Question: What was the name of the first mass-produced arcade game, which was invented by David Gottlieb?

Answer: Baffle Ball

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Question: Which of the following was the first imported video game?

Answer: Gunfight

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Question: What was significant about Doom?

Answer: It was the first first-person perspective shooting game.

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Question: What is the best definition of a video game?

Answer: a game in which the action must take place interactively on-screen

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Question: What is the average age of a video game player?

Answer: 35

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Question: What percentage of U.S. households own a dedicated game console?

Answer: 51%

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Question: Which of the following was the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history, selling 8 million units in the first 60 days?

Answer: Kinect

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Question: Companies that create games for existing systems are called

Answer: third-party publishers.

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Question: Ultima Online, EverQuest, and World of Warcraft are examples of

Answer: virtual worlds games.

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Question: Most of the games played on mobile phones today are ________, such as card and trivia games.

Answer: casual games

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Question: Product placement and advergaming are examples of

Answer: hypercommercialism.

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Question: Which of the following describes the concept of freemiums?

Answer: Players obtain virtual goods during a game in exchange for watching a commercial.

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Question: The term used to describe players who tend to stay with one game site longer than with other websites is

Answer: sticky.

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Question: Champs Sports, featured in the game Arena Football, encourages shoppers in its stores to play the game on specially designed kiosks in order to win Champs merchandise. This is an example of

Answer: product placement.

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Question: What did Congress do in 1993, the same year that Doom was released for home computers?

Answer: investigate the effects of video games on their players

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Question: Which product dominates the handheld gaming device business?

Answer: Nintendo's Game Boy Advance

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Question: How are video games like magazines for advertisers?

Answer: Specific demographics can be targeted.

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Question: When was Baffle Ball, the first mass-produced arcade game, invented?

Answer: 1931

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Question: What was significant about Spacewar, completed in 1961?

Answer: It was the first interactive computer game.

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Question: The 1986 Japanese release of Legend of Zelda introduced ________, the concept that players could go wherever they wanted and there were multiple routes to winning.

Answer: open structure play

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Question: Which of the following statements is true about video games?

Answer: Sixty-two percent of gamers play with others.

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Question: The game site of Yahoo!, the Internet service provider, is an example of

Answer: convergence.

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Question: What is the most popular online virtual worlds game?

Answer: World of Warcraft

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Question: Political candidates sometimes use ________ to get their messages out to the public.

Answer: advocacy games

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Question: Why do critics of the ESRB rating system for video games feel that it actually masks potential problems?

Answer: Game makers are required to list only one descriptor that led to a rating, leaving out other content.

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Question: Product placements in video games are now often bartered for free. How does each side benefit?

Answer: Advertisers get exposure for their brand, and designers get a realistic touch to their virtual world.

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Question: About what percentage of smartphone and tablet owners use their devices to play games?

Answer: 90%

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Question: Why is the home version of Trivial Pursuit, which uses a DVD to offer video hints, not considered a video game?

Answer: because there is no on-screen interaction

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Question: Outspark's snowboarding game gives players who wear Rocawear ski apparel magical powers that earn them extra points. This is an example of

Answer: a freemium game.

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Question: What is different about using product placement in video games as compared to other media, such as television?

Answer: Players sometimes welcome the ads if the advertising allows them to play for free.

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Question: How many hours a week do we play video games?

Answer: 3 billion

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Question: Who came up with the idea for the Odyssey console video game?

Answer: Ralph Bear

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Question: What happened in 1983?

Answer: The Video Game Crash of 1983

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