Week 7 Questions.

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

-Steve Russell

2) What was the name of the game?

- Spacewar!

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

- “Sensarama” in 1960, Martians user friendly.

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

- ‘Soylent Green’ as the green machine the girl plays.

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

- William Higgenbotham in 1958 who worked on the atomic bomb.

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

- Nolan Bushnell

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

- Atari Pong

8) What are vector graphics?

-  Vector graphics in games are the use of geometrical shapes such as points, lines, and curves.

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

-  The very first games were obviously spacewar, which lead to asteroids and eventually battlefield. Atari seemed to use vector graphics in their games quite a bit.

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

- They would either program it themselves, or buy disks from programmers and installed them thru floppy disks in stacks.

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?

- “WarGames”, its actually from 1983.

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

- From H.G. Well’s war of the world octopus looking aliens.

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

- “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?

- It is a secret desert prison in the Australian outback.