Deck 3: The Second Generation

Question 1

Part of the success of Space Invaders can be attributed to the popularity of:

A) Asteroids
B) Star Wars
C) Star Trek
D) Roswell

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Credited as the first mascot and/or iconic arcade video game character:

A) Daisy
B) Pac-Man
C) Donkey Kong
D) Mario

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The lead character in Super Mario Bros. first appeared in which game?

A) Popeye
B) Mario Bros.
C) Donkey Kong
D) Defender

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Atari 2600 was originally called the VCS which stood for:

A) Video Console System
B) Vector Computer System
C) Video Computer System
D) Video Cartridge System

Question 5

Who took over as the president & CEO of Atari Inc. in 1978?

A) Ray Kassar
B) Ralph Baer
C) Willy Higinbotham
D) Steve Russell

Question 6

Upon leaving Atari, Nolan Bushnell bought back the rights and grew what franchise?

A) Pizza Hut
B) Ground Round
C) Chuck E. Cheese's
D) Dave and Busters

Question 7

This company was the first independent developer & distributor of console games:

A) Electronic Arts
B) Intellivison
C) Activision
D) Nintendo

Question 8

Often credited as the first video game to include an "Easter egg":

A) Warren Robinett's Adventure
B) Howard Scott Warshaw's Raiders of the Lost Ark
C) Kazunori Sawano's Galaxian
D) Toru Iwatani's Pole Position

Question 9

Two poorly received games produced by Atari that damaged the company's reputation:

A) Space Invaders and Asteroids
B) Asteroids and Pac-Man
C) Defender and E.T.
D) E.T. and Pac-Man

Question 10

Which second generation console included a full, 49-key computer keyboard and released a programming cartridge called Computer Intro!

A) Fairchild F
B) Atari VCS
C) Oddessy²
D) Intellivision

Question 11

These consoles offered add-on peripherals that added speech effects to certain games:

A) Atari VCS and Oddessy²
B) Oddessy² and Intellivision
C) Intellivision and ColecoVision
D) ColecoVision and Atari 5200

Question 12

This second generation console was the world's first 16-bit home video game system

A) Atari VCS
B) Odyssey²
C) Intellivision
D) ColecoVision

Question 13

Which of the following consoles did not have controllers with 12-button numeric keypads?

A) Odyssey²
B) Intellivision
C) ColecoVision
D) Atari 5200

Question 14

The well-known sports journalist hired for Intellivision's advertisements comparing their games to Atari's VCS games:

A) Harold "Matt" Matson
B) Elliot Handler
C) George Plimpton
D) George Harrison

Question 15

The original Intellivision programming team members' whose identities and work location were kept a closely guarded secret became known as the:

A) Blue Sky Rangers
B) Red Hawks
C) Intellivisionaries
D) Programmers Undercover

Question 16

One of this console's successes was securing exclusive rights to reproduce Nintendo's arcade classic Donkey Kong game and bundling it with every system:

A) Odyssey²
B) Intellivision
C) ColecoVision
D) Atari 5200

Question 17

The first console to develop an adapter to play Atari VCS games:

A) Odyssey²
B) Intellivision
C) ColecoVision
D) Atari 5200

Question 18

The original version of this console contained four controller ports (jacks), along with start, pause and reset buttons on its controllers.

A) Odyssey²
B) Intellivision
C) ColecoVision
D) Atari 5200

Question 19

In what year was the video game crash in the U.S.?

A) 1978
B) 1980
C) 1983
D) 1986

Question 20

Which one of the following is not a cause of the video game crash?

A) Floods of new consoles
B) Renewed interest in going to the movies
C) Growing number of home computers
D) Poorly made games by smaller companies

Question 21

Activision was formed by a group of underpaid, underappreciated Apple employees.

Question 22

Only 49 cartridges were released in the U.S. during Odyssey²'s initial production run.

Question 23

A sleeker version of the Intellivision called "Intellivision Plus" released in 1982.

Question 24

Motion picture company Paramount/MCA demanded royalties from Coleco and Nintendo-claiming Popeye violated copyrights related to its intellectual property.

Question 25

Vectrex was the last system released in the second generation and came with its own monochrome vector monitor.