Q 01/05

What was the first commercially successful arcade video game?

A) Space Invaders

B) Pac-Man

C) Asteroids

D) Pong

Answer · why

D) Pong

Pong was Atari's 1972 debut; the prototype in a Sunnyvale bar soon stopped working because its coin box had jammed full of quarters, which convinced A...

Q 02/05

Which console first popularized rumble feedback with an add-on controller accessory?

A) PlayStation

B) Nintendo 64

C) Xbox

D) Sega Dreamcast

Answer · why

B) Nintendo 64

The Nintendo 64's Rumble Pak arrived in 1997 bundled with Star Fox 64 and plugged into the back of the controller; by November Sony's DualShock had th...

Q 03/05

The original Diablo, developed by Blizzard North, was first released for which platform?

A) Windows PC

B) Nintendo 64

C) Sega Saturn

D) PlayStation

Answer · why

A) Windows PC

Windows PC players got Diablo at the very end of 1996; Blizzard North had designed it as a turn-based game until its publisher pushed for real-time pl...

Q 04/05

Which Microsoft veteran co-founded Valve, the company behind Steam, in 1996?

A) John Carmack

B) Gabe Newell

C) Tom Hall

D) John Romero

Answer · why

B) Gabe Newell

Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington quit Microsoft to start Valve, following a colleague who had already left to make games at id Software, the studio the...

Q 05/05

What genre is Minecraft primarily categorized as?

A) Sandbox

B) Battle royale

C) Roguelike

D) Real-time strategy

Answer · why

A) Sandbox

Sandbox games set no fixed goal and let players make their own fun; Minecraft's creator took its dig-and-build blocks from Infiniminer, an indie minin...