Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: Muerto on February 04, 2011, 06:07:29 AM
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ok, i´m starting.. - the winner come´s up with the next question!
#1 - Who is the kid in the picture (the one the arrow´s pointing at)
(http://blastr.com/assets_c/2011/02/ElijahWoodBacktotheFuture020311-thumb-500x253-56765.jpg)
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Thats Elijah Wood or as we know him better "Frodo" ;)
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i also know who the guy on the left is ;D
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Thats Elijah Wood or as we know him better "Frodo" ;)
Wow, that was fast! - your turn!
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(again fast ;D)
Oke , here we go
who's the Chick ?
(http://www.opdenkelder.com/pics/et1.jpg)
and here the face :
(http://www.opdenkelder.com/pics/et2.jpg)
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the ex of Jim Carrrey dont know her name, but I think questions related to Arcade games is more fun
easy one:
(http://ggdb.com/img/ggdb/vol0/425_2_fs_gm.jpg)
which famous nerd co-created this game?
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@Etienne: Duhhh.... Drew Barrymore
@Ronald: Duhhhh....Steve Wozniak. (DON'T say Steve Jobs actually WORKED on it !!! Already then he was the guy with the business feeling and of course about what is good and what is not good...
(See here: https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=2198.msg25911#msg25911)
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Damn... you're too fast!
Question: what was the first video game to include an easter egg?
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Adventure, another Atari first...
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André:
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/quizz/warren-robinett2.jpg)
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/quizz/5b4560.jpg)
Yes it was indeed Mr Robinett's infamous easter egg in ADVENTURE which he kept secret and was found by a player long after the game was released.
Bonus:
Wozniak-Jobs back in the days
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/quizz/wozniak-jobs.jpg)
Also: Cool easter egg in firefox if you type that in the address bar:
about:robots
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Waahahahahah, compare Jobs' shirt to what he wears today !!
Nothing changed ! :P
(http://www.mobilyz.com/wp-content/uploads/steve-jobs-3g-iphone1.jpg)
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(http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/images/geuu_03_img0654.jpg)
which arcade cabinet had this famous movie director (right) in his home/office back in the eighties?
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Nice pic by the way Chris, looks like an Apple I they are work on (the thing they built out of parts they "borrowed" at Atari...)
To date, this must have been Nolan Busnell's greatest and biggest and hugest mistake:
Turning those guys down on the idea of creating and selling a home computer......
Else, I'd may still have an Atari iMac on my desk at home right now..... sigh.......sniff..... :'( :'( :'(
(PING, IDEA, can somebody photoshop a picture of a 27"iMac with an Atari logo (just the fuji) in there ?
Wasn't the reason for choosing Apple as a brand name not also because so they would be listed in front of Atari in any alphabetically ordered (phonebook) list ?
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Had the wrong answer.....didn't look properly....and there's little fun in googling the answer....
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haha
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(http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/108/1089543361.jpg)
when I show you this Side-art, which former Belgium ballet dancer comes to mind and was it initially (partly) based on
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Jean-Claude Vandamme ?
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Vandamme indeed!
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Yeah, I already always thought that was a gay looking side-art !!! ;D ;D ;D
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(http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/images/jalexander_375x375.jpg)
to which arcade game was this Seinfeld actor the high score holder to (in a tv-episode, that is)
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OK. Who invented the videogame ?
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(http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/images/jalexander_375x375.jpg)
to which arcade game was this Seinfeld actor the high score holder to (in a tv-episode, that is)
Frogger....this is getting easier and easier...
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Soooooo.....who invented the videogame people ?? No googling, answer what you think...
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Was it the inventor of SpaceWar!?
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I have a question, related to the firefox easter egg. When you open that page the tab name becomes "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!".
Which film was this originally in? Which other films have been known to reference it?
Googling the answer is cheating!!!
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(http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/shazz/CliffHanger.bmp)
which game does Chunk play in the opening scene of the Goonies?
