Deck 4: Early PC Gaming

Question 1

This computer programmer went on to form Apple with Steve Jobs:

A) Steve Wozniak
B) Ray Kassar
C) Nolan Bushnell
D) Trip Hawkins

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Apple's first commercially produced computer system for the mainstream home PC market:

A) Apple I
B) Apple II
C) Macintosh Core
D) Core Macintosh

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Sierra Entertainment Inc. (Formerly Sierra On-Line and On-Line Systems) was the company in which Ken and Roberta Williams pioneered the ______________ genre of games.

A) Text adventure game
B) Spoken adventure game
C) Graphical adventure game
D) None of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Coined by Roy Trubshaw in 1978, these text-based adventures called "MUDs" stood for:

A) Massively Uber Dungeoncrawlers
B) Mind-User Development games
C) Micro Universe Dungeons
D) Multi-User Dungeons

Question 5

Founded Electronic Arts, with a focus on crediting programmers on its album-like box art; also paved the way for athlete and celebrity endorsed games:

A) Steve Wozniak
B) Rod Holt
C) Trip Hawkins
D) Jack Tramiel

Question 6

This computer had a membrane keyboard to protect against spills from the children who were its target market:

A) Apple IIe
B) Atari 400
C) Atari 800
D) Atari 1200XL

Question 7

This 1979 exclusive was one of the Atari 8-bit computer's earliest titles and remained one of the reasons many gamers purchased an Atari computer for many years:

A) Star Raiders
B) Asteroids
C) Rescue on Fractalus!
D) King's Quest

Question 8

Founded Commodore International in 1954 as a typewriter assembly plant and went on to produce computers "for the masses, not the classes":

A) Steve Wozniak
B) Rod Holt
C) Trip Hawkins
D) Jack Tramiel

Question 9

The reason(s) for the success of the Commodore 64:

A) Low price for a fully-functional PC with 64KB of RAM
B) Commodore manufactured many of its parts in-house
C) Marketing and selling the C64 in retail stores like Sears
D) All of the above

Question 10

This computer was known for its improved processing chip that allowed for "multi-color sprites" which made it easier to create fast-moving, flicker-free game graphics:

A) Apple II
B) Atari 400/800
C) Commodore 64
D) VIC-20

Question 11

This computer manufacturer released many versions of its 8-bit computer lineup, including the XL series, XE series, and XE Game System (XEGS):

A) Apple
B) Atari
C) Commodore
D) IBM

Question 12

All three original 8-bit computers by Apple, Atari, and Commodore contained a CPU manufactured by:

A) Microsoft
B) MOS Technology
C) Minolta
D) Magnavox

Question 13

Known as alter ego "Lord British" and "General British" in his games, this programmer creating the pioneering Ultima RPG series and coined the term MMORPG:

A) Richard Garriott
B) Sid Meier
C) Will Wright
D) Alexey Pazhitnov

Question 14

Responsible for developing the "falling blocks" puzzle game Tetris:

A) Richard Garriott
B) Sid Meier
C) Will Wright
D) Alexey Pazhitnov

Question 15

Created the first "city-building" simulation games, which led to the strategic "life-simulation" genre with games like The Sims:

A) Richard Garriott
B) Sid Meier
C) Will Wright
D) Alexey Pazhitnov

Question 16

This computer won the early PC market by a wide margin and is regarded as the best-selling single computer model of all time:

A) Apple II
B) Atari 400/800
C) Commodore 64
D) VIC-20

Question 17

The Apple II was known for its state of the art SID 6581 sound processor.

Question 18

Will Crowther's Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) for the PDP-10 mainframe computer pioneered the text adventure genre, also known as "interactive fiction."

Question 19

The abbreviation RPG stands for "Role-Playing Game."

Question 20

Most of the games for Commodore 64 were manufactured on floppy disk.