week 7

Federico DeJesus

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

5) What was the name of the man who developed the first TV tennis game?
 Ralph Baer
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?
 pong
8) What are vector graphics?

 Whereas a

television screen or a modern computer monitor is a

“raster” display, consisting of hundreds of horizontal

arrays of dots that are drawn one at a time, so that a

diagonal line on screen always looks “stepped,” vector

screens enabled a perfectly straight line to be drawn

between any two points on the screen.

9) What types of games do vector graphics lend themselves to?
 They are wireframe 3d that made 3d polygon shape, it lend themselves to the Star Wars game and Tempest
10) When home computers were first made available, how did owners load games into them?
 They load games from floppy disc
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
12) From what sources did the designer of the Space Invaders aliens draw inspiration?
 Squids
13) What is the name given to the contemporary subculture of 8 bit music made with gameboys and other 80s game technology
 Chiptune
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?

Half life game mod
Australian