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For you that round 30, and know the first video consoles and coin machines, and played with the Spectrum, Commodore 64.

A multiple-choice quiz by Netito. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Netito

Time
4 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
27,731

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. How many Space Invaders were in each screen (not counting the upper one that crossed the screen)? Hint

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Question 2 of 10

2. The four ghost in PacMan were.... Hint

Petey, Pinky, Lorry and Clyde

Blinky, Pinky, Bonny and Clyde

Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde

Paul, George, John and Ringo

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Question 3 of 10

3. Alexey Pajitov has done a nice progamming work in the field of speech recognition and artificial intelligence, and is also a very good mathemathican, but his very best know creation is: Hint

Mario

Tetris

Commando

Arkanoid

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which game was the debut for Mario?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Alpha Centauri, Call to Power... great ones, but Syd Meier makes us lose hundreds of hours in ____________, the first on the serie.

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 6 of 10

6. Back to PacMan, if you ever bothered to count the dots in the screen, you know there are... Hint

100

500

254

240

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Question 7 of 10

7. In this game, you had to cross the screen without getting hit by cars, and crossing a river in logs or turtles: Hint

Magician

Arachnoid

Frogger

Cross the road

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Question 8 of 10

8. Sitting in your spaceship, trying to clean the space of that big rocks that divides by two when you shoot at them... Hint

Space Cleaners

Defender

Asteroids

Centipede

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Question 9 of 10

9. Based on Atari's Breakout, Taito released in 1986 a 'paddle' game in which you had to destroy all the bricks in the screen to reach next level. This high-addictive game was: Hint

Arkanoid

Defender

Bricks

Paddle

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Question 10 of 10

10. A plague-control game released by Atari in 1980, where you had to kill the bugs that rounds your garden, like fleas, spiders and the one that names the game: Hint

Millipede

Centipede

Scorpions

Gophers

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. How many Space Invaders were in each screen (not counting the upper one that crossed the screen)?

Answer: 55

Five rows by eleven columns. Released by Tayto in 1979, this game gained a massive following by millions worldwide.

2. The four ghost in PacMan were....

Answer: Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde

3. Alexey Pajitov has done a nice progamming work in the field of speech recognition and artificial intelligence, and is also a very good mathemathican, but his very best know creation is:

Answer: Tetris

His initial idea was based in a Pentomino (12 different shapes of 5 blocks), while working in a game for testing equipment. He notice this was too much for a real time game, and reduced the program to seven shapes of four blocks. Tetris name are taken from tetra, the Greek word for four. The first version of the game was progammed in Pascal in 1985.

4. Which game was the debut for Mario?

Answer: Donkey Kong

Programmed by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1981 (how we can imagine the whole Universe that appears later...).

5. Alpha Centauri, Call to Power... great ones, but Syd Meier makes us lose hundreds of hours in ____________, the first on the serie.

Answer: Civilization

More than 850.000 copies sold of this game from Microprose.

6. Back to PacMan, if you ever bothered to count the dots in the screen, you know there are...

Answer: 240

7. In this game, you had to cross the screen without getting hit by cars, and crossing a river in logs or turtles:

Answer: Frogger

8. Sitting in your spaceship, trying to clean the space of that big rocks that divides by two when you shoot at them...

Answer: Asteroids

This game was so popular in the US, that many arcade operators had to make larger coin boxes so they could hold all of the quarters that these machines collected.

9. Based on Atari's Breakout, Taito released in 1986 a 'paddle' game in which you had to destroy all the bricks in the screen to reach next level. This high-addictive game was:

Answer: Arkanoid

10. A plague-control game released by Atari in 1980, where you had to kill the bugs that rounds your garden, like fleas, spiders and the one that names the game:

Answer: Centipede

This is said to be the first arcade game to be designed by a woman: Dona Bailey. Millipede was a later version, developed in 1982.

Source: Author Netito

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