Video Games
The _________ (console) revolutionized the gaming industry in 1985 (best year for someone to be born).
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
Original paper versions of _____________ included land areas in addition to the water. _______ was also one of the first board games to be made into a computer game in 1979.
Battleship
The first Super Bowl was played in ____(year). Extra credit if you can name the two teams that played.
1967 Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs
The character Mario first appeared in the game _________ as "jumpman".
Donkey Kong
_________(game) passed Tetris as the best-selling video game in 2019, with 176 million copies sold.
Minecraft
________ was invented by a retired schoolteacher while she was recovering from polio. Its colorful board and fun characters watch children take a walk to a sweet destination.
Candy Land
The first World Cup of women's soccer was held in _______ in 1991.
China
Pac-Man was originally called "______".
"Puck Man"
This is the best-selling video game console of all time, with over 155 million units sold since its release in 2000.
PlayStation 2
The player who goes first in _______ can win 100% of the time. Its game play is a simple objective to win, but a traditional ______ board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions. The board itself is also unique in that it does not lay flat on the table.
Connect Four
The first hockey pucks were made out of ____________.
frozen cow dung
____________ is the first game ever made. *Hint it is NOT Pong*
Tennis for Two (1958)
Video games can be more than a hobby. A top-tier professional video gamer can pull in over _______ annually in tournament winnings.
$4 million
__________(game) was the first "side-scrolling video game".
Super Mario Bros
The longest Monopoly game ever went on for _____ straight days.
70
A regulation golf ball has _____ dimples on its surface
336
____________ Made headlines with its brutal "fatalities", gruesome finishing moves that shocked and thrilled players. The game's unique characters and fighting mechanics contributed to its lasting legacy.
Mortal Kombat
The video game series ________, played in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, has such a large fan base that the fourth installment made $750 million dollars within 24 hours of its release.
Fallout
The original ___________ featured spaces for unalived, disgrace, poverty, and prison. Today's game play is much more politically correct with happier spaces to land on.
Game of Life
The highest score ever recorded in a college football game was ____ - ____ in favor of Georgia Tech over Cumberland in 1916.
222 - 0
The success of ___________ extended beyond gameplay, inspiring the hit song "_______________" by Player One in 1980. This unusual fusion of gaming and music underscored the culture impact of arcade games, turning them into multimedia phenomena that resonated beyond the arcade walls.
Space Invaders