The 16-bit Era
This was the most popular home console during the 16-bit era.
What is the Super Nintendo?
This coin-operated arcade game, released by Atari in 1974, was the first game to have programmed sound which reacted to gameplay.
What is Pong?
This is the common name for a sound that occurs when a player gains something in gameplay.
What is a "pickup sound"?
This word describes the feeling that you are really in the world of the game you are playing.
What is immersion?
These non-interactive sequences at the beginning of games are used to introduce plot, and give the player limited control over audio.
What are cinematics?
This word refers to how many individual tones are available in a sound chip.
What is a bit?
This coin-operated arcade game, released in 1981, was the first game to use dynamic audio.
What is Frogger?
What are worlds or levels.
Some video game players have these to block out outside noise while they are playing.
What is a headset/headphones?
This term describes changes in background music and sound as a reaction to gameplay.
What is adaptive music?
There are 16 installments of this popular role-playing/fantasy game. The third installment was released for Super Nintendo in 1994.
What is Final Fantasy?
What is "looping"?
Music speeding up in a video game usually indicates this about time.
What is time is running out?
This term refers to the desire for in-game sounds to be as realistic as possible.
What is "cine-real"?
These sounds are created by players pressing buttons.
What is interactive audio?
These were the first portable machines for personal gaming and were released during the 16-bit era.
What is a handheld console?
These computer disks were not actually disc-shaped, but square-shaped, and they were once used to distribute games.
What is a floppy disk?
Music creating a link between scenes is an example of this function of video game sound.
What is "creating structure"?
Games are played in these two types of spaces, which effect the immersive experience.
What is public and private?
What is non-interactive diegetic?
What is Doom?
This is the name of the most basic computer code, built on a sequence of ones and zeros.
Early arcade games were designed with this, to convince people to come play them.
What is the "attract function"?
This type of gaming system will create the most immersive experience.
What is VR Headset?
What is Minecraft?