What is your EARLY video game knowledge?

So it is time for the first 100% new for YNIN quiz produced by Ydoc. Those classics are out the door! Unfortunately, Ydoc is still busy working on some last minute stuff for another section, so you get another quiz themed after video games. This time, we'll test your knowledge of their beginnings!





In the coin-op days of old, there was pinball, skee-ball, and a few other mechanical masters but nothing we would really call video games. Then the very first game positioning images on a screen for competitive purposes was produced. What was this called?

Pong
Naughts and Crosses
Galaga
Pacman



In 1958, William A. Higinbotham created a dynamic open house exhibit used to entertain people as they learn. This exhibit would ultimately be called Pong, but started out being called something different. What was it's name?

Ping
PingPong
Electronic Tennis
Tennis for Two
Creative Ball Bouncing



Time progresses and we slowly start to see video games get closer and closer to what we would eventually see in the 80s in arcades across the globe. The first fully interactive video game saw two space ships battle each other with missles. What was this called?

Space Tanks
Space Battle
Spaceship Duel
Pong Sucks
Spacewar!



Copies of the game mentioned above begin being distributed in 1962. It turns out digital distribution isn't some new fangled idea. This game was snatched up by people through use of the precursor to the modern day Internet. What was this called?

DEC
SOSAnet
ARPAnet
WWWeb
Telenet



In 1966 the first concept for "Interactive Television" is develped and demonstrated. This system was called:

Atari
Famicom
Home TV Game
NES
Colecovision



Outcries over video game violence are nothing new. They date all the way back to the early arcade days, where featured characters were barely even recognizable as real things. The first game to cause a fear in parents was:

Donkey Kong
Death Machine
Death Race
Pacman
Mortal Kombat



As we advanced, we moved toward an age where all of the block breaking games started coming out. Which was the first?

Breakout
Arkanoid
Pong
Bustem
I hate blocks



Let us jump ahead. Before Mario was battling Bowser and running against Sonic for the most loved company mascot, he was fighting Donkey Kong. What was Mario's name in this game?

Red Cap
Bill the Zookeeper
Jumpman
Plumber



In 1977, Hideyuki Mokajima wanted to make a cartoony game that would appeal to men as well as women. His idea was to create a game starring a pizza that would eat everything in site. This game was originally called:

PizzaMan
Pac-Man
Chomper
Puckman
Munch-Man



Which of the names mentioned below were not one of the ghosts in Pac-Man

Inky
Bill
Blinky
Pinky
Clyde



Before Nintendo made video games, they made what?

Playing cards
Toys
Television Sets
Toilets
Your face



Nintendo began producing handheld LCD games as they were also entering into the arcade market. What were these handheld games called?

NES
Games To Go
Nintendo
Game & Watch
Fun Watch



To end our classic video game trivia quiz. What is the game that is given the most credit for causing the video game crash of 1982.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Jaws
Pac-Man Atari
Custer
Contra