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(http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/shazz/CliffHanger.bmp)
which game does Chunk play in the opening scene of the Goonies?
hehe
(http://www.opdenkelder.com/muerto/arc/neverhidetheanswerinthefile.png)
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What game am i thinking of??:
"If you have very fast fingers you can actually fly"
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@ Muerto:
maybe (https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/bomb_jack.png) ?
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@Etienne: Duhhh.... Drew Barrymore
We have a winner... :)
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I have a question, related to the firefox easter egg. When you open that page the tab name becomes "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!".
Which film was this originally in? Which other films have been known to reference it?
Googling the answer is cheating!!!
Classic.
The day the earth stood still.
Also used in Evil Dead, probably elsewhere too.
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I have a question, related to the firefox easter egg. When you open that page the tab name becomes "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!".
Which film was this originally in? Which other films have been known to reference it?
Googling the answer is cheating!!!
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/the_Day_the_Earth.jpg)
Great Movie if you like 50's sci-fi.
Don't know who else might have used it ??? Probably the Simpsons at some point?
EDIT: damn, liquidx posted the answer while I was typing... :ghost: :ghost:
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Both of you have got the original!
I'm thinking of a more arcade related film that it was used in. Clue: It's pinned up on someone's office partition.
Oh and Chunk for playing CliffHanger, the incredibly difficult Laserdisc game.
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When you say cubicle and arcade related, I can only think of Tron :!:
OK my question now:
Which well known artist inspired some parts of the design for Q*bert?
I'm talking about the very early stage of this game's layout creation here.
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/q-bert.jpg)
PS:Q*bert upright, one day you'll be mine ;D
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M.C. Escher?
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We have winner, here!
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/escher.jpg)
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@Etienne: Duhhh.... Drew Barrymore
We have a winner... :)
Actually not Etienne...
Clue nr. 2:
Access levels with jumping, swimming and balloon flying.
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Hey-hey-hey, you guys still haven't answered my question !!!
I'm deeply disappointed with you guys, it is so essential....WHO CREATED THE FIRST VIDEO GAME.
(I'll give a hint, the first ever video game was a vector game, how about that ! :) )
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Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. ....if wikipedia is correct ;D
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@Etienne: Duhhh.... Drew Barrymore
We have a winner... :)
Actually not Etienne...
Clue nr. 2:
Access levels with jumping, swimming and balloon flying.
?? andre was right with drew, so i dont get it sir .. ???
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Hey-hey-hey, you guys still haven't answered my question !!!
I'm deeply disappointed with you guys, it is so essential....WHO CREATED THE FIRST VIDEO GAME.
(I'll give a hint, the first ever video game was a vector game, how about that ! :) )
I did, I said the inventor of "SpaceWar!"..... Was that right? I'd have to google for his name...
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Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. ....if wikipedia is correct ;D
Bingo....it's pretty amazing that most books about the history of video games miss this...
Here's the patent he submitted in 1947 (!). I found it on Jed Margolin's site:
http://www.jmargolin.com/patents/2455992.pdf
It's a very interesting read ! Apart from the extensive description of how it works (which I don't follow, because it's all based on tubes of course) it also explains how it played.
It pretty extensively described the set-up of the screen and the controls, which is funny because it's so obvious now, but new then and also had to be described for the patent.
It introduced "overlays" on the screen (they mention aircraft figures placed on the screen), which of course was later followed by the Odessey and Vectrex systems.
The coolest thing is that they even thought about a "special effect": They defocussed the beam when the "dot" hit the target. I wonder if Jed was inspired by this for the Star Wars explosion which uses the same idea of defocussing ! :)
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Hey-hey-hey, you guys still haven't answered my question !!!
I'm deeply disappointed with you guys, it is so essential....WHO CREATED THE FIRST VIDEO GAME.
(I'll give a hint, the first ever video game was a vector game, how about that ! :) )
I did, I said the inventor of "SpaceWar!"..... Was that right? I'd have to google for his name...
Well that's not a name and it's also wrong....sorry ! :) (See Etienne's correct answer).
