Test One Question and Answer Study Guide Flashcards
What company invented the microprocessor?
Intel
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, what were computer games sold and distributed on?
Floppy disks and casette tapes
What was the first microcomputer to go on the market?
Altair 8800
What is the television standard used in the US and Japan called?
NTSC
In the early 1990s, what invention provided change that swept through the personal computer industry, and what was that change?
CDs, 650 megabytes of data
The earliest commercially successful coin operated video game was?
Pong
In what year did the video game industry crash?
1983
What caused the video game crash?
Anyone could produce games with ease, resulting in a decrease of quality games
In 1986, which company single handedly revived the home console and how?
Nintendo by requiring all games to go through rigorous testing before they approved its release, therefore upping the quality consumers could expect from their products.
What are three reasons that arcade games are still popular?
The have a social aspect to them
They are a great source of revenue
They are easy to learn and quick to play
Video game consoles were first created by toy and arcade manufacturers: true or false?
True
Games made for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision had to fit within how much memory?
4KB
What is the specialized version of a game console which contains hardware for communicating with a PC during game development?
Dev station
What was the first console that used interchangeable ROM cartridges?
Fairchild Channel F
What is one advantage and one disadvantage to developing games on console over PC?
Advantages:
Standardized hardware/software, console games outsell PC games by 3-10 times
Disadvantages:
Typically have lesser hardware, have to spend more time optimizing for hardware limitations, consoles themselves don’t make much profit
