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| What classy restaurant did Bushnell build in Northern California |
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| Who did Bushnell loan his Learjet to? |
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| What company did Bushnell start in 1981, and what did they do? |
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| Catalyst Technologies. He traded building space funding, and equipment for a share of many small companies. |
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| Chuck E Cheese's big rival |
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| Who did Bushnell purchase after his non-compete contract ended? |
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| Busnell changed Videa to... |
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| What did Bushnell receive after he won the Transpac sailing race? |
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| A telegram reading "bad News In The Second Querter, Stop." |
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| Who replaced Kassar at Atari and what was his background in? |
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| What is special about jack Tramiel's past? |
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| He survived six years in Auschwitz. |
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| What was Tramiel's business practice? |
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| Don't pay the bill, but keep getting product. Then, when the company is out of money and has to sell, swoop in and but it for cheap then forgive your own debt. |
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| What helped the commodore sell when everyone else was faltering? |
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| It had good components and a much lower price than competitors. Also, SHATNER WAS THE SPOKESMAN! |
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| What happened to Tramiel and some clients on the PetJet? |
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| A fire almost killed everyone. |
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| What home computer did Commodore release in August, 1981? |
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| What home video game console did Commodore release in August, 1982? |
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| 1982, what replaced the public's interest in game consoles? |
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| What doll did Coleco put out to great success? |
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1. The Adam was too defective
2. Cabbage Patch peaked in 1985.
3. They caught on to trivial pursuit too late. |
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| When Mattel closed the game division in 1983, who did they sell to? |
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| Terrence Valeski for $20m |
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| What was Bushnell's Freed Day party? |
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| A lavish event with wild animals and a big crowd to celebrate being out of his non-competition contract with Atari. |
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| What was Sente's concept? |
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| Arcade machines that played games stored on cartidges. |
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| They were a subsidiary of Pizza Time Inc, and when that failed, they were tainted. |
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| What did Trip Hawkins do to video game packaging? |
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| Made them like "album covers" in a box with good art and designer's name on the front. |
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| Why did the Commodore 64 make so much $$? |
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| It sold for almost 6 times the amount it cost to make. |
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| What media functions made the Commodore 64 special? |
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| It had a cartridge slot and a floppy disk slot. |
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| What company was the biggest and most successful during the Commodore 64's reign? |
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| Who founded Electronic Arts? |
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| What year did Trip Hawkins peg as the right time to get into the game industry? |
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| How did Trip Hawkins get his interview with Apple? |
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| By doing a study on personal computing as a way to meet executives. |
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| Who backed Hawkins with his start up? |
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| How did Hawkins treat designers? |
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| Like stars! (Because we all are!) |
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| What convention did Hawkins break from the start? |
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| He lowered the discount given to distributors from 55% to 52% |
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| What three bestsellers did EA launch with? |
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| Hard Hat Mack, Archon, Pinball Construction Set |
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| What basketball game did EA make and why was it special? |
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| Dr. J and Larry Bird Go One-On-One, it was the first game to use an individual sports star. |
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| Dr. J and Larry Bird led to what brotastically successful game? |
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| FRIKKIN' JOHN MADDDDDENNNN FOOTBALLLLLLLL!!!! *spittle* |
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| Who replaced Tramiel and why? |
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| Marshall Smith, because Tramiel wanted to bring his sons in and what shot down. |
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| What steps did Morgan take try to turn Atari around? |
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| he pushed for new products. The 7800 was released and he signed a deal to make LucasFilm IPs. |
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| What Breakout style game could read a player's mind? (Or so it was said..) |
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| Bionic Breakthrough, a title for the Mindlink from Atari. |
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| Who did Warner sell Atari to? |
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| What did Warner retain after selling Atari? |
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| Atari Games, the coin-op division |
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| What did Tramiel do to Atari's workforce? |
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| Fired most of them and consolidated the departments. |
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| Who was put in charge of Marketing at Axlon? |
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| Tom Zito, former writer for Rolling Stone |
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| What toy did Axlon create and what similiar toy ROFLstomped it? |
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| A.G. Bear was beat by teddy Ruxpin |
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| Interactive video that utilizied features of the Colecovision |
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| What happened to Zito and Bushnell? |
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| hasboro told him they would go on without him on the Nemo unless he bailed from Axlon. This broke up their BFF status. |
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| What company did Zito form after Axlon? |
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| What full-length movie game did Zito create? |
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| Night Trap, a game about vampires terrorizing teen girls at a slumber party. |
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| What was the second full-sized game for the Nemo? |
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| What console was introduced in May, 1983 to Japan?? |
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| What did the Famicom have in common with the VCS? |
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| It had the same processor but more RAM and a better graphics chip. |
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| What was special about the Famicom controller? |
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| Used a +-directional pad over the joystick or disc. It allowed more precision. |
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| Who did Nintendo of America try to partner with to sell the NES in America? |
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| Why did the Nintendo-Atari deal go south? |
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| Coleco's Donkey Kong breached liscensing agreements and made Nintendo useless. also, Kassar quit. |
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| Why did Atari wanna team with Nintendo? |
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| It would have let them sit on the system and kill it in America. |
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| What happened at the CESs that the NES was shown at? |
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| Lukewarm interest, no buys. |
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| How did Nintendo market the NES as something other than a game console? |
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| The Light Gun and ROB made it an entertainment system! |
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| What was the NES called in America before it was the NES? |
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| Advanced Video System (AVS) |
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| What light gun game was featured in Back to the Future? |
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| Joel Hochberg, Chris Stamper. and Tim Stamper |
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| How did Minoru Arakawa test Hochburg/Stamper? |
