DAI 227 Week 7 Questions

Andrew Redoble

DAI 227

Week 7 Questions

1.     Who invented the first computer game on the PDP1?

 Steve Russell invented the first computer game on the PDP-1

2.     What was the name of the game?

 The name of the game was Spacewar

3.     What was the name of Morton Helig's amusement device that let you smell, hear and see in 3D filmed experiences?

Morton Helig’s amusement device that let you smell, hear and see in 3d was Sensorama

4.     What early 1970s movie does an arcade console machine of Spacewar appear?

The early 1970s movies that Spacewar appeared in was Soylent Green in the year 1973

5.     What was the name of the man who developed the first TV tennis game?

Ralph Baer was the man who developed the first TV tennis game by 1967.

6.     Who was the man whose company Atari commercialized the idea of the arcade computer tennis game?

Nolan Bushnell founded Atari.

7.     What was the name of this version of the game?

Instead of being called tennis, it was called Pong and Atari was immediately sued due to its similarity to Ralph Baer’s home-tennis game

8.     What are vector graphics?

Vector graphics consist of straight lines that are often used to create perspective and geometric shapes.

9.     What types of games do vector graphics lend themselves to?

Vector graphics lend themselves to games with perspective such as Tempest and Battlezone.

10.  When home computers were first made available, how did owners load games into them?

Videogames came on cassettes for the first home computers.

11.  What is the name of the 1985 film in which a young Matthew Broderick starts World War III with his home computer and modem?

The movie that Matthew Broderick starts World War III was Wargames.

12.  From what sources did the designer of the Space Invaders aliens draw inspiration?

Tomohiro Nishikado drew his inspiration from The War of the Worlds. He also had some inspiration from Star Wars, which made him consider the space fad and made the crab-like creatures space invaders.

13.  What is the name given to the contemporary subculture of 8 bit music made with gameboys and other 80s game technology

The name given to the subculture of 8 bit music is Chiptunes.

14.  "Escape from Woomera" was a videogame which was used to draw attention to the plight of inmates at a remote detention center in desert town in what country?

“Escape from Woomera” drew the attention to inmates in Australia.