Question: In what country does Hospira manufacture sodium thiopental today?
Answer: Italy

Question: What EU law forbids products used in torture to be manufactured in the European Union?
Answer: Torture Regulation

Question: Who attached a Game & Watch D-pad to the Famicom prototype?
Answer: Katsuyah Nakawaka

Question: What was installed on the front of the console so the joystick could be used?
Answer: 15-pin expansion port

Question: Why were the controllers hard-wired to the console with no connectors?
Answer: cost reasons

Question: Where were the game pad controllers copied from?
Answer: Game & Watch machines

Question: What was the abbreviation for Nintendo Entertainment System?
Answer: NES

Question: What day did Nintendo unveil the new systems?
Answer: October 18, 1985

Question: Where did Nintendo start unveiling the new systems?
Answer: New York City

Question: What was the name of the convention where Nintendo unveiled its American version of the Famicom?
Answer: Consumer Electronics Show

Question: In June 1989 who was Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing?
Answer: Peter Main

Question: In 1990, what percentage of American households owned an NES?
Answer: 30%

Question: What was the slogan for the Nintendo brand?
Answer: It can't be beaten

Question: What outsold the NES in Europe and South America?
Answer: Sega's Master System

Question: Where was Nintendo not available?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: Which cartridges were shaped slightly differently?
Answer: Japanese (Famicom)

Question: Which interface did the NES use?
Answer: 72-pin

Question: Which interface did Famicom use?
Answer: 60-pin

Question: Various companies in Japan did what to their games for certain specifics?
Answer: develop their own customized chips

Question: With the NES at its end, which competing consoles with less strict licensing terms were supported?
Answer: Sega Genesis and then the PlayStation

Question: Who was an example of a 3rd party publisher?
Answer: Electronic Arts

Question: Nintendo relied primarily on what for its support?
Answer: first-party games

Question: Rivals in what self-identified era enjoyed much stronger 3rd party support?
Answer: post-SNES era

Question: Who caused Nintendo to take formal action regarding rentals?
Answer: Blockbuster Video

Question: According to Nintendo what was the danger in renting games?
Answer: would significantly hurt sales and drive up the cost of games

Question: Blockbuster was banned from including what with their games?
Answer: copyrighted instruction booklets

Question: What did Blockbuster do instead of use copyrighted instruction booklets?
Answer: produced their own short instructions

Question: Which company distributed the NES to the UK, Italy, and Australia?
Answer: Mattel

Question: When did Nintendo take over European distribution?
Answer: 1990

Question: Which three countries share the PAL A region?
Answer: UK, Italy and Australia

Question: What two versions of the NES were released in the UK, Italy, and Australia?
Answer: "Mattel Version" and "NES Version"

Question: What were the two turbo controllers Nintendo made for the NES?
Answer: NES Advantage and the NES Max

Question: What did the Turbo feature allow players to do?
Answer: shoot much faster during shooter games

Question: Which controller had a non-adjustable Turbo feature?
Answer: The NES Max

Question: Which two accessories were featured in the movie The Wizard?
Answer: Power Pad and the Power Glove

Question: The NES Max also did not feature what?
Answer: "Slow" button

Question: What year did Nintendo release the Famicom Disk System?
Answer: 1986

Question: Where could the disks for the game be obtained?
Answer: kiosks in malls

Question: How were the disks purchased?
Answer: buyers could select a title and have it written to the disk

Question: What were the storage disks used for?
Answer: storing the game and saving progress

Question: What was the total capacity of a disk?
Answer: 128k

Question: When was the system originally supposed to be released?
Answer: spring of 1985

Question: Retailers in what test area reported a miserable failure of sales?
Answer: New York City

Question: When was the second time Nintendo test marketed the NES?
Answer: February 1986

Question: When was the nationwide release of the NES?
Answer: September 1986

Question: Where was the system released to two separate marketing areas?
Answer: Europe and Australia

Question: One region comprised the entirety of mainland Europe save for which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who released cartridges in mainland Europe?
Answer: Nintendo

Question: Who handled distribution in the other region?
Answer: Mattel

Question: When did the European brance finally directly distribute throughout Europe?
Answer: 1990s

Question: Which example of a system started to mark the end of the NES dominance?
Answer: 16-bit Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

Question: When did the demand for new NES software dry up?
Answer: late 1993

Question: What was the final Famicom game released in North America?
Answer: Wario's Woods

Question: What year did Nintendo officially discontinue the NES?
Answer: 1995

Question: How late did Nintendo continue to repair Famicom units?
Answer: October 31, 2007

Question: Who did Atari attempt to force ceasing production of games for its system?
Answer: Activision

Question: Nintendo actively encouraged  the involvement of what?
Answer: third-party software developers

Question: Nintendo's measures for third party game developers were also adopted by which later manufacturers?
Answer: Sega, Sony, and Microsoft

Question: Companies did what in an effort to circumvent Nintendo's console authentication?
Answer: voltage spike to temporarily disable the 10NES chip

Question: Why did the companies circumvent the authentication system?
Answer: refusing to pay the licensing fee or having been rejected by Nintendo

Question: Where did unlicensed games feature a dongle?
Answer: Europe and Australia

Question: What did Nintendo do to curb unlicensed game sales?
Answer: threatened retailers

Question: What is the abbreviation of Nintendo Entertainment System?
Answer: NES

Question: what was it called in Japan?
Answer: Family Computer

Question: When was the Family Computer (Famicom) released in Japan?
Answer: July 15, 1983

Question: When was it released in Australia?
Answer: 1987

Question: What succeeded the Famicom?
Answer: Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Question: What was the console's most common problem?
Answer: blinking red power light

Question: The 10NES would reset the system how often?
Answer: once per second

Question: What disrupted the communication as well?
Answer: Dirty, aging and bent connectors

Question: What was one example of what users did to combat the blinking problem?
Answer: blowing air onto the cartridge connectors

Question: When did Nintendo release a cleaning kit?
Answer: 1989

Question: How many units of the Famicom were sold in Japan by the beginning of 1985?
Answer: 2.5 million units

Question: What was this system to be called in North America?
Answer: Advanced Video Entertainment System

Question: What magazine stated that Nintendo could be errant in their anticipated product success?
Answer: Electronic Games magazine

Question: Which console featured a top-loading design?
Answer: NES 2

Question: The design of what was modified slightly?
Answer: game controllers

Question: the original design of the controller was what shape?
Answer: brick

Question: What was the new design shape of the controller?
Answer: dog bone

Question: How long were standard NES controller cables?
Answer: 6 feet

Question: What year did Nintendo's market surpass all computer software?
Answer: 1988

Question: Who reported that Nintendo sold 7 million NES systems?
Answer: Compute!

Question: When did Compute! report the number of systems sold at 7 million?
Answer: 1989