Guess About the Origin of Video Games and Their First Golden Age: 100 Questions – 3 Options – 1 Explanation

By Jon Bardo

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF VIDEO GAMES AND THEIR FIRST GOLDEN AGE?

 

In this book you will test your knowledge about the first video games and the rise of their popularity to become a million-dollar industry while you have fun and enjoy learning about the different successful video games and consoles of the 70s and early 80s.

 

You will find a hundred questions about the first successful arcade machines such as Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids or Pac-Man and the first and second generation consoles of history led by the Atari 2600. You will have three possible options to choose from in each question, carefully selected to make it difficult for you to choose the correct one. Face this challenge and find out how many questions you are able to solve correctly.

 

You will have an explanation for each answer, so... it doesn't matter if you got it right or not! This will allow you to learn and enjoy yourself while learning more about the history of video games. There are questions of all levels for everyone to enjoy. Some are simpler, but others will require knowledge or cunning, and those will make all the difference!

 

In this book you will discover:

- The creation of the first computers and the first games deployed on them.

- The creation of video games in the 1950s and 1960s as experimental processes

- The first games created for entertainment on college campuses and the importance of Spacewar!

- The first attempts to commercialize video games: Galaxy Game, IBM and Computer Space

- The creation of Atari and the popularization of virtual games through Pong

- Magnavox Odyssey, the first console in history and the second generation of consoles led by Atari 2600

- Atari's successes and failures in the 1970s: Space Race, Gotcha...

- The first hits in the arcades: Speed Race, Gun Fight, Heavyweight Champ, Fonz, Night Driver, Breakout, Sea Wolf...

- Advances in the first video games such as the color screen or vector graphics...

- The explosion of the popularization of video games through Space Invaders.

- The first golden age of arcades: Galaxian, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Galaga, Battlezone, Dig-Dug...

- The first hits of Atari's second-generation console: Combat, Adventure, Pitfall!...

- The video game crisis of 1983 and the end of the first golden age.

 

All this and much more in a collection of questions to take you in a fun way into the origin of one of the most powerful industries of today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jon Bardo
• Release date: Mar 19, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224137879

Book preview

How much do you know about the origin of video games and their first golden age?

In this book you will test your knowledge about the first video games and the increase in their popularity until they became a million-dollar industry while you have fun and enjoy learning about the different successful video games and consoles of the 70s and early 80s.

Below, you will find a hundred questions about the first successful arcade machines such as Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids or Pac-Man and the first first and second generation consoles in history led by the Atari 2600. You will have three possible options to choose from. in each question, carefully selected to make it difficult for you to choose the correct one. Take on this challenge and discover how many questions you can solve correctly.

Read each question carefully and choose your answer. When you go to the next page you will find the solution.

In addition, you will have a brief explanation, so... it doesn't matter if you got it right or not! This will allow you to learn and enjoy while learning more aspects of the story.

Take a pencil and paper and make a mark for each correct answer, so you can check at the end how many of the 100 questions you have managed to guess.

You can also try playing in company. Let everyone choose their option for each question, and turn the page to see who got it right and get an additional point. This will make the experience more competitive and fun.

I hope you enjoy taking on this challenge as much as I did creating it. I have prepared each question thinking about you, documenting myself and selecting questions that may be interesting to you, as well as dedicating a lot of attention to the possible answers to make it as difficult as possible for you to get it right.

There are questions of all levels so that all audiences can enjoy. Some are simpler, but others will require knowledge or cunning, and those will make the difference!

I trust that you will like this book and that you will dare to tackle other challenges that will increase the collection in the future.

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