MMC 2000 Final Exam with answers

MMC 2000 Final Exam How did the first mass-produced arcade game come about? - correct answer Well this cool guy named David Gottlieb invented it! It was called Baffle Ball and it was made from a small wooden cabinet with only one moving part and a plunger Who and what were one of the famous imitators of David Gottlieb's arcade game? - correct answer Harry Williams took Gottlieb's arcade game and created the first electric pinball game called Contact. What caused for the popularity of arcade games to explode and start producing games with cash payouts? - correct answer Harry Williams' electric pinball game kickstarted this even though Williams was against cash payouts for pinball because he thought it should just be played for fun and not another thing that the government can interfere with . During the Depression, civil leaders were not pleased with the arcade games and therefore some cities (notably NYC) banned these games due to what? - correct answer Because cash payout for these arcade games and payouts for pinball was considered gambling Who was the guy that caused for bans of arcade games to be lifted and how did he do this? - correct answer David Gottlieb stated that it is not gambling if games are paid off in additional games. Therefore he then created the Humpty Dumpty game which rewarded its good players with additional plays. This lifted the bans and the stage was set for video and computer games. When computers first came about in the early 60s, they were hulking giants that took up the room except for the very few, advanced computers built for military research and analysis which were a bit sleeker and contained a monitor for display. Which 3 universities had these computers? - correct answer MIT, the University of Utah, and Stanford which allowed computers evolved through these machines Which member of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC), which started writing programs for a fun military computer, decided to write the ultimate program...the interactive game?! - correct answer Steve Russell wrote the first ever interactive computer game called Spacewar! Did Steve Russell ever make profit off of his first interactive computer game? - correct answer Nope, however, it demonstrated that computers could be used for more than just military operations.