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1. What was the first coin-operated video game?
2. Who was the primary founder of Atari?
3. Released in the U.S. in 1978, which game had been so popular in Japan that it caused a national shortage in yen?
4. Atari supposedly developed a version of which coin-op classic for use in training U.S. Army personnel?
5. Which company was known for a handful of classic black and white vector graphics games in the late 70s-early 80s such as Armor Attack, Space War, Rip Off, and Star Castle?
6. Which game - the first popular laser disc game - featured the efforts of Dirk the Daring to rescue the princess from the evil wizard's castle?
7. Which game featured battles against enemies called the 'Yllabian Space Guppies'?
8. In which game did you play a clown who burrowed through the ground digging up cherries while trying to destroy his enemies by dropping apples on them or shooting them with his magic power ball?
9. A teenager supposedly died while playing which game in a Chicago area arcade in the early 1980s?
10. What was the first talking video game?
11. Which game was the first game to let the top ten players enter their initials for high scores, was one of the first color games, and was the first 'total environment' game (where the player was totally surrounded by the game cabinet)?
12. Which game, based on a movie, featured rounds that pitted you against light cycles, tanks, spiders, and the MCP cone?
13. Released in 1976, this game drew national criticism for its violent game play in which the player tried to run down pedestrians with a car.
14. In which game did the player control a knight riding on an ostrich fighting against monsters such as vultures and the lava troll?
15. What videogame character was named after the landlord of the company's Seattle warehouse?
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