation using the Underground Railroad

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Retrogaming

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A old school game, which mirrors classic styles of gaming

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Vintage

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Something that is old, and normally between 20 to 100 years of age

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Polaroids

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A company that used to produce instant film

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Instant Film

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A type of film that, when introduced to light, chemically reacts to make a photo. Has 3 layers; the top layer is made out of transparent plastic, the middle layer is the film emulsion, and the last layer is a developing agent

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Digital Cameras

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A camera that records and stores digital images

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Audio Cassette

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An analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback

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Lo-Fi

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Types of music with sounds that may not be perfect, but people still enjoy them

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Nostalgia

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A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations

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Old-Timey Youtube

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Youtube videos which are looking into how past generations lived their lives. This can give us many different perspectives on history, while being immensely entertaining. They are also very informative

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Antikythera Mechanism

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An ancient Greek Calculator that could determine where the moon, sun and planets were, as well as track when the Olympic Games would be happening

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Difference Machine

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A machine that could store 20 digits worth of numbers to be used in later calculations (never built)

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Analytical Machine

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A machine that could complete any arithmetic equation, with a memory unit to store numbers, sequential controls, and many other features that are found in modern day computers. It had enough memory to save one thousand 50 digit numbers