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When you say cubicle and arcade related, I can only think of Tron :!:
Tron is correct, it's in Alan Bradley's cubicle. They were also characters on the skiff in Return Of The Jedi.
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@Etienne: Duhhh.... Drew Barrymore
We have a winner... :)
Actually not Etienne...
Clue nr. 2:
Access levels with jumping, swimming and balloon flying.
That sounds like Pitfall II, but you couldn't fly in that with fast fingers.....could you ?
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the answer to the question which cab Steven Spielberg's favourite was early 80's is Missile Command
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Excellent choice Steven!
I was about to say Space Invaders because of that Super Cool T-Shirt Elliott's brother is wearing in E.T.
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/spaceinvaders_tshirt.jpg)
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Excellent choice Steven!
I was about to say Space Invaders because of that Super Cool T-Shirt Elliott's brother is wearing in E.T.
(http://www.thisisbang.com/arcade/spaceinvaders_tshirt.jpg)
I actually have that t-shirt somewhere. Doesn't fit me anymore though considering it's from the same era :)
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COOOOL! !!!
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Frame it Colin... it's cult!
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Next question:
What was the first Nintendo game that had speech ?
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@ Level42: Punch Out?
Meanwhile, I have another question:
How is this arcade related?
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/quizz_1.jpg)
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Heh-heh.....I expected that one.
Wrong.
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:(, since googling is cheating then I "give my tongue to the cat" on that one.
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Hey it's on the pic: Journey (was also a lousy videogame).
About the cat.....I think that probably badly translated from French to English because it uhhmmmm, sounds kind of weird !!!
I guess it means the same as "throwing the towel" ?
OK, anyone else knows what Nintendo game was first to have speech ?
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Yes indeed that lousy Journey game!
Always fun to translate expressions litterally but you guessed the meaning right.
2 points for André!
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About the cat.....I think that probably badly translated from French to English because it uhhmmmm, sounds kind of weird !!!
I think he wants to say that "the cat got his tongue" :D
speech in nintendo game ? hmm difficult one without googling..
the cat got my tongue also i guess :)
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OK, the answer is Radar Scope.
OK, most Radar Scopes probably didn't have it, but some did....
http://www.ostermayer.ch/sou.html
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I think he wants to say that "the cat got his tongue" :D
Yes, I could have explained but I thought it would be a bit like "peeing in a violin".
Nice french expression too, huh?
OK question time:
Two-Joysticks controller in Robotron 2084, cool, but what is one of the (accidental) reason there are this kind of unusual controls instead of the standard joystick+button configuration?
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HINT please....
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the word "accidental" is a big hint already ;)
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Not googling because unfair:
They developed it in a Jamma-cab from the dump ;) ;) ;D ;D
(The first guy to say that there was no Jamma at the time of Robotron deserves to win the fridge.....)
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I have absolutely no F..... clue ???
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Wasn't it because the programmer couldn't handle buttons because of an injury he had at that time?
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Exactly Laschek!
"(...) in 1981, Eugene Jarvis crashed his MGB and broke his right hand. (...) His car accident played an important role in the designing of Robotron 2084 (...).
When Jarvis returned to work, his cast made him unable to handle the standard joystick and button configuration used with most of the games, so he and DeMar rigged a two-joystick controller by attaching 2 Atari 2600 controllers to a panel. In this configuration, one joystick controlled the hero and the other aimed the gun."
(from Steven L. Kent)
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Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. ....if wikipedia is correct ;D
Bingo....it's pretty amazing that most books about the history of video games miss this...
I found a section(top left corner) from this game in my arcade book, it's very interesting.
It says, that this game was inspired by the radars of World War 2.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TWOB5N0k02I/AAAAAAAACU8/Gy8bucluHbU/s576/Pixelh%C5%91s%C3%B6k%20009.jpg)
It's a bit offtopic, but I also found one from the first known wooden joystick for Spacewar.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_-UA8BV99Des/TWOB5cxURsI/AAAAAAAACVA/NDq4OQeUHe0/s576/Pixelh%C5%91s%C3%B6k%20008.jpg)