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| By forcing them to reverse engineeer an NES in order to develop games for it. |
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| What market did they test the NES sales future in? |
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| What did Arakawa offer retailers to help sell the NES? |
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| What game helped the NES become a success in the beginning? |
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| What company did the five ex-Atari executives go to? |
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| What did Worlds of Wonder market? |
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| Teddy Ruxpin and Laser Tag |
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| Who warned Jim Whelms about distributing Nintendo's NES? |
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| The Atari Exec's that worked for Worlds of Wonder. |
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| What system was Nintendo's main (but not very much) competition in the NES days? |
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| What came with the original NES system? |
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| Two controllers, the console, and Super Mario Bros. for $129.95 |
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| How did Nintendo establish an identity early on? |
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| By using the same characters over and over to create mascots (like DK sitting in Punch-Out's audience) |
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| What are first-party games? |
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| Internally developed titles. |
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| Who did Nintendo form exclusive partnerships with? |
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| Taito, namco, Konami, Hudson, Capcom, and Bandai |
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| How did Nintendo institute quality control? |
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| They manufactured all of the games and had final authority as to content. |
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| Which American company was the first to license with Nintendo? |
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| What games did Acclaim bring over from Japan for the NES? |
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| Star Voyager, World Runner, Tiger Heli |
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| What happened to Worlds of Wonder and Nintendo? |
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| Nintendo got to big and split off, taking the sales team that was supposed to be laid off. |
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| Services Games (not a Japanese word!) |
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| How did David Rosen get his start in Japan? |
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| he invented Photorama, or two minute photo booths. |
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| What record did Rosen's booths achieve? |
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| First franchising business in Japan. |
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| After photorama, what did Rosen do? |
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| Import arcade games/novelties to Japan. |
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| What business did Rosen open in Shinjuku, and how did it fare? |
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| He opened a bowling alley that was an unqualified success. |
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| What game was the first to be set at .25$ per play in America? |
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| Who did Rosen, Stewart, laMaire, and Bromley sell Sega to? |
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| Who did G&W sell Sega to? |
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| What was the number one pick in the North pole Poll? |
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| What did two reporters call Nintendo and what false claim did they make? |
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| NINE-tendo, and the ROB could fetch drinks for you. |
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| How did Nintendo sales affect the world economy? |
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| It accounted for 1/10 of the trade deficit between US and Japan. |
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| The three strikes of Nintendo with the media: |
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| 1. games are dead. 2. never heard of Nintendo. 3. Nintendo was Japanese. |
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| Who protested war toys put out by Nintendo and how did they respond? |
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| Families for Peace, and they covered the logo with Christmas decorations to shield it from cameras. |
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| Who acted as a spokesperson for Nintendo until 1991? |
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| What was the forerunner for Nintendo Power? |
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| What were the four facts on home video games put out by Howard Phillips? |
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A manifesto on why Atari's failures are not doomed to be repeated by Nintendo.
1. Limited Graphics and depth of play
2. Played at their best only in arcade
3. Restricted to a few colors
4. Constrained by poor audio quality and lack of sound of effects |
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| What was Nintendo's most important message during the NES era. |
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| What quality controls did Nintendo put in the licensing agreement? |
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1. Maximum of five games per year
2. All games are exclusive for two years |
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| What differentiates hardware? |
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| What three mega influential games did Nintendo release in 1987? |
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| Legend of Zelda, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, metroid |
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| It was a conversion kit for pre-existing arcade machines. |
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| A line of arcades with double screens for head to head play from nintendo. |
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| What was the Play Choice 10? |
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| Jukebox like arcade machines with interchangeable boards. All games were modified NES carts. |
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| How did Nintendo playtest Zelda in America? |
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| They had English employees play with japanese translators. |
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| What concerned Arakawa about Zelda? |
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| It took a while to warm up to it. |
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| How did Nintendo soften the learning curve for Zelda? |
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| It had help material packaged with it (map, bestiary), and they started a 1-800 line for game tips. |
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| Zelda was the first game to... |
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| Include an internal battery for game saves. |
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| What did the NES Punch-Out feature over the arcade version? |
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| twice the fighters, including Mike Tyson himself. |
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| Who did Arakwa allegedly model Little Mac after? |
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| Howard Phillips (but it might have been Glass Joe) |
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| Nintendo's R&D team, headed by Gumpei Yokoi. |
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| Konami's Five Games from 1987: |
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| Gradius, Track and Field, Rush n' Attack, Castlevania, Double Dribble |
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| Konami code first appeared where, and what is it? |
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| Gradius, up,up, down, down, left, right, left, right B, A, START. It gave more weapons to the ship. |
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| Data East's NES Games in 1987: |
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| Burgertime, Tag team Wrestling, Karate Champ |
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| Taito's games in 1987 for NES: |
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| Elevator Action, Legend of Kage, Arkanoid (breakout rip off) |
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| Nintendo Licensee with the most staying power? |
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| Sega's add-on for the Master System was.. |
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| Which critics liked the Master System over the NES? |
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| Siskel and Ebert (He's so in touch with the industry!) |
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| Who spelled his name backwards in Nintendo power? |
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| Steve Wozniak to keep atop the leaderboards for Gameboy Tetris. |
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| What contest did Nintendo run to improve its image |
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| "Invent the ultimate video game!" |
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| Side scrolling game mistaken for political message: |
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| What game featured a dead hamster as an Easter Egg? |
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| Why did Super Mario Bros 2 bear little resemblance to the first game? |
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| It was originally about an Arabian character in Doki Doki Panic! |
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