Exam 3: The Second Generation

Motion picture company Paramount/MCA demanded royalties from Coleco and Nintendo-claiming Popeye violated copyrights related to its intellectual property.

The well-known sports journalist hired for Intellivision's advertisements comparing their games to Atari's VCS games:

Part of the success of Space Invaders can be attributed to the popularity of:

Activision was formed by a group of underpaid, underappreciated Apple employees.

The original version of this console contained four controller ports (jacks), along with start, pause and reset buttons on its controllers.

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:

Who took over as the president & CEO of Atari Inc. in 1978?

Which second generation console included a full, 49-key computer keyboard and released a programming cartridge called Computer Intro!

Often credited as the first video game to include an "Easter egg":

Which of the following consoles did not have controllers with 12-button numeric keypads?

A sleeker version of the Intellivision called "Intellivision Plus" released in 1982.

Upon leaving Atari, Nolan Bushnell bought back the rights and grew what franchise?

The lead character in Super Mario Bros. first appeared in which game?

In what year was the video game crash in the U.S.?

The original Intellivision programming team members' whose identities and work location were kept a closely guarded secret became known as the:

The Atari 2600 was originally called the VCS which stood for:

Vectrex was the last system released in the second generation and came with its own monochrome vector monitor.

These consoles offered add-on peripherals that added speech effects to certain games:

This company was the first independent developer & distributor of console games:

Two poorly received games produced by Atari that damaged the company's reputation: