Question: The 7 million sold almost equated to which console's five year span?
Answer: Commodore 64s

Question: Nintendo charged producers hefty sums to make what?
Answer: FDS games

Question: What did companies do instead of making FDS games?
Answer: make cartridge titles

Question: Many FDS disks lack what?
Answer: dust covers

Question: What broke frequently and needed replacement in the machine?
Answer: belt

Question: How long did Nintendo service drives and offer replacement disks?
Answer: 2003

Question: Which company produced the Twin Famicom and the 19SC111 TV?
Answer: Sharp Corporation

Question: What was compatible with Famicom cartridges and FDS systems?
Answer: Twin Famicom

Question: Hyundai licensed the Sharp 19SC111 TV with what name in South Korea?
Answer: Comboy

Question: Until how long did South Korea ban Japanese cultural products?
Answer: 1998

Question: How could Japanese products only enter South Korea?
Answer: licensing to a third-party (non-Japanese) distributor

Question: The Zelda games were manufactured in what color cartridge?
Answer: gold

Question: What is the standard color of all other cartridges?
Answer: gray

Question: What color were cartridges produced by Nintendo for internal use?
Answer: yellow

Question: What was distinctly made by Nintendo, Konami, and Acclaim?
Answer: licensed US cartridges

Question: What was the opening lyric from the Duck Tales theme show?
Answer: Life is like a hurricane

Question: What was Nintendo accused of?
Answer: antitrust behavior

Question: Why was Nintendo accused of antitrust behavior?
Answer: strict licensing requirements

Question: Who interviewed retailers as part of their investigation?
Answer: FTC

Question: Who began probing Nintendo's business?
Answer: United States Department of Justice

Question: How much were the vouchers worth that Nintendo sent out?
Answer: $5

Question: What was the first NES emulator?
Answer: Pasofami

Question: What was the first English available emulator?
Answer: iNES

Question: What platform was NESticle available for use?
Answer: MS-DOS

Question: When was NESticle released?
Answer: April 3, 1997

Question: What did the Famicom sorely lack?
Answer: lockout hardware

Question: What was the lockout chip number for the USA and Canada?
Answer: 3193

Question: What was the lockout chip number for most of Europe, save the UK and Italy?
Answer: 3195

Question: What was the lockout chip number for Asia?
Answer: 3196

Question: What was the lockout chip number for UK, Italy, and Australia?
Answer: 3197

Question: Who designed the Famicom system?
Answer: Masayuki Uemura

Question: The plans called for how many bits as a feature?
Answer: 16

Question: Who was the Nintendo president at the time?
Answer: Hiroshi Yamauchi

Question: When was the test model constructed?
Answer: October 1982

Question: Early Famicom games were written on what computer system?
Answer: NEC PC-8001

Question: What was the light gun controller called?
Answer: Zapper

Question: What was the name of the auxiliary port used to connect additional devices on the Famicom?
Answer: DA-15

Question: How were the special controllers connected to the NES?
Answer: control ports on the front

Question: What year did the video game market crash?
Answer: 1983

Question: The crash was caused in part by the confusion and misrepresentation of what in video games?
Answer: marketing

Question: What specifically was misrepresented on game products?
Answer: artwork

Question: Nintendo's marketing strategy aimed at what aspect of the consumer via realism?
Answer: confidence

Question: How much was the selling price equivalent to in today's money?
Answer: $475

Question: How much did the Deluxe NES sell for?
Answer: US$199.99

Question: How much did the console sell for bundled with just the Super Mario Bros. game?
Answer: US$99.99

Question: Super Mario Bros was paired with which game in the Action Set?
Answer: Duck Hunt

Question: The Basic Set sold for how much at release?
Answer: US$89.99

Question: What thrived after the NES was discontinued?
Answer: unlicensed clone market

Question: What feature does the PocketFami have?
Answer: color LCD

Question: The NES was duplicated on which medium in order to make clones easy to produce?
Answer: chip

Question: Nintendo produced toys and what other item before its game system?
Answer: playing card

Question: Nintendo's era was compared with who as another video game manufacturer?
Answer: Atari

Question: Nintendo required what from its software developers?
Answer: licensed approval

Question: What did licensing lead to regarding games?
Answer: higher quality

Question: Atari created NES products under which name?
Answer: Tengen

Question: What did Nintendo sue Tengen for?
Answer: copyright infringement

Question: Tengen reverse engineered the lockout chip to develop what animal monikered prototype?
Answer: "Rabbit" chip

Question: Tengen got a description of Nintendo's chip from whom?
Answer: United States Patent and Trademark Office

Question: What month and year did the Famicom receive a redesign?
Answer: December 1993

Question: What used composite video output?
Answer: HVC-101

Question: What device was RF only?
Answer: HVC-001

Question: What was the newer model called?
Answer: AV Famicom

Question: What did Nintendo release in Japan only?
Answer: 3D graphic capable headset

Question: Who developed Nintendo's PPU?
Answer: Ricoh

Question: How many kb of Video RAM did the PPU have?
Answer: 2

Question: The system has how many colors available on it?
Answer: 48

Question: How many grays could be used as well?
Answer: 6

Question: What is the standard display resolution of the NES?
Answer: 256 horizontal pixels by 240 vertical pixels

Question: Nintendo agreed with Atari to release the Famicom under what name?
Answer: Nintendo Advanced Video Gaming System

Question: When was the Summer Consumer Electronics Show held?
Answer: June 1983

Question: Which company was illegally demonstrating a Nintendo game?
Answer: Coleco

Question: What was the name of the fired Atari CEO?
Answer: Ray Kassar

Question: What was Nintendo's euphemism for "video game system?"
Answer: Entertainment System

Question: What did Nintendo use instead of the word console?
Answer: Control Deck

Question: What was the term used by Nintendo instead of "video games?"
Answer: Game Pak

Question: What was printed on all licensed games and accessories by Nintendo?
Answer: seal of quality

Question: The seal of quality took on what eventual name?
Answer: Official Nintendo Seal of Quality

Question: How were the Famicom controllers attached to the console?
Answer: hardwired

Question: The second Famicom controller lacked START and what other button?
Answer: SELECT

Question: What did the second Famicom controller have as a unique feature?
Answer: microphone

Question: What shape were the A and B buttons on the earliest Famicom controllers?
Answer: square

Question: What shape did the A and B buttons eventually become?
Answer: circular

Question: When did Sega finally permit third-party publishing?
Answer: summer 1988

Question: What was the name of the 1st company Sega permitted?
Answer: Mediagenic

Question: Nintendo was the sole manufacturer of what component for third-party developers?
Answer: cartridges

Question: As cartridges couldn't be returned to Nintendo, the developers took on the entirety of what?
Answer: risk

Question: What year was there a shortage of DRAM and ROM chips?
Answer: 1988

Question: What does ZIF stand for?
Answer: zero insertion force

Question: The ZIF insertion used by Nintendo was set to emulate what device?
Answer: VCR

Question: The force of pushing in the cartridge did what to the device over eventual use?
Answer: bent the contact pins slightly

Question: What material were the connector springs made of?
Answer: nickel

Question: What material comprised the game cartridge connectors?
Answer: copper