Video Game Culture
Culture Defined
Video Game Productivity
Character Counts
100
A group that appears to share some kind of common culture which is in some way different from "mainstream culture"
What is Subculture
100
Japanese which means something like "GEEK"
What is Otaku
100
Online communities of fans, contributing to message boards, art galleries and writing groups are all examples of.....
What is Textual Productivity
100
Name five Mario Protagonists
Who are 1. Mario 2. Luigi 3. Princess Peach 4. Toad 5. Yoshi
200
the process whereby groups draw on existing consumer goods and redefine and combine them to develop a distinct style, which marks them out from the general public and acts as both a means and identifier of social subversion and resistance
What is Bricolage page 99
200
Video gaming can act as a means of economic capital generation especially in synthetic worlds known as______ Or _______
What is a Virtual World or MMORPGs
200
__________ provide video gamers with a means to access and distribute information and content, as well as interact with fellow video gamers.
What is The Internet
200
________is one of the earliest arcade video games
What is Pong
300
Competitive Video Gaming where there is prize money
What is E-Sport
300
________ is an example of video gamer productivity when software and hardware of the video game is modified.
What is Modding
300
The design for the iconic _____ character is based on a pizza with a slice missing.
Who is Pac-Man
400
individuals, increasingly detached from traditional social categories, engage in new and fluid groups _____ out of search for community and belonging
What is a Neotribe
400
The Social Networks and relationships associated with civic virtues and social responsibilities which involve social communities and social groups with common values, trust and cooperative ways for mutual benefit.
What is Social Capital
400
EULA is not just a bad name for a dog.
What is the End User License Agreement
400
Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde
Who are the ghosts that pursue Pac-Man that each have a distinct personality.
500
Someone with a strong interest in, may be even loyalty to, a particular sport, team, celebrity, television show, band or similar is called a ____
Who is a
500
By providing spaces for social interaction and relationships beyond workplace and home MMORGPS have the capacity to function as one form of a new ______________
What is third place ( page 113)
500
_________ refers to users making software changes to hardware that is not usually adaptable of programmable by users. Like running Xbox games on a Nintendo Wii. And it is not something you drink either.
What is Homebrew.
500
"You have died of dysentery"
What is The Oregon Trail. The computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley over the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in 1848