WorksheetsCFA #3: Second Generation of Consoles
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 13mins
Credited as the first mascot and/or iconic arcade video game character:
Aliens
Pac-Man
Mario
Donkey Kong
The lead character in Super Mario Bros. first appeared in which game?
Popeye
Mario Brothers
Donkey Kong
E.T.
Who took over as the president & CEO of Atari Inc. in 1978?
Ray Kassar
Ralph Baer
Bill Gates
Trip Hawkins
This company was the first independent developer and distributor of console games:
Electronic Arts
Blizzard Entertainment
Activision
Nintendo
Two poorly received games produced by Atari that damaged the company’s reputation:
Space Invaders and Asteroids
Asteroids and Pac-Man
Space Invaders and E.T.
E.T. and Pac-Man
This second-generation console was the world’s first 16-bit home video game system:
Intellivision
Atari VCS
Colecovision
Odyssey2
One of this console’s successes was securing exclusive rights to reproduce Nintendo’s arcade classic Donkey Kong game and bundling it with every system:
Intellivision
Atari VCS
Colecovision
Odyssey2
The first console to develop an adapter to play Atari VCS games:
Intellivision
Atari VCS
Colecovision
Odyssey2
In what year was the video game crash in the United States?
1978
1980
1983
1985
Which one of the following is not a cause of the video game crash?
Floods of new consoles
Renewed interest in going to the movies
Growing number of home computers
Poorly made games by smaller companies
This computer programmer went on to form Apple with Steve Jobs:
Steve Wozniak
Ray Kassar
Nolan Bushnell
Trip Hawkins
Apple's first commercially produced computer system for the mainstream home PC market:
Apple I
Apple II
Macintosh Core
Core Macintosh
Founded Electronic Arts, with a focus on crediting programmers on its album-like box art; also paved the way for athlete and celebrity endorsed games:
Steve Wozniak
Rod Holt
Trip Hawkins
Jack Tramiel
This computer manufacturer released many versions of its 8-bit computer lineup, including the XL series, XE series, and the XE Game System (XEGS):
Apple
Atari
IBM
Commodore
Founded Commodore International in 1954 as a typewriter assembly plant and went on to produce computers "for the masses, not the classes":
Steve Wozniak
Rod Holt
Trip Hawkins
Jack Tramiel
All three original 8-bit computers by Apple, Atari, and Commodore contained a CPU manufactured by:
Microsoft
MOS Technology
Minolta
Magnavox
This computer won the early PC market by a wide margin and is regarded as the best-selling single computer model of all time:
Apple II
Atari 400/800
Commodore 64
VIC